If Wyle E. Coyote and the Roadrunner faced off on the soccer field, the result might resemble Hong Kong writer/producer/director star Stephen Chow's slapstick sports comedy, in which a ragtag soccer team's heart, grit and
esprit de corps take them to the top. The film opens in 1981, as honest superstar "Golden Leg" Fung (Man Tat Ng) suffers a career-ending "accident" engineered by vengeful teammate Hung (Yin Tse), who's mad that Fung wouldn't help fix the big game. Twenty years later, the unscrupulous Hung is a mega-rich sports impresario and the crippled Fung is locker boy for Hung's steroid-enhanced Team Evil. Fung spirals further into despair after Hung fir...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
87 mins