Look What You Did #2 : Shaolin Soccer

Show Notes

Ricky and Gary were late to release this one because we have been getting our chakras in order. We have been training hard with these crazy monks learning our ball handling skills. When a rag tag team of former monks get an opportunity at glory on the soccer field, they use their mystical powers to battle the opposition and beat Team Evil in gravity defying fashion. This stars the great Steven Chow who is the star of Kung Fu Hustle. Put on your busted cleats and light your smoke. No red cards allowed in this match. 

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Hello folks, welcome to look what you did the show or me and my friend get together and talk about a film

That's not necessarily bad, but kind of bonkers like today's film. We're gonna talk about for sure

That friend in question you may know him from the doctor movie

podcast and of course

The new I don't say improved man, but I love if I love the superman episode

I listen to Jadina Jones one yet, but um, I got I didn't see the last one

But Ricky Morgan is here. How you doing, sir?

What's happening my friend? I am here and I

got my

My my monkey run. I'm ready to kick some balls here, man

Well, I do have to say before we get into this that I

Couldn't find an overdubbed version and the version that had the subtitles

Wasn't correct. So I'm guessing at what I'm gonna talk about

Oh

You should have said something about that. I would have hooked you up, man. I had a really nice

That's alright. Yes spoilers. They said this. I mean, do you do you really need to know know a lot?

I mean not not terribly, you know, but you know, you can get the story from the visuals and a lot of it

Right us was the last time I said less way to show I said this is on Paramount Plus

It still says on Paramount Plus, but it is not on Paramount Plus people. So

You might have to buy this one or rent this one because I think it's a it's a hell of a trouble finding it

Yeah, yeah, I did I had a little trouble finding

The film a question probably is called Shaollin and Soccer. This is from 2001

It's one of those the Trey's bootlegs I got from the flea market. Yes sometime ago, but mirror max

Managed to put it out eventually my physical media

This is a written. Oh, this is directed co-written and starring the great Steven Chow

Who you guys made over from Kung Fu hustle? He's a star that we as well. That's that's a good time right there kung fu hustle

Oh, yeah

Your cheapo plots and ops up this movie is a young shalloin follower

reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial arts skills to their advantage. Oh

Man, this is wild

um

I guess this is the one that I saw and I used to go to the flea market a lot and

My friend would sell me things to say hey watch this new tie a movie with with Donnie N

Or watch this and watch that and that's right first. I'll battle royale and right first

Oh, yeah first first saw this like it's about soccer, right? This is gonna be duller shit and then you know I watch it

It's like it's bonkers. It's bonkers from head to toe

But yeah

But yeah, that's about a

Homeless guy I guess he has a place to live but the day you find that out later

But he's like a basically a derelict who's you know, he's he's

arrogant as hell and he seems to have all these martial arts skills that are

Unworldly and he uses them to like push cars and like you know kick beer cans and insanely and

But the meat potatoes this film is um this guy just a great footballer soccer player

Who got fucked over he essentially gets these guys together to use their skills to

Make a soccer team to go against his rival who's

the leader of team evil because he gets to guess what they are guys

And it goes back to their youth too because these two guys were on a team together and

You know he got the blame for

missing a shot and losing the game and

The people come out of the crowd and just break his leg

You find out later. They were hired to do that because you know, yeah

Not only did they pay our

Current coach coach hung off to do throw the match

He got his leg broken for that and um, yeah

Good old good old golden leg right there and then did that that's uh, I'll coach hung is the evil coach

I'm sorry. I are our coach is golden leg fun who um

He's the one the guys like broken for his trouble and it's this grace and has to you know

Have to have somebody step on his head to polish his shoe and he's uh, yeah, it's it's it's it's a bad situation

But I've seen this four multiple times Ricky. This is your first time talking about this film

What are your thoughts on yeah, I'm sorry. We thought the challenge lockers. Oh, I mean you said it earlier

I'm a huge fan of kung fu hustle. So when I saw Steven chow was doing this is like, oh, yeah

I mean, I don't really know why I missed this one, but

Like I said, I had a little trouble

But it's it's everything that I loved about kung fu hustle, but on a soccer field and

It's just yeah, like I said, it's bonkers

I mean, it's it's one of those things that you kind of want to show other people and go you just

