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Best sports comedy ever?
Wow, I was really surprised by this pic. It is totally unique, I've never seen anything else like it. There is a very mannerly love story, and the effects are actually absurd. The idea of combining kung fu with soccer is very original.... even though it's and so bizarre, you lot'll find yourself asking why nobody has done anything similar this before. I laughed constantly throughout this film and went out and bought information technology a few days later on I first saw it.
I would recommend it to everyone I know. This is the all-time Asian comedy since the heyday of Jackie Chan and "Fighting Benny"! Become see information technology, purchase it, whatever, just make sure you lot practice see this pic.
I would be surprised if at that place is not a sequel. This film should have been released theatrically in the US; I've heard Miramax handled it. Sorry guys you lost millions of dollars, this motion picture would have been a smash hit. They probably just didn't recall that soccer would sell in America, but discussion of mouth would have sold this moving-picture show very well.
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Kickful of comedy
KUNG FU + SOCCER = lots of laughs!!
Funny funny funny. And that'due south coming from a non-soccer fan.
Bang-up performances hither in this alloy of one-act and loftier flight soccer action. Stephen Chow as Sing packs one hell of a boot!! His chemistry with Ng Human Tat (Golden Leg) is natural every bit it is in most of their films together. Plus, Sing's Shaolin brothers provide for a lot of comic relief!! From their soccer preparation to the title game, there are really cool kung fu soccer shots, a mix of Matrix/Crouch Tiger special effects and information technology delivers. Oh, and Vicki Zhao literally steals this in the stop (you accept to run across it).
The Bruce Lee goalie scene is priceless. This flick can definitely be watched several times with even more than satisfaction!
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One Of The Dumbest - And Funniest - Movies Ever
This has to be one of the goofiest, dumbest, strangest - and funniest - films ever fabricated! It made sound like a cliché, but yous truly have to see this moving picture to believe information technology. Information technology'southward that outrageous, far-out: a slapstick film containing martial arts, supernatural power and the sport of soccer.
We get the usual misfits-brand good story, which is nothing new, but how it happens in different anything I've ever seen. I can't retrieve how man times I literally laughed out loud watching these ludicrous scenes. The climactic soccer game at the nd got carried away, of course, but information technology was still fun to watch.
Earlier in the story, the baroque dialog, odd encounters with dissimilar characters and the humor is stupid many times.....but and then stupid, it's comical! I just shook my caput in amazement at what I was seeing and hearing. Be prepared, as I said, for some incredible dumb things, only also for much weird but definitely entertaining stuff.
Note: I watched the short "English language theatrical version" which runs 89 minutes. Y'all can also view the 112-minute Chinese version. From what I've heard, read, and witnessed, the 89- infinitesimal is sufficient. Any more of this insanity would be as well much.
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Amazing!!
Or: the funniest moving picture I've seen this decade! I was expecting a moderate picayune asian comedy worthy nigh an IMDB 7 TOPS, simply at the end, I was forced to requite this nine points! See, no other comedy has actually brought me to tears laughing in recent history! Either mr. Grub is a genius or he's ane lucky sonova. Encounter, "Shaolin soccer" just happens to printing all the right buttons, and in correct places! In the picayune "relief" spots it's as dramatic every bit information technology's supposed to exist, and the rest, it's big, large, BIG laughs all the mode. HIGHLY recommended! P.S. If y'all don't like this moving picture, your center must be made of stone and you take absolutely NO sense of humour. My condolences.
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I hate sports movies.
What a wonderful sports film. STOP, read that line 1 more time. I ask you to do this considering you lot will probably never meet this again.
