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	Shaolin Soccer (2001)
		Shaolin Soccer has immeasurable buzz attached to it, mostly due to its impending US release courtesy of Miramax/Dimension films.
		Shaolin Soccer is the result of an unusual amount of planning and production, but it also directly reflects the sensibilities of its Hong Kong creators.
		Shaolin Soccer may be a formula film but it's heartwarming, with great actors and a lot of creativity.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/shaolin_soccer.htm (1153 words)

	Shaolin Soccer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaolin Soccer (Chinese: 少林足球; pinyin: Shàolín Zúqiú) is a 2001 Hong Kong comedy film directed by acclaimed Hongkonger comedian, actor and director, Stephen Chow.
		Shaolin Soccer tells the story of Sing (Stephen Chow), a master of Shaolinquan Kung Fu whose mission is to let the world know about the benefits of the ancient technique.
		The Cantonese dialect is spoken throughout Shaolin Soccer, although it is filmed in mainland Shanghai, where the common dialect is Shanghainese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaolin_Soccer (1595 words)

	SHAOLIN SOCCER
		SHAOLIN SOCCER is, without a doubt, one of the strangest and most implausible films I have ever seen and under the most conservative eye, it could be seen as enormously silly.
		SHAOLIN SOCCER works sort as a wonderfully wacky live action cartoon with absurdist visuals often punctuated by large amounts of very bad CG effects (this time the lack of polish kind of works for the film’s charm).
		SHAOLIN SOCCER, if you enter into it with the correct frame of mind, is one the most unapologetically hilarious films of the year.
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/shaolin_soccer.htm (1461 words)

	Shaolin Soccer Review
		Sing (Stephen Chow) is a former Shaolin monk looking to find a way to fulfill his master’s dying wish of bringing the teachings of the Shaolin to the public.
		Sing teams with Fung (Ng Man Tat), a former soccer star who allowed himself to be disgraced in a scandal years earlier, to form a soccer team consisting of his former fellow monks from his temple.
		Shaolin Soccer has been sitting on distributor Miramax’s shelf for two years now as they have tried to figure out exactly how to present it to American audiences.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /Reviews/ShaolinSoccerReview.htm (528 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Shaolin Soccer
		Shaolin Soccer also has a rousing score and the soccer action IS incredible (albeit CG enhanced).
		The premise is wickedly original: A misfit band of brothers who studied with a Shaolin master unite under the leadership of a crippled former soccer star and enter a tournament in hopes of scoring a million dollar prize.
		Shaolin Soccer has some hilarious moments, some unfunny moments, some downright exciting moments, some boring moments, and the sexiest actress I've seen in years: a young woman who trips over a banana peel in the beginning.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkfilms/st/shaolinsoccer.html (2372 words)

	Joshua Pettigrew Graphic Artist For Hire: Shaolin Soccer Review (New) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shaolin Soccer is Stephen Chow at the height of his comedic powers.
		In Shaolin Soccer, you will see an overweight player flying around, a really scrawny individual doing some kung fu moves (he strains so hard he soils himself), and the reappearance of a bearded man in drag who seems to have become a running joke in Chow's films, having appeared in quite a few.
		Shaolin Soccer is really a great comedy that will end hunger and bring peace to the middle east.
	www.joshuapettigrew.com /Reviews/ShaolinSoccer/ShaoSoccer.html (1266 words)

	Shaolin Soccer :: shaolin soccer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The English version of Shaolin Soccer is slated to open in theaters sometime in August of 2004.
		Shaolin Soccer is about six friends from Hong Kong who, early in their life, devoted themselves to Shaolin Kung Fu.
		Shaolin Soccer is a cross between Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Rocky.
	www.soccer-1st.com /8265-shaolin-soccer.htm (286 words)

	'Shaolin Soccer' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Shaolin Soccer" isn't your standard "Bad News Bears" or "Mighty Ducks" movie; it's more like "The Matrix," with Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, soccer balls instead of bullets and a silly but fun story that can be summarized without consulting an oracle.
		The Shaolin Soccer team is coached by a long-ago star, Fung (Ng Man Tat), who is known as Golden Leg.
		In this case, the hapless players are Sing's former Shaolin classmates, who are now overweight, underweight, broke, balding, bitter or, in one case, never without a burning cigarette in his mouth.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04156/326534.stm (501 words)

	Shaolin Soccer movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		“Shaolin Soccer” will be the first of his movies to be given a theatrical run on American shores, and it's not only the best film for potential fans in the West to start with, it's arguably Chow's best movie.
		For “Shaolin Soccer,” the crux of the comedy comes from a whimsical theory: awesome martial arts skills look funny when applied to situations outside of fighting (and especially in a corny sports story, complete with a romantic subplot).
		Disgraced Soccer star Golden Leg (Tat Ng) sees a chance to get back at his old team when he discovers a young man called Sing (Chow) who is skilled in the ancient Shaolin martial arts and wants to use sports as a way of introducing the masses to the discipline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/s/shaolinsoccer.htm (1361 words)

