werkz advice: go see it in the theatre, but it will be still good on dvd.

I admit it. I like Jackie Chan movies. They're all mostly cheesy, yet the stunts are spectacular, the fight choreography hilarious and the whole effort is kind of like a modern day version of the three stooges. In 'Shanghai Knights' the sequel to 'Shanghai Noon', Chan and Owen Wilson provide a great chemistry together and make the film a fairly humorous sequel. It picks up shortly after the former leaves off, though quickly moves to England, where the two main characters must recover an imperial seal, prevent a royal bloodbath and find true love.

As in all in all Chan movies, the plot is secondary to the fight scenes, yet like Noon, Knights manages to weave together fairly funny wordplay in addition to amusing ladder/box/knife altercations. Wilson and Chan are comparable to Hope and Crosby (if Bing's trick was kung-fu, rather than singing!) in the buddy-guy genre, which is a difficult to master type of film. Too often sappy sentiment gets in the way of madcap mayhem in most modern movies of this nature, but director David Dobkin manages to keep things lighthearted and moving along. In the end, as the always amusing movie outtakes roll over the credits, one can't help but laugh along. Another Chan classic has concluded.