Shanghai Knights 2003

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Grand, undemanding entertainment. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: So appallingly slipshod in all the usual departments is this sequel to the engaging martial-arts comedy Western Shanghai Noon that you're tempted to cite its makers for contempt. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Manages to entertain even as it's floating into the ether. Read more

Christine Dolen, Miami Herald: The chemistry that made Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson sizzle so well in 2000's Shanghai Noon is every bit as potent in Shanghai Knights. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Like an Abbott & Costello comedy, Shanghai Knights is truly dumb, sometimes inconsistent, but awfully funny. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: With Shanghai Knights, [Chan] has come through with one of his best. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Shanghai Knights isn't brilliant, but it's amiable and sometimes hilarious escapist stuff. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Lazy and resolutely witless. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Except for some doubles, Chan performs his fight scenes in this film live on camera while doing his most creative choreography in years. Read more

Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: A nice mindless diversion of a film that provides a few chuckles, and some pretty fancy footwork by the always invincible Jackie Chan and the constantly optimistic Wilson. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: An action-comedy sequel so indefatigably preposterous and farklemt -- as they say in certain Upper West Side saloons -- that it actually improves on the original. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you- in-the-pants kind of way. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Shanghai Knights is more of the same. In this case, that's good enough. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: A sequel that one-ups the original. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: [Chan and Wilson] imbue Shanghai Knights with an aura of collegial high spirits, even when the writers leave them hanging. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Given a more credible narrative that cared a little about the characters, Shanghai Knights could have been solid entertainment. As it is, it ranks no higher than a passable diversion. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is just the sort of mindless entertainment we're ready for after all of December's distinguished and significant Oscar finalists. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: There isn't a minute of Shanghai Knights that didn't have me grinning. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A desperately unfunny action comedy, mirthless not only in its effect on an audience but in its whole aura. Read more

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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [A] mundane sequel. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Knights will surely find an enthusiastic following before it gets to video. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: Propelled by potent chemistry between Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, Shanghai Knights proves that, sometimes, bigger actually can be better. Read more

Ed Park, Village Voice: It's a merry surfeit, lofted by calisthenic wow above the usual level for late-era Jackie and Wilson's mellow-gold delivery. Read more