After winning nine consecutive championships, a girls' high school volleyball team gets utterly destroyed by a team of "spider women," (a team of tall gals); soon after that they lose their hard-assed, highly-paid coach. The chancellor lays it out like this: if the girls can convince substitute science teacher Derek Yee to be the new coach, they'll have a team again, and of course he does, and they do. During a school break, they take over a hospital gymnasium, with his knowledge of physics they learn "the beating parners stance," "the changing stance," and sing their victory song ("Yan-Sing-Lei-Jin-Jung-Ji-Tai!"). As junky as this sounds, it's a cute movie with some cute girls, and the volleyball-cam shots are just incredible!

(2.5/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]