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Shaolin Soccer (Chinese: 少林足球) is a 2001 Hong Kong sports comedy film directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the lead role. The film revolves around a former Shaolin monk who reunites his five brothers,[note 1] years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial arts skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses.
"Golden Leg" Fung, a Hong Kong soccer star, beats and berates his teammate Hung when the latter offers him a cheque to lose the game, claiming to be the middleman. Fung takes the cheque in the end and throws the game. Angry spectators beat him and break his leg.
Twenty years later, Fung walks with a limp and is the mistreated lackey of Hung, now a successful businessman. When Fung asks to coach Hung's soccer team, Hung mocks him and reveals he tricked him with a bad cheque and hired those who broke his leg. While drinking his sorrows in the streets, Fung comes across Sing, a Shaolin kung fu master who wants to promote the practical benefits of the martial art to the world. No one takes kung fu classes from Sing, however, as he is dirty and poor. He steals mantou from Mui, a woman with severe acne who uses Tai chi to make the food.
At first disdainful, Fung soon discovers the power of Sing's leg and offers to coach him in soccer. Compelled by the idea of promoting kung fu through soccer, Sing asks his former Shaolin brothers to join his team. Sing's brothers eventually agree. As a test, Fung arranges a game with a team known for vicious cheating. The thug team gives the Shaolin team a beating. When all seems lost, the Shaolin team members reawaken their powers and utilize them to defeat the other team. The thugs ask to join Sing's team. Sing takes Mui to try on expensive dresses at a high-end department store after hours and offers to buy her one. She gets a makeover to impress him, though the team and her boss mock her exaggerated '80s look. When Mui hints at her feelings for Sing, he tells her he only wants to be friends. She disappears after her boss fires her.
Actually the 'over the top' CG and kinetic soccer moves were an inspiration that came from the classic Japanese manga series Captain Tsubasa. The animation was very big in Hong Kong over ten years ago when it swept kids of all ages and even adults loved it. It has a cult following in Europe as well. But it was only possible with pen and ink back then, now with the advent of CGI, it can really be done....(the idea of combining it with Kung Fu was in my head for many years but we had to wait for the CG technology to mature)[5]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 90% approval rating based on 93 reviews; the average rating is 7.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "The plot is utterly ridiculous, and the soccer in the movie is unlike any ever played anywhere on Earth, but watching Shaolin Soccer, you will probably find it impossible to care."[17] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[18]
Seto worked to make the novel as faithful to the film as possible but he admits that Stephen Chow's brand of Mo lei tau comedy does not translate well into illustrations.[22] He stated in an interview that "the Shaolin Soccer comic is 80% movie adaptation with 20% new content."[22] This new content includes a backstory about Steel Leg's training in Shaolin before the death of his master, as well as completely rewriting entire sections of the movie. For example, in the film a group of bar thugs beat up Sing and Iron Head after listening to their lounge-style tribute to Shaolin kung fu. The following day, Sing seeks out the group and uses his Shaolin skills to beat the thugs using a soccer ball. Fung sees the brawl and comes up with the idea of fusing kung fu and soccer. However, in the comic book, Sing is meditating in the park when he gets hit in the head with a soccer ball. The cocky players mock him and destroy a stone statue of his deceased master. Sing proceeds to use the soccer ball as a weapon.
The movie has been directed and co-written by Stephen Chow, who stars as Sing, a martial arts master turned street cleaner, who uses his skills in everyday life and is in love with Mui (Vicki Zhao), who sells buns from her little street stand and combs her hair forward to conceal a complexion that resembles pizza with sausage and mushrooms. It is a foregone conclusion that by the end of this film Mui will be a startling beauty. Less predictable is that Sing recruits seven soccer players from his former monastery to form a soccer team.
His inspiration to do this is Fung (Ng Man Tat), known as the Golden Leg because he was, years ago, a great soccer hero until his leg was broken by Hung (Patrick Tse Yin). Hung now rules the soccer world as owner of Team Evil (yes, Team Evil), while Fung drags his leg like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is another foregone conclusion that Team Evil will meet the Shaolin soccer team formed by Fung and Sing in a thrilling match played before what looks like a vast crowd that has been borrowed from a computer game.
The game doesn't follow any known rules of soccer, except that there is a ball and a goal. As the players swoop high into the air and do acrobatics before kicking the ball, I was reminded more of Quidditch. There is also the matter of ball velocity. The players can kick the ball so hard that it actually catches fire as it rockets through the air, or digs a groove in the ground as it plows toward the goal.
