![]() After an abortive attempt to make kung fu famous by forming a band (it's horrible!), they decide to form a soccer team and compete for a big prize. Sing wants to promote his Shaolin kung fu, and show that it is useful to people in regular life (he gives a number of examples). One day Fung meets Sing ( Stephen Chow), a former Shaolin monk, and master of Steel Leg kung fu. Mr Hung ( Patrick Yin Tee), who was a team mate of Fung's, is now the coach of Team Evil. Mr Fung ( Man Tat Ng), once a genius soccer player known as " Golden Leg", had his leg broken by a mob after he missed a goal. If you take your martial arts too seriously, you will be horrified by the lack of respect. The ideal audience for this film is one which loves martial arts films, but is willing to see them sent up. There is plenty of wire-work, and lots of martial-arts stunts, but they are taken one, or two, or maybe ten, steps beyond belief. If that entertains you, you will probably like this film a lot. Not because of any similarity of plot, nor similarity of presentation, but just because of the feel: both films take place a long way from reality, but with the actors treating everything as serious. Perhaps the closest film in terms of general feeling is The Kentucky Fried Movie. Shaolin Soccer is a silly film, but that's not a bad thing, because it's very funny. Here's what I wrote before reading about the controversy: The Miramax team did two things to upset them: they hung onto the film without releasing it for well over a year (closer to two) - part of the time was spent dubbing, I suspect - and they cut the film down by almost a third. So imagine my surprise to learn that there is a loud group decrying this release, calling for the lynching of the team at Miramax, and generally very angry. I wrote this review before researching the film - this is a deliberate site policy to avoid any inadvertent plagiarism. If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVD ![]()
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