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Summary: A puckish satire
Review: Paul Newman skates away with his role as the coach of a run-down minor league hockey team in this classic sports comedy. When Newman finds out a possible sale of the franchise may be imminent, he decides to play "dirty" in order to pull his team out of thier slump. Hilarity ensues. All the actors are wonderful, and the frequently quotable, riotously profane dialog will have you rolling. Strother "Failure to communicate" Martin is reunited with Newman as the team manager, and steals every scene he's in. Lindsey Crouse is memorable as a sexually frustrated "sports wife" in a rare comedic role. The movie works on a certain level as a comment on the endless public thirst for violence as "entertainment" (kind of a less heavy-handed, and infinitely more amusing version of "Rollerball"). As in similar offerings like "North Dallas 40" or "Bull Durham", you don't need to be a rabid sports fan to enjoy the story. The movie features THE funniest "striptease" bit ever filmed, and the endearingly sociopathic Hansen Brothers have to be seen to be believed. Score!!
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Summary: Fantastic, Funny, a CLASSIC for ANY Hockey Fan
Review: Slap Shot is a great hockey comedy. It's a hilarious, vulgar, completely wild joyride through the trials of a failing 70's steelmill-town based, utterly amateur hockey team. Failing, that is, until their players resort to pure violence in an attempt to keep their franchise alive.Paul Newman plays the womanizing player/coach who, after a series of embarassing losses (including one to a visitng team's center who's flat drunk) needs to work with a 3 brother gang of misfits, who all look alike and have an incredibly aggressive style of playing. Chaos insues when Newman's character decides to finally play these "goons" with his other teammates, and he watches as the fan base increases when they proceed to physically demolish - without any love for the game - the opposing teammates in an series of hysterical scenes that combine the best in hockey photography with hilariously explicit dialouge and violence. The shot of the goon's nonchalanty skating past the visitor's box and smacking each of them in the head with their sticks is classic. This action scenes in this movie is everything you wished your NFL highlight tapes to be. The DVD itself is excellent quality, including the true film soundtrack (copyright limitation prevented some of the songs from appearing on the VHS and cable versions). Extra bonus features are pretty nonexistent - just some scene selections and generic Actor Profiles that were prelevant in the first generation of DVDs created a couple years ago - but the quality and entertainment value of the movie more than makes up for these shortcomings.
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Summary: Baldwin needs to be a little more observant!
Review: Um, did you perhaps fail to notice that this is an R rated movie? That usually means that there is a fair amount of coarse language, expletives, violence, nudity, etc. Just what made you think that this was a movie for children? Anyway, it's a great movie and being a *huge* Paul Newman fan, I really enjoyed seeing him in this very amusing comedy role.
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Summary: Old Time Hockey
Review: Slap Shot follows the travails of a minor league hockey team as it struggles to make money. The player/coach played by Paul Newman decides that he wants to goon it up to increase attendance. His team becomes the most hated one in the league with people protesting the thugs anytime they roll into an opposing city. As with any sport the addition of the violence does increase attendance. The star player for the team disagrees with his coach over the direction the team has taken. He puts on one of the most unique displays of rebellion at the end of the movie that is sure to invoke many laughs. Slap Shot features three of the most interesting characters ever to appear on film: the Hanson brothers. They are three goons that the coach picks up to improve the team's fighting ability. The Hanson's not only fight the other team, but they fight the other team's fans. The funniest scenes in the movie involve the Hanson brothers gooning it up. Slap Shot is not the typical Paul Newman film. But it does shine as one of his best performances and best movies.
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Summary: The Ultimate Hockey Movie!
Review: Paul Newman is brilliant in what has to be the greatest hockey movie ever made. Newman plays Reggie Dunlop an over-the-hill player/coach of a last place hockey club, which is about to go bankrupt as the steel town of Charlestown is about to close its primary source of income, the steel mill. With nothing left to lose Coach Dunlop begins to "use his imagination and roll with it" by getting his players to play "Old-Time Hockey" in hopes of getting intrest in selling the team to a group of Florida Businessmen. Laughs abound from an excellent supporting class that includes Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse and Jerry Houser. I found the DVD quality to be excellent. The greatest addition on the DVD over the video is the restored original soundtrack, with 70's classics from Leo Sayer, Elton John and Maxine Nightengale. If you love hockey, comedy and Paul Newman, this is a must have!
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Summary: Baldwin you are clueless
Review: As a hockey player and hockey coach I can tell you one thing, you are not a hockey dad. This movie is definately one of the most hilarious sports movies ever. Don't even bother with any other hockey movie, except maybe Youngblood, because those other movies, especially Mighty Ducks (puke) is not hockey, flying V my behind (did we forget about offsides?).
The Hanson brothers were everyone's heroes. While we all wished to be Gretzky or Orr, we all wanted to be the Hansons. They are some of the best caricatures of hockey players in the 1970s. Hockey was a brutal, lawless game that while some had skating skills, most had fighting skills. It was fun growing up in the 70's and early 80's playing hockey as a kid. While playing high school and college was not quite like this movie, go see a junior game or a USHL game and this is what you'll see, albeit a bit more toned down.
Mighty Ducks - please. Give me Reg Dunlop, Killer Carlson and the Hansons - which being from Minnesota gives me pleasure seeing some hometown skaters. Enjoy the movie, enjoy the hits and the humor.
