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Summary: Hilarious and action-packed, Shanghai Noon is loads of fun!
Review: I had heard of "Shanghai Noon" when it had first come out, but didn't have much interest in it. But a few weeks ago I decided to try it out once and found it thoroughly entertaining! Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu) decides to leave the Forbidden City of China to go off to America. But when she arrives in Carson City with her English teacher, she realizes she has been in fact kidnapped, master minded by a traitor, Lo Fong (Roger Yuan). It's up to the Chinese Imperial Guards to save her. One Imperial Guard, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is separated from his fellow mates and is stuck in the West without a clue where Carson City is! He ties up with Indians for a while, marrying the beautiful Indian princess, Falling Leaves (Brandon Merrill) then gradually teams up with 'not quite your average outlaw' Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson). With the Marshall Nathan Van Cleef (Xander Berkeley) on their tale, will they ever save the princess? PLOT: The plot of the story is average if not very original. But the acting, action, and humor makes "Shanghai Noon" to be a five-star great movie! ACTING: Though most people may not believe it, this is my first Jackie Chan movie to watch. Throughout the whole movie he has this sort of wise yet innocent manner about it since he has no clue how to act in the west. Lucy Liu does not come out that much in the movie yet she has her moments. She's so regal that she's great for the part of the princess in captive. Brandon Merrill, a real-life rodeo champion, is very cool as another princess with lots of guts, getting Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson out of trouble. But I must say, Owen Wilson of Roy O'Bannon steals the whole film. He's just so into his part that you can't believe he's only acting! ACTION: As all Jackie Chan movies are, "Shanghai Noon" is action packed. Because it's a movie how 'East meets West', it has both kung fu and gun fighting. Chan gets to use antlers, a horshoe whip, his pony-tail, and other ingenious weapons while the character of Roy gets to use his 'skills?' as a gunfighter. Lots of great scenes but my favorites are: the bar fight scene, the two Roy O'Bannon versus the Marshall 'stand-offs', and Jackie Chan versus Lo Fong. HUMOR: The whole movie is filled with lots of one-liners you just naturally memorize and subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) humor. Most of the humor is given off to perfection by Owen Wilson though Jackie Chan has his moments. Here are a few of my favorite lines: Roy O'Bannon: My name's Roy O'Bannon.
Chon Wang: Chon Wang.
Roy O'Bannon: "John Wayne"? That's a terrible cowboy name! That's not going to work. And neither is the ponytail. Roy O'Bannon: We're men, not pinatas! Roy O'Bannon: On the count of three. 1... 2... 2 1/2... 2 and 7/8... 3! Roy O'Bannon: I may not know karate, but I know crazy. And basically the whole movie is simply hilarious. There's some bloopers at the end of th movie that is just funny! I especially love the one when Jackie Chan is 'fixing' Owen Wilson's shoulder! The music is very cool also, not at all the normal 'western type' of music you would listen to in a typical western movie, but of course, "Shanghai Noon" is NOT a typical western movie. I highly recommend it for anyone how wants a good laugh and some great action/adventure. PG-13 RATING: The movie is rated PG-13 because of language and some scenes. Best for older teenagers and adults.
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Summary: Immensely enjoyable, delightfully off the wall
