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Movies that feel likeShanghai Noon (2000)

Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard, trails Princess Pei Pei when she's kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.

If you loved Shanghai Noon, the closest films we have are O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) and Taxi (1998). All three share Shanghai Noon's epic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tom Deyepicwittyplayfulgritty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Shanghai Knights (2003)

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 78%★ 7.7adventure · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both land scale and wit at once

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Shanghai Noon does

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 81%★ 7.2action · adventure · comedy

The same mix in both: play, then grit

The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

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Taxi
1998 · dir. Gérard Pirès
★ 7action · comedy · crimePrime Video

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006 · dir. Michel Hazanavicius
🍅 76%★ 7crime · action · adventure

Witty comedy in both cases

Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.

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Fantomas
1964 · dir. André Hunebelle
★ 6.9comedy · crime · adventure

Western with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: 36 years apart, and the 1960s show

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.

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🍅 72%★ 7comedy · crime

Gritty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the scale than Shanghai Noon

As a swinging fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy. But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

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Manitou's Shoe
2001 · dir. Michael Herbig
★ 6.7western · comedy · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: native american

Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a credit from the Shoshone Indians to finance his tribe's new saloon. Unfortunately Santa Maria, who sold the saloon, betrays Abahachi, takes the money and leaves. Soon, the Shoshones are on the warpath to get their money back, and Abahachi is forced to organize it quickly.

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Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · dir. Steve Oedekerk
🍅 23%★ 6.4crime · comedy · adventure

Adventure built on scale, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

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Police Story 4: First Strike
1996 · dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
🍅 52%★ 6.6action · adventure · comedy

One thread runs through both: martial arts

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realises that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

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A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 33%★ 6.1comedy · western

Witty western in both cases

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.

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Wild Wild West
1999 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 16%★ 5action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cowboy

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%★ 6.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Comedy built on play, twice over

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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