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	SHANGHAI KNIGHTS - DVD
		Shanghai Knights is only really offensive to memory, a generally inconsequential film that probably shouldn't have been made but the creation of which was seemingly inevitable.
		Shanghai Knights is only the latest in a chain of films that do their best to make us forget why we liked this stuff in the first place.
		Shanghai Knights has the best use of widescreen of any mainstream film in recent memory, making Buena Vista's decision to release it on DVD only in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio a good one.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/shanghaiknights.htm (960 words)

	Modamag.com \| Shanghai Knights (Movie Review)
		As with “Shanghai Noon, “Knights” is a film that one must be specifically in the mood to watch.
		“Knights” provides the same historical wackiness as “Noon” so smugly did, this time having Roy and Wang meet a young Charlie Chaplin, accidentally slam into Stonehenge, complain that there is no future in automobiles, and helping Sir Arthur Conan Doyle come up with the Sherlock Holmes character.
		The action sequences of “Knights” are a little fiercer in nature and more fanciful in design than they were in “Noon.” The carefree and slapsticky Chan choreography is still something of questionable merit, but is presented here with more imagination and running time.
	www.modamag.com /shanghaiknights.htm (676 words)

	Shanghai Knights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai Knights is an American action-comedy movie released on February 3, 2003.
		Roy and Wang are knighted, as is Artie, whose full name is now Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
		In February 2003, soon after the film's release, a third film, rumored to be titled Shanghai Dawn, was reported to be in consideration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai_Knights (1783 words)

	Shanghai Knights
		Shanghai Knights is a sequel that steps in the wrong direction, but still manages to be amusing enough to be tolerable.
		One of the reasons Shanghai Noon was so amusing was that it was barely plausible and an amusing fist-out-of-water story.
		Shanghai Knights relies on the interplay between Chan and Wilson to succeed.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/shanghai_knights.html (477 words)

	Shanghai Knights
		Note, for example, "Final Destination 2." Unfortunately, "Shanghai Knights" is not a better film than "Shanghai Noon," which, at least, had the fresh pairing of its stars, Chan and Wilson.
		The best that can be said for "Shanghai Knights" is that it is more of the same, with the chance to play in different locales like New York and London.
		"Shanghai Knights" is going to have a ready-made audience that will likely garner the box office receipts akin to its predecessor.
	www.reelingreviews.com /shanghaiknights.htm (1021 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shanghai Knights [2003]: DVD: Jackie Chan,Owen Wilson,Fann Wong,Aaron Johnson (III),Aidan Gillen,Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Knights is funnier and the plot is excellent - especially with all of the characters: Jack the Ripper, Charlie Chaplain etc.
		In the opening sequence of SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, the aged keeper of China's Great Imperial Seal is knifed during the seal's theft.
		SHANGHAI KNIGHTS was filmed in London, Calgary, and a studio in the Czech Republic.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shanghai-Knights-Jackie-Chan/dp/B0000TEW2S (1646 words)

	"Shanghai Knights" - Salon
		What's cheering about "Shanghai Knights" is that the people who made it realize that, by itself, that kind of cleverness isn't enough.
		"Shanghai Knights" is a cunning mixture of the calculated and the offhand.
		The press material for "Shanghai Knights" quotes producer Roger Birnbaum as saying that, together, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson achieve something like the casual, shaggy-dog laughs of the Hope-Crosby "Road" pictures.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/02/07/shanghai/index.html (800 words)

	Shanghai Knights (2003)
		Unfortunately, Shanghai Knights fails to live up to its predecessor and it rarely entertains as it vainly attempts to maintain the goofiness and camaraderie found in the first film.
		Shanghai Knights gets a rather generic and unassuming Dolby Digital 5.1 mix that can be engaging at times, but more often than not, remains firmly anchored in the front surrounds.
		Shanghai Knights was admittedly funny in parts, but it was funny in a very unremarkable and instantly forgettable way.
	www.dvdmg.com /shanghaiknights.shtml (1675 words)

	Natural Born Viewers: SHANGHAI KNIGHTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		“Shanghai Noon,” I suppose, was destined to have spawned a sequel with its all-too familiar recipe of action and madcap humour – in this case, it is personified in Chan and Wilson.
		As it is, “Shanghai Knights” is one of the more clever and sophisticated of its type.
		I feel, though, that at just over ninety minutes “Shanghai Knights” borders on outstaying its welcome and this is the primary reason why “Shanghai Noon” stands a very good chance of continuing to be unseen by me. I’d have to be pretty damn bored to fish that one out.
	www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/s/shanghaiknights/review.htm (1054 words)