This was a sports motion-picture show, for me to say that it wasn't would be a assuming faced lie. This had all the characteristics of the modernistic Hollywood sports movie, but what made information technology stand out and enjoyable is that it did not accept itself seriously … AND … it had some amazing CGI action sequences. I recently watched a film called Equilibrium where it was mentioned that it could rival the popularity of The Matrix, well I would accept to say that perhaps this moving picture, Siu lam juk kau, would probably do more than in toppling the male monarch of bullet-time cinematography than Equilibrium would. I was impressed from the beginning till the end of this movie. The characters were all animated and individual in their own way. At that place was time used to set them up and learn about each of them. This wasn't ane of those films where you lot spent most of your time with i of the characters and so never actually got to know the rest of them … you knew them all and couldn't await to meet what they were going to bring to the table side by side. Hong Kong has crafted a spectacular picture show here. They have taken the popularity of the bullet-time consequence and applied information technology to a genre that definitely needed a face-lift. I am surprised that America wasn't the first to do this, but we are a nation that loves the standard sports film, so why change what we dearest. PWFSSSST. Nosotros are so lazy sometimes.
Siu lam juk kau tells a spectacular story coupled with some amazing graphics to create a story about dearest, teamwork, and superpowers. I also enjoyed the fact that this film also tried to say that kung-fu is not an old topic, that information technology tin can and should all the same exist used in society today. When nosotros think of the martial arts films (and physical attribute), we see them as a very old and dated genre. Well, permit me exist the first to say that they are coming back, and coming dorsum with a vengeance. I enjoyed the fact that this was a revenge film. So many of our kung-fu films are revenge films, I was happy to see that this one was not far off. This moving picture used techniques that I have not seen used in any other films. They took the old, skilful means of the dated kung-fu picture show, added the work of bullet-time, and added the sports flare to it to create Siu lam juk kau. It had us laughing, it kept us based in reality, and information technology focused my attention to the screen for the unabridged motion picture (a task that no other sports film has been able to do). I think that by having your star also direct it (directed and starred Stephen Chow) it builds upon a sense of comfortability with the story. Grub is a principal of slapstick, yet seldom overdoes the silliness, choosing carefully timed gags and meticulously mounted visual construction over slapdash one-act. The film is besides no stranger to the bizarre, with Grub's multiple homages to Steven Spielberg, and a weird egg gag that I'k honestly shocked still remains the American cut of the pic.
Overall, Siu lam juk kau is a amazing combination of comedy, activity, romance, and dazzling soccer footage, forming an irresistible package to those looking for something they haven't seen before. We see that information technology is a personal story that everyone is having fun being a part of. That too helped this film … the characters really wanted to exist in this film and it shined like the Northward Star through our screen. The dubbing (which seemed off a couple times) only added please to this film. Grub's Siu lam juk kau, is and will always be breathtaking.
Grade: ***** out of *****
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Peachy entertainment
Stephen Grub writes, directs and stars in probably his funniest and virtually attainable (to Western audiences, at least) film to appointment.
Sing (Chow) is trying to find a way to encourage his countrymen to re-embrace their Shaolin kung fu heritage. When he meets downward-at-heel ex-soccer coach Fung (Ng), the pair hatch a plan to form a soccer team with Sing's Shaolin brothers. Unfortunately, these guys have lost their kung fu skills. Sing resolves to help his brothers regain their nobility, then lead them into a championship showdown with the seemingly unstoppable Evil Team. He also finds time to fall in dear with Tai-Chi baker Mui (the usually lovely Vicki Zhao), who gets some of the funniest scenes in the flick.
As a non-Chinese speaker, my experience with Chow's previous films is patchy, his wordplay sense of humor rarely making a decent transition to subtitles. The comedy here though is mostly physical, possibly even deliberately geared more towards a Western market. The plot - notwithstanding clichéd - is a pleasing tale of underdogs fabricated good, and the movie has a definite feelgood feel and uplifting catastrophe. Even the CG is impressive and well used. It's the almost entertaining movie I've seen in ages.
I was watching the Universe DVD. Subs are decent enough, without also many typos, and the 'making of' and other extras have English subs also.
