I got to hand it to my library. They had the UNCUT version of this movie, so I can just skip right over the what-appears-to-be brutally edited American release of this. Stephen Chow seems to have found a niche. Find rather strange looking Chinese people, and endow them with super powers! (see Kung Fu Hustle for another great example of this). Shaolin Soccer follows a down on his luck one-time famous soccer player as he discovers a secret to putting a great soccer team together. Mix Shao-Lin Kung Fu with soccer! Soon, he finds a vagrant who is QUITE nimble with his feet. He in turn recruits his brother who were also trained in the same form of kung0fu and they in turn compete to face the biggest baddest soccer team in all the land! (drugs help). I'm sorta glad I didn't see this in the theater, uncut or not, because I was giggling like a school girl throughout it. There's some rather cool effects and dumb humor associated with it. Stephen Chow is someone we should all be looking out for in the next couple of years, because his star is just about to shine!
Review of Shaolin Soccer
