I've never been a man who learns from his mistakes easily and boy oh boy, did I ever fall prey to that here! This is the sequel to Shanghai Noon, a previous 'comedy' action film starring the laid back Owen Wilson and barely comprehensible Jackie Chan. That particular film was an irritatingly crap piece of cinema, the film equivalent of stubbing ones toe.
You would hope that this film improved on the original but unbelievably it's actually worse. This time Wilson's character is in New York and Chan's has somehow become Sheriff in Carson City. Chan's father is killed and the gruesome twosome rush to London where Chan's sister has sworn vengeance on their fathers killer. There's some nonsense about am Imperial Seal and a plot to kill the Royal Family and along the way the two (and then 3 when they meet up with the sister) meet Charlie Chaplin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and other assorted lazy Hollywood stereotypes of Londoners.
The main villain, who plots the downfall of Queen Victoria so he himself can assume the throne is so one dimensional he could have come straight from a book. The other Londoners on show are either stuck up toffs with barely a brain cell between them, gurning Cockney villains or maidens with black teeth. This movie is damned offensive to us Londoners! Come to think of it, this movie is offensive to anyone who actually enjoys being entertained.
There are plot holes and leaps of logic a-plenty here and whilst the movie is of an undemanding length you'll be left thinking 'why on earth have I just watched that tripe?"? Do yourself a favour and avoid this film, there are plenty of others that do mindless buddy action so much better than this piece of puerile trash.
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