Review: I was prepared to dislike Shanghai Noon. One genre I don't like because I don't get it is martial arts. Like professional wrestling, these movies always seem so fake to me, even when they do star Jackie Chan, who admittedly is a good actor. Another type of film I am not often keen on is the western. Shanghai Noon takes place in the wild West of the late 19th Century and contains a lot of kung fu madness. Unexpectedly, I thoroughly enjoyed the picture, for it is, first and foremost, a comedy on the order of Blazing Saddles and Cat Ballou. The story opens in China's forbidden city, where Chon Wang [Jackie Chan] is one of the palace guards. He knows Princes Pei Pei is unhappy because she is being forced to marry a most unpleasant nobleman. He overhears her talking to a visiting American, who says he can smuggle her to freedom in America. Chon tries to stop this plan, but the princess is determined and soon leaves. It turns out that the American is working with a former imperial guard. A ransom letter appears. If 100,000 pieces of gold isn't delivered to Carson City, Nevada in two months, it says, the princess is history. Chon talks the emperor into letting him go with the guards delivering the gold. This group is in for some major culture shock and has a hard time even finding Nevada. Along the way, the train they are on is robbed by a gang lead by a hilariously inept cowboy named Roy O'Bannon [Owen Wilson]. At this point Chon is separated from the other Chinese. Chon and Roy's paths keep intersecting, and a grudging alliance develops. Roy is more than willing to help find a beautiful princess and a chest full of gold. Somewhere in all this, Chon manages to get captured by Indians, who marry him off to one of their own princesses. The plot is silly, but that is often an element of comedy. When the absurdity of it all works, as it does in Shanghai Noon, the results are funny. The trick is to play it with a wink and a nod, letting the audience know that nothing is to be taken seriously. Chan and Wilson pull this off masterfully. Chan gleefully makes fun of himself, parodying all the kung fu roles which made him famous. Wilson has brilliant comic timing. This is a surprisingly adult comedy, one that is more rowdy than risque. One of the funniest scenes involves the pair having a drinking contest while sitting in metal bathtubs in a house of ill repute. Another segment has Chon smoking a peace pipe with the Indians. What they are smoking is definitely not tobacco. I suppose some of Chan's fans were disappointed because the level of violence is so low. There are several big fights that show off his skills, but these are presented in a way more akin to the westerns of old than to the modern gore fest. I think the choice to do this made Shanghai Noon much more enjoyable because it keeps reality from ever rearing its ugly head.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE. VERRY FUNNY!!!!!!!:)
Review: ...WHEN I SAW JACKIE CHAN I SAID TO MYSELF" A NOTHER JACKIE CHAN MOVIE? YUCK" THAT WAS BEFORE I STARTED TO WATCH THE CARTOON JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES AND START TO APPREACATE JACKIE AND HIS TALENT. THE NEXT TIME WHEN THE MOVIE WAS ON I STARTED TO WATCH BITS AND PEICES OF IT AND FINALLY ONE DAY I WATCHED THE WHOLE THING AND I LOVED IT.! MY DAD AND I WATCHED IT TOGHER AND HE JUST LOVED IT HE WAS LAUGHING SO MUCH HE COULDEN'T STOP AT ONE POINT IN THE MOVIE... IT STARTS IN THE FORBIN CITY 1N 1881 CHINA WHER THE UNHAPPY PRINCESS PEI PEI GOES TO AMERICA WITH HER AMERICAN TUTOR.THE TUTOR LEAVS A NOTE SAYING THAT THE PRINCESS WAS KIDNAPPED AND WAS BEING HELD IN CARSON CITY NAVADA. THIS IS WHEN THE MOVIE REALLY STARTS TO GET MOVING. WHEN THE IMPEREAL SOLDERS ARE ON A TRAIN ALONG WITH SERVENT CHOW WANG(JACKIE CHAN) ONLY BECAUSE HIS UNCLE WAS ALSO PICKED TO GO ON THE TRIP. SO ANY WAY THE TRAIN GETS ROBBED BY ROY O'BANNON(OWEN WILSON) AND HIS GROUP OF OUTLAWS. AFTER THEY SHOOT CHOW'S UNCLE AND HE DIES CHOW GOES AFTER THEM AND AFTER A KRATIE SCENE CHOW UN-HOOKS ONE OF THE CARS AND LEAVES ROY AND HIS GANG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT. IT GETS EVEN BETTER BUT I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL IT FOR YOU. IF YOU THOUGHT IT SOUNDED GOOD THAN [buy] THE MOVIE. TO SUM IT UP: A UN-HAPPY PRINCESS KIDNAPPED AND TAKEN TO AMERICA,A SERVENT SENT TO SAVE HER,WITH A PARTNER THAT HE DOESEN'T TRUST AT FIRST,A WIFE DE DIDN'T EVEN EXPECT TO GET AND A HORSE WITH A MIND OF IT'S OWN.SOUNDS PRETTY FUNNY DOESEN'T IT? WELL THAT'S THE MOVIE SHANGHAI NOON.GO [buy] IT I'M SURE YOU WILL LIKE IT. P.S OWEN WILSON IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUITE! JACKIE CHAN HAS THE BEST STUNTS AND LUCY LIU GOT A VERY GOOD PART SHE COULD PLAY. ENJOY THE MOVIE! ;)
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Summary: Likeable, but disappointing comedy Western.
