The film starts with a man (later known to be Lau Xing) (Jackie Chan), robbing and escaping from the Bank of England. To hide from the police, he escapes to Phileas Fogg´s house. He observes from a window police officers searching for him, asking foreign-looking men in the street for identification - as Phileas asks him for his name he responds "Passport...too". So he becomes, under the name "Passepartout" (pronounced Pass-par-too), a valet to Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a scientist trying to break the 50-mph speed barrier. After succeeding to do so and managing to avoid the police, they head to the Royal Academy of Science.
Here, Fogg is insulted by other 'brilliant minds', in particular the bombastic William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), who believes that everything worth discovering has already been discovered and there is no need for further progress. The bank robbery is also discussed. In his blind rage, Fogg says that he is glad the bank was robbed, because it is outdated and says that the thief could be in China in little over a month, which interests Lau Xing. Fogg is pressured to bet to see if it would be possible, as his calculations said, to travel around the world in 80 days. If he won, he would become Minister of Science in Lord Kelvin's place; if not, he would tear down his lab and never invent anything again.
Passepartout and Phileas retreat to Phileas's home, where he mourns on his rash decision; yet Passepartout said, that to bet on something he believed in, made the bet in no way foolish. That sets Phileas on his way around the world. Without losing a moment, they take a carriage and leave London, after crossing with Inspector Fix (Ewen Bremner), a corrupt officer who was hired to stop them from travelling around the world.
They then travel to Paris, where Passepartout must evade minions sent by the murderous female soldier General Fang, out after what he stole: the Jade Buddha, which is a sign of good fortune. She had given the Buddha to Lord Kelvin, in exchange for military assistance in her enterprises to conquer Lau Xing's village. Pretending to take Phileas to a convention with Thomas Edison, Passepartout leads him instead to an Art School, where Phileas meets Monique (Cécile de France), a would-be impressionist. Realizing how busy his boss is, Passepartout fights the minions using every material available: canvas, brushes and buckets of paint, etc, while in the process of accidentally making a painting . Meanwhile, Phileas and Monique discuss Monique's paintings of 'impossible things', such as dogs playing poker. Moments later, Phileas sees a painting of a man with wings. To make a machine that could allow men to fly was always Phileas's dream; he therefore feels touched. All of a sudden, Passepartout returns and tells his boss that they are late. The two men, accompanied by Monique, depart in a hot-air balloon, while being chased by the minions
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