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It's a merry surfeit, lofted by calisthenic wow above the usual level for late-era Jackie and Wilson's mellow-gold delivery.

-Ed ParkFull Review

Like an Abbott & Costello comedy, Shanghai Knights is truly dumb, sometimes inconsistent, but awfully funny.

-Richard RoeperFull Review

Knights will surely find an enthusiastic following before it gets to video.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

[A] mundane sequel.

-Peter HowellFull Review

Grand, undemanding entertainment.

-Glenn LovellFull Review

A desperately unfunny action comedy, mirthless not only in its effect on an audience but in its whole aura.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

It's a mess, but an engaging one.

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

Shanghai Knights never comes close to the wacky surprise of Shanghai Noon.

-Roger Moore

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

-Jan StuartFull Review

Except for some doubles, Chan performs his fight scenes in this film live on camera while doing his most creative choreography in years.

-Bruce WestbrookFull Review

If Knights isn't exactly great filmmaking, it is at least a lot of silly fun.

-Tom Long

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.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review

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.

-Paul Clinton (CNN.com)Full Review

The movie is just the sort of mindless entertainment we're ready for after all of December's distinguished and significant Oscar finalists.

-Roger EbertFull Review

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.

-Ty BurrFull Review

Far from great but greatly entertaining, Jackie Chan's Shanghai Knights is certainly one of the best of his English-language pictures.

-Stephen Hunter

A pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you- in-the-pants kind of way.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

Manages to entertain even as it's floating into the ether.

-Terry LawsonFull Review

Wilson has his surfer-dude moments of humor, but he's doing his best with creatively dead material.

-Desson Thomson

Even more fun than the 2000 original.

-Lou Lumenick

Although the movie doesn't contain wall-to-wall action, the martial-arts set pieces are on a par with Chan's best work.

-Robert Denerstein

There isn't a minute of Shanghai Knights that didn't have me grinning.

-Charles TaylorFull Review

Chan and Wilson are like a Nerf ball and a screwball improvising a game suited to their oddball physics.

-Carrie Rickey

With Shanghai Knights, [Chan] has come through with one of his best.

-Elvis MitchellFull Review

Lazy and resolutely witless.

-Manohla DargisFull Review

Shanghai Knights is more of the same. In this case, that's good enough.

-Philip WuntchFull Review

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.

-Christine DolenFull Review

Chan and Wilson's easy camaraderie remains eminently watchable, but the rough edges from last time out are missed.

-Mark CaroFull Review


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