April 24: Shaolin Soccer. Yay to IFC for showing this movie, but a major boo! to them for showing it not only dubbed, but panned and scanned. Very very lame of them. It makes me less annoyed at the cable company for moving the channel to premium so we can't watch it anymore. On the bright side, it sounded like Stephen Chow did his own dubbing, so at least his character sounded fairly natural.
On IMDB I got some info on the all-female soccer team with moustaches. According to the IMDB forum, the actresses playing the two main female soccer players are huge Chinese pop stars and close friends of Chow. So it's just a random gag to have them on a soccer team. The female team was called "Team Double Handsome Dragon" so also possibly a joke about pretty boy soccer players.
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