	Shaolin Soccer Movie Review by Anthony Leong from MediaCircus.net
		However, with his latest comedy, "Shaolin Soccer (Siu Lam Juk Kau)" (in which Chow acted, produced, co-wrote, and co-directed), it is hoped that this will all change.
		The situation is not that much better for his fellow Shaolin brothers, who, following the death of their master long ago, have left their martial arts ways behind them to become a janitor, grocery store clerk, or even a stockbroker (though not a very good one).
		"Shaolin Soccer" shines in the sequences where Sing and his teammates flex their martial arts prowess on the playing field.
	www.mediacircus.net /shaolinsoccer.html (630 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Shaolin Soccer'
		Shaolin Soccer was originally released in 2001 and promptly broke box-office records in Hong Kong and across Asia.
		Shaolin Soccer is its own crazy genre flick: a slapstick, soccer, martial arts, buddy, comedic love story with awesome special effects.
		Shaolin Soccer may look like one silly, silly movie, and it is, but don't discount its spiritual core.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.31.04/shaolinsoccer-0414.html (827 words)

	'Shaolin Soccer?' Why Not 'Tai Chi Soccer?'
		It’s not just that the soccer training episode is an affectionate homage to those earlier films - we also know exactly what kind of hardship, how many years of training, Sing and his “kung fu brothers” had to go through to achieve their skills, simply because we’ve seen it before.
		While Shaolin Soccer doesn’t pretend to realism in its depiction of martial arts, traditional masters of Shaolin style kung fu are able to achieve an amazing degree of physical control (see pictures 1 and 2).
		But the genius of Shaolin Soccer, from a martial artist’s point of view, lies in the way it fits both hard and soft kung fu together, and acknowledges their dependence on each other.
	www.kungfucinema.com /articles/2004-03-30-01.htm (914 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shaolin Soccer [2001]: DVD: Stephen Chow,Vicki Zhao,Man Tai Ng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A former soccer star--whose "golden leg" was broken by a hired mob--assembles a team of former students of Shaolin martial arts, whose assorted skills (indicated by their nicknames, like Mighty Steel Leg and Iron Head) lend themselves to the swift interplay of the world's most popular game.
		Shaolin Soccer makes for perfectly ridiculous fun when a team of down and out kung fu masters coalesce around a degraded legend turned coach to take the sport of Chinese soccer to new heights (literally).
		Shaolin Soccer is funny by design, and the key to making such a film is to go all out with the special effects.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Shaolin-Soccer-Stephen-Chow/dp/B0006M4S28 (1423 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Shaolin Soccer" DVD Review
		A former champion soccer player leads a group of Shaolin martial artists to victory in a national soccer championship.
		Shaolin Soccer, while not the most original film ever made, is a fun little underdog film that uses the conventions of every Shaolin movie you’ve seen (people flying, elaborate martial arts, silly computer effects, etc.) However, along with the excitement came fear.
		It is true that Shaolin Soccer is shortened by a half hour.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/s/shaolinsoccer.htm (630 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Shaolin Soccer
		Shaolin Soccer is apparently going to be released here in the United States in a few months by Miramax under the more generic title
		Shaolin Soccer was last year’s biggest hit in Hong Kong, and if I understand correctly, it’s the biggest homegrown grosser ever in that country.
		If the actual soccer matches don’t exactly provide the typical thrills found in sports films, that’s okay because here the adage that it’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game holds especially true.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2002/shaolinsoccer.htm (490 words)

	Shaolin Soccer (2003): Reviews
		Shaolin Soccer really loves what it mocks, after all, and that grandly goofy affection -- nay, joy -- for all things chop socky is purely, utterly contagious.
		Shaolin Soccer is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with soccer balls, a touch of Sergio Leone and not one microsecond of seriousness.
		Shaolin Soccer's infectious style has a way of lifting spirits.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/shaolinsoccer (1008 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film : Shaolin Soccer
		Shaolin Soccer isn't the first running go that the remarkable Stephen Chow has taken at fusing kung fu with Chinese pop film genres to comedic end.
		The goofy Shaolin brothers are a sheer delight, one of the funniest comedy crews in ages - one look at Iron Head's drooping mug had me howling.
		Shaolin Soccer really does come on as fast, dense and funny as anything Tex Avery ever did.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2004/050604/film2.html (355 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shaolin Soccer (Widescreen): DVD: Stephen Chow,Ng Man Tat,Li Hui,Vincent Kok,Lu Wei,Karen Mok,Ng ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I had heard about Shaolin Soccer (2001) a couple of years ago from a friend, as he had recommended it to me, knowing the particular way some of my tastes ran, and I am glad he did, as it's a heady mix of the wacky, the absurd, and the just plain fun.
		There is not really a lot of actual soccer playing, in the traditional sense, as with the abilities of the players, the ball mainly zooms around in a very cartoonish manner.
		All in all, Shaolin Soccer is an unsane, over the top comedy steeped in outrageous action and definitely worth a look if you care to expand your horizons.
	www.amazon.ca /Shaolin-Soccer-Widescreen-Stephen-Chow/dp/B00005Y7GQ (2174 words)

