Shaolin Soccer

Starring:Cecilia Cheung, Lam Tze Chung, Pu Ye Dong, Li Bin Hong, Cao Hua, Shi Heng Jiang, Vincent Kok, Chan Kwok Kwan, Hui Li, Mo Mei Lin, Karen Mok, Man Tat Ng, Kai Man Tin, Yin Tse, Zhao Yong, Wong Kai Yue, Shi Zi Yun, Ming Ming Zhang, Vicki Zhao
Studio: Miramax
Product Type: DVD

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Computer generated special effects have seldom been so giddy as in Shaolin Soccer, a gleeful fusion of kung fu and a classic Bad News Bears sports story. A former soccer star--whose "golden leg" was broken by a hired mob--assembles a team of former students of Shaolin martial arts, whose assorted skills (indicated by their nicknames, like Mighty Steel Leg and Iron Head) lend themselves to the swift interplay of the world's most popular game. Along the way, the team's leader (Hong Kong comic superstar Stephen Chow) meets a sticky bun baker (Vicki Zhao) whose kung fu is the equal of any of his teammates. Shaolin Soccer is supremely silly--in the final match, their opponents are called Team Evil--but that's part of the fun. American movies rarely achieve this perfect balance of the absurd and the sincere. A delight. --Bret Fetzer

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With tons of action, eye-popping special effects, and nonstop laughs, here's a hilarious martial arts comedy about a team of misfits who take their best shot at winning a championship! Sing is a skilled Shaolin kung fu devotee whose amazing "leg of steel" catches the eye of a soccer coach! Together they assemble a squad of Sing's former Shaolin brothers inspired by the big-money prize in a national soccer competition! Using an unlikely mix of martial arts and newfound soccer skills, it seems an unbeatable combination ... until they must face the dreaded Team Evil in the ultimate battle for the title!

Customer Reviews:

Have an open mind.......2007-03-25

If you have seen Kung Fu Hustle you'll probably enjoy Shaolin Soccer. It shows a light-hearted approach to spreading the Kung-Fu gospel to different walks of life. Its fun to watch and just enough special effects give it an amusing edge.

ONe of the best films out there.......2007-02-13

If you want a movie that is hilarious, unusual, heartwarming and inspiring all at once, buy this movie. This is a great add to any movie collection. Stephen Chow always manages to entertain us with his amazing imagination, characters and storylines while inspiring people with his uplifting message. WAtch this film.

Shaolin Soccer..........2007-02-04

A fun movie! I actually liked it! The Special Effects were also good! If you can get it cheap, do so and have fun watching it! Three stars!

slightly disappointed.......2007-01-13

i bought this movie after being blown away by the actor/director's masterpiece, Kung Fu Hustle.

while it contains similar humor elements and near-anime-type action, it's really not worth the buy, and you would be better served by purchasing Kung Fu Hustle which is much funnier and overall a better production. i probably watch Kung Fu Hustle once every couple of months, which is no small complement.

This movie is ridiculously funny!.......2006-12-14

Stephen Chow did an amazing job of creating a story involving real characters in not so real, but agreeable situations. He has given each character a personality of its own; just to create comedy, with a humor that is sometimes honest and others rough. It has some great comedy moments although, coming from the characters, very peculiar ones.

It basically all comes from the characters. You have different persons, united by one thing: Shaolin Kung-Fu. And then you have one man, with one passion: Soccer. This premise helps to create human emotions in the characters. They all have a past that, for some reason, want to forget. Except one of them, who could be living in the past, and still thinks in the goodness of Shaolin Kung-Fu. He believes in it so much, that he gives speeches to people about the qualities of his culture, and the improvement it could do in society. He is right, and sooner or later, she will remind these things to some people, and they will all remember. They will all be prepared to get together again.

What a good-hearted film this is, and how it is filmed, it's beyond imagination. You will find special effects from other world. In occasions, these will seem slow for you, and you will think they are not well managed or handled; but then you will watch. Watching will make you connect all the elements of the story, to make it one. In elements I include special effects, and say again: they couldn't be done better, especially in a movie like this one.

