Shaolin Soccer Redux

Shaolin Soccer (2001) Reconsidered

Missed PAT engenders Team Evil: Check!

Dastardly Villain breaks promise!: Check!

Fusion of Mind To Foot: People’s-Republic Kung-Fu Promo Man to the rescue!

Sung to the tune of…

https://youtu.be/__9f4TnnHM0?si=_4tvwEldIMiXrFx0

Let’s try: Kung Fu Parking, Kung Fu Banana Peels, Kung Fu Hedge Clipping, Kung Fu Folk Trio: Nope!!!

Kung Fu Soccer!!!

Tai Chi Dumplings: Sweeties!!!

Form a team with: Misfits!

Scrimmage with a gang and gang joins team!: Even more Misfits!!!

Bring on Team Evil!: These American drugs work better than expected! (I’d love to unpack the modifier ‘American’ in terms of geo-political propaganda!)

Dumpling Girl: Magic Sneakers!

Tai Chi Dumplings => Taifun Goalie!

This time the GoodGuys Win!!!

“Expiate originally referred to warding off evil by using sacred rites, or to using sacred rites to cleanse or purify something.” -- Merriam Webster

Sacred rites vary from country to country, from culture to culture. The closest thing America has to a sacred rite is baseball--or even better, Little League Baseball, but in other parts of the world it is soccer. A team of misfits wins the championship and a coach is redeemed. Check it out!

P.S. We won’t have truly inclusive Academy Awards until we have an Oscar for Facial Expressions.