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80What Chan represents -- the humor and charm and the sheer physical beauty of seeing him in action -- as well as the lazy, ping-pong repartee he achieves with Wilson, is the essence of the casual, deceptively artless art of movies.
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80Turns out to be that rarest of Hollywood creatures: a sequel that one-ups the original…These two smart, happy movie stars prove that silliness doesn’t have to be moronic.
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80Coasts heavily on Chan and Wilson's charm, which would be a big problem if those prodigiously gifted stars weren't taking on roles that fit like two pairs of comfortable slippers.
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80With Shanghai Knights, he (Chan) has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable.
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80A hugely entertaining and more lavishly mounted follow-up to 2000's "Shanghai Noon," the high-concept East-meets-Western that first teamed top-billed duo, pic rides even taller in the saddle as a fleet and funny crowd-pleaser.
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80Far from great but greatly entertaining.
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75Bounds from one gag to another like an eager puppy.
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75A hoot.
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75The unlikely cowboys play off each other's strengths like the best doubles team in tennis. The exquisiteness of this match is that Chan and Wilson are both reactive comedy actors.
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75That his dialogue is often deliberately anachronistic is part of the joke -- and Wilson's sly delivery is often funnier than the lines themselves.
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75There are three action sequences here so delightful, so hilariously deploying an old tool for a new use, that they prompt smiles long after I saw the film.
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75The star interplay and anachronisms recapture some of the surreal spirit of the Crosby-Hope Road movies, and the end-credit outtakes are funny enough to sustain that getting-hoary device for at least one more picture.
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75Actually a pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you-in-the-pants kind of way. A relative rarity -- a solid no-brow comedy.
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75This is an action-comedy sequel so indefatigably preposterous and farklemt -- as they say in certain Upper West Side saloons -- that it actually improves on the original.
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70Despite his advancing years, Chan delivers some fleet slapstick; like his hero Buster Keaton he works intuitively with levers, pulleys, ladders, and umbrellas.
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67This is a movie where you can just sit back and revel in it, warts and all.
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67For what it's worth, the film also goes out of its way to be a lavish visual re-creation of the 1880s.
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63Pretty mediocre entertainment, and probably better suited for home viewing than a trip to the multiplex.
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63It's a gimcrack assemblage of gags, action scenes, favorite moments from the first hit and diorama-like views of high and low Victorian culture.
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63Uproarious imbecility.
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60Only promised a few good fights, a lot of chuckles, and an easy way to kill a couple of hours. In today's Hollywood that's hard enough to deliver.
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60The adventure-book pace and topsy-turvy English setting evoke the feel of Stephen Sommers's "Mummy" films.
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60Loving Jackie Chan has always been easy, which is why it would be nice if he could find better material in which to bask in his long-sought American stardom or, alternately, ease into bad movies as effortlessly as his co-star.
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50Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed.
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50So appallingly slipshod in all the usual departments is this sequel to the engaging martial-arts comedy Western ''Shanghai Noon'' that you're tempted to cite its makers for contempt.
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50A machine for killing time, and it does so fairly painlessly.
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40Most of the film's humor derives from smug anachronisms (the Brit-pop soundtrack, Wang and Roy's use of modern slang) and jokes about bad English food, teeth and weather that were old when Victoria was a girl.
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40I would also like to state for a fact that fight scenes in absence of all other drama aren’t interesting to watch.
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40If you’re the type of moviegoer who finds the idea of 19th-century characters using phrases such as "Be cool" and "You must work out" in their conversations, this is the film for you.
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40Why would the writers bother with narrative when the story is just something that kills time, and brain cells, between feats and fists of fury?
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30It's too bad Chan's imagination and delicacy were wasted in this movie.
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25Grating.
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0Desperately unfunny action comedy.
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