Shanghai Knights [DVD] [2003]

Product Description ------------------- The Old World meets the Wild West as Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O’Bannon (Owen Wilson) jump back in the saddle for Shanghai Knights, the hilarious sequel to the outrageous hit comedy Shanghai Noon. Chon leaves his honourable life as sheriff of Carson City when his sister brings news of his estranged her’s murder. On a daring quest for honour and revenge. Chon reunites with Roy, his yarn-spinning sidekick. The trail leads to London, landing America’s favourite heroes in the middle of a plot to eliminate the royal family. Chon has his hands – and feet – full as he tries to avenge his her, give Victorian Britain a kick in the pants and keep love-struck Roy away from his sister! Who says you can’t teach the old world new tricks? .co.uk Review ------------- Better than your average sequel, Shanghai Knights almost defies the law of diminishing returns. Lacking the freshness of Shanghai Noon ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059H5M/${0} ), it compensates with a looser, disposable plot that plays to the strengths of costars Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. It's 1887, and odd-couple heroes Chon Wang (Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Wilson) are in London to retrieve the Imperial Seal of China, stolen by an English lord (Aidan Gillen) who killed Wang's her in his quest for the British throne. Wang's lithe and lovely sister (Fann Wong) joins the battle with high-kicking force, appealing to Roy's roguish charm and surfer-dude anachronisms. While Chan continues his transition to safer stunts and good-natured homage to Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly and other Hollywood legends, Wilson indulges the party vibe to good effect, maintaining the anything-goes approach that allows silly encounters with Jack the Ripper, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Dickensian urchin named Charlie Chin (Chin wasn't born until 1889, but if the filmmakers didn't care, why should you?). --Jeff Shannon

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