Saw "Around the World in 80 Days" yesterday. Heard it wasn't very good, but I'd watch Jackie Chan swing in a hammock for 2 hours, so figured I'd go. The Jackie-Chan-choreographed fights were great, and a bonus was Sammo Hung, whom I'd watch SLEEP. Owen Wilson has a very funny 3 minutes, and Arnold Schwartzenegger has an unbelievably awful 5 or so. The storyline, revised to make Jackie Chan make sense in the Pasportout role, is not bad. BUT, and here's a big but: there's a lot of slapstick violence in the film, and it's nasty, mean-spirited stuff. Good slapstick ends in pratfalls, but not bloody noses and broken arms. And jokes about a shark biting off a sea captain's nipples are not funny no matter what direction you look at them from. This is a Disney film. When I was a kid everything Disney did was sugar-coated. There was a sweetness that was so dependable it could be annoying. No more. This film is outright creepy, and my experience with other Disney movies over the past few years has been similar. The Disney organization is a cutthroat bunch of nasties -- see their reaction to the idea of distributing "Fahrenheit 9/11," and see especially Carl Hiaassen's TEAM RODENT -- and the attitude of the boardroom seems to have thoroughly soaked into the creative studios. A damn shame.