I'm not gonna explain it. Just watch this part

but

It's it's a lot of fun and

It's just

Insane it's absolutely insane the fact that you're taking these guys that have these

these superhuman powers and

Turn them into a soccer team, but they're not the only ones

I mean the other teams they go up against you find out that they have powers too. So

You have a pretty big showdown here at the end. It's that's pretty awesome against team evil. So

It lays it out right there

What all about this film is it's kind of like a mixture of things

I mean you got some blues brothers thrown in there these brothers are broke up. They all have different jobs now

You know one's like an accountant. What one's just like a disgraced degenerate

He's all fat and stuff and he can't do anything more

But but look at that guy is he could do so everything although he's chubby

So if you like it some fat guy marshal art stuff like like a Samo hon thing this guy who who plays um

Oh, what is his name? They call him lightweight ironically

This guy could do some stuff too although he's heavy

So it's fun. It's fun to watch a fat guy kick ass um

And it's funny. It's because like that's like they have to relearn their powers too

It's like they've put them aside and they forgot how to use them and he's working at a

grocery store and he's stocking a shelf and he can't really reach the top and

He fails at doing that and they're like, oh, he's going to use his powers to you know reach up there and

ends up crashing down so

It's it's like it's like the bad news bears really when you think about it

Uh, you're taking these guys that really have no purpose of being on a soccer field

But they all have these powers but you know slowly one by one they start, you know beating these teams

They start getting their their act together

Uh, only to find out that you know

Really they're in the they're not in the same category as some of these other teams, but that's what makes it so fun

By the way, this show is brought brought to you by Teflon soccer balls

Where they'll break anything and even even you so there's that you know, that's uh

Had to throw a little helming in there because you know that the thing that allows me, you know

Because these soccer balls this movie could take a beating

Especially during these matches where you literally have them

Going on fire and flying into people but then when they hit it when the the opposing

Goalie of team evil catches the ball

It is no longer a flame but it lands in his hand

Now at the velocity that this ball is kicked at this man. It should have exploded in his chest, you know, right?

Yeah, not not these teams though. Not not these soccer balls. So yeah, it's it's outlandish and I love the the the bruce lee

Uh game of death goalie, you know, it's not an accident either, you know, right?

But yeah, I mean it's it's got something for everybody. I just I think it's a lot of fun

Uh, and again, I was trying to guess at some stuff that was being said

uh, you can't talk about this without talking about the love interest and uh

Making dumplings, you know her sweet sweet bones, man. She's the best at it

I

You know and going from super shy and and you know recluse to

Kind of saving the day, you know, so yeah, I mean it's

It's insane

It's funny. You mentioned the bad news bears. Um, you know, the the reason why they were so good is because they had they had

Ringers you had kelly leek and they had amanda, you know come in and you know make them better

These guys are the the underdog because they're they're you know, they're down and out but

They're they're really not the underdogs, you know, once once they get down to business and

You know when they get down to business

I love the training montage is kind of perfect because they have to learn the

Take these skills that they have learned

And slow it down to to the point of you know, this is how you kick the ball

This is how you juggle the ball and what I first one of the favorite scenes of the film is where um

He makes our man

um

Mighty steel leg uh a sing

um

Kick the egg without breaking it

Every time he would break one

Yeah, good old friggin lightweight with loses mine because those were his eggs, you know, right?

I'll buy you more. I'll buy you more. He's like sucking them off his shoe and sucking them out his mouth and you know

It's so stupid, but I love it so much that it's so random

Yeah, it's it's super random. But yeah, I mean, I that's what I kept saying the whole time watching. It's like man, this is it's like

Bad news bears. I mean because you're getting the the rag tag team

that

Don't have the abilities, but you know, they've got the heart, right?

And they build it off of that and it's kind of like that a little bit of slap shot mixed in there together because

The ultimate go is to to rub it into face of the leader of

You know, the guy that owns everything our main bad guy

So yeah, I mean it's it's the only thing that's different is, you know, we should have thrown the trophy at the end, you know

Yeah, exactly. You know, they do win because yeah, they figure out they figure out a way to win and

Yeah, the way is uh

good old uh

movie or movie I raise her name. She did the love interest who

Looks like she has acne all over her face. I'm not sure if that's from working

With with the biscuits all those years just like but when she comes back and she shaves her head as as as the monk

She has a clean face. So I guess it cleared her very nicely, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah

That's what happens, you know, you you get pure, you know

Yeah, I purify by the monk lower man

You you really can't

It's hard to describe this movie because it's it's all over the place but

The CGI stuff, of course, it's you know, would you say 2001?

