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Shanghai Noon
Buena Vista Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for action violence, some drug humor, language and sensuality
Starring
Jackie Chan,
Owen Wilson,
Rafael Baez,
and
Lucy Liu
Imperial Guardsman Wang (Chan) winds up in a party sent to Carson City to ransom a princess.
| GENRE(S): |
Western
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Miles Millar
Alfred Gough
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Tom Dey
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 10, 2000
Video: October 10, 2000
Theatrical: May 26, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As irresistible as Chan is irrepressible. In a movie season in which, it seems, all the blockbusters boast wheels, it's a treat to see a movie that has legs.

90
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Childishly simple, but extremely funny.

90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
A refreshing movie that's so good natured, so confident of its ability to provoke not queasy awe or numb exhaustion but pure delight.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Jackie Chan's best American picture to date, breathes fresh life into the virtually dormant comedy-western.

90
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Unstintingly funny -- far more so than the wince-worthy trailer -- owing to Chan's pairing with droll indie eccentric Owen Wilson, as his would-be gunslinger sidekick.

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Wilson is flat-out hilarious, playing this cowboy like a surfer dude zapped back in time.
90
Variety
Joe Leydon
This enjoyable East-meets-Western likely will succeed on its own terms as a sure-fire, long-legged crowd-pleaser.

90
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
It's an inspired pairing. Wilson is electric as he seduces Chan into a partnership in this self-consciously crafted western, whose cleverness is only part of what makes it so funny.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
He's (Wilson) a terrific sidekick to Chan's funny, earnest, often victimized righteousness. This kid could be a star.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There's plenty of invention and exuberant vigor in the chopsocky, and Wilson's cool, ironic drollery provides the perfect foil for Chan's heroics.

83
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
The film is still a wonderful lark filled with an ingredient most summer blockbusters lack -- likability.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Jackie Chan's latest teams him up in 1880s America with Owen Wilson -- and gives a giddy glimpse of what he'll be doing after he gets too old to do his death-defying stunts.

80
Film.com
Sean Means
Lets Jackie Chan have some fun, ride a horse and frolic in the American West. And when Jackie's having fun, at least some of it trickles down to us.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
Funny enough that it could make buddy pictures respectable again.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The most enjoyable western comedy since "Blazing Saddles."

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The first hit movie western of the new century - wins us with a wink. It leaves you in a bright, happily cross-cultural mood. Adios, amigos. And vaya con Jackie Chan.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
If you see only one martial arts Western this year (and there is probably an excellent chance of that), this is the one.

75
USA Today
Mike Clark
This one looks like a sure bet for seven weeks (at least) of audience good fortune.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
He (Chan) still can turn a silly little action comedy like this into a high-spirited, butt-kicking good time.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
This is almost Mel Brooks territory: The frontiersmen think the Chinese are Jews, while the white settlers think it's the Crow Indians who are. Whoosh!

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
This is one of the few recent westerns that requires you to keep your eyes open and memory engaged.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The martial arts wizard shows a nice feel for the Butch and Sundance thing.

70
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
A modest pleasure, driven by a jumble of Old West signifiers and goofball modern flourishes.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's Wilson's film all the way. He's brings an unexpected frisson of surfer-esque chutzpah to the role of Roy, a bad guy with good intentions, a cowboy who, dammit, just wants to be loved.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
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.

60
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
A trifle at best, a lightweight, wink-wink amalgam of myriad other films, some of which have even starred Chan and Wilson.

55
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Given a decent script, they might make a fun summer movie. Given the script for Shanghai Noon, they've come up with a middling Old West oater that falls flat at least as often as it finds the funny bone.

50
Miami Herald
Curtis Morgan
Chan's string of chop-socky films were never boring. Shanghai Noon is.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lacks confidence in its own much bigger, potentially fascinating story -- an American tale of pageantry and history.

40
TV Guide
Steve Simels
It's too bad screenwriters Gough and Millar didn't have enough faith in their premise to play it straight; if they had, they might have produced a classic rather than a "Blazing Saddles" without the courage of its convictions.


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