Production Year: 2000 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Dey - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Curtis Armstrong, Xander Berkeley, Rafael Baez, Roger Yuan more
An action-comedy with a decidedly Western twist, SHANGHAI NOON features astounding acrobatics from superstar Jackie Chan. Chong Wang (Chan) is a dedicated member of the Chinese... more
Shanghai Noon [DVD] [2000]
Story? What story? All a film likeShanghai Noonneeds is the amazing stunt set pieces ... more
featuring kung fu superstar Jackie Chan and the ramblings of Owen Wilson (and to be sure, that's all it gets). It's a buddy comedy about Roy O'Bannon (Wilson), a minor...
Shanghai Noon [DVD] [2000]
Story? What story? All a film likeShanghai Noonneeds is the amazing stunt set pieces ... more
featuring kung fu superstar Jackie Chan and the ramblings of Owen Wilson (and to be sure, that's all it gets). It's a buddy comedy about Roy O'Bannon (Wilson), a minor...
Shanghai Noon DVD
Two cultures collide when East meets West in Shanghai Noon a wildly hilarious ... more
stunt-filled action-adventure-comedy starring the death-defying action hero Jackie Chan Owen Wilson and Lucy Liu. Chan plays Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (say it out l...
Shanghai Noon
Two cultures collide when East meets West in 'Shanghai Noon', a wildly hilarious, ... more
stunt-filled action-adventure comedy starring the death-defying action hero Jackie Chan (Rush Hour), Owen Wilson (Armageddon, The Haunting) and Lucy Liu (Payback, TV's Ally McBeal). Chan plays Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (say it out loud) who hightails it to the wild and woolly West to rescue the beautiful kidnapped Princess Pei Pei (Liu). When he meets up with laid-back outlaw cowboy dude Roy O'Bannon (Wilson)... the best mismatch ever made in the rough and tumble Old West - the two face jail, brawls, bordellos and the vilest villains this side of the Great Wall! Spectacular stunts, outrageous irreverence and epic vistas reign as East meets West in a battle for honor, royalty and a fortune in gold! It's a real kick.
selected original 35mm film from Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson movie Shanghai Noon. The collection has a black mount with black frame, an individually numbered plaque and certificate of authenticity.
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
A review by damncoldnightdotnet on Shanghai Noon (DVD) May 12th, 2004
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Loved it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Outstanding
Special Effects
Good
Soundtrack
Unmemorable
Advantages:
Owen Wilson .
Disadvantages:
Lucy Liu's just not right here .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
Aah, another Owen Wilson movie for me to review!
--- Cast. --- Chon Wang - Jackie Chan. (Rush Hour 1, 2 & 3, The Tuxedo.) Roy O'Bannon - Owen Wilson. (Zoolander, Behind Enemy Lines, The Haunting.) Princess Pei Pei - Lucy Liu. (Charlies Angels, Ally McBeal, Kill Bill: Vol. 1) Falling Leaves - Brandon Merrill. (A model for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren.) Lo Fong - Roger Yuan. (Bulletproof Monk.) Nathan Van Cleef - Xander Berkeley. (24, Candyman, Storytelling.)
--- Plot. --- 1881. When Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu) is kidnapped from Forbidden City, China, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is sent to America with 3 other guards to give the ransom money to her kidnapper Lo Fong, and retrieve the Princess. When Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his gang of incompetent outlaws rob the train the Chinese guards are riding and kill Chon's uncle, he goes after them for revenge. Finally catching up with Roy, who is buried up to his neck in the desert, Chon Wang (pronounced "John Wayne") leaves him a pair of chopsticks to dig himself out with in return for directions to Carson City, where the Princess is being held. What he doesn't know is that Roy has sent him the wrong way, and along this journey Chon finds himself married to an Indian girl - Falling Leaves - and once again, involved in a Saloon brawl with Roy, who has miraculously managed to dig himself out of the sand. The two men find themselves in jail, where they begin to bond. When Roy hears of the reward for rescuing the Princess he invites himself along on Chon's quest, and with the help of Chon's new bride, they break out of jail. Now they are wanted men, but they must get to Carson City to save Princess Pei Pei. Along the way they find themselves fighting bad guys, narrowly escaping death and playing drinking games in the bathtub! When they eventually get to the Princess, things are more complicated - she doesn't want to return to China, she wants to stay in America and help the people. But Lo Fong is not going to let her go that easily, and predictably, the film ends with a big battle involving lots of specialised martial arts action from Jackie Chan.