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If you lot don't savour this movie, y'all are a bad person
Throughout the well-nigh two hour running time of this movie, the room was a glow with merriment, excitement, and remarks of "Holy crap, that is the coolest thing e'er!" Indeed, for this movie is filled with astonishing visuals, fantastic fun, and all around goodness. Shaolin Soccer is a harmless picture show, the type that mentions the normal morals y'all might discover in a children's motion-picture show (piece of work in teams, don't allow success go to your head, cheating is bad, etc.), without preaching them.
Some Shaolin-trained, just for the most function poor and unhappy men get organized in a soccer team with a coach who was crippled in a soccer anarchism later on losing the big game twenty years ago. Yous've got a variety of misfits--the spunky young'due north with the steel leg, the obese convenience store clerk who can nearly wing, the plutocratic salary man who uses a style reminiscent of Flying Chimpanzee's Cotton Belly in Wing Chun. It's an odd little band, stretching from barely-post adolescent to nigh retirement age. This rag-tag band is quite endearing and information technology works and so well.
Certain, there are a few instances of inexpensive sense of humour, simply yous've got to wait this. The visuals are fantastic, the characterization competent (fifty-fifty if you probably have seen the archetypes before), and information technology'southward a lot of fun, whether it's the parody of a war movie (which my friend called scant instants before it happened) or the somewhat unusual tribute to Bruce Lee (hint: it'southward all in the sunglasses).
Should you see this movie? Yes. I'd say this film deserves 4 one/ii stars out of five based on technical merits, etc. Only on fun? That's right, it gets a one thousand thousand billion stars. Now let's see what Miramax cut out--25 minutes? Crap.
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wildly funny with heart
I watched this motion-picture show expecting it to be a cute little pic, which is what information technology looked like from the trailer, but it was absolutely bright. Some of the scenes, such as the first time we meet Mui making breadstuff, are absolute genius; so funny that y'all are screaming with laughter.
The idea itself is very ingenious, using the style of extravagant martial arts films in a soccer movie, and is done beautifully. It's all very funny in an incredibly silly manner. While the pic is mainly inventive sight gags, it besides does a skillful chore sketching out its characters in quieter moments. It's a fairly standard sports movie story, and if information technology were a drama I would complain it was clichéd, but it uses those sports motion-picture show clichés very finer.
I felt Mui seemed similar she should have been in more of the movie, 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.South. version, but this version is so great that I would be mightily impressed if that were true.
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More than fun than any soccer game I've seen!
Pure fun! Stephen Chow takes a classic martial arts storyline and puts it in a modern-24-hour interval sports setting. This highly entertaining film kept me laughing the whole time.
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A Gem that glows in the nighttime (Possible spoilers herein)
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Foreign movies are frowned upon by many American audiences. Whether it is considering they are afraid of new ways of cinema, xenophobia, or the simple reason of not wanting to read the subtitles are amongst the reasons that seem to haunt them. Yet, there are some movies that overcome these obstacles and are widely acclaimed by all of the people alike. I believe this is ane of them.
Despite its disparity with western comedy, Shaolin Soccer still does its job of carrying laughter to its viewers. The story is original too, something that Hollywood has not been able to come up in a very long time except for a few.
The story is not funny per se, but what is wonderful near this moving picture is that each one of the characters is fully embraced by its respective actors. For instance, the goalkeeper alluding the always neat Bruce Lee. His facial expression and actions bring, for a moment, the belatedly Bruce Lee to an audience that has been longing for his presence in the large screen (Bruce Lee fans remember, I am not proverb that he is as peachy every bit Bruce Lee is, just that his actions are reminiscent of him).
I applaud this funny, yet intelligent film with the hope that in the near time to come American audiences tin can widely appreciate other strange movies more.
Thank you very much for taking your time reading my review.