Yeah, and yeah, I mean so you're right at the edge of

really pulling some things off and

But it really works for the story, you know, even though the same thing would come through hustle, right?

The effects are crazy over the top, but it works for the story

and I think you get the same thing here to where it it actually works

and

It's just a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun

My favorite scenes of the whole film is is a silly scene. Um,

I have a lot of favorite scenes in this film, but ironhead who's sing's partner

His first brother as he calls them for some reason

He he runs like as like a bar back for this bar for this club

And they had a musical act so him and sing have to go put up a put up a performance up there

He has some some Shaolin rock and roll or something

His boss yeah, that's crazy his boss in this film

He's called ironhead's his boss just breaks bottles over his head

But during the performance all the time he has like a like a waistband full of bottles to throw at him just have to ready

I love that stupid thing so much, you know

Yeah, but it's it's again. It's that thing right and it's hey, you know, it'd be funny here

You know, and I don't know again. That's that's what you get with Steven chow. I think that's

Just his flair that that he brings to it's what makes his movie so different

and you know

I haven't I haven't seen one yet that hasn't been entertaining

So he's just I don't know. He's got a knack for that

Wait, the way the way they play all these guys play physical comedy in this movie is um, oh, yeah

It's wonderful. It's that's what that makes it work in my opinion and yeah

That that that and they I mentioned a montage, you know, I forgot to mention were you know

Our hero our leader the team is

Is juggling the ball against the brick wall and the more he learns it like the cooler it looks he

He kicks he gets a final kick to the ball and it flies in the stratosphere somewhere

Again, just throw away reality these these monks could do amazing things, you know, including

Including turn a ball into a puma as it kicks into the opposing team and

Which I read there. There's a lot of puma product placement. I guess maybe they provided some of the gear or something

Right. Yeah, when they do the whole shoe run, right, you know, and then when they finally get an endorsement or whatever

And yeah, the ball turns into the puma and they're wearing puma stuff

So it's like a big product placement thing and it's not crazy noticeable

It's just if you didn't read about it, you wouldn't notice it. It's just hey, wow

He turned that ball into a friggin fiery puma, you know

I

You believe that too, you know, sure

I mean again, you're taking what we love about the martial arts flicks and the the abilities that these monks have

And you're just giving to these guys a little music on a soccer field. I mean, it's

It's not that far of a stretch. I mean, I see movies a lot more often that are

way more of a stretch than this idea and

Like I said, Steven

Somehow makes it work and you go, this is awesome

Yeah, that's great that the coat the other coach is great too. He's just he's just uh like an evil douchebag

Like uh, I don't know if you know who the comic artist jim sterenko is

He always dresses like he's George Hamilton or something

This this guy this film's like dressed to the nines and the hair slicked back and he looks like he's evil and

One of my favorite things in the movie is his group of ringers

One of which is in the bottom of the swimming pool like training

Like he's managing to keep himself balanced in the bottom of the pool along with this soccer ball

And then also you see like this tidal wave shoot ups, you know

Like I mentioned before we did before on the last review

Describe this this is drag a ball z with with soccer. They have ungodly powers

Yeah, this guy apparently could stand at the bottom of the pool and just you know do crazy shit. Yeah

Oh, yeah, absolutely fun, man

But yeah, I I I I said I've seen this and this had trouble being released by mirror max apparently

They had a problem with steven chow

Why they were gonna us released till like two years later of when they were gonna release it because

Something with the dubbing he went he wanted to dub himself and I guess he did on the american release

I'd have received this not dubbed so but I know I knew it existed because I know mirror max put it out

So if you're looking for a physical copy of this, uh, it's probably easier to find than a

Uh, uh digital copy because I haven't seen on a lot of formats unfortunately

and

It was a big struggle to get here, which is why

The bootleg market was so strong with this one in the states. Yeah, I've seen I've seen it everywhere

You know you'd go you would go and

And I guess this is like at the time like the highest grossing hong kong

We ever existed like 60 million that made at the box office. Yeah

And um, steven chow was a star. Yeah, I I get it. I do I really do I think

You know, it's in a lot of ways. It's a better movie than kung fu hustle

You know and you're reaching out to a different crowd with with the whole soccer aspect, right?

