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 ...

The movie recounts a former Shaolin monk reuniting his five brothers to apply their martial arts skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses. The net pal Lightwing said the film ...

Shaolin Soccer: Action comedy ... Chow's naivete complements Ng's crusty coach figure, a staple of sports movies like "The Bad News Bears" and "Rocky." The Sing character even has his own Adrian.

"Shaolin Soccer" is a high-concept goal in ... from James Bond to Jim Carrey movies. “Soccer,” however, is the closest tribute to his personal hero, Bruce Lee, and incorporates elements ...

What’s most fun about Shaolin Soccer is that Chow never overestimates his movie’s main attraction: characters performing impossible kicks and spins. Roughly half the film takes place on the ...

Giving new meaning to the phrase chop-socky, Stephen Chow stars in and directs sporting comedy Shaolin Soccer where kung fu ... like a glaring omission for a movie that relies on special effects ...

But for fans of martial arts movies, sports pictures and stylistic shenanigans, “Shaolin Soccer” is a giddy, cross-cultural free-for-all. SHAOLIN SOCCER is directed by Stephen Chow.