Amusingly ludicrous, the movie's one notable hurdle is that Chow clearly values comical lunacy over a good script, so by the third act Shaolin Soccer is threatening to become the kind of Hong Kong movie you laugh at instead of with. Written and directed by lead actor Stephen Chow (the superstar spoof king of Asia), it's a proudly-and often hysterically-lowbrow goof on come-from-behind sports movies and wirework kung-fu action pictures, not to mention a film that shattered every Hong Kong box office record and scooped up a boatload of awards. Still smiling? Then you probably already know everything you need to know about this tongue- through-cheek comedy import in which a martial-arts-trained underdog leads a team of misfits into an extreme-soccer showdown, in which CGI-souped-up ancient fighting techniques are used to overpower a corporate squad of scowling steroid supermen. "Kung-fu soccer! Pow!" If that single, overenthusiastic, plot-summarizing line of dialogue (delivered with all the air-punching, jumbo gusto that Hong Kong B-movies are known for) doesn't make you smile, then stop reading now- Shaolin Soccer isn't the movie for you.
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