Shaolin Soccer

2004 "Get ready to kick some grass!"
7.3| 1h53m| PG| en
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A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Ploydsge just watch it!
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
runamokprods While this shares some of the wonderful sense of the surreal and absurd that made Chow's 2008 "Kung Fu Hustle" a true classic comedy spoof of marshal arts films, it's nowhere near as consistent or as inventive in it's comedy. There are some real laughs, but also some serious dead spots and too-easy jokes in this tale of a bunch of once Shaolin trained Kung Fu masters giving up their hum-drum and largely unsuccessful work-a-day lives to team up and become the mightiest soccer playing force the world has ever seen. Or are they? Team Evil is waiting to take them on in the $1 million soccer tournament. Good-hearted and original enough to be worth seeing once, but unlike it's even wilder and smarter descendant I can't imagine feeling a need to go back and see it again, or to own it. If that later film is like a Hong Kong action Monty Python film, this one is more Three Stooges.
Ali T This is one of the best soccer movies ever made. It has violence,romance and comedy all in one amazing movie. This is movie for all ages to watch also some great acting from many Asian characters.It is about a young brother of 6 who is a shoalin kung fu master. At of all his brothers he i the only one that still uses his useful powers. While performing on the streets a former Chinese international named as 'the golden foot' asks him about his kung fu and tells him that he would be a useful soccer player. So he asks his brothers to join his shoalin soccer team. After weeks of training the team enters the Chinese super cup. And after all the rounds they reach the final. Just to find out there opposition is drugged.CAN THEY WIN IT
aluajala Shaolin Soccer is another odd movie we've watched recently and it was like some foreign food you try for the first time in your life: you don't know what is it made of but the taste is awesome and keeps you wondering what the hell was that.To help you understand what I mean I'll show you the ingredients:Take 1 young kung fu master with an idee fixe to let the world know about the benefits of studying kung fu and using it in everyday life. Add 1 down-on-his-luck soccer trainer who used to be a legendary player but ended up with broken leg and tarnished honor. Mix. Then add 5 shaolin monks: Iron Head - an unlucky janitor at night club, Hooking Leg - a grumpy dishwasher and excrement transporter, Iron Shirt - not-too-successful businessman, Empty Hand - unemployed guy who wears an infamous yellow suit of Bruce Lee, and Light Weight - an obese grocery store clerk. Also add a team of local thugs. Finally add a baker of sweet buns - a girl with severe acne whose face is only attractive to flies. Get Team Shaolin.That's not all. The recipe also includes:A tournament with a 1 million dollar prize - 1 million dollar prize - A beauty salon run by a transvestite (why WHY would anyone go there???) - transvestite beauty salon master- A weird team of ugh.. modern amazon women? - Team Evil and a big huge doping conspiracyIf you haven't figured this out - the movie is crazy. It's cracking funny and is full of special effects that might beat matrix! Plus some unique gags... Mix all the above things, place them in the most unpredictable order, add some unexpected encounters and the dish is ready. Serve immediately!
TheHande Stephen Chow has a knack for combining impressive special-effects, interesting characters and hilarious comedy. The prototype of Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, demonstrates many of Chow's strengths but the film does not rise to the same level of excellence as the later film.The film relies heavily on making the characters as pathetic as possible but lacking the multi-level approach of Kung Fu Hustle the characters just come off miserable at first and then suddenly get better for no reason. The story also focuses too heavily on a central duo of characters and the badguys are left more to the background.The film still has hilarious Kung Fu references and excellent visual-effects and gags which keep the viewer invested in the film but the structure is too straight-forward and too simplistic to compete with Chow's later work.However, it's entertaining and I guess that's what really counts.