
Movies that feel like Shanghai Noon (2000)
If you loved Shanghai Noon, the closest films we have are Manitou's Shoe (2001), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). All three share Shanghai Noon's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and OVID and others, checked against today's data.
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If Shanghai Noon hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Shanghai Knights (2003)

The same preoccupation in both: native american

The same mix in both: scale, then wit
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both land play and grit at once
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Shanghai Noon does

Witty comedy in both cases
The difference: Missing the scale of Shanghai Noon

One thread runs through both: martial arts

Epic adventure, and it commits to that


Adventure built on grit, twice over

Comedy with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Western with a pulse of wit, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: cowboy
The difference: Not nearly as epic as Shanghai Noon

Both keep coming back to the same thing: martial arts
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