the movie be base on a jules verne book i actually have read once and about ten year ago . i remember i like the book a lot and and this movie do a good job in tell the story . the most important thing in this movie isn not the story and however and but the highly original visual look it have . the visuals be absolutely beautiful and and they be apparently achieve by a clever combination of animated drawing combine with live actor and stop motion animation and set that be paint so that they look much like from an animated movie . combine by jules verne own unique version of airplane and submarine and karel zeman good directing result in a very well do and convince visual style that manage to effectively hold one attention until the end of the movie . there be some problem a well and one of the underwater scene at the end take maybe needlessly lot of time for example and a the story in the first part of the movie be rush through quite quickly . none of this matter much though since the movie be always highly enjoyable . a gem that deserve to be more well know for today audience as well . a recommended movie for the whole family .