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Summary: They brought their bleep-ing TOYS with them!
Review: Not even a question on the rating. I'd rate it higher if I could. A must-see for anyone who has ever lived in a town with minor league hockey team, or anyone who's even been to a minor league hockey game for that matter. Watching this movie still brings back memories of going to Springfield Indians/Falcons games as a kid, where a fight would inevitably break out at least once a period, even in the playoffs. Even the footage of fans is accurate. The comedy both on and off the ice, while a bit puerile, is still top notch. All I have left to say is that if you don't like this movie and you're any kind of real hockey fan, you ought to "go to the penalty box, and feel shame".
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Summary: A classic, plus good special features
Review: This movie itself is a hockey classic, and is a sports movie along the same lines as "The Replacements" and "Major League". The plot is simple, the Chiefs are a losing hockey team, and the teams existance is in jeopardy as attendance is low, and the local mill is about to close. We are quickly introduced to a colorful assortment of charachters, and as the movie progesses, we learn the story of these charachters more so than in other similar movies. Over time, the teams player-coach, played by Paul Newman, schemes his way into several plans to help the team win, increase attendance, and actualy stay in business. When the cheapwad owner hires three goons (The Hanson brothers) the action really picks up, and the team begins playing very agressively. They start to win, and earn the attention and loyalty of their fans in the process. Overall, there is a lot of crude, low brow humor, but this movie does it well. You can easily get suckered into thinking you are actually watching a season of a minor league hockey team. The movie is indeed inspired by actual events, at least many of the charachters and situations. Special features inclue production notes, the original trailer, and a feature commentary by the Hanson brothers. This is one of the best parts of the special DVD, and it was one of the best feature commentaries I have seen in a long time. After watching the movie a few times, it is definitly worth checking out. And this movie is one that you could watch over and over again, especially if you are a sports fan.
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Summary: Perhaps the funniest sports comedy of all time
Review: This is simply a hilarious movie about a hockey team fighting for its very survival in Charlestown, West Virginia. The style of hockey portrayed in the movie is Don Cherry-style "Old Time Hockey" - Sweethearts who don't like violence in sports should check out another video.
Although Paul Newman stars, it is the no-name actors (minor league hockey players in real life) who play the Hanson brothers who steal the show.
Life eventually imitated art: A couple of years after this movie came out, the Boston Bruins went into the stands to beat up fans in New York's Madison Square Garden, and, a few years later, the Montreal Canadians and Philadelphia Flyers had a huge brawl before the game even started - just like in this movie.
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Summary: Gets better with time
Review: Beyond a shadow of a doubt the greatest sports movie ever made. Funny and truthful. Slap Shot shows you what hockey used to be. And what minor league hockey was back in the 70's. Nothing more than a brawl every night. 90% of the characters are based on real people and the life these minor league hockey players lead is the basis of this great movie. The movie was shot in the Northeast at various minor league hockey arenas in Johnstown, Syracuse, Utica, and at Colgate college. The DVD is awesome. You get commentary from THE HANSON brothers telling you where each scene is shot and real life stories about what happened when they played at these various arenas in real life. If your not a hockey fan, this will make you one. If you are a hockey fan this just reinforces why you are one.
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Summary: Best hockey movie?
Review: Yes. Foul language is everywhere in this movie. I liked it. The transfer really held up over the years. It could have used a new audio transfer because at some points it was too quiet, but the image makes up for it.
Funny? Yes. Touching? Not as much as Mystery, Alaska (which needs special edition treatment). Paul Newman in awful outfits? Oh yes. Watch it to see what cool guys were wearing to bars in the 70s. His pants alone are worth the price of the rental.
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Summary: Correction
Review: The movie was made in the spring of 1976 ( at least started ).
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Summary: slap shot fan
Review: Slap shot is an old school hockey movie. Take it from me, to be honest it is one of the best hockey movies to date. Slap shot is about a hockey team that was going through a rough time and will to anything to win. The team is the Charlestown Chiefs. This movie was made in my hometown of Johnstown, PA. The chiefs are known know as the Johnstown Chiefs in the ECHL.
