Shanghai Knights is to sequels what George W Bush is to brains. Urban legend has tales of Dubya taking notes, holed up in Camp David, from the previous Shanghai Noon. But even the West's most muscular finger (the pointing did him good) couldn't smoke the yawns out of this second production.
The last time we lingered, Chon (Jackie Chan) was the successful Sheriff of Carson City. His chum-in-chops Roy (Owen Wilson) was doing what comes easily to every blue-eyed bimbo - frittering away all his moolah. But this time around when we're done with the flashbacks, we find Roy waiting tables and ....