Review: 'Shanghai Noon' offers two versions of Chinese hierarchical communities - the Imperial Family and their vassals in the Forbidden City; and Lo Fong's slave colony in Carson City. It is between these negative extremes of Chinese stereotypes; unwavering, robotic devotion, submission and identity-suppression; ruthless Fu-Manchu-like sadism - that Jackie Chan must negotiate, while still retaining those positive Chinese characteristics - humour, loyalty, friendship, adaptability, style and skill (especially, of course, martial arts). And, what is this miraculous Third Way? Why, the American Way, of course! Chan is the classic American immigrant who leaves a repressive, hierarchical autocracy, learns the English language and American, 'democratic' manners, traverses the continent, works hard, bringing native skill to the land, rising to a position of respectability and power in the community, having once been perceived as 'low', even 'bad'. In Chan's case, it is the move from the unthinking execution of arbitrary orders, to the exercise of free will that propels his narrative. He is not alone - this is probably the most ethnically diverse Western in Hollywood, with Chinese, Irish and Indians as the norm against which clash the malevolent, mercenary WASPS. Jackie Chan becomes John Wayne. The comedy makes much predictable fun of culture clashes. And yet there is a disturbing, strangely ritualistic sequence, where, in their first appearance, the Indians (in this case, Crow) are as whooping, barbaric and murderous, as deprived of voice or inner life, as in any John Ford Western. I found 'Noon' to be a bit disappointing, especially when compared to 'Rush Hour', Chan's breakthrough American film (in fact, that movie's plot - Chinaman travels to America to rescue the abducted daughter of an important personage; the victim even has a few chop socky skills of her own - is simply regurgitated and transplanted out West). Chan and Owen Wilson are engaging enough individually, but they don't have the same chemistry Chan had with Chris Tucker, largely because the script isn't awfully funny. The set-pieces are disappointingly perfunctory, and even the elaborate bell-tower denouement (like 'Rush Hour', Jackie Chan films must climax on a high) is more spectacular than exciting or inventive. There is no engagement with the West as either a lived-in historical place, as an important cultural site, or as settings for innumerable Westerns - cliches from the latter are invoked, but the film-makers seem to think centring them on a Chinaman stops them being cliches. I know it's 'only' an action-comedy, but look, for instance, at Leone's 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly', another unlikely double act that polemically engaged with cultural and cinematic myths of the West, but also provided literally explosive set-pieces and consistently strong comedy.
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Summary: Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were great!
Review: My first impression of this film was another Jackie Chan movie. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy his stunts and his special talent; it's just I think he needs a better story and script to make a good movie. Makeing a Western sounded kind of far fetched. I wsn't going to rent this movie at first, but when I saw that owen Wilson was in it, who was hilarious in Meet THe Parents, I picked this one up. I thought this movie was yet again meaning less not that good of a plot, or if you want to look at the plot of friendship than I guess that was acceptable. It was a riot, Owen Wilson almost every word he said made me laugh. Jackie's serious role made me laugh because he was totally an opposite from Owen, witch made this even more funnier. A great movie. TO me it goes down as a comedy, not a Chan Action Flick.
I was very uspet when I wasn't able to copy this movie! ...[DARN] THAT MACROVISION!!!!!!!
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Summary: Fun filled action movie!
Review: I found this movie to be one of the more humorous movies that i have ever seen. Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson work very well together, and play of each other, making the scenes fun to watch, and a comedy that actually makes you laugh. The storyline of the movie is great, and there are very few slow points in it. Owen Wilson is probably one of the funniest actors in the industry today, and this movie puts another star to his name. He makes you laugh almost everytime he speaks. But if you are a fan of westerns, or comedies, or action, or jackie chan movies, this is a movie for you. it is definately worth the money.
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Summary: Chow Mein Western
Review: Jackie Chan has always been a fabulous comedian as well as the most inventive martial artist and stuntman in a generation. This film highlights the former more than the latter, but there is still plenty of entertaining action. Even with Chan in fine form, Owen Wilson nearly steals the movie with his daffy performance as a New Age cowboy. Every anachronistic line and gesture tweaks the cliches of the Western genre for subtle and not-so-subtle laughs. A great cast, a clever script, nice scenery and good pacing = solid entertainment.
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Summary: An awfull film
Review: The story idea is good and interesting: A young lady, an imperial princess, breaking out of her court protocol prison to seek a new future in the land of the free. Unfortunately the story is practically obliterated by the interminable antics of an overage stuntman and buffoon. I feel for lovely and intriging Lucy Liu in her miseable little subordinatd roll.
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Summary: Shanghai Noon-Owen Wilson's breakout film
Review: TO be honest with you, i do not exactly remember the premise of this film, however that is because i was so moved by Owen Wilson's breathtaking performance. Somehow, he continues to be snubbed by the pretentious Academy for his fine role in this brilliant film. As an example, when asked by Jackie Chan if he knows karate, he replies with his typical wry wit, "No, but i know crazy!" However, the scene which should have cemented his staus as an Oscar contender was his famed bathtub scene with Jackie Chan. In this scene, he pretends to be drunk so he can hit on Jackie Chan...It is a most convincing scene. While the movie focuses on Jackie Chan's martial arts skills, and I think I speak for all fans, we want to see more of Owen's "crazy" skills. This is a must see!!!!
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Summary: Great slapstick
Review: Jackie Chan is up to his usual "fish out of water" shenanigans. The plot is silly, but the great fight scenes and hilarious dialogue keep it going. Owen Wilson (who co-wrote RUSHMORE) is hysterical as the talkative, self-conscious desperado; he makes this movie worth watching. The film is well-shot and edited. Jackie Chan is definitely getting old; he doesn't pull off anything nearly as crazy as in the old days. The final scene in the church, though, was really well-done.
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