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Shanghai Noon

2000

Tom Dey

Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill ...

4.8

10,145

Comedy. Adventure. Western A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O'Bannon, a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"If you see only one martial arts Western this year (and there is probably an excellent chance of that), this is the one.(…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Watching the stars survive a ramshackle plot is a slap-happy treat. And stay put for the out-takes after the film ends – the bloopers are funnier than anything else in the picture."	NEU
United States	Bob Graham SFGATE	"Chan is his own digital effect (...) The emphasis now is more on the comic than the acrobatic"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"It's too bad screenwriters didn't have enough faith in their premise to play it straight; if they had, they might have produced a classic"	NEU
United States	Glen Oliver IGN	"It's not a perfect film (...) Its effort is ingenious and sincere, it's pretty to look at, the people in it are obviously having fun, and I wanna see a sequel."	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"Jackie Chan's best American picture to date"	POS
United States	Jami Bernard New York Daily News	A silly buddy caper that should delight the adolescent at heart, even if some of the jokes have been sitting too long in the desert sun.2	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story -- an American tale of pageantry and history."	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Childishly simple, but extremely funny"	POS

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