--- My Opinion. --- My first thought when the film ended was "Oh look, Owen Wilson just played Dignan from Bottle Rocket again." If anybody's seen the film Bottle Rocket (Owen and his brother Luke's debut) you'll know what I mean. Roy O'Bannon is very similar to Owen's character Dignan in that. Dignan wanted to be a criminal like Roy wants to be an outlaw, except neither characters are actually any good at it. They are good at talking, but when it comes down to it, both characters are too nice to really shoot or rob people.
My completely unbiased opinion - Roy O'Bannon is a fantastic character. He's desperate to be an outlaw, to be a wanted man with a reward on his head. He's good at talking and spinning his guns, but he can't actually hit anything he shoots! I must admit this is the first Jackie Chan movie I've ever seen, and it's definitely left me wanting to see more. Chon Wang ("John Wayne? That's a terrible name for a cowboy. That's never gonna work!") is brilliant too as the naive and sweet Chinaman, the complete opposite of Roy, they spark off each other well. Lucy Liu, however, is not good in this film. She does not seem comfortable in the role of Princess Pei Pei, nor does she make the character in the slightest bit believeable and the chemistry between her and Jackie Chan is non-existant. I did enjoy her line at the very beginning of the film about her supposed beau being a "toad" though!
I'll happily admit this is not my usual type of film at all - I cannot stand westerns or martial arts type films, and as a mix of the two I was absolutely positive I was going to hate it. So I needed a pretty good reason to buy this in the first place - Owen Wilson, obviously! This is one of the funniest films I've seen in a long time. I laughed all the way through, have happily watched it 3 times in the past week and even persuaded my friend, who hates Owen Wilson, to watch it!
My keen eye for spotting movie mistakes picked up on Owen's fake tan. It generally changes colour throughout the entire film, but in a scene towards the end, just after Chon and Roy have escaped being hung and they're standing at a lake, Roy's shirt has a few buttons open and just look at that tan line around his neck!
--- Humour. --- I'll include some quotes, as usual...
Roy: You gotta be able to laugh at stuff like that. Like me in the desert. I don't hold any grudges. I laugh about it. I'm not angry at you. You just left me there with chopsticks to die. Roy, all by his lonesome, just me and the buzzards, pickin' at my head... You're a very silent man, aren't you?
Roy: Oooh... Who's the pretty lady? Chon: That's my wife. Roy: How long you been in this country? Chon: Four days. Roy: Nice work.
Chon: You gave me bad directions! Roy: No, I gave you wrong directions.
Roy : Yes Chon, I've heard all about the Emperor. Must be one heck of a guy. Chon: He's only twelve. Roy: That's just great. You're hanging here, waiting to die for some guy whose balls haven't even dropped yet!
Roy: Did I hit you? Nathan Van Cleef: No, but you're getting really close. Roy: You've almost killed me like 17 times already. (Nathan shoots again) Roy: 18, 19, 20. You're on fire today!
--- Other Stuff. --- Year: 2000. Time Running: 106 Minutes. Cert: 12. Director: Tom Dey. (Also directed a TV series called The Hunger and 2002 film Showtime.)
DVD Features: Audio commentary by Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Tom Dey, Outtakes, Behind The Scenes featurette and the music video for Uncle Kracker's Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Buy It: I got my VHS version for the ridiculously low price of £1.99 on Ebay, but you can get it at Amazon.co.uk - DVD - £17.09, VHS - £11.69, although Marketplace prices start from £3, and I've recently seen this in WH Smith around the £10 mark.
