Shanghai Noon (PG-13)

Before they teamed up in Shanghai Knights they first were brought together in Shanghai Noon.  I'm talking about the legendary Jackie Chan and handsome Owen Wilson, of course.

In Shanghai Noon a world in the East is facing a crises of a missing Princess and this leads one of her loyal men to head to the West to pay a ransom and bring her back safely.

Little does this Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (Chan) realize that the West is a whole another world from the one he's lived in all his life.  He partners up with would-be Outlaw Roy O'Bannon (Owen) to complete his mission on finding and saving the princess.

The first 10 minutes or so of the movie, which is to set the plot, is a little slow, but once Chon Wang gets introduced to the Native American experience through his first battle it begin to pick up the pace.

The jokes are not a laugh out loud movie, but the pace of the action and mild jokes will keep everyone involved in the story.

There are 3 cuss words, but nothing a teenager, as this is a PG-13 movie, hasn't heard before.  The violence only comes from 2 great bad-guy death scenes and all the wonderful style of Jackie Chan fighting moves.

This movie cost me $14.99 and it has everything a DVD should have in it.  Blooper reel, which is at the end of the movie, music video, behind the scenes features, 2 interactive quiz games, deleted scenes, and even the commentary (which in the beginning has the director doing most of the talking) has the stars of the movie commenting.  It's nice because even though Owen was sitting next to the director Jackie was on another movie set, but still phoned in to comment on the movie.

This movie is for age 10 and over for boys and even the women will enjoy the movie as the action sucks you in for the ride as if you're riding with them to save the Princess.

One of the funniest parts of the movie is at the end when Owen's gives his real name of his character in the last shots of the movie.  It's an interesting tidbit to mention before the end credits.

A unsettling comment on the movie as much as Owen Wilson appears to be a real life cowboy in all the get up gear it will help you distract from his nose that appears to be broken at one time, and never fixed.  Luckily, in more shots than not, it doesn't distract from his overall "Cowboy" appearance.

The price was well worth the movie, but if you need too you can also pick it up for the $9.99 when it comes down, but for comedy/adventure sake PICK IT UP!!