Shaolin Soccer (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Hilarious total entertainment
Disadvantages: CGI a bit overused

Shaolin Soccer has finally reached these shores after becoming a massive success all throughout Asia back in 2001. Quite why it has taken so long to get here I don’t know but with the recent release of Hero, and the upcoming House of Flying Daggers, maybe the time is right for something other than horror and heroic fantasy to arrive from Asia. As far as I know this is the first out and out comedy to come from the major Asian film making countries ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, great effects
Disadvantages: not enough features, some people don't like Chow's style of humour

...up the other of his shaolin brothers and forms a team to enter a prestigious tournament with a prize of $1 million. There they come up against numerous weird and wacky teams, including the mysterious "Team Moustache" They beat all opponents and start to live the life of famous football players. But they face their biggest challenge yet in the final, the nefarious "Team Evil", a steroid induced team led by Hung (Yin Tse), the man who told Golden Leg ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious and heartwarming.
Disadvantages: Might not sit well with Hong Kong purists.

...They used to be unbeatable Shaolin masters, but when their teacher died and they went their separate ways, they lost the will to pursue their art and let modern society get the better of them. Sing's life changes forever when he meets Golden Leg (Man Tat Ng), a former soccer champ who lost his winning streak along with his magic striking leg when he threw a match many years ago. Golden Leg realises this intense young man's potential when he sees ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, Hilarious
Disadvantages: Fight scenes could have been more in numbers.

...evil" faces off against The shaolin team. The evil team is on drugs, and have attained super human powers because of that. It is because of this, the goal keeper of shaolin team gets brutally injured and is replaced by one of the other players. Iron shirt the now goal keeper also gets injured and the team falls short of one player. It is at this time that Mui shows up and takes the place of goal keeper. In the final attack, Team Evil's striker leaps ... Read review

Advantages: dubbed
Disadvantages: it's dubbed

...films for a while, and shaolin soccer has me hooked even more so, i've even taen up kung fu because of it, this is how motivating the film is, and with thespecial guest appearance of the twins you can't ask for a film better without it being shaolin soccer 2 the opening scene 'golden leg' has his leg broken after missing a penalty he was talked into by supposedly his best pal, it then switcheds into his pal talking about his caeer since stephen ... Read review