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Summary: Blazing Satire
Review: "Slap Shot" is one of most innovatively original films of the post-war era. Nancy Dowd, who won an Oscar the following year for Best Screenplay teamed up with Waldo Salt and Robert Jones for "Coming Home," delivered a script with numerous laugh lines and a satirical plot exposing the illogical nature of super machismo, as evidenced through a small town professional hockey team led by player-coach Paul Newman. The film involved a successful re-teaming of Newman with director George Roy Hill. It was a potent combo, as evidenced by the fact that they earlier combined in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Sting." Newman was also performing opposite a brilliant character actor with whom he achieved earlier successes, Strother Martin. That team enjoyed mutual successes in "Butch Cassidy", "Harper" and "Cool Hand Luke." In "Slap Shot" the two seasoned performers play together brilliantly with Newman as player-coach and Martin as general manager of a team that appears to be going nowhere fast until its entire plan of operation changes. The big change occurs after Martin has been heavily berated by Newman for calling up some slow-witted brothers from an even lower rated team. Newman sees them arguing heatedly as they operate their joint electric train in their room. "What are you sending me, mental retards?" Newman bellows. Martin replies that he has heard good things about the brothers. Eventually Newman becomes so short-handed that he puts the brothers on the ice, discovering that they wield their hockey sticks like members of Murder Inc. with social consciences to match. They are promptly inserted into the lineup and the team begins winning. Newman becomes heady with delight and Machiavellian in his pursuit of victory. One of his players refers to a victory effort as a "garbage win." It occurs when, in the midst of a scoreless tie late in the match, Newman goads the opposing team's goalee by insensitively reminding him of his wife's penchant for lesbianism. The goalee abandons his station to attack Newman, upon which an easy goal is scored and Newman's team prevails 1-0. After Newman learns that his team will be disbanded at the end of the season he angrily demands to see its owner. General manager Martin laments that this is a secret he has been warned to never divulge. Newman blackmails him by reminding him of a past incident when Martin was arrested by the local police for cross dressing. His blackmail tactic wins him the name and address of the woman who owns the team. When he confronts her in front of her home she reveals that her accountant has told her that buying the team was once a good tax move but no longer is, upon which she has decided to terminate it. After an angry discussion Newman leaves. The team earns its way into the championship match against a group of renegade thugs rounded up by the opposing squad. When it skates onto the ice it looks more like the roster of a high security prison than a professional athletic team. For the first half Newman and his team is physically clobbered as he has decided that the team would play its last game as a nostalgic salute to old time hockey and the tradition of Boston Bruin great Eddie Shore. A furious Martin storms into the dressing room at halftime and launches a tirade at Newman and his team. "The scouts are out there!" he fumes. "The scouts are there?" Newman's patented blue eyes beam with delight. Intent on achieving a continuing future in hockey, Newman and his team match the opposing goon squad in violence. One player on Newman's squad, Michael Ontkean, becomes disgusted with the display of unmitigated violence. In one of the most daringly original ends to any film, Ontkean brings down the house with a strip act, shedding his uniform all the way down to his athletic protector. When he skates around the mayhem on the ice with carefree disdain, the opposing team captain, who personifies runaway violence in motion, shrieks at the referee, calling Ontkean's performance "Degenerate!" He protests loud enough to get his team disqualified, giving Newman's contingent the league championship. Screenwriter Dowd comes from Framingham, Massachusetts, near Boston. It was claimed that she was writing about the Eastern League in the fifties, which was known for its super machismo brawling.
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Summary: Slapshot, Silver Anniversary
Review: This film is truly funny stuff. You don't have to be a hockey fan to enjoy its off-color, often irreverent humor that holds up as well today as it did when the film was released in 1977. Aging player-coach of the Charleston Chiefs, Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) does just about anything to hold his losing team of misfits and malcontents together. It is with the signing of the Hanson brothers, a trio of young hockey phenoms from nowhere that the fortunes of the team on ice at least, are forever changed. Virtually every scene these guys effortlessly steal are priceless gems of side-splitting low-ball comedy. The ultimate fate of the Chiefs however, is beyond the knowledge or control of Dunlop. Only the secretive team manager (wonderfully played by Strother Martin) knows THAT secret. The OTHER secret is between him and Reggie. Paul Newman displayed a deft touch for comedy in this work and his style is quite different than the way most people usually associate him. He later confessed this role is among his personal favorites. "Slapshot" is good humored fun but so bawdy, it should not be viewed by children. For that reason it can never be shown in its entirety on television. When it is aired, it is so heavily censored as to render its outrageous humor ineffective. "Slapshot", uncut is one of the funniest adult comedies ever filmed.
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Summary: Slapshot
Review: Simply put a must have - one of the greatest sports movies of all time. The Hansen's are timeless characters to be loved by all. The movie features a ... tease that is widely touted, but detracks from the old time hockey of the Hansen's. Enough to make even Eddie Shore proud.
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