Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley, and the rest. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
Forget the fact that its ice hockey..........2006-01-04
As stated previously, you don't have to be a hockey fan to enjoy this film. If you have the ability to laugh and like the thought of going to A&E with your sides aching and your eyes streaming, watch this.
From the start, you just now that this is going to be something special. Paul Newman plays an excellent role as the Chiefs coach with his own long list of issues but thrives in giving the Ice Hockey crowds what they want after the debtors close in on the team....blood.
To aid in this onslaught, the Hanson brothers are brought in, the three spectacled coke machine murderers. Their casual approach to second nature violence is an absolute gem and will keep you laughing your lungs out.
I thoroughly enjoyed this despite it showing its age, if you watch it, you WILL enjoy it. Don't watch it alone as you will need some help to recover from the laughter.
Slap Shot, the ultimate sports film of the 1970's.......2003-11-22
Forget Rollerball, the real sports film of the 70's was slap shot, filmed in same mood as MASH, a light hearted look at America, with a better soundtrack than its contemporaries. It has a slow start, its only fault, but it builds up into a good black comedy, and the few cinematic seconds when the Hanson brothers are released onto the rink, must rate as one of the funniest moments committed to film. This is the best of American Cinema, without the boring polish and pretty faces that Hollywood usually vomits up.
Slap Shot - Side splitting humour........2002-10-14
A film for everyone who laughed at anything. From sheer slapstick humour to black comic violence, it is a sheer eye waterer. The Hansons should have had ther own film.
It has lots of set plays where you just wait to see what happens next, from the drunk hockey star to the poser - it's got it all. From a bunch of loser with no back bone to the roughest toughest bunch of winners in the league it builds up to a bloodbath then leaves you completely bemused with the weirdest ending to a sports film ever.
You have to see this film. If only just to say you have, but once isn't enough.
Ice cool Newman should win some scalps for this one.......2002-08-03
A laugh out loud tale of naked protests, team fights, and blood thirsty goons.
Whoever says this film is strictly for ice hockey fans needs to cool off in the sin bin.
The movie is more in the tradition of the likes of Brassed Off and The Full Monty (there is even an on-ice strip show of sorts during the film's finale) than a sports buff's movie.
Of course, ice hockey fans will love it, but so will cult film enthusiasts, Newman fans, and your typical lads and ladettes.
The movie's lead, ice-cool Newman, is on familiar territory as an anti-hero. His Chiefs player-coach is a boozed up loser with an estranged wife, a mid-life crisis and and a team full of misfits.
To exacerbate Newman's problems, the main factory in town goes bust. With the townfolk struggling to put food on their tables, Newmans gate receipts will plummet. The team will soon face ruin. And without a single hint of tealent between them, the players futures look grim at best.
With the debtors zeroing in, the Chiefs manager gives in to the inevitable - he puts the rink up for sale to big business to turn it into a shopping centre. But steel-eyed Newman rumbles him. With the Chiefs his and his team's only hope of a sufferable future, he has to get his skates on (sorry!) to solve the mounting crisis, and get the fans back in - whether they can afford it or not.
Rumbling a plan is one thing, but making money out of the league's least-liked team is another entirely.
But Newman has an inspiration - and this time it's not eating eggs cool-hand Luke style. He gets his team to pander to the ice hockey crowd's instatiable thirst for blood.
And to inspire his Chiefs to brutalise some scalps, he hires the most feared players in the league: the lank-haired, bespectacled Hanson brothers, whose casually violent schtick is nothing less than hilarious.
The immature agressors beat up vending machines, trash hotel rooms, crunch opponents, and slam referees even before games start - they even knock out the organ player!
Hell, it's carried outn with such humour and aplomb that it is a side-splitting ride. Of course, as with all films where humour or action is the main point of interest, the links to the action are dull. But with action as bloody, gritty and funny as in Slapshot, the lulls are well worthwile.
Anway. Do they win through in the end, or does Newman's Stone Ageplan force a retreat to the caves? The only way to find out how the visual feast unfolds is to experience itn yourself. So what the puck are you waiting for?