	Shaolin Soccer - MonkeyPeaches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		SHAOLIN SOCCER: faces of Stephen Chow and Zhao Wei are digitally altered so much, which made them hardly recognizable.
		According to Greg's Previews, the new release date for SHAOLIN SOCCER is August 8, 2003.
		The writing team of SHAOLIN SOCCER is currently working on the script and it may take about half year to complete.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /shaolinsoccer.html (1386 words)

	A Movie Parable: Shaolin Soccer
		As soon as the old, crippled, washed-up soccer star Golden Leg (Man Tat Ng) sees a young kung fu master named Sing (Stephen Chow) kick a can so that it embeds itself into a brick wall, he gets an idea that will revolutionize the sporting world.
		As Sing begins to try and recruit his brothers for the new soccer team, he finds them disheartened, disillusioned, and stripped of their kung-fu powers.
		The redemption to be found in fielding a winning soccer team provides them with a glimmer of hope but first they must find a way to regain the Shaolin powers that they have lost.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2004/shaolins.asp (598 words)

	Shaolin Soccer (2004) - MovieWeb
		Shaolin was an art practiced through the ages; a skill mastered in the heart.
		In "Shaolin Soccer," it is so much more than a philosophy for six young believers.
		With the help of a former soccer star, he reunites his old, out of shape, misfit friends, and recruits a young woman with extraordinary Kung Fu skills.
	movieweb.com /movies/film.php?704 (172 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Shaolin Soccer (2001) Stephen Chow, Vicki Zhao
		"Shaolin Soccer" shouldn't be any different from the recent slew of Hong Kong-produced movies that employs Western CGI with Eastern mythology, but it is. Since the film doesn't take itself too seriously, its effects -- as cheesy and obvious as they are -- don't take away from the movie.
		Stephen Chow is one of the brains behind "Shaolin Soccer", serving as co-writer, co-director, and star.
		"Shaolin Soccer" is played entirely for laughs, and there are winks and nods in-between semi-serious scenes to remind us of this fact.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/shaolinsoccer.htm (523 words)

	Shaolin Soccer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shaolin Kung Fu proselytizer Stephen Chow unites with a soccer coach wannabe to assemble the ultimate underdog soccer team (think "Seven Samurai" meets "The Matrix" meets "The Waterboy").
		The Shaolin Soccer DVD is presented in Anamorphic Widescreen format, with DD5.1 AND DTS audio tracks.
		The disc is packed with special features, including an extended version of the film never before seen, a 20-minute documentary, and plenty of behind the scenes footage of the special effects wizards and actors doing their thing.
	www.shaolin.nl /shaolinsoccer.html (202 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Shaolin Soccer (2001)
		He trained at the famous Shaolin Temple and dreams of finding a way to convince the world that "Shaolin kung fu is the best," and that it may be incorporated into all aspects of life.
		Once the Shaolin team is formed, however, the comedy falls into place and the CGI-enhanced kung-fu soccer action really kicks in to create one of the most purely enjoyable films we've seen in a while.
		Outside of The Matrix (to which Shaolin Soccer will be compared ad nauseum for its stellar use of CGI special effects), it's difficult to think of a movie that so meticulously shows us what super-powers might actually be like in the real world.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/s/shaolin-soccer.html (824 words)

	Shaolin Soccer (2004) : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shaolin Soccer will begin as two full-color graphic novels that will follow and expand on Steven Chow's award winning movie masterpiece.
		His sole goal in life is to find a way to package the philosophy and physical teachings of his beloved Shaolin kung fu so that contemporary masses can learn, benefit and apply these doctrines to their daily life.
		When he hooks up with a former soccer champion, he quickly realizes that the world's most popular sport may just be the vehicle to spread Shaolin kung fu all over the globe.
	www.pop.com /movies/456255/news?item_id=3124047 (447 words)

	DVD Times - Shaolin Soccer
		Like many foreign films Shaolin Soccer has slowly gained a reputation via the fans of the genre and amongst the internet film going community is generally regarded as the Hong Kong film of the year.
		Enlisting the help of his Shaolin brothers (all of whom have their own skills) Sing and Fung create their own team to play in the National Football Championships, Sing wants to stun the world with the Shaolin Arts while Fung wants to beat his old rivals team (who are quite aptly named the 'Evil Team').
		Shaolin Soccer is for the most part a comedy with the most obvious jokes stemming from Chow and his team who, with the exception of Stephen Chow, barely look like football players let alone masters of the Shaolin Arts!
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3564 (1975 words)

	Shaolin Soccer at Greater Union Birch Carroll & Coyle Cinemas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shaolin Soccer was the biggest film in Hong Kong in 2001 and its producer, director, writer and star, Stephen Chow — although not well known here — is a cinema favourite there.
		Sing gathers his former Shaolin brothers who have all gone their separate ways in the real world as stockbrokers, janitors, grocery clerks and the like, leaving their special skills behind them.
		The real joy of Shaolin Soccer comes with the exhilarating on-field action that mixes soccer skills, kung fu and the outrageously exaggerated accomplishments of the players through some incredible effects shots.
	www.greaterunion.com.au /movies/movie.asp?movie=4497 (384 words)

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