"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 ...

“Shaolin Soccer” -- an infectious knockabout kung fu comedy with amusing special effects combined with breathtaking stunts -- stars its director, Stephen Chow, as Sing, a Shaolin monk who finds so ...

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 ...

Live-action anime adaptations are one of those golden tickets that mainstream Hollywood is still trying to crack. Netflix has certainly taken a swing or two at adapting huge properties, resulting in ...

“Shaolin Soccer” is light, silly, goofy and deranged — part “Enter the Dragon,” part “Hoosiers,” and part “Naked Gun.” It may not always choose the right parts, but at least it tries. Stephen Chow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...