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!