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 resortto pure violence in an attempt to keep their franchise alive.Paul Newmanplays 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 workwith a 3 brother gang of misfits, who all look alike and have an incrediblyaggressive style of playing.
Chaos insues when Newman's character decidesto finally play these "goons" with his other teammates, and hewatches as the fan base increases when they proceed to physically demolish- without any love for the game - the opposing teammates in an series ofhysterical scenes that combine the best in hockey photography withhilariously explicit dialouge and violence. The shot of the goon'snonchalanty skating past the visitor's box and smacking each of them in thehead with their sticks is classic.
This action scenes in this movie iseverything you wished your NFL highlight tapes to be. The DVD itself isexcellent quality, including the true film soundtrack (copyright limitationprevented some of the songs from appearing on the VHS and cableversions).
Extra bonus features are pretty nonexistent - just some sceneselections and generic Actor Profiles that were prelevant in the firstgeneration of DVDs created a couple years ago - but the quality andentertainment value of the movie more than makes up for these shortcomings.
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A FAILING ICE HOCKEY TEAM FINDS SUCCESS USING CONSTANT FIGHTING AND VIOLENCE DURING GAMES.
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