Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 4
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: 3
Fresh: 1 | 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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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
Jan 5, 1999
MCA Universal Home Video
All Critics (24) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (5) | 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.
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.
Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries it.
Top CriticCountless profanity penalties in ''70s hockey spoof.
An unsually abrasive sporting drama from director Hill.
Raw, raunchy, and absolutely hilarious.
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.
This film is full of friendly slap shots, romantic icing, and passionate goals. It's well worth checking out.
Funny, frank, and violent, George Roy Hill's absorbing film about minor league hockey offers a wonderful comic performance from Newman.
The quintessential hockey flick
Pushed the puck for nudity and language of its time.
Best sports movie ever. Period.
Fingindo criticar a glorificação da violência e sua utilização como espetáculo, o filme comete os mesmos erros que supostamente condena.
One of the funniest sports movies ever.
Outrageously fun hockey comedy. I wish the Hanson