Critics around the country have been dumping negative reviews on
\nthe re-make of
\nAround The World In 80 Days<\/i> like so much toxic waste into
\nLove Canal. Audiences have been staying away from this film as if
\nit were contaminated with an infectious disease.<\/p>\n
Really makes you want to spend an hour listening to the
\nsoundtrack, eh?<\/p>\n
Composer Trevor Jones, I’m sure, tried his best, but the natural
\nlimitations of the film seem to spill over into the soundtrack, and
\nthis disc ends up nosediving, crashing and burning like an
\nexperimental aircraft gone horribly wrong.<\/p>\n
If there is indeed a hell, the song “It’s A Small World” is
\nundoubtedly the soundtrack for eternal damnation. Baha Men (aren’t
\ntheir 15 minutes of fame up yet?!?) do nothing for the cause by
\nproviding a modern-day take on what could well be the most annoying
\nsong in existence. The other two songs meant to keep the soundtrack
\nsomewhat planted in the modern age are throwaway pop fluff; neither
\nDavid A. Stewart’s “Everybody All Over the World (Join The
\nCelebration)” nor Tina Sugandh’s “River Of Dreams” seems to serve
\nany real purpose to the story or the disc.<\/p>\n
Jones, to his credit, does try to craft his music around the
\nbasis of the story, though it doesn’t completely provide the
\nlistener with enough to help them follow along. (In this reviewer’s
\nmind, the score of a film should be able to tell the story to the
\nlistener in notes, not words.)<\/p>\n
And while some examples like “Jetpack Journey” have their
\nmoments, the bulk of the score to
\nAround The World In 80 Days<\/i> falls terribly flat. Did we
\nreally need a snippet of “Can-Can” interspersed into “Rendezvous In
\nParis”? Did “Lost In America” really have to be so schizophrenic in
\nterms of style? Most importantly, did score pieces like “Return Of
\nThe Jade Buddha,” “Prince Hapi Escape” and “Around The World
\nOverture” really need to be so boring?<\/p>\n
Regrettably, that last word amply describes this soundtrack.
\nThere is precious little excitement contained in Jones’s score and
\nthe pop-laden tracks, and listeners will soon find themselves
\nalmost bored to tears with this disc.<\/p>\n
Movie-goers have been passing on
\nAround The World In 80 Days<\/i> in droves. You’d do wise to do
\nthe same with this turkey of a soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5729],"rating":[5620],"class_list":["post-37997","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-soundtrack","rating-rating-f"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37997"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}