The English are not very friendly. Roy: They're just sore losers. Chon Wang: What did they lose? Roy: A little thing called the American Revolution, Chon. I'll give you the highlights. They came over with about a million men. We had a bunch of farmers with pitchforks and beat 'em like a drum. 📝 Subtitle & Transcript Access
Note that many streaming versions over the years have been noted by viewers on forums like Reddit to occasionally drop hardcoded translations for the foreign language segments, simply labeling them as "speaking Mandarin". subtitle Shanghai Knights
You can find a complete, dialogue-only transcript of the movie on Drew's Script-O-Rama . The English are not very friendly
: The humor stems entirely from the mismatched chemistry between Jackie Chan's earnestness and Owen Wilson's laid-back sarcasm. Roy: A little thing called the American Revolution, Chon
A perfect example of the script's sharp, playful energy is the cultural clash banter between Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon regarding British history: