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For two cops on vacation, life in the fast land is about to take a turn for the worse! Get ready for a head-on collision with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan in the year's funniest action comedy, Rush Hour 2. What is UMDTM?
UMD, Universal Media Disc, is a brand-new and groundbreaking optical storage medium, designed for the high speed and efficient delivery of digital entertainment content that can store up to 1.8 GB of digital data on a 60mm disc -- or an entire feature film on a single UMD video. All UMD DVDs are produced in Widescreen and encoded using advanced AVC compression. UMD for PSP will play on the new PlayStation Portable handheld entertainment system.
Specifications
Diameter: 60 mmMaximum Capacity: 1.8GB (Single-sided, dual layer)Laser wavelength: 660nm (Red laser)
"Hilarious! Better than the first!" Bill Diehl, ABC Radio
Editor's Note
Crime fighting has never been so hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and assassin Zhang Ziyi, whose beautiful, balletic kick packs a head-ringing wallop. A fish out of water in exotic Hong Kong, Tucker talks his way into reams of trouble, saved time and again by Chan's frantic fighting. Though the two detectives are taken off the bombing case, unpaid debts between Chan and the criminals lead the detectives back to the U.S. and into the middle of an international counterfeiting racket that only Chan and Tucker can expose. Fans of the first RUSH HOUR can't miss this hilarious sequel, and buddy-cop movie aficionados will recognize the dazzling zingers slammed back and forth between Chan and Tucker as the true sign of a winning film.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | DVD Quality Picture | | Full Length Movie | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 1/3/2006 |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 10026 | | UPC: 00794043100260 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew | Alan King | | Chris Tucker | | Jackie Chan | | Zhang Ziyi | | Andrew Z. Davis, et. al. - Executive Producer | | Brett Ratner - Director | | Ira Hearshen, et. al. - Original Music By | | Jeff Nathanson - Writer | | Mark Helfrich, et. al. - Editor | | Matthew F. Leonetti - Cinematographer | | Roger Birnbaum, et. al. - Producer | | Terence Marsh - Production Designer |
| Awards |
Image Award (2002) | | | Chris Tucker, Nominee, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | |
MTV Award (2002) |  | Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan, Winner, Best Fight | | | Chris Tucker, Nominee, Best Comedic Performance | | | Chris Tucker, Nominee, Best Musical Sequence | | | Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan, Nominee, Best On-Screen Team | | | Ziyi Zhang, Nominee, Best Villain |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"...[The] full orchestra action music works like an energy boost on the ears....Tucker is louder, more aggressive and funnier this time....Zhang, of course, owns the screen..." 07/30/2001 p.17-22New York Times
"...Mr. Chan dances through some uproarious martial-arts battles....Mr. Chan and Mr. Tucker are always fun to watch. Mr. Tucker has an unusual comic talent..." 08/03/2001 p.E11 Entertainment Weekly
"...Chan's got the universal language of physical comedy on his side..." 08/10/2001 p.45-6 Rolling Stone
"...Chan's acrobatic high jinks play strikingly well off of Tucker's wiseass humor..." 08/30/2001 p.131-2 Los Angeles Times
"...Chan is still the most watchable of action stars, a human special effect..." 08/03/2001 p.1 Sight and Sound
"...[Chan] remains a peerless physical performer....Director Brett Ratner keeps us briskly hopping from one action set piece to the next..." 10/01/2001 p.57-8 Chicago Sun-Times
"...Jackie Chan is amazing as usual in the action sequences..." 08/03/2001 p.29 Rolling Stone 7 of 10
...the film winds up being faster and funnier than the first... Chan's acrobatic high jinks play strikingly off of Tucker's wiseass humor... It's the stunts (catch Chan swinging off the side of a speeding semi), the laughs, and Chan and Tucker busting their humps that make Rush Hour 2... the whole film plays like an outtake, and that I do mean as a compliment. - Peter Travers
San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
...takes the first movie's shtick global, moving from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and still having fun with the idea that to the rest of the world, Chris Tucker epitomizes America... actually a better time than the first one. - Wesley Morris
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