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Shanghai Noon (2000), (PG-13)
CAP Score: 47
CAP Influence Density: 1.13
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A service to parents and grandparents MAR20067 Shanghai Noon (2000), (PG-13) CAP Score: 47 CAP Influence Density: 1.13 |
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SUMMARY / COMMENTARY: Shanghai Noon (PG-13) -- Just because there's no nudity does not mean it is not equivalent to R. Jackie Chan is baggage carrier and interpreter Chon Wang. When spoken, Chon Wang sounds a lot like "John Wayne" which, of course, is capitalized upon by the nasal beach bum Sundance Kid style of train robbing Roy O'Banon (Owen Wilson): "John Wayne? That's no cowboy name." Shanghai Noon is competition with the high-dollar Wild Wild West and just about every other bang-bang, shot-em-up Western flick. As with most Chan movies, this one is a stringer of martial arts display with a prize-winning large mouth bass about ever 6 inches. Chan displays poetry in martial arts, but not as fluently as many of his performances. And as usual, Chan finds defensive and offensive weaponry in the strangest of places using the oddest of things -- his trademark in addition to doing his own stunt work ... and his limited english. If it were not for smooth-talking Wilson, Chan might have become forgetable and this comedy would not have been much of a comedy. Chinese Princess Pei Pei, (Lucy Liu) (great lengths were taken in the script to ensure her name was not pronounced Pee Pee even though O'Bannon would not let us forget) hated both her paternal arrangements to marry and her betrothed. Princess Pei Pei is abducted to America where she finds hundreds of her country people enslaved in a mining camp. She does not want to return to China so she could stay in America and help her country people. With spunk and vigor, Pei Pei indeed is a force which could make that happen. Three of the best imperial guards are dispatched to rescue her but were not needed, of course, and Wang is taken along as the interpreter and baggage carrier. In a saloon during a brawl, Wang meets up with O'Bannon and the story takes off. The plot is stricken with almost the same die as a thousand other western flicks: bad guys, shot-em-ups, bar room brawls, train robbery, and the guy gets the girl ... uh ... er ... in this one, the girl gets the guy. In a mixture of "Who *was* that masked man", Zorro, and the cavalry, an Indian maiden (Brandon Merrill) saves the day and gets the guy -- Chon Wang. A clever and witty flick with enough ignominy to earn a CAP score equivalent to R ('nother "R-13"). Among the "adult" stuff in Shanghai Noon (I still can't figure our what it is about this kind of programming that makes an adult of the viewer) was 26 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary and God's name in vain both with and without the four letter expletive [Eph. 5:4, 5:6; 2 Tim. 2:16] so smoothly as to deceive the impressionable into thinking this language is completely acceptable. Peppering the observer were lots of fighting to solve differences, gunfire murder and firearms to control, an attempted and a completed hanging [Luke 3:14]. The scenery of brutalizing and enslaving the Chinese immigrants was rather sobering and the slighting of the American Indian was uncomfortable [Mal. 3:5; 1 Cor. 5:8]. Robbery with firearms was expressive of the wrong message, and drinking and drunkenness defeats the purpose of getting booze commercials off prime time TV [Mark 7:21]. And sex talk, sex "kittens", prostitutes, a man and woman in bed together in motion, and a pictograph of animal intercourse that was about as gratuitous as possible gave the token sexual flavor to this teen movie [2Pet. 2:14]. All for your 13 year olds and younger viewing experience, so sayeth the MPAA and their questionable survey techniques of a questionable survey population. FINDINGS / SCORING: 
NOTE: Multiple occurrences of each item described below may be likely. Wanton Violence/Crime (W): Impudence/Hate (I)(1): Sex/Homosexuality (S): Drugs/Alcohol (D): Offense to God (O)(2): Murder/Suicide (M)(3):  |
