rights have been bought by Miramax, a company notorious for re-editing and dubbing classic Asian action films, and for losing faith at the last minute and dumping them (in mutilated form) direct to video. Its theatrical fate remains uncertain, as the U.S. A sort of Bad News Bears meets The Matrix, the film is one of the biggest box office hits of all time in Asia and should rightfully be regarded as a comic gem on the cultish scale of Duck Soup (1933) and Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).Īs it stands now, however, Shaolin Soccer is known in the West only by fans of Hong Kong cinema who can track down the imported DVD with its atrocious (but often hilarious) subtitles. That may change with the impending arrival in theaters of Shaolin Soccer (2001). Stephen Chow is a comic genius whose films have never seen mainstream release in the U.S.
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