Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Directed by Stephen Chow
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Chow’s previous film, Shaolin Soccer showed flashes of this, but never quite reached the heights this one does, with its killer blending of slapstick comedy and Kill Bill style Kung Fu.
Sing (cowriter/producer/director Stephen Chow, "Shaolin Soccer") is a petty thief who yearns to be a member of the notorious, but smartly suited, Axe Gang, so he has his sidekick (Lam Tze Chung , "Shaolin Soccer") impersonate their mob boss at Pig Sty Alley's barbershop hoping to blackmail the barber for some petty cash.
Those who have seen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer should further know what to expect.
(His Shaolin Soccer went through a nearly two-year series of cuts and redubbings before finally being left at the doors of unsuspecting theaters in the dead of night.)
In reviewing his "Shaolin Soccer," a melding of kung fu and the world's most popular sport, I even resorted to making up a word: tripolar.
Like Shaolin Soccer , the film is positively insane, a genre-defying spectacle of postmodern signs colliding at rates seemingly faster than the speed of light; indeed, watching Chow’s characters negotiate the colorful obstacles in their immediate environment is not unlike watching a ball speeding its way through a pinball machine.
A wonderfully unlikely amalgam of Hong Kong-era John Woo and Shaolin Soccer/ Kung Fu Hustle -era Stephen Chow, Matthew Vaughn's ebullient, often-unconscionable Kick-Ass reimagines Woo's iconic Tequila as an 11-year-old girl with a purple bob, an incredible potty mouth (she uses the "C" word correctly in a sentence, cunts), and absolutely no remorse in crushing a defenseless douchebag in a car cuber.
Incluso a veces los efectos se ven tan extraños, que asemejan a la clásica “Shaolin Soccer”, aunque en esa cinta en tono de comedia calzaban a la perfección, algo que aquí no ocurre debido al género de este filme.