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Chow'southward Best moving-picture show Yet
Although the Sports One-act genre is often plagued with cliché and is usually simply for the most strict of fans, you lot definitely don't have to be a Soccer/Football fan to savor Shaolin Soccer, It helps if you savour the idea of a featherbrained (but not stupid or bad) Martial Arts Motion picture.
Compared to films of director Stephen Chow's past (King of Comedy, God of Cookery), Shaolin Soccer is a much greater visual treat. Although he's not exactly from brilliant yet, the management has improved vastly. And the new CG scenes are often agreeable and visually interesting demanding repetitive viewings.
While the motion picture is fun and generally smart, information technology falls prey to a bit of an obvious story, of form this is one of those petty-plot loftier-laugh comedies, 1 tin can't aid be feel bogged down by some of the beloved plot, which unlike a lot of the soccer field action, it's totally predictable and at times is a bore.
If you must see Shaolin Soccer, be sure to spotter it with information technology's original language and subtitles. The American English version had many of the films funniest scenes cut to make the film more PG-13 rating. Watch it in it'south uncut version to run into one of the funniest and most enjoyable Sports-Martial Arts-One-act of the 2000'southward.
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Shaolin Soccer
'Gilt Leg' Fung is his team's star player but when he misses a penalty the fans invade the pitch and beat him so badly he is crippled. 20 years afterward he is working every bit a cleaner for Team Evil but withal dreaming of returning as a coach. Then the possessor tells him he will never be a motorcoach. He leaves adamant to commencement his own squad. Shortly afterwards he meets 'Mighty Steel Leg' Sing a street cleaner who is also a practitioner of Shaolin Kung Fu. He is looking for ways to make kung fu more popular and suggests using its techniques in football; this is initially met with scepticism but somewhat inevitably Fung is soon teaching Sing, and his brothers, how to play football. Initially they are laughed at only shortly rivals meet that they are virtually unbeatable... it is only a matter of time before they face Squad Evil in the final. Abroad from the football game at that place is the possibility of romance with Mui, a girl who uses kung fu skills to make steamed buns.
If y'all like your one-act subtle then this won't be for yous; information technology is about as subtle as having a bottle cleaved over your head... something that happens repeatedly to one character! If withal yous desire lots of laughs, of a fairly slapstick nature; martial arts mayhem and football every bit yous've never seen it before then this is a lot of fun. There is lots action; although it is violent at times it is in a comical rather than brutal mode. The story doesn't provide many surprises simply to be honest I didn't wait any. The characters are a lot of fun; Stephen Chow and Human-tat Ng impress as Fung and Sing; Vicki Zhao is charming as Mui and the rest of the bandage are solid. The CGI may be fairly obvious but that just adds to its amuse. Overall I'd definitely recommend this to anybody wanting a good laugh.
These comments are based on watching the longer original language version with English subtitles.
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One of the All-time films I take seen!!!!!! What a film!
Wow--did I actually love this film! So far on IMDb, I take reviewed well over thousand films and I must say that this is about the most original, refreshingly different and funny film I have seen in years. Without a uncertainty, it is the all-time Chinese film I accept seen and may be even better than my favorite Japanese one-act, HAPPINESS OF KATAKURIS. It is on-par with the funniest American and British films likewise!! How information technology has a ratings in the mid-7s on IMDb, I actually don't know except that, perhaps, there are a lot of "stick in the muds" who have absolutely no humour! You MUST see this film.
This movie succeeds because it is a perfect melding of a traditional sports moving-picture show (information technology'southward highly reminiscent of the American film Contrivance Ball) with WAY over-the-top CROUCHING TIGER-type martial arts special furnishings--with a little Bruce Lee thrown in likewise (the 1 goalie fifty-fifty looks like Lee). And, from starting time to finish it is simply plainly funny--even the opening credits are great.
