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Movie Review: Shaolin Soccer

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Yes it's an old movie but being a nostalgia critic myself, I would say if you're not going to watch this film, you are wasting a lot of value.  As a fan of the martial arts theater together with loads of preposterous action, I found this film really enjoyable with how a team of shaolin practitioners reunite to form a soccer team that eventually skyrockets into glory.  And here Stephen Chow plays the main character who is known as "Steel Leg" who is a former Shaolin monk who for some reason, stepped out of the Buddhist seminary and later reunites with his five brothers to form the most powerful shaolin team ever... maybe only in fiction. So the character "Steel Leg" himself goes in search of ways to spread the ways of Kung Fu to which most people are uninterested because he's a hobo and he meets another hobo who used to be a soccer coach.  Sad, sad... but don't worry it'd be a good turn.  I do find the scenes where Steel Leg tries to regather t...