Greatest hockey video ever.......2000-10-23
If you like hockey you must watch this film. Its a realistik hokey movie about "old time hockey". It's hockey culture to watchthe Hanson brothers play.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct for comedy has never been sharper. Great support from Strother Martin, Paul Dooley, and the rest. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Customer Reviews:
Forget the fact that its ice hockey..........2006-01-04
As stated previously, you don't have to be a hockey fan to enjoy this film. If you have the ability to laugh and like the thought of going to A&E with your sides aching and your eyes streaming, watch this.
From the start, you just now that this is going to be something special. Paul Newman plays an excellent role as the Chiefs coach with his own long list of issues but thrives in giving the Ice Hockey crowds what they want after the debtors close in on the team....blood.
To aid in this onslaught, the Hanson brothers are brought in, the three spectacled coke machine murderers. Their casual approach to second nature violence is an absolute gem and will keep you laughing your lungs out.
I thoroughly enjoyed this despite it showing its age, if you watch it, you WILL enjoy it. Don't watch it alone as you will need some help to recover from the laughter.
Slap Shot, the ultimate sports film of the 1970's.......2003-11-22
Forget Rollerball, the real sports film of the 70's was slap shot, filmed in same mood as MASH, a light hearted look at America, with a better soundtrack than its contemporaries. It has a slow start, its only fault, but it builds up into a good black comedy, and the few cinematic seconds when the Hanson brothers are released onto the rink, must rate as one of the funniest moments committed to film. This is the best of American Cinema, without the boring polish and pretty faces that Hollywood usually vomits up.
Slap Shot - Side splitting humour........2002-10-14
A film for everyone who laughed at anything. From sheer slapstick humour to black comic violence, it is a sheer eye waterer. The Hansons should have had ther own film.
It has lots of set plays where you just wait to see what happens next, from the drunk hockey star to the poser - it's got it all. From a bunch of loser with no back bone to the roughest toughest bunch of winners in the league it builds up to a bloodbath then leaves you completely bemused with the weirdest ending to a sports film ever.
You have to see this film. If only just to say you have, but once isn't enough.
Ice cool Newman should win some scalps for this one.......2002-08-03
A laugh out loud tale of naked protests, team fights, and blood thirsty goons.
Whoever says this film is strictly for ice hockey fans needs to cool off in the sin bin.
The movie is more in the tradition of the likes of Brassed Off and The Full Monty (there is even an on-ice strip show of sorts during the film's finale) than a sports buff's movie.
Of course, ice hockey fans will love it, but so will cult film enthusiasts, Newman fans, and your typical lads and ladettes.
The movie's lead, ice-cool Newman, is on familiar territory as an anti-hero. His Chiefs player-coach is a boozed up loser with an estranged wife, a mid-life crisis and and a team full of misfits.
To exacerbate Newman's problems, the main factory in town goes bust. With the townfolk struggling to put food on their tables, Newmans gate receipts will plummet. The team will soon face ruin. And without a single hint of tealent between them, the players futures look grim at best.
With the debtors zeroing in, the Chiefs manager gives in to the inevitable - he puts the rink up for sale to big business to turn it into a shopping centre. But steel-eyed Newman rumbles him. With the Chiefs his and his team's only hope of a sufferable future, he has to get his skates on (sorry!) to solve the mounting crisis, and get the fans back in - whether they can afford it or not.
Rumbling a plan is one thing, but making money out of the league's least-liked team is another entirely.
But Newman has an inspiration - and this time it's not eating eggs cool-hand Luke style. He gets his team to pander to the ice hockey crowd's instatiable thirst for blood.
And to inspire his Chiefs to brutalise some scalps, he hires the most feared players in the league: the lank-haired, bespectacled Hanson brothers, whose casually violent schtick is nothing less than hilarious.
The immature agressors beat up vending machines, trash hotel rooms, crunch opponents, and slam referees even before games start - they even knock out the organ player!
Hell, it's carried outn with such humour and aplomb that it is a side-splitting ride. Of course, as with all films where humour or action is the main point of interest, the links to the action are dull. But with action as bloody, gritty and funny as in Slapshot, the lulls are well worthwile.
Anway. Do they win through in the end, or does Newman's Stone Ageplan force a retreat to the caves? The only way to find out how the visual feast unfolds is to experience itn yourself. So what the puck are you waiting for?
Greatest hockey video ever.......2000-10-23
If you like hockey you must watch this film. Its a realistik hokey movie about "old time hockey". It's hockey culture to watchthe Hanson brothers play.
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