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Summary: Baldwin NY totally missed the point!
Review: Um, I hate to inform you Baldwin, but you SHOULD HAVE READ THE BOX. It's rated "R" for a REASON and that means NOT FOR CHILDREN. "Slap Shot" is an incredible ode to how hockey was in the 1970's: and they nailed, it too--the cursing, the boozing, the fights, the missing teeth, bloodthirsty owners, the checks into the boards. Sportsmanship is a gracious concept, but it doesn't change the fact that hockey is a quick, brutal, and dangerous game. Your child will have to learn this, and the sooner the better! George Roy Hill produced perhaps the funniest sports story ever committed to celluloid and all the cliches ring true: the punching, the rivalries, even the refs take a beating in the final scene. Goons are still a part of hockey, although not as extreme as depicted here. (I barely survived Rangers games while in Madison Square Garden--having beer flung on you in the stands is NOT fun, but hey, I treasure those memories!) The best scene reminds you of how out-of-control hockey was--the Hanson Brothers hit the ice and pretty much everyone else around them. I saw players who wanted to leap into the stands to attack hecklers--"Slap Shot" takes this one step further by showing it. Does anyone besides me remember when there was more fighting than passing? The movie is a reflection (albeit very comical) of what really happened back in the NHL. Knowing this sport is a lot more than just sportsmanship. You might not have a bounty placed on your head like poor Tim McCracken, but it's a fairly true picture of how wild things were. And here's some trivia too: Jennifer Warren who plays Reggie Dunlop's wife in the film is ALSO in "Ice Castles" as Deborah Macklin, the coach. Both movies had shots from rinks in Minnesota and the old Broadmoor in Colorado. Watch these two films back to back--the rink shots are IDENTICAL! "Slap Shot", and the latest movie "Miracle" about the 1980 US team are two of the reasons I love hockey. No one remembers Emilio Estevez's name in "Mighty Ducks", but everyone knows Dickie Dunn, Reggie, the Hansons and Killer Carlson! By the way, did I mention I'm a figure skater? What else can I say? I adore my big brother sport. Even when the players might be missing a few teeth, the love shines right out of those black eyes! And true fans will agree. LOL
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Summary: What a hilarious film this one
Review: What more can be said about a movie that endures despite its old age and that stars the Great Paul Newman next to a bunch of no-name minor hockey- rejects? Not much but this 1977 classic is definitely a keeper for anyone who likes either hockey, r fighting, or Paul Newman, or just plain having a roar of a time while watching a film. This hilarious portrayal of the grind of minor league sports has become a must-see for an entire country! Newman is fantastic as the old geezer whose best days are behind him and who can't really get a grip on what to do once his days ion the ice come to an end. His handsome yet vulnerable looks are perfect for the role and is performance is so affable and low-key that you barely notice that a superstar walks among the rest of this cast. That supporting cast though is what really gives the film its attitude. The mix consists of a couple of old school hockey players, a couple of French-Canadian dorks, a few past-their-prime primadonnas and a couple of roughhousing drunks. Sound like a hockey team to you? Sounds great to me! The kicker though, is went the Hanson Brothers, hockey's equivalent of the three stooges sporting boxing gloves join up with the team and inject it with new life through their aluminum-foil covered fists. Once these dudes come along, the blood starts filling the ice and the laughs start pouring out of your mouth! I suggest you get nice and trashed too before you watch this, as it helps get into the mood of what's going on through the player's heads! Among all major sports, hockey players are often regarded a the most fan-friendly and approachable and that's because they never hesitate to poke fun at themselves and even the millions they earn rarely push them into taking themselves too seriously. They are after all boys playing a game and this film shows us what fun the game can be! This film would be a nightmare to current NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and his annual plans to "overhaul the game" and make it cleaner and more popular south of the Canadian border. But for longtime hockey fans here in the Great White North, this film will always remind us of a time when hockey was just a simple game and that once in a while, benches would clear and players in their underwear would file out of the dressing room and trade punches with each other even before the beginning of the game... ahh, the good old days of old time hockey...
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Summary: Don't buy this for a child hockey fan!
Review: I bought this for my son who is a huge hockey fan. This movie is not for kids, and quite honestly not for Hockey fans either. Most of this movie is focused on a bunch of sex crazed vulgar, middle aged, wanna-be athletes. This is a terrible example of the sport of hockey. The use of violence as a way for this team to succeed is not the lesson I want my young athlete to learn. If you want your hockey player to see a movie that shows the spirit of fair play, teamwork and sportsmanship, buy the Mighty Ducks movies.
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Summary: Textured Time Capsule
Review: So much has been written about the movie's content, indulge as I put it in (personal) context. I grew up playing near Buffalo, NY, where hockey was THE sport. In 1977 (I was 12), our family moved to California, and there were no sticks or pucks to be found (and this soft little game called "four square"). So my memories of hockey are frozen in the Slap Shot era. You can almost smell the black tape and feel the hits. And from current Stepfordian sprawl and Starbuckian "charm" ("Have a nice day") you can tune into the Chiefs to get a genuine feel for hometown working class heroes. Remember the 1970's, when working class, grit and realism (and plaid polyester) were good things!
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