I caught this one on HBO during the big showdown soccer game at the end and couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was soo off-the-wall hilarious I decided to order it on PPV, just to get a proper start-to-finish viewing. When it was done, my sides ached from laughing and my tear ducts were dry wells.

This is a mashup spoof of eastern martial arts meets the underdog sports film. Everything is straight from the stylebook, but exaggerated to the nth degree. The whole movie is controlled chaos. There is a Bruce Lee doppleganger, Hello Kitty jokes, and the evil overlord of soccer looks more than a little like the chairman from the Iron Chef TV show. Somewhere in the middle a Michael Jackson video threatens to break out, but thankfully someone stops that before it goes too far.

There is a surprising special effects budget, including computers, wire work and Matrix style stop motion filming. The rules of soccer are MIA. Soccer balls burst into flames and dig grooves in the earth. The physically impossible is routine, but only when it's funny, except when it is ridiculously funny.

If you like your humor subtle, this isn't the film for you. If "Meatballs" and "Airplane!" are your idea of a good time, you need to see this movie.

I just watched it for the third time the other day! So totally over the top. And you forgot to mention the pathos;it's loaded with pathos too...the bao making girl is pathos all over the place.