--- Tagline. --- The classic western gets a kick in the pants!
I have to mention that the sequel to this - Shanghai Knights - is even funnier than the first, and it also happens to be my next review, so keep coming back!
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Shangai Noon is the film Rush Hour was meant to be, a hilarious, frenetic action/comedy which sees Jackie form a believable partnership with an American comedy actor. The fight scenes and stunts are excellent as always and the physical comedy is tremendous. Even the script is decent providing laugh after laugh.
The film tells the story of Princess Pei Pei played by Lucy Liu. She is frustrated at life in the Forbidden City and is duped into running ... ...an evil traitorous profiteer. Jackie plays an Imperial guard known as Chon Wang (to sound like John Wayne). He sets out for the west to rescue the princess and falls in with Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) a laidback outlaw. Together they must survive the evil badguy, a scary posse hunting them, the other Imperial guards and even Roy's old gang.
Jackie Chan is a world superstar and deservedly so, although his success in America has been more recent. ...
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Advantages: An action filled romp; frantic, funny and well-conceived. Disadvantages: Children may copy what they see
Imperial Guard Chon Wang finds himself on a mission to the Wild West when Princess Pei-Pei is persuaded to leave the Forbidden City, to avoid an arranged marriage. Instead of finding the new life she was promised, she finds herself enslaved and it is up to Chon to release her.
More of an action comedy than a martial arts epic, Jackie Chan does what he does best - entertains. His brand of of comedy kung-fu has found him fans the world over and looking ... ...film that successfully trades on the buddy movie format. Upon arrival in the States, the train carrying the ransom for the princess is ambushed by inept bandit Roy Bannon and his gang. Betrayed by his band of thieves, Bannon gets involved with Wang and after a few initial spats, they get on with the business of liberating the girl and the gold.
This is arguably the best English-language film Jackie Chan has so far made. It has a sharp and funny ...
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Advantages: Excellent all rounder without the excessive use of bad language etc... Disadvantages: None.
A Western with a difference, maybe it should be called an Eastern. This well produced comical film stars Jackie Chan as an imperial guard from the Forbidden City in 1800s China. Not only is he a guard but also a servant, and what's more he is in love with the Princess Pei Pei.
The story revolves around the Princess leaving China and heading off to America. She thinks that the man who helps her escape her old lifestyle is a friend, but the Emperor ... ...been kidnapped and the usual ransom demands are made in exchange for her life.
Once in America the Princess realises what is going on when she comes face to face with an old adversary and traitor to the Forbidden City and her father The Emperor.
Jackie Chan in the role of Chon Wan, ( John Wayne ) manages to get permission to go to America with a few other guards on the mission to pay the ransom and return the Princess, but things don't go as planned.
...
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Advantages: Everything! Disadvantages: none, this really is the best film ever
Shanghai Noon is one of Jackie Chan's best movies ever! I have watched it about 5 times already and still want to watch it again!
The film gets of to an 'interesting' start with the director setting the story, it starts in China and you learn what the characters are (imperial guards) and of course you learn about princess pei pei. Princess pei pei wants to leave the forbidden kingdom where she lives and accepts the help of a man in the city. Thinking ... ...him. When princess pei pei arrives at her destination in the west she finds out that she has been kidnapped for a ransom! The kidnappers want gold, and lots of it! Three imperial guards are chosen to go and rescue the princess. Jackie Chan, an imperial guard, was not chosen, but forced them to let him go with them.
Next you see them on a train, heading for the west... when the local group of outlaws rob the train! One of the team of outlaws shot ...
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Advantages: Jackie talks english, good acting, amazing action and is very funny too Disadvantages: none
This movie in my opinion is more of a comedy than a martial arts film although Jackie Chan gives the usual dose of breathtaking fights and stunts. It is one of the best action comedies that Hollywood has churned out in the last few years.