The picture is about an ex-soccer player who was knocked out of the sport when he missed a punishment kick and was savagely beaten by the crowd. The the film advances twenty years to the present where this aforementioned man is still down-and-out and wanting revenge against his sometime dominate--the owner of "Squad Evil"! Well, he meets a very foreign poor guy dedicated to Shaolin Kung Fu and realizes this guy'south astonishing and super-human powers tin can he used for soccer. In one case he convinces the guy to join a new team, this Kung Fu master summons his older, overweight and completely un-athletic appearing brothers to form the footing for a squad. These credible losers, though, turn out to exist highly reminiscent of the v Chinese Brothers from the onetime children'south story--with super-human skills of their ain. One brother can kick a ball so loftier it takes an 60 minutes to hit the ground, another has a caput of steel, another can acquit the ball on his chest, and some other is a goalie who is obviously invincible and can score against the other squad all the way from his own goalie box!! They enter the national tournament and all appears ready for them to take the championship AND the $1,000,000 prize---until Squad Evil unveils their newest undercover weapon!! Will the good Shaolin soccer squad prevail or will Evil win the day?? Melody in to see it and be completely amazed and bowled over past the amazing and funny special effects--plus a lot of great twists and turns along the way! This film really has heart and is great fun for anyone EXCEPT total stick-in-the-muds who can't express joy and suspend all disbelief for this wonderful fantasy. You must meet this film. Now--become on, go upwards and become the DVD,....At present!
PS--the DVD has 2 very different versions--the American version (less than 90 minutes long) and the original version which is about 20 minutes longer and is subtitled. My review is based on the subtitled version. I would never consider watching the shorter version, as every moment I spent watching this film was pure gilded--how could whatsoever clod consider cutting perfection down to 89 minutes?!
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Goofy fun
'Shaolin Soccer' is a film probably unlike you have ever seen, it is goofy fun, totally ridiculous, just entertaining all the style through. Discussing the plot would be as silly as the film itself, but I volition say a couple of things to give you an idea. The soccer competition is in the hand of i homo named Hung (Yin Tse). He leads a squad called Team Evil, winning the competition every yr. Now Golden Leg Fung (Human Tat Ng), a human made cripple by Hung a long time ago, ensembles his own team which exists out of Shaolin kung-fu fighters, lead by Sing (Stephen Chow). There is likewise a girl involved, of course.
What y'all can expect is a lot of fun and funny moments. To requite you an example, Sing can kick the ball and then hard he can disable four opponents with one shot. Other can defy gravity the way the characters did it in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. From fourth dimension to time the brawl changes into a ball of fire, causes strong winds or the world to tremble. Of course the Shaolin team will face Team Evil in the final game and of course information technology is a big surprise who will win. What does it matter? By and so you have laughed a lot, you take seen some pretty images, you are really entertained.
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Shame on europe (that this movie nevertheless isn't released there)
I've seen this movie many, many, many, many, many & many times. A friend recommended this to me and unfortunately that'due south still the only way people in europe know about this movie: from rima oris to rima oris. Absolutely one of the about brilliant comedies i've always seen. Must see. Won't tell anything else.
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Most purely enjoyable film I've watched for ages
The just reason I watched this film was my flatmate had had it recommended to him, he spotted a re-create in Chinatown, I was bored this evening. The title 'Shaolin Soccer', the synopsis, the box art etc were not promising, I was expecting the usual cliched B-moving picture: Fallen star brings together rag-tag gang of outsiders, trains them upwards allowing them to bond and then usual finish beating the evil favourites. Correct, that'south enough of the bad preconceptions. This film is BRILLIANT ('scuse the caps). Although the story is technically pretty cliched it is executed flawlessly and equally other reviewers accept mentioned - this is a comedy and a very funny ane at that. It'due south not deep, it's non going to win an Oscar - merely I just sat through it with a great big grin slapped on my face up laughing my arse off. Call back Escape to Victory/Jackie Chan/Matrix effects - really the effects do deserve a mention. I'd somehow got the idea that China was somehow going to produce crappy bluish-screen special furnishings, not at all true. Movie is crammed with some very nice effects which are completely OTT, only add enormously to the overall bear upon of the motion picture. Enough of my pointless rambling anyway. Please get a group of your mates round, crack open a few beers and watch this film - I promise you lot you won't regret it.