	Shanghai Knights (2003)
		Shanghai Knights is about as Hollywood as a movie can get, and for once I don't mean that in a bad way.
		Many of the elements are the same, of course, such as the never quite trusting relationship between Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan, as well as the introduction of another love interest, but the film also provides bits and pieces of history from the early 1900's - using famous figures of the period to its advantage.
		While Lucy Lui spent most of Shanghai Noon standing around or crying over the innocent victims surrounding her, Fann Wong is a superb fighter and cute to boot.
	www.moovees.com /review/shanghai-knights.html (549 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - Shanghai Knights
		Shanghai Knights is the exuberant follow-up to the highly successful original Shanghai Noon.
		Shanghai Knights is an excitable action-adventure that also works pleasingly as an impish costume period piece.
		Clearly, Shanghai Knights has its conventional spry edginess and moviegoers will definitely rejoice in seeing the riotous combo of the Chan-Wilson connection engage in the hedonism of their fast-paced foolish frolicking.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2003/shanghaiknights.htm (752 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Shanghai Knights
		Shanghai Noon was a very enjoyable film, but considering it opened during the summer movie season, it was a bit of a dud at the box office.
		The ultimate goal of Shanghai Knights is to recreate the feel of a zany Abbott and Costello from the 1940s or 50s.
		Shanghai Knights ends with a final touch that may be historically ludicrous, but acts as a tip of the hat to the people who inspired the direction of Jackie Chan's career.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/s/shanghai-knights.html (966 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Shanghai Knights
		But the fact that this sequel is in fact, well, a sequel, drops it down another "star" in the rankings, which is a well-known and filmmaker-proven fact illustrating the inability of all but a few sequels in the history of cinema to surpass their predecessors in quality.
		In Shanghai Knights, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is working as a Sheriff, catching crooks like a good guy would, until he receives word from his sister, Chon Lin (Fann Wong), that his father is dead and she has tracked his killer to England.
		I enjoyed Shanghai Knights as well, but not nearly as much as I enjoyed the first, which says a lot to me. Of course, to those who disliked the first, it says nothing.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/shanghaiknights.html (844 words)

	Shanghai Knights - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After opening with an overly serious prologue in which Chan's Imperial-Seal-guarding father is killed in China, "Knights" finds its footing the moment he turns up on screen as Chon Wang, who is now the butt-kicking sheriff of a frontier town, circa 1887.
		If there is a problem with "Shanghai Knights," it's that it takes so many conspicuous liberties with its own time line for the sake of telegraphing various gags -- gags it didn't even need -- that just spotting them becomes very distracting.
		"Shanghai Knights" could have easily done without any of these superfluous references, which is part of why they bring the movie down ever so slightly.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/shanghaiknights_1 (730 words)

	TNMC: Untitled Deadpool Column
		A similar concept drove the original Shanghai Noon, where a crime in the Forbidden City drives a warrior to the West, which ironically is East of China - the only difference on the surface is how much further West (and, again, East) the heroes travel this time.
		While Shanghai Noon was merely a contemporary Western, Shanghai Knights feels more like a conceptual piece of historical fiction, like Time After Time without the time machine, or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the script for which to be reviewed shortly) with real characters.
		If there is a serious flaw in Shanghai Knights, in fact, it is simply that Roy seems to have almost nothing to do.
	www.tnmc.org /dp/0717021.shtml (1073 words)

	Shanghai Knights movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		As the year 2003 begins, yet another recycled sequel is released with Shanghai Knights.
		Shanghai Knights is as most sequels are the same old typical recyclement of the first film.
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	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/s/shanghaiknights.htm (1212 words)

	Shanghai Knights film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		In SHANGHAI NOON, the only memorable fight was Jackie with the rope and horseshoe versus the cowboys with guns".
		The word is that Shanghai Knights will hit US cinemas on February 7th 2003, while we over here in the UK will have to wait until May next year.
		Shanghai Knight will be set in London and will involve Jack The Ripper according to Canoe.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/s/shanghaiknightpre.htm (990 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "SHANGHAI KNIGHTS"
		To make matters worse, and unlike Gump, the timelines for such matters are incorrect, a point that will likely remove some viewers from the proceedings as they ponder what is and isn't temporally and historically correct or possible.
		In fact, one gets the sense that they and director David Dobkin ("Clay Pigeons") threw in such material simply as a means to differentiate this film from the first.
		Shanghai Knights is now available for purchase by clicking here.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2003/shanghai_knights.html (857 words)

	DVD.net : Shanghai Knights - DVD Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In case you aren’t familiar with the prequel to this film, Shanghai Noon (with the delicious pun in the title) here’s the lowdown.
		Shanghai Knights stands okay beside Shanghai Noon, but Noon was the marginally better film of the two.
		Definitely a great precursor to a home edition and while Knights can be viewed as a separate film, it’s handy if you know more of the back story from the first one.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2991 (980 words)

