"Shaolin Soccer" is a high-concept goal in one. Seamlessly integrating extensive digital effects with Stephen Chow's distinct brand of double-take comedy, this wacky blend of kung fu, soccer and an ...

THERE'S A LITTLE BIT of every underdog sports comedy you've ever seen in "Shaolin Soccer," including each iteration of the "Air Bud" franchise (assuming you've been so unlucky to have seen one or more ...

ALBAWABA - Coming from Hong Kong and directed by Stephen Chow, Shaolin Soccer might be the best football movie you've never heard of. Despite being released back in 2001, the movie still holds up to ...

{image1}Huge in Asia, "Shaolin Soccer," the 2001 film by Hong Kong writer and director Stephen Chow won't likely do big box office in the USA. And that's a shame because although they should have used ...

Stephen Chow's Shaolin Soccer was the big winner at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards on Sunday night (April 21), scoring seven of the 19 prizes, including best film and best director. Chow also scooped ...

Merging the disciplines of kung fu and professional soccer into one goofball game, Stephen Chow’s martial arts-meets-the-goal posts comedy “Shaolin Soccer” is a stylistic send-up of Hong Kong action ...

Most people believe that shaolin kung-fu skills have few applications in mundane, everyday life. But if the pleasingly crazy Hong Kong comedy Shaolin Soccer is to be believed, they're wrong: Early on, ...

After all the mounting hysteria among Sinophiles about how it would turn out -- including a rumored retitling to "Kung-Fu Soccer" -- Miramax's cut and English-dubbed version of Stephen Chow's ...

Miramax has been in a dither about what to do with this Chinese slapstick sports melodrama since acquiring it eons ago; at one point, there was even a dubbed version floating around that never saw ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shaolin Soccer makes me giddy. More then any film I've seen in the past three years it fills me ...

Shaolin Soccer is one of Stephen Chow's extravagant and very funny martial-arts spoof movies. In this outing, Chow plays Sing, an impoverished monk and kung fu master who scrapes by in modern China ...