With tons of action, eye-popping special effects, and nonstop laughs, here’s a hilarious martial arts comedy about a team of misfits who take their best shot at winning a championship! Sing is a skilled Shaolin kung fu devotee whose amazing “leg of steel” catches the eye of a soccer coach! Together they assemble a squad of Sing’s former Shaolin brothers inspired by the big-money prize in a national soccer competition! Using an unlikely mix of martial arts and newfound soccer skills, it seems an unbeatable combination … until they must face the dreaded Team Evil in the ultimate battle for the title!Computer generated special effects have seldom been so giddy as in Shaolin Soccer, a gleeful fusion of kung fu and a classic Bad News Bears sports story. 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. Along the way, the team’s leader (Hong Kong comic superstar Stephen Chow) meets a sticky bun baker (Vicki Zhao) whose kung fu is the equal of any of his teammates. Shaolin Soccer is supremely silly–in the final match, their opponents are called Team Evil–but that’s part of the fun. American movies rarely achieve this perfect balance of the absurd and the sincere. A delight. –Bret Fetzer
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March 24, 2010
#1
This movie is repulsive, vulgar, boring, and completely illogical. I know this is supposed to be a “funny” movie, but it’s merely a rubbish heap of failed jokes and sight gags. In fact, this movie is so bad that it creates a black hole, into which all other movies are sucked and destroyed.
March 24, 2010
#2
This movie is so bad I don’t have the slightest idea why so many people are giving it 5 stars. The jokes are outdated and EXTREMLY corny. So um on the reality scale it gets 0 out of 100000000000000000000000. A normal guy kicks the ball and tries to score the goalie is scared out of his little brain……goalkeepers shouldn’t be afraid of the ball they need to protect it not to get scared. Anyway when he ‘tries’ to block it by standing there like a idiot it hits him i wonder why and it blows all his clothes off hahahaha funny….not. In the circumstances where they do their jokes it is entirely unappropriate. Yeh, movies can go out the real world a little but this is crazy. Unless you are a 40 person who lives with their mother, you have no reason to be seeing this.
March 24, 2010
#3
This is by far the worst movie i have ever seen. I mean yeah it had a weak plot and u can obviously see the bad vs evil, but the jokes are extremely corny and the exaggeration is not even funny. Please do yourself a favor and dont even bother renting this piece of junk. I kept watching in hopes just to see if the movie would improve with time and it just kept getting worst. It was a complete waste of time.
March 24, 2010
#4
Thanks goodness I rented this movie instead of buying it. It is so stupid. The characters over-exaggerate their emotions of sadness and joy, but not in a funny way.
A couple of times during the movie, the characters start to sing and dance, as if this were a musical.
Another reviewer made the mistake of comparing this to the movie Kung Pow. I own Kung Pow and I can honestly say that it is 100 times better than Shaolin Soccer.
March 24, 2010
#5
This was to be a present for my 3 soccer-playing children; they saw the trailers for the American PG release, but we didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters. I decided NOT to let the two younger children watch this DVD after previewing it with my sensitive 13-year-old.
This DVD version is subtitled (very poorly i.e. “kick the soccer” referring to the soccer BALL, etc., and some of the translation doesn’t make any sense.) There is a lot of footage of adults grovelling at the feet of bad-guys and taking a lot of (depressing) abuse. There are smokers, drunks, and the “Evil Team” soccer players are injected with HUGE amounts of drug to be powerful.
There is some humor, but not enough. The good parts are at the very end in the soccer tournament; the Shaolin-style is fun to watch, like in “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon”.
This may be your thing, but I didn’t know what I was getting, so I wanted to make sure others do!