Shaolin Soccer

I'm not sure whether to recommend seeing this film or not. The movie itself is fantastic; a cheesy great time. But I have misgivings about rewarding Miramax for their bad behavior regarding this film--buying the rights to this and all of Stephen Chow's other films, sitting on them, strongarming legal import companies into no longer carring legal copies of Chow's movies, cutting 20 minutes from Shaolin Soccer, dubbing it, undubbing it, playing with the special effects, adding a dumb hip-hop remake of Kung-Fu Fighting over the end credits, and so forth. On the other hand, if this cut (thankfully in Cantonese with subtitles) doesn't put fanbutts in seats, the other Chow films will get butchered more and dubbed, if they even come out at all. Damned if you do, etc., so I guess I recommend do.