Siu lam juk kau (2001)

Regisseur:

Stephen Chow

Drehbuchautoren:

Stephen Chow (writer)
Kan-Cheung Tsang (writer)

Premierendatum:

12. Juli 2001 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Komödie | Sportfilm

Werbezeile:

Kick some grass!

Plot:

A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.

Plot Keywords:

Bizarre | Bald Woman | Tears | Shoes | Bruce Lee

Filmpreise:

13 wins & 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

brilliant film, shame about the cuts & dub

Besetzung

Stephen Chow	...	Mighty Steel Leg Sing
Man Tat Ng	...	Golden Leg Fung (as Ng Man Tat)
Wei Zhao	...	Mui
Yin Tse	...	Team Evil Coach Hung (as Patrick Tse Yin)
Hui Li	...	Banana Peel Girl
Cecilia Cheung	...	Team Moustache Player 1
Karen Mok	...	Team Moustache Player 2
Vincent Kok	...	Team Puma Leader
Kai Man Tin	...	Iron Shirt Tin (Third Brother)
Lam Tze Chung	...	Light Weight (Small Brother)
Kwok-Kwan Chan	...	Lightning Hands (Fourth Brother)
Mo Mei Lin	...	Hooking Leg (Second Brother)
Ming Ming Zhang	...	Little Hung
Pu Ye Dong	...	Little Fung
Shi Zi Yun	...	Team Evil Center

Alternativ:

Shao lin zu qiu (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Shaolin Soccer (International: English title)
Shaolin Kickers (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG for martial arts action and some thematic elements.

Länge:

113 Min | Hong Kong:102 Min (DVD version) | USA:87 Min | Argentina:89 Min

Produktionsland:

Hong Kong | China

Sprache:

Kantonesisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS (US version) | SDDS (US version) | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) | South Korea:All (original rating) | Malaysia:U | South Korea:15 (re-rating) | Iceland:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:12 | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:PG | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2004) | USA:PG (original rating) | USA:Unrated

Drehorte:

Shanghai, China

Firma:

Star Overseas

Dies und das:

Film's U.S. release date was scheduled and rescheduled numerous times over a year and a half.

Dialogzitate:

Sing: You're beautiful! And a kung fu mahstah... You got it all!

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Parodiert The Matrix (1999)

Soundtrack:

Mens' Courage

brilliant film, shame about the cuts & dub

This film was seen as something of a surprise. Having only heard of Shaolin Soccer on the net, and seen a teaser for the film, I thought nothing more of it until given the opportunity to go and watch the UK release. My initial disappointment with the dubbing (I am a subtitle die-hard) was soon overcome with admiration of how far HK cinema has come. Imagine the FX expertise of the Matrix with the comedy of Jackie Chan fused into a somewhat generic football film. In a word, a brilliantly scripted and often funny film. Many moments are extremely funny, with the over-the-top storyline made famous by HK, and also the very touching moments with the acne-ridden baker girl/love interest as she is only accepted for what she is. It feels as if there is more to the love story in the original cut of the film, as the story occasionally skipped in places, like a bad DVD. But the overall story is not affected, it moves sedately at first, which is good, as the excessive use of Kung-fu and Football are shown in increasingly ridiculous stages. The final goal reminds me of Hot-Shot Hamish, for those that read the comics. Worth seeing, and I can't wait for the DVD - providing it has the original cut, and subtitles.