Since the game is impossible and it is obvious Team Evil will lose, there's not much suspense, but there is a lot of loony comedy, a musical number, and the redemption of the Poor Spotted Little Bun Girl. As soccer comedies go, then, I say three stars. It's nowhere near as good as "Bend It Like Beckham," of course -- but "Beckham" is in a different genre, the coming-of-age female-empowerment film. It's important to keep these things straight.
Team Evil has been dominating soccer ever since the boy with the Golden Leg missed an important goal in a big game. Now a new group of shaolin trained athletes are going use their powers on the soccer field and take evil down a peg. This is a charming and bizarre comedy that I enjoyed far more than I could even imagine.
There's something about Stephen Chow and his filmmaking technique I've seen so far it's ludicrous, way way over the top, absurd and mad crazy but gotta say this is one of the funniest shit I've ever seen.. The whole film is like that and i can't complain that... It's inconsistent but very funny and seems like the whole team had a blast. Love the way they mixed Shaolin martial arts and soccer and made into something special. The visual effects for 2001 is quite impressive and tbh there's no sense for me to review this.. It's quite fun and i had a blast, not as good as kung fu hustle cause that was a damn smart film too but if u want to have great 2 hours this film can do wonders. Now my expectations of watching a football match is too damn high. ???
For a start, English dubbing replaces the awkward, typo-ridden subtitles, while a cut of almost half an hour also helps the storys just too silly to stand for much longer than 80 minutes. With all the finesse of a Pokémon episode, it jerks between the personal tragedy of a crippled coach, a romance between fleet-footed Sing and a bun-maker (Zhao), and the personal retribution of a group of bizarre but skilled soccer players.
Still, the action more than makes up for that, coming care of Siu-Tung Ching, who choreographed the phenomenal sequences in Hero. Its truly stunning, belying the films otherwise cheap look. Unbound by the laws of gravity or common sense, the soccer sequences rush the screen with a combination of brutal yet balletic leaps and slides, magically conjured tornadoes and even the odd fireball. Ridiculous, yes but ridiculously entertaining.
The seams between the live action filming and the special effects are generally obvious, but the CG effects are amazing for 2001 and still pretty enjoyable. The best is when the Puma soccer ball turns into a puma.
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Hung encounters Sing as he is getting revenge on the bullies by beating them up in what he claims is just a soccer game. Hung convinces Sing to start a soccer team, and the recruiting mission begins.
The baking kung fu was really cool, and it made sense that the woman who could spin a ball of dough or a large pot that was thrown to her from a high-up window could also control the spin of a deadly soccer ball.
But Golden Leg Fung is looking to build a soccer team of his own to challenge team evil for the title. This leads him to seek out the help of shaolin master (and modern day kung-fu advocate) Iron Leg Sing.
Despite his kung-fu mastery, Iron Leg is forbidden to use his martial arts for violent purposes, yet he wants nothing more than to evangelize the shaolin lifestyle to everyone in the world. For that, he needs publicity.
Sing is the main protagonist of the 2001 Hong Kong Stephen Chow's film, Shaolin Soccer. He is a Shaolin Monk who wants to promote Shaolin Kung Fu to the people. After meeting a famous soccer coach, he decides to promote Kung Fu through soccer. After enlisting his Shaolin brothers to join, the team, they win the Hong Kong Open Cup tournament against Team Evil.
Both men reach a consensus to form a soccer team specializing in shaolin, each with a mutual purpose: Fung seeks revenge against Hung, while Sing uses the sport as both a vessel for his discipline and a way to promote kung fu to the world. To this end, the latter sets about finding his five brothers (not biological brothers, but his fellow disciple brothers that all studied under the same master), all possessors of unique physical abilities. All of his brothers have since given up on Shaolin and are in similarly disgraced predicaments as Fung. After initially rejecting Sing's pleas, the brothers get together to form Team Shaolin. When it's revealed that Sing and the rest of the team barely knows anything about soccer and that Sing is the only one that retained his Shaolin abilities, Fung just about gives up with them. However, during their first match against Team Rebellion, the remaining five brothers re-awaken their Shaolin powers, quickly turning the match in their favor. They also proceed to wow the members of Team Rebellion, a gang of bullies led by a member of the mob. The defeated members of Team Rebellion requested to join Team Shaolin, to which they happily obliged. They would go on to recruit more members from other teams along the way.
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