The entire cast did a wonderful job in their roles by giving their characters the personal development they need. They are not playing the most complex people in the world, but they still know what characters they're playing. Some of the scenes, such as the first time we see Mui making bread, are absolute genius; so funny that you can't help but to laugh. I felt Mui seemed like she should have been in more of the film, and I've read that a lot of her part got cut out of the American release, which is a shame. A number of people are saying the original is vastly superior to the edited U.S. version, but this version is so great that I would be mightily impressed if that were true.

The idea of this movie is ingenious, using the style of extravagant martial arts films in a soccer movie, and is done beautifully. You will probably find something you've seen before, I can't deny that. You will find the ending you expect, the situations you imagine, the resolutions you anticipate, or not. You'll have the old coach, the person with the dreams and the heart, the girl; it's just that you'll have them differently (you'll realize what I mean). This is another type of cliché, a very different one, so different that I would say it is not a cliché at all.

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Shaolin Soccer (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Stephen Chow
Manufacturer: Miramax
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Release Date: 2005-08-16

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Stephen Chow: A Chinese Odyssey Series (HD Remastered Edition) DVD Boxset

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Stephen Chow: A Chinese Odyssey Series (HD Remastered Edition) DVD Boxset
Director: Jeffery Lau
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Films of Stephen Chow (The Digitally Remastered Edition) DVD Boxset

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Films of Stephen Chow (The Digitally Remastered Edition) DVD Boxset
Starring: Shara Cheung Man , and Yuen Wah
Director: Gordon Chan , and Danny lee
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This DVD box set contains both films, staring Stephen Chow in "King of Beggars" and "Legend of the Dragon". Both Digitally Remastered to a new modern crisp audio and sound.

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Silly Spin-Off

Shaolin Family Soccer
Starring: Tai , Lee , Kei , and Fai
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QIAO KO FUNG AND LAI MEI KA ARE A SUCCESSFUL COUPLE IN TONG KWUN WHOSE SEPARATION REQUIRES A NEW NANNY TO LOOK AFTER THEIR TROUBLESOME SON QIAO PAK GO, WHOSE MISBEHAVIOR DISCOURAGES A BABYSITTER AT ANY PRICE. HEARING OF THE SITUATION, THE BOY'S GRANDFATHER INTERVIEWS FOR THE NEW POSITION... AS A WOMAN. HILARITY AND HIGH-FLYING ACTION ENSUE IN THE OUTRAGEOUS COMEDY, PROVING THAT THE FAMILY THAT KICKS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER!

Customer Reviews:

Silly Spin-Off.......2007-05-29

SummerStorm's Silly Kung Fu Family (aka Shaolin Family Soccer) may be an inexpensive spin-off living off the name of Shaolin Soccer without the wit, screenplay and presence of Stephen Chow, but the movie owes more in its tone and character to Mrs. Doubtfire and a bit of Problem Child. However, its unoriginality is not the biggest rub of the film - that would be the plot and characters.

Successful businessman Big Master, master of Iron Head Kung Fu (Wong Yat-Fei redoing his role from Shaolin Soccer; though his voice is replaced by a much younger man in the Mandarin dub), has two issues: his former teammates are getting beaten up by Brother Hong who wants a match between unbeaten Wu Lin team and Red Evil team, and his bigger problem is that he wants to get close to his estranged grandson Little Pak Go and son Gou Fung (aka Mr. Q) who works in Tong Gong as a hotel manager. To get close to his grandson he poses as a nanny named Lun Ma (yes he dresses in drag and he is about as unfeminine as Ernest Borgnine in a tutu) to a brat who with his outrageous behavior has caused eight previous nannies to quit.

Little Pak Go thinks that by getting rid of the nannies his mother will come back. However it is all because of Auntie Wai Lin who has eyes for Gou Fong (they have known each other for two years) or it could be because Gou Fung's wife May (Loretta Lee Lai-Chun) broke off with them because of his jealousy of her boss or it could be because the film could not make its mind up who really was at fault in these relationships (instead of a love triangle in Mrs. Doubtfire this is more of a love rectangle). Anyways, Pak Go wants to get rid of this new male-looking nanny (from the countryside) until Lun Man's persistence eventually won him over. Now they are teamed up to take on "Evil" Auntie Wai Lin who wants to send Pak to boarding school.

