Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolins masters after killing a rival warlord on their temple grounds.His own family is wiped out in an unexpected turn of events and Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks.
As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. Be the first to contribute Just click the Edit page button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. Sing (Chow) is trying to find a way to encourage his countrymen to re-embrace their Shaolin kung fu heritage. When he meets down-at-heel ex-soccer coach Fung (Ng), the pair hatch a plan to form a soccer team with Sings Shaolin brothers. Sing resolves to help his brothers regain their dignity, then lead them into a championship showdown with the seemingly unstoppable Evil Team. He also finds time to fall in love with Tai-Chi baker Mui (the usually lovely Vicki Zhao), who gets some of the funniest scenes in the movie. As a non-Chinese speaker, my experience with Chows previous films is patchy, his wordplay humour rarely making a decent transition to subtitles. The comedy here though is mostly physical, possibly even deliberately geared more towards a Western market. ![]() Subs are decent enough, without too many typos, and the making of and other extras have English subs also. Shaolin English Professional Soccer PlayersIn the Italian version, all main characters are dubbed by professional soccer players (Damiano Tommasi, Vincent Candela, Marco Delvecchio, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Giuseppe Pancaro, and Angelo Peruzzi.). In the English dub the team mo gui dui is translated into Team Evil, even though that has nothing to do with the original name, a better translation is Devils or Demons. For the US theatrical version, Chinese text that appears on objects in the film has been digitally altered so that it is in English, (examples: the Shaolin Forever sign, the Time Magazine ad.). Kung-fu Fighting Written by Carl Douglas Performed by Bus Stop, featuring Carl Douglas.
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