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Summary: Best Satire of American culture ever filmed
Review: So the movie is chock full of profanity (anybody been in a men's or women's locker room lately?), and it is violent (seen any American TV news briefs lately?). The entire film uses hockey as a metaphor of American culture, and what a superb metaphor it is! For instance, violence is okay, but sex and nudity aren't okay. Lust is also okay, but genuine affection and understanding aren't okay. Take a good look at the main street movie theatre's marquee during the parade at the end of the film: it makes a powerful statement about American morals and values, then and now. This superb movie (one of Paul Newman's best, and possibly his most courageous!) doesn't hit you with a hockey stick with its message, but uses rare humor, pathos and genuine affection for the characters (dysfunctional all!) to tell its outrageous story, and if viewers "get the message" that's, well, a bonus. A fine transfer to DVD: color, sound, clarity all excellent. Also nice to have the original soundtrack back in the movie. All in all, a remarkable multi-leveled movie, and one that can and should be savored again and again.
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Summary: One of the best sports movies ever made
Review: This is one of my favorite sports movies...the transfer to DVD is good and sound quality excellent...
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Summary: Never play "Lady of Spain" again!
Review: Yes, perhaps my title is a bit non-sensical, but once you have experienced the film classic that is "Slap Shot," these and countless other pieces of dialogue will roll of the toungues of you and your friends with much hilarity. It is a prerequisite to own "Slap Shot" if you are a hockey fan, or simply a fan of comedy. Though lude at times, the humor is not completely derived from shock value, but from clever and witty situations and unforgettable characters (the Hanson Brothers, Reggie Dunlop, Jim Carr, and Denis Lemieux). Definitely a film classic and a mandatory addition to your DVD library.
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Summary: A COMEDY CLASSIC...
Review: I just want to say thank u to my husband, a huge hockey fan, for showing me this movie.I have seen it a couple of times now and it gets funnier every time. Slapshot is one of the few comedy classics to come out of the 1970s.
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Summary: I'll be damned if he didn't hee hee hee!
Review: The quinessential late seventies classic. The off color humor and esoteric hockey/canada references never stop!
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Summary: A Hockey Classic!
Review: Maybe you need to be a hockey player to enjoy this movie, but I can't understand why anyone would give this movie a bad review. This movie has as many classic lines (maybe even more) than Caddy Shack. I, as I know my fellow hockey compatriots of the past, will never get tired of the Hansons'!
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I was not happy to see Paul Newman, a great talent, wasted in this movie. Sorry, I had to turn it off and rewind after suffering through a little more than half of it. The language, not a complete sentence, just vulgarity, was carried too far. Hockey is a rough sport. Was it necessary to insult hockey players intelligence?
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Summary: Really funny, clever movie.
Review: Slap Shot is a classic movie. It's really, really funny and Paul Newman gives the best performance I've ever seen him give. Newman plays a down-and-out player coach who turns around his team by convincing them to play dirty. Don't miss the always-hilarious Hanson Brothers, who provide some excellent comedic moments. Be fairly warned that this film is not for kids! Profanity abounds, and adult themes/words also have prominent appearences. But if you're of proper age, this is one funny movie.
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Summary: A Funny Hockey Movie
Review: Slap Shot is the quintessential hockey movie. It follows themisfortunes of a minor league hockey team that is in desperate straitsuntil the player/coach Reggie, Paul Newman, decides to goon it up a bit. As such he instructs his guys to basically forget the game and turn it into a boxing match. In his quest to create the perfect goon team Reggie brings in three players, the Hanson brothers (old time hockey), to put the fear of God into the opposition (and the opposition's fans). The star player on the team disapproves of this gooning and shows his displeasure in a very unique way at the end. It is one of the funnier scenes ever made. There are no major statements to be made with Slap Shot. There aren't even any important statements about the world of hockey as goonery was an expected part of the game when this movie was released. All it contains is funny scene after funny scene and one of the best actors that Hollywood has ever produced in Paul Newman.
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Summary: The hockey movie of the millenium !
Review: This is the best sports comedy of all time ! Although the french version is better than the original version, I own both version of the movie. The translation of the french version is from Quebec and the language is for a very mature audience ! It is true that the soundtrack of the new version is awful compare to the original one. This is my THIRD copy of the movie. I taped it on television the first time, and watched it so often, I taped it again and finally bought the videocassette in french and english. I learned a lot of that movie from an article on the Hanson's brothers in the Hockey News. Did you know that the big brawl in the stands is true ? That the jail part, also is true ? I was amazed by reading that, even after watching the movie over a hundred times !
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