The plot follows Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) on his mission to find the stunning Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Lui). This film being a comedy even the names are involved in some of the gags. Chans characters ... ...is often refered to as Princess Pee Pee. On his way to her rescue her he runs into charming Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) a very laid-back outlaw. They find themselves stumbling from one one fight to another while providing a lot of laughs on the way.
This is one of the few films that Jackie Chan actually speaks English in. This itself provides some laughs due to the inclusion of outakes at the end of the movie where Jackie often mucks up his lines. ...
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Advantages: Funny, good performances by both actors, good choreographed martial arts scenes Disadvantages: Somewhat cheesy
...DVDs also offer audio in Dolby Digital 5.1.
The first movie in this double set is ShanghaiNoon, so I'll start by reviewing that movie & DVD.
ShanghaiNoon
The Movie
This starts with Jackie Chan as Imperial Guard Chon Wang (which, when he states his name later in the movie to Wilsons's character, O'Bannon, gets mistaken for being John Wayne), who travels to the Wild West of America to try and rescue the beautiful kidnapped princess Pei Pei (played by Lucy Liu). The fun really starts when he accidentally gets caught up in a bungled train robbery, headed by the outlaw cowboy Roy O'Bannon (played by Owen Wilson) and the two of them end up becoming mismatched partners. At first Roy isn't so sure but once he becomes aware of the plight of Pei Pei, the two of them join forces and end up enduring time in jail, bar brawls and plenty...
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Advantages: action packed Disadvantages: needs more of a story line
...director john moore
cast:
owen wilson (shanghainoon, zoolander)
gene hackman (enemy of the state,heist)
time: 1hr 41min
cert:12 on video 15 on dvd
Shot down over war savaged bosnia after investigating movement on the ground, naval navigator chris burnett(owen wilson) and witnessing his pilot and friend being shot dead in cold blood he has to evade the enemy and get to a pick up point, sounds easy but it isent.
director john moore does a great job, the film overall is good but not as good as many bruckheimer productions (like 'black hawk down') one very good scene in this film is when burnett sets off loads of mines when he runs threw a trip wire.
Because the film is set in bosnia it dosent have the appeal of the iraq or viatnam wars but it still manages to show the rules of war and how his commanding officer (hackman...
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Plot: Chon Wang is on a mission to rescue the beautiful Princess Pei Pei from her kidnappers, he enlists the help of a cowboy called Roy O'Bannon and together they get set for an adventure.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINM; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 11/06/2001
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: BED 888296
Barcode: 5017188882965
Production Designer: Peter J. Hampton
Screenwriter: Jackie Chan, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Editor: Richard Chew
Composer: Randy Edelman
Featured: Jackie Chan
Executive Producer: Solon So, Jackie Chan, Willie Chan, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Jonathan Glickman
An action-comedy with a decidedly Western twist, SHANGHAI NOON features astounding acrobatics from superstar Jackie Chan. Chong Wang (Chan) is a dedicated member of the Chinese Imperial Guard. When the emperor's former captain, Lo Fong (Roger Yuan), oversees an illegal operation that involves kidnapping Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu) and bringing her to America's wild West, it's up to Chong to save the day. Eventually partnering with outlaw Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson), Chong uses his Eastern skills to face Western conflicts. SHANGHAI NOON is an action-packed comedy with great chemistry between stars Chan and Wilson.
Languages
Main Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Special Features: Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Featurettes, Music Video
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Professional reviews
Review: "...[Chan and Wilson are] perfectly matched in temperament and timing, they make for a classic duo whose cinematic exploits have surely only begun..." (Box Office, p.102, 01/07/2000)
"...The movie benefits from an unusually witty, high-spirited script....it's giddily, effervescently funny..." (New York Times, p.E12, 26/05/2000)
"...Wilson is flat-out hilarious....A slap-happy treat..." (Rolling Stone, p.140, 22/06/2000)
"...[A] smoothly filmed, generally funny and brilliantly titled Western..." (USA Today, p.13E, 02/06/2000)
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