So, yeah, I mean I I totally get it. It's it's absolutely fun

I need to find a dub copy of it and see it that way for sure. Yeah, I think um

Yeah, I think it's a mirror mac for it out. So it shouldn't be it should be crazy hard to find

What's just like that crazy out of print? Um

But yeah, this is this is something I enjoy this this is my kind of stupid and and oh, yeah

There's not many films that are like this and right

It's it's the fact that they're using soccer as a catalyst

It is you know as much as people say oh soccer that's that's kind of lame

Well, it's still the most popular sport throughout the entire world

It just is that that that in gall for probably the most popular sports that there is

Right. Yeah, so reaching to that whole audience in the international level

You show them what you show them and you know these crazy visuals. I I love the

I love the scene where the girls

making the dough balls

It's so simple, but you know, she's she's mixing the the flower around and put it together just with her

Shallowing action going on there and yeah, it it's in everything man

Everything that these people do and that's that of course, that's obviously what draws into it at first, you know

But uh, you know the whole shoe scenario, right? Yeah

It's just great. It's great movie gave her the gave her those major shoes as freaking payment. You know

Then she goes and fixes them and she fixes them again in the end of the movie like I

I already have shoes. You don't have these shoes. She put like the steel cleats out and form and stuff and

Right gives them the the the the the power to to to win and of course the power to to love

Because you see in the end of the movie, which is you can call it silly

But it all comes into play where he's talking talking to the coach about

You know, oh that person would have the child moving that car if they use this this technique of shallowing

That that person wouldn't lost his job trimming those hedges if he would he did this thing this thing this level of shallowing and

Right at the end you see everybody like is like a shallowing sensation because they won this soccer match and

They're all doing moves in the street one of my favorite baller moves in the movie

At the very end where they don't pick them up on the bus

So they all do the the hops and the jumps to get on the double deck of bus

It's just right. It's a stupid CG thing

But it's it's stuff. I love you know

Yeah, I mean it but again it ties into

All those things that we love from all the old martial arts flicks, right?

I mean, that's that's the beauty of it and again, that's kind of what he does

he's able to take these things and

and put them into a more

modern time

and make it work and

you know

I think about the

The soccer team they played that were all the the girls with the mustaches

You know, yeah, they were paying on and I think that the one go ahead like a glued on goatee or something for a reason

you know

Or it's just

You know as soon as you think things are going to calm down and you get some normalcy

It's just it throws another thing at you and it's just it doesn't stop and I think that's brilliant

And no explanation. They just happen, you know, that's that's what I like about it

They're doing it doing everything like that. I mean the whole idea of their goalie who's uh, I already sure tin

is the goalie of the team and

He could literally make make the soccer ball spin around on his chest like he's got like a plate there or something and

Right, he's it's insane

I don't want to give away too much crazy things because you guys need to see this film

And I'm gonna I'm gonna let ricky talk for a little bit longer while I look up where you could find this film due to purchase because

I am I am unprepared in that sense. I know I got it

But it was it was enough from an unsavory location. So, you know, right? Yeah

Well, I mean that's kind of where I had to go as well just just to find it. So

Obviously you can pick it up on on amazon stuff like that. It's like they got the dvd out there

I don't know about a blu-ray, but uh, I mean you can find it to purchase but as far as is, you know

Getting to just scan it. I had trouble but uh

Maybe you have better luck. Maybe you got other surfaces that you you guys check out and can find it there

Chances are if you clicked on this to listen to this show, you probably already have a copy of this

That's what I would think

So

But yeah, uh, you know, it was really a surprise for me

Checking this one out and I didn't know it was a Steven Child movie till the credit started rolling and it said it's like, wow

Okay, that's I I knew what I was in for it's kind of like when you see like Sam Raimi's name on something

you pretty much know

What you're gonna get and it's kind of the same way with Steven and he delivers man. I'm telling you not every time

He did do that. Um, what for for the love of the game Sam Raimi did it like well, that's different, you know

That's you know, that's a money. That's a that's a that's a money thing there, right? I mean, that's yeah

Yeah available to renter by you can buy it

You can buy it for for 10 bucks on digital and amazon are rented for four bucks. So there you go

You guys might really like this one though. I'm not sure about a physical release. I'm gonna look that up right now too while we're talking

Yeah, yeah, just DVD though 999. I'm sure that's the mere max one

So they'll probably have some kind of anniversary edition or something, you know, I wish but I don't think it exists in this country

It just uh, yeah

But 10 bucks for physical release and I think you won't be upset if you buy if you bought the physical release

It's just uh, yeah

This is uh, this is crazy stupid fun

It's a turn your brain off to turn off what you think about physics. So they don't exist in this movie people

Yeah, they do not exist in this movie at all

and um

Go go and show in powers yo got shall in powers man

That can make you sing poorly but kick a soccer ball very very well

Um final thoughts are about this film and uh, I don't know. What would you give it one to ten?

