Shaolin Soccer Reviews
Common Sense Media
Untraditional underdog sports team story.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ColeSmithey.com
Kung Fu and sports movies collide in writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's devilishly entertaining Honk Kong action movie.
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| Original Score: B
Film4
Provided Chow survives being 'Miramaxed', you're looking at the next big Asian star to rise in the West.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Paste Magazine
It so deliriously riffs on everything from The Bad News Bears and Jurassic Park to super heroes and break dancing that it's hard not to get caught up in the goofy fun.
Time Out
Top CriticYou could call it a guilty pleasure, but that would suggest you feel bad about enjoying yourself.
Empire Magazine
A movie as empty-headed as your average Premier League player, but that doesn't matter when the footie scenes are so fun and deliriously OTT.
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| Original Score: 3/5
www.kcactive.com
...as logical and giddy as a second grade classroom.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A hard chestnut to swallow.
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| Original Score: C+
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
None of this is meant to be taken seriously or even thought about. So just turn off your brain and enjoy the silliness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Hollywood Report Card
A fall-out-of-the-chair, funny movie!
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| Original Score: 3/4
Lessons of Darkness
A blitzkrieg of hilarious kung fu craziness.
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| Original Score: A-
Movie Gazette
No doubt there are sports pedants who will find themselves echoing the sentiments of one exasperated opponent as he exclaims "Please don't play like this! I really want to play soccer!" -- but everyone else will be too busy grinning...to care very much.
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| Original Score: 7/10
FilmFocus
Not the classic it claims to be.
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| Original Score: 31/100
ViewLondon
The whole film is played with such an infectious sense of fun and at such a snappy pace that you can't help being swept along by it.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Cinema em Cena
Até mesmo os efeitos visuais cartunescos se adequam ao tom de fantasia desta produção que, justamente por não se levar a sério, é surpreendentemente hilária.
| Original Score: 5/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
A movie that rises to dizzying heights of silliness before soaring into the silly stratosphere, Shaolin Soccer is pure fun.
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| Original Score: 3/4
May be the funniest out-and-out comedy of the summer.
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| Original Score: 4/5
