It is worth noting that the official English dub of Shaolin Soccer (released by Miramax) is widely considered terrible by fans. It lost the nuance, the jokes fell flat, and the voices sounded like generic cartoons. In contrast, the Indonesian dub, despite its low production quality (echoey microphones, mismatched lip-flaps), had soul . It sounded like your crazy uncles yelling at a soccer match on a Sunday afternoon. It was authentically local .