It is possible that although you have not seen ‘Shaolin Soccer‘, that He has just arrived in Netflixyou know her through the many memes and clips that circulate from it on the Internet. Possibly you have seen a football game in which players, all Chinese, make martial arts, paralyze time, make exaggerated acrobatics or a goalkeeper dressed in Bruce’s yellow monkey in ‘Dragon Operation’ chains spectacular stops.
Now you have the opportunity to watch the full movie, which we guarantee that it is up to those clips. An absolute delirium in which un monk Shaolin is obsessed with popularizing the Kung Fu Among modern society. A reunion with a friend, former failed footballer, will lead them to launch an absurd apparent idea: form a team that mixes football with martial arts.
Stephen Chow is the director and protagonist of this film, and also an absolute star of the Chinese comedy. If you have seen any other production of yours, it is possibly the absolutely trchantest ‘kung fu sion’ (also You have it in Netflix), which coincides with this in much of the cast, or perhaps the most recent and also hilarious ‘Las Sirenas’. Perhaps these are the most affordable for the non -Asian public, but if you like them, you have a little filmography full of parodies of all kinds, and in which jewels of absurd and incorrect humor shine as’ Love on delivery ‘,’ The God of Cookry ‘or’ from Beijing with love ‘.
‘Shaolin Soccer’ was shot when ‘Matrix0 had just sweetened on screens around the world and special effects type Bullet Time They also abound here, although instead of showing the ballistic choreographies of Neo and Trinity, they are at the service of absurd football expertise, and where the VAR has no reason to be. If you like football, this can be your life movieand if not, with more reason … too.
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