Shanghai Noon Rating: Release Date: 03 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Jackie Chan Owen Wilson Lucy Liu Rongguang Yu Complete Cast (11 total)

Shanghai Noon Reviews

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It's a Western! No! It's an Eastern!!
It's both. It's also loads of fun!

Western fans, comedy fans and martial arts fans alike will unite in high praise for this wacky, feel good romp set in the old west. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson display a playful chemistry between them that's perfect for the zany plot and action packed pratfalls the two wind up in.

The thin story has Chan playing a woefully incompetent and disobediant Chinese Imperial Palace Guard demanding he help bring back the Emperor's daughter, Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu) whose run off to America. In short course, Chan meets a bumbling gang of bandits led by the always hyper relaxed Owen Wilson. Before long, the two are engaging in bar brawls and visting the ladies of the evening at the local cathouse. Meanwhile, Princess Pei-Pei has ended up in human bondage - enslaved to a former Imperial Palace Guard who has big, diabolical plans for her.

Don't expect anything more than fun, fantastic action sequences and slick comedic set-ups and this movie will grow on you. It's not the typical western, nor is it the typical martial arts eastern. It's a great hybrid of both and I can definitely see why a sequel followed.




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Lots of beautiful scenery provides a brilliant backdrop for this hillarious comedy. Chan and Wilson are at their best in this movie and it's hard to imagine a more perfectly executed comedy-western. The movie is filled with great gags and it's really hard to pick a favorite scene, but the gun-fight/martial arts fight at the end in the Spanish mission out in the middle of nowhere was classic. I've seen plenty of movies featuring both Chan and Wilson and I'd say that both are at the top of their form in this movie!

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