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Hilarious
Afterwards watching the deadly tiresome and self important road to perdition, my friend and I needed a movie to cleanse our arrangement. Shoalin Soccer is the perfect motion-picture show for that purpose. I dare anyone to actually hate this pic. The special effects are peachy, all the performances are great, and the moving picture doesn't take itself at all seriously. I think the horrible translated subtitles actually improved the experience. GO EVIL TEAM!!! Stephen Chow is definitely a talent to spotter.
Miramax, please don't mess with this film too much if you ever release this in america.
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Downright Hilarious, Batshit Crazy & An Absolute Bonkers Of A Movie
Martial arts in cinema often have this tendency to go style over-the-peak in its depiction and it pretty much ruins the whole picture for me, especially if this exaggerated action is present in movies that take their drama seriously.
It is no underground that I adopt films that brandish martial arts in a highly realistic & grounded fashion. In short, movies like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are a large no for me while I'yard game for action extravaganzas similar The Raid.
Fifty-fifty in comedies, this stylised illustration of martial arts doesn't work all the time since majority of them are busy spoofing kung fu instead of weaving a funny tale around it. And that's exactly what separates Shaolin Soccer from the norm.
Shaolin Soccer does blow its martial arts aspect out of proportion but it retains the very essence of it. Despite the film's batshit crazy premise and absurd slapstick wit, the film brims with so much heart & warmth that it remains a joyful experience from start to cease.
The story of Shaolin Soccer follows a former Shaolin monk who wants to bring kung fu to the masses but has been unable to observe a manner that works. However, later meeting with an ex-soccer star, he decides to promote kung fu through soccer and gets back in touch with all his brothers to form a superhuman team.
Co-written & directed by Stephen Grub, the pic is hilarious as hell from beginning to end and qualifies more as a comedy than spoof. Also, thank you to Chow's skillful writing, it packs in a genuinely heartfelt story beneath its utterly ridiculous premise, and fifty-fifty its characters are worthy of emotional investment. Well, at to the lowest degree a couple of them.
Visual effects play a key function in realising its most unbelievable moments on screen and while the CGI looks a bit cartoonish, information technology all the same adds to the film'due south overall craziness. Boosted momentum is provided by its fantabulous photographic camera-work, swift pacing & thrilling score, and the maniacal contribution from its unabridged cast further strengthens its position.
On an overall scale, Shaolin Soccer is an accented bonkers of a moving-picture show that promises its viewers an overdose of laughter and effortlessly provides information technology. A rollicking ride that benefits from its kinetic direction, ebullient screenplay, lively camera-work, stimulating score & outlandish performances, this sports comedy works because its heart is at the right place.
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A cinematographic feel
This is a ride, more than a pic. And well, if information technology is a movie, it could be many more movies too. It has a story about a soccer tournament, similar in a sports movie. It has a story about love, a really expert one, like in a romantic movie; and information technology has a story about friendship, like in many kinds of movies. It surely has another stories which I won't tell. Here, Stephen Chow took the amazing work of creating a story involving real characters in not so existent, but amusing situations. He has given each character a personality of its own; but to create comedy, with a sense of humor that is sometimes honest and others crude. It has some great one-act moments although, coming from the characters, very peculiar ones.
It basically all comes from the characters. You have different persons, united by ane 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 exercise in society. He is right, and sooner or later, she volition remind these things to some people, and they will all remember. They will all be prepared to get together again.
What a adept-hearted film this is, and how it is filmed, it's beyond imagination. You will notice special effects from other earth. In occasions, these will seem slow for you lot, and you will remember they are not well managed or handled; merely then you will scout. Watching will make you lot connect all the elements of the story, to make information technology 1. In elements I include special effects, and say over again: they couldn't be done better, particularly in a movie like this one.
