9.12.2005
Shanghai Noon
PG-13, 110 minutes
IMDB site
Official Grade: B+
This was hilarious, but just not as funny as the sequel which I saw first. Maybe because I'm an Anglophile, and love British stuff but am only tepid out Wild West motifs. Anyway, the idea is that the Chinese priness is kidnapped and Jackie Chan's character is part of an imperial group sent to America to ransom her. Of course, things don't go right, he gets separated from his party and ends up having to work with Owen Wilson's character, a friendly, if conniving, train robber to save the princess.
IMDB site
Official Grade: B+
This was hilarious, but just not as funny as the sequel which I saw first. Maybe because I'm an Anglophile, and love British stuff but am only tepid out Wild West motifs. Anyway, the idea is that the Chinese priness is kidnapped and Jackie Chan's character is part of an imperial group sent to America to ransom her. Of course, things don't go right, he gets separated from his party and ends up having to work with Owen Wilson's character, a friendly, if conniving, train robber to save the princess.
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