This leads to a big fight, the boy's expulsion from the monastery and the man's decision to turn the boy into a college basketball sensation. The boy is found throwing garbage into a basket from an incredible distance by a man who bring him to a gangster's club to play darts. The new master gets mad at the now 20+ year old boy for not pretending to be hurt by the master's weak punches and throws him out for the night. The school is taken over by a phony kung fu master who is assisted by four wacky monks. The old monk teaches the boy but expires when he tries to master the special technique in the manual. A homeless man brings him to a Shaolin monastery that's in the middle of a city along with a special kung fu manual that the homeless man somehow has but can't read. A baby is abandoned next to a basketball court. The production is excellent and the pacing is fast so it's easy to get past the many flaws in this film. There's magic kung-fu, college romance, sports, gangster action and some weepy melodrama for a topping. ![]() A mess of genres but it's mainly based on Stephen Chow's genre mash-ups for it's inspiration.
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