The actors do a great task, the entire cast. They give their characters, the personal development they need. They are not playing the most complex people in the world, but they however know what characters they're playing.
You volition probably find something you've seen before, I can't deny that. You lot will notice the ending you wait, the situations you imagine, the resolutions you conceptualize, or not. You'll have the old autobus, the person with the dreams and the center, the girl; information technology'due south just that y'all'll have them differently (you'll realize what I mean).
The truth is, that in a world full of clichés, this is another type of cliché. A very different one. So unlike that I would say information technology is not a cliché at all.
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vivid film, shame about the cuts & dub
This film was seen as something of a surprise. Having only heard of Shaolin Soccer on the net, and seen a teaser for the film, I thought zippo more of information technology until given the opportunity to go and scout the United kingdom release. My initial thwarting with the dubbing (I am a subtitle die-hard) was soon overcome with adoration of how far HK cinema has come. Imagine the FX expertise of the Matrix with the comedy of Jackie Chan fused into a somewhat generic football flick. In a word, a brilliantly scripted and oftentimes funny film. Many moments are extremely funny, with the over-the-top storyline fabricated famous by HK, and besides the very touching moments with the acne-ridden baker girl/love interest as she is only accepted for what she is. It feels as if there is more to the love story in the original cut of the film, as the story occasionally skipped in places, similar a bad DVD. Simply the overall story is non affected, it moves sedately at starting time, which is skillful, as the excessive utilize of Kung-fu and Football are shown in increasingly ridiculous stages. The terminal goal reminds me of Hot-Shot Hamish, for those that read the comics. Worth seeing, and I can't wait for the DVD - providing it has the original cut, and subtitles.
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Surprisingly funny
This flick contains the traditional Chineese fundamentals for a comedy; Pain, humiliation, cheap effects and serious over acting. Regardless of these facts it held me enthralled all the manner to the End. A truly funny and original film!
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Truly dissimilar everything else you've always seen
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SHAOLIN SOCCER is a real mixed bag of a film, that is both wildly uneven and wildly entertaining. Starting off on very dodgy, unfamiliar basis (if yous think Jackie Chan's style of one-act is bizarre, you've seen goose egg), I began by wondering what on earth I was watching. However, one time the film gets onto the subject of football game (virtually 45 minutes in), things outset to get really skilful, as the typically inept group of kung fu fighters form a team and get ready for one heck of a lucifer.
Stephen Chow throws in plenty of diverse elements to keep the viewers watching, from numerous references to films (eastward.g. THE MATRIX) and actors – including a goalie who'south the reincarnation of Bruce Lee. The comedy is of the striking and miss multifariousness but at that place are some genuinely funny moments, which tend to exist the most bizarre of the film – including the 'egg' joke which has to be seen to exist believed. The interim is fine, if a niggling over the top (just in light of the movie as a whole, how could it not be?) and the special effects, done using CGI, are fantastic.
The strength of this film lies in the football matches. There are most 5 spread throughout the film and they're bright; if you lot've e'er wanted to come across players flying through the air, spinning around upside down, or lots more crazy things, then this is the film to watch. Make no mistake, I hate football game, I loathe sport in general and find it stultifyingly boring, but SHAOLIN SOCCER breathes life into the game. The stop match is the all-time office of the film, surprisingly fierce but with the scene in which the goalkeeper's clothes are torn off past the power of the brawl, you can't help simply watch, gape, and express joy at the sheer insanity of it all. Different annihilation else yous'll ever see.