I think I'll give it an eight. I think it's a lot of fun. I I think it's one of those you can watch

many times

and

Get new things out of it and and again, I was struggling because I really didn't know what was going on because subtitles were wrong

But you know, you get the gist of it

So yeah, I'd like to check it out again to where you know, I've got things correct and and it makes sense. So

Yes, it's about it's about eight for me too. This is uh, this is stuff. I enjoy this is

cultural things which is which is my

I'll tell us about a second or look what you did moment of this film is a cultural thing. I'm sure

um

It's it's it's an eight. Um

What's that girl's name now the the love interest uh that girl's sweet dough balls out of ten. So there you go

That's what she got when she got sad them dough balls got all salty and stuff. Come on man, you know

Yeah, this comes at the time of the show again where we say uh, this is our look what you did

Look what your brother did to that star

There you got no

Right at home. You're damn fool

You're rude adore

Oh, so Ricky, what's your look what you did part of this film? Uh a scene anything about this movie?

Uh, it's got to be the training montage more than anything else because it's really where you're starting to understand the characters

And I just I love a good training montage and I think this one is different enough

And hilarious enough that I just I loved it

My look what you did thing and this is probably the first time we've seen something like this. I'm sure it's a cultural thing, you know in in china

Was the flash mob that came out of nowhere in this movie? Oh, yeah. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah

They made contact with their fiery eyeballs and all sudden people started singing it

They started dancing in the streets and you know it gets broken up, of course, but

This is probably the first time I've ever heard of something like that and then became like an internet sensation the idea of a flash mob

And yeah, yeah, it's weird then in the middle of a movie like this that has nothing to do with music whatsoever

Just breaks out into a song and dance

You know, so yeah, it's it's that wacky. I mean, that's that's the thing about it. You can you can go

Throughout this movie and pinpoint about every five minutes something unusual

But it works and as much as our baller the the the the leader of team evil was

That man still walked over holes in the socks is all I'm gonna say about that one

Yeah, because they they stole that man shoes. Oh man

That was the thing of this movie. I love the little things man. Um, yeah

Crazy crazy now Ricky for for the very next episode of look what you did. Uh, you have a film picked out for that

I don't

Find out what that is in the next episode then guys. Yeah. Oh, yeah

Yeah, we'll figure it out. I think I know my next one's gonna be after that. So I think it's it's into the business back of my brain. So

All right

Oh boy, yeah, I'll have to do some digging and find us a good one. So I have I have been listening to the shark episodes of the

the the doctor movies and

Yeah

It like broke your heart to have the review draws for let me tell you yeah, but uh

That's nothing man. I mean

All of next week is pretty solid. I really enjoyed most of what I watched for what's coming up next week

But the week after that, which is the week that I'm recording right now

Dude, I'm struggling

I'm struggling

Oh, so microcane's like they name me after a sandwich, but it bought me a beach house. I don't care

Yeah

Yeah, they named that man Hogi in the movie. Come on now, you know

Yeah, I just that's not that sounds like a fat friend in an 80s movie. Oh, come on now. Yeah

Yeah, not not a fan apart for but

Uh, there's a there's a lot more coming after that own purpose, you know, so the last shark came out today

And tomorrow is cruel jaws cruel jaws the reason I set it up that way because cruel jaws pretty much takes everything

from the Joll series and

Great white or the last shark and it rips all of them off

So bad that severed or released. They had taken off the shelf, you know, come on. Yeah, you know, yeah

It's like no no no wait right there for a second, you know

So if you want a physical copy of cruel jaws, you're one of the lucky ones. Okay, you know

As they can't sell it no mo yeah, man

But when you get on the other side of that man, there's there's a lot of crap

Oh my gosh, well, this has been look what you did and um, we'll see you all next time. Peace out!