	Shanghai Knights (2003): Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong - PopMatters Film Review
		Chan's movies are built like musicals: you put up with the corny plot and worse dialogue in order to get to the action-stunt-dance scenes, to marvel at their athletic, poetic brilliance.
		The premise is Chon and Roy's doubled fish-out-of-water-ness, in terms of nationality and race (in Chon's case), and in terms of class: they're infiltrating the enclaves of the rich and mighty.
		Shanghai Knights' self-conscious use of the buddy genre's well known predilection for homoerotic/homophobic patterns is cute.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/shanghai-knights.shtml (1015 words)

	The Mediadrome - Reviews - Shanghai Knights
		Shanghai Knights is a little slow going, and the stunts feel somewhat tame compared to Chan's earlier work (after all, the guy is 49), but the film makes up for its flaws with a healthy dose of charm between its charismatic co-stars.
		In Shanghai Knights, Wilson works hard to maintain a carefree, off-the-cuff atmosphere, and his presence alone is a reminder that the only thing at stake here is having a good time.
		Since the law of averages indicates that sequels are often inferior to the films that spawned them, Chan and Wilson can take comfort in the fact that Shanghai Knights is at least as good as Shanghai Noon.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/reviews/shanghai_knights.shtml (694 words)

	Shanghai Knights (USA 2003)
		Shanghai Knights operates off of the same laidback silliness as its predecessor.
		While The Tuxedo and even The Accidental Spy gave us too little of Chan's patented prop-filled action mania, Shanghai Knights is sure to satiate those who find the stuff exhilirating and their reason for admission.
		Shanghai Knights fits that bill quite nicely, and qualifies as terrific popcorn entertainment.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/shanghai_knights.htm (824 words)

	Shanghai Knights (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After taming the wild west in the comedy "Shanghai Noon," Chon Wang (Chan) and Roy O'Bannon (Wilson) are back in the saddle, but off the range.
		With Shanghai Knights, he (Chan) has come through with one of his best.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/shanghaiknights (1314 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shanghai Knights: DVD: David Dobkin,Tom Fisher,Gemma Jones,Jackie Chan,Aidan Gillen,Owen Wilson,Donnie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But this amounts to quibbling, because Shanghai Knights gives viewers everything they expect for the price of admission, including another generous helping of Wilson's sham cowboy legend Roy O'Bannon and his gift for eccentric chatter.
		In Shanghai Noon I couldn't stop laughing but I didn't find that I laughed but a time or two in Shanghai Knights.
		"Shanghai Noon" was one of the funniest and most spontanious films I have seen in months......
	www.amazon.ca /Shanghai-Knights-David-Dobkin/dp/B00005JLRQ (1742 words)

	Shanghai Knights
		Shanghai Noon" so bridled with entertainment and movie fun that I was quoted and criticized for giving it a grade higher than "Citizen Kane" (which I'd also re-seen that year).
		The cinematography, musical score and Chan's splendid good humor/ athletic agility make this sequence something that will (or should) appear on movie classic shows for many years to come.
		But "Knights" also hosts the smirk-faced whit of Owen Wilson as Roy O'Bannon, the lying, cheating, stealing, sidekick with a heart of gold.
	rossanthony.com /S/shknights.shtml (392 words)

	Shanghai Knights (2003) - Jackie Chan , Owen Wilson , Donnie Yen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shanghai Knights - Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson
		[Shanghai Knights] The marketplace fight has been nominated for the "Best Fight" Taurus Award at the World Stunt Awards to be held May 16.
		Jackie Chan ups the ante with some of his best chop-socky moves, but there's little else to get excited about in "Shanghai Knights", a colorless sequel to a film that was mostly unexceptional itself.
	www.countingdown.com /movies/283929 (373 words)

	Shanghai Knights Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		While not attaining the levels of kung-fu-slapstick genius that his best Hong Kong work reached (Legend of Drunken Master, Project A, Police Story), it was a buoyant, enjoyable lark, thanks largely to the laid-back comic stylings of Chan's co-star, perennial sidekick Owen Wilson.
		Wang's sister, and martial arts equal, Chon Lin (Fann Wong) had tried in vain to save her father and pledged to recover the symbol of the emperor's authority—a search that leads her to the British Lord Rathbone (Aidan Gillen) and an unwelcome stay in a Scotland Yard jail cell.
		In his commentary, Dobkin cites the sountrack from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as an inspiration, and certainly A Knight's Tale proved recently that it's possible to have a modern soundtrack for a period movie if the music stays in the background and is appropriate to the action.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=136466 (1339 words)

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