Then there is the sub plot: Lun Ma (aka Big Master) has to goalie his team while wearing his maid drag. I am not sure much more needs to be said except it was a bit ridiculous and not much else takes place on the field except a penultimate scene that really has no meaning in the film other than comic relief in this movie (contrary to what some titles of this film may make you think). After rewatching several scenes from Shaolin Soccer I am even more disappointed by this film.

Ultimately this film is harmless. It is a film that seems to cater more towards kids (I am not sure how it originally was marketed) and treats its audience as such. I think though it could have created at least a more cohesive outline for the story and more realistic (or even sympathetic) secondary characters. I never really felt that Auntie Wai Lin was that bad and I certainly did not feel that May was that great and they certainly did not seem to have a very stable marriage to begin with (except for a few flashback scenes). There are characters than come and go with no real purpose like the drunken couple that end up at the house later to be tortured by the dynamic duo and/or are not explained well like the drunken couple and several of Big Master's lackeys. Though the two subordinates of Big Master named Michael and Jordan are funny just because of their names and their ineptness. Also the kid annoyed me which reminded me of the Problem Child kid (without red hair) another character that grated on me. I am not sure I would recommend this film to anyone. There are a few laughs but not much more.

The Image R1 DVD is a bare-bones disc with the movie and lots of trailers (the same trailers on most of the Image Asian DVDs). The transfer is OK, but I get the feeling the original elements were not that impressive. This film is from 2004 yet it seems that it is older than Shaolin Soccer. The worst aspect of this DVD was the renaming of this film to "Shaolin Family Soccer" (and the film itself keeps its original name on the print) which was done to try to capitalize on the Stephen Chow film. Also, the Mandarin dub does not sound great making me wonder if there is a Cantonese dub in existence.

For Amazon rating: more like 1½ out of five.

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Have an open mind
ONe of the best films out there
Shaolin Soccer...
slightly disappointed
This movie is ridiculously funny!

Shaolin Soccer [IMPORT]
Starring: Cecilia Cheung , Stephen Chow , Lam Tze Chung , Pu Ye Dong , and Li Bin Hong
Director: Stephen Chow
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Release Date: 2003-07-22

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Asian only All Code / NTSC DVD. One of the top grossing films in Asia for 2001! The film tells the tale of how a ragged bunch of Shaolin warriors become a top football team. The film is incredibly funny & the action is kinetic & imaginative. The movie ope

Customer Reviews:

Have an open mind.......2007-03-25

ONe of the best films out there.......2007-02-13

Shaolin Soccer..........2007-02-04

A fun movie! I actually liked it! The Special Effects were also good! If you can get it cheap, do so and have fun watching it! Three stars!

slightly disappointed.......2007-01-13

This movie is ridiculously funny!.......2006-12-14

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Shaolin Family Soccer

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Release Date: 2007-05-15

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Have an open mind
ONe of the best films out there
Shaolin Soccer...
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This movie is ridiculously funny!

Shaolin Soccer [IMPORT]
Starring: Cecilia Cheung , Stephen Chow , Lam Tze Chung , Pu Ye Dong , and Li Bin Hong
Director: Stephen Chow
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Customer Reviews:

Have an open mind.......2007-03-25

ONe of the best films out there.......2007-02-13

Shaolin Soccer..........2007-02-04

A fun movie! I actually liked it! The Special Effects were also good! If you can get it cheap, do so and have fun watching it! Three stars!

slightly disappointed.......2007-01-13

This movie is ridiculously funny!.......2006-12-14

Shaolin Soccer (Limited Ultimate Edition) 3 disc set

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Shaolin Soccer (Limited Ultimate Edition) 3 disc set
Starring: Cecilia Cheung , and Karen Mok
Director: Stephen Chow Sing Chi
Manufacturer: Spectrum DVD (Korea)
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