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Steven Chow does it again
Way to deliver the good Mr. Chow!!! He is the side by side Bruce Lee!! Move Over Bruce Lee, Steve Grub is in boondocks. The goods are all delivered in this motion picture past the director/actor of GONG FU. This motion-picture show was so practiced and delivered more goods than the United nations. The soccar scenes were amazingly real and the special furnishings were but amazing. I hope that Mr. Chow makes MORE movies. The all-time part was when the lady who fabricated the bread, becomes the golie and does that astonishing motion. The Soccar team Team EVIL was good also. That golie was amazing and when the forrard kicked the one good guy when he was down was SO Hateful. I was shocked that there was no decease in this movie. I take noticed that in that location is little death in these movies. Nifty cameo by Wesley Snipes.
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I liked the Miramax cut merely as much, if not more. Spoilers inside!!!
Warning: Spoilers
I don't remember who recommended this movie to me, but I'm glad I watched it. I first watched the American Miramax version and LOVED information technology! At that place were some things I didn't sympathise, though, specifically how Miu became gorgeous (which she was, even with a bald head) and how Miu got into the terminal game.
So the next nighttime I watched the Original version hoping in that location might be some explanations. There weren't. The but explanation I can remember of how Miu became gorgeous is that someone told her she is beautiful so she became cute. But how she got into the concluding game is still a mystery. But it is only a mere detail.
Anyhow, the reasons I liked the Miramax cut amend were that it cut out stuff that was non integral to the movie. Such as Gold Leg admiring Mighty Steel Leg'due south apartment.
Miramax also cut the scenes of Miu being friendly with the squad and the scene in which Miu stands up to her boss. Miu standing up to her boss was a great scene and allow us encounter more of Miu'south mastery. Notwithstanding, the boss not firing her after that was the most unbelievable thing in this motion-picture show of fantasy. I think Miramax did practiced to cut the scene and then the film would brand a niggling more than sense equally to why Miu notwithstanding had a chore before beingness fired for making salty and biting buns.
The Miramax cut also added special touches such equally the signs existence in English. "No Peeing on the Wall" looked funnier to me than Chinese characters did. Another addition to the Miramax cut that I found to exist a funny moment moreso than in the Original version was the jail cell-phone telephone call Iron Shirt made during the final game. In the original version he but called a girl to tell her he loved her. In the Miramax version, he poured out his heart saying I love yous only to find out he was talking to a homo. He then said something like, "Please tell your wife what I only told yous." It was archetype.
Anyhow, all in all, they were both very expert versions. So whichever ane you get to see, please meet it.
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A classic Stephen Chow movie...
Much tin can be said about the movies that Stephen Grub accept been behind, love them or hate. Luckily I am a big fan of the Hong Kong cinema and I similar Chow's item manner of pic making and one-act, so "Shaolin Soccer" (aka "Siu Lam juk kau") is without a doubtfulness a classic movie.
The storyline in "Shaolin Soccer" is pretty straight forrard; an underdog team of losers selection up soccer and contain Shaolin Kung Fu into the game, but the road to the championship is long and difficult, not ane that gives them an easy ride.
"Shaolin Soccer" has a expert corporeality of one-act, as is the trademark of the Stephen Grub movies. So if you enjoyed his other movies, prior and postal service this movie, then you will most certainly as well enjoy "Shaolin Soccer". And there is also a good amount of action in the moving-picture show as well.
This 2001 Hong Kong comedy has a swell ensemble of cast, with the likes of Stephen Chow, Man-Tat Ng, Wei Zhao, Kai-Man Tin, Yat-Fei Wong and Tze-Chung Lam. But what actually tipped the scale of impressive moments was when none other than both Karen Mok and Cecilia Cheung showed upwards in the picture, that was just priceless. If you are a fan of the Hong Kong cinema, then you are in for quite a treat here in terms of familiar faces and talents.
"Shaolin Soccer" is a experience-skillful activeness comedy that none other than Stephen Chow would be able to pull off this nicely. And information technology is a film that is very enjoyable and entertaining. It is one that I can warmly and highly recommend that you sit down down to watch if you aren't already familiar with this classic.
My rating of "Shaolin Soccer" lands on a well-deserved seven out of ten stars.
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