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Slap Shot (1980)

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88

Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 3

Raunchy, violent, and very funny, Slap Shot is ultimately set apart by a wonderful comic performance by Paul Newman.

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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 2

Raunchy, violent, and very funny, Slap Shot is ultimately set apart by a wonderful comic performance by Paul Newman.

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Average Rating: 3.7/5
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Paul Newman plays Reggie Dunlop, the coach of a pathetic minor-league American hockey team. His career at a standstill and his marriage in tatters, Dunlop has nothing to lose by taking on a new group of players who are one evolutionary step above Neanderthals. Only when the team begins winning does he decide to get behind these players, and to encourage the rest of the team to play as down-and-dirty as the newcomers. Straight-arrow team member Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean) resents this influx of

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Drama, Comedy

Jan 5, 1999

MCA Universal Home Video

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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (4) | DVD (2)

Slap Shot may have done a lot of fast skating and some solid body checking, but in the last period it makes a final costly slip -- and misses its goal.

August 1, 2008 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
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There are still some nice touches of absurdist satirical wit hanging out along the sidelines, given extra bite by Dede Allen's superbly pacy editing.

March 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.

March 14, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries it.

March 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety
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Often raucously funny and subversive, Slap Shot is one of the few sports movies that is openly contemptuous of its sport, or at least the modern state of it.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

"Slap Shot" is a sports movie that revels in details of milieu, plot and character. Smokestacks billow white plumes from a perpetually overcast industrial skyline. Everything is old and weather beaten. Every victory is tainted.

April 22, 2013 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

Countless profanity penalties in ''70s hockey spoof.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment (1)
Common Sense Media

An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.

August 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.

March 26, 2007
eFilmCritic.com

This film is full of friendly slap shots, romantic icing, and passionate goals. It's well worth checking out.

March 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Funny, frank, and violent, George Roy Hill's absorbing film about minor league hockey offers a wonderful comic performance from Newman.

March 14, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The quintessential hockey flick

April 29, 2005
Lawrence Journal-World

Pushed the puck for nudity and language of its time.

October 25, 2004

Best sports movie ever. Period.

June 4, 2004
Reel.com

Fingindo criticar a glorificação da violência e sua utilização como espetáculo, o filme comete os mesmos erros que supostamente condena.

February 9, 2004
Cinema em Cena

One of the funniest sports movies ever.

June 28, 2003
Houston Community Newspapers

Audience Reviews for Slap Shot

A sports movie? Well partially so, but besides being a fun- loving cultural memento of its time Hill's film is a pointed social commentary on the huge insatiable public demand for extravagant sensationalism. The sports part of it hardly registers at all. Newman anchors the proceedings quite nicely and, of course, the dreadnought Hanson Brothers.
November 3, 2012
UniversalDreamer

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Easily as fun as a barrel full of monkeys.
May 5, 2007
kenstachnik

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    1. Reggie Dunlop: They brought their fuckin' toys with 'em.
    – Submitted by Anthony S (5 months ago)
    1. Denis Le Mieux: Joe, who own the Chiefs?
    2. Joe McGrath: Owns! Owns!
    – Submitted by Chris D (6 months ago)
    1. Denis Le Mieux: My h'allergies you know to these fucking fans has returned.
    – Submitted by Pete H (12 months ago)
    1. Johnny Upton: These guys are a fucking disgrace.
    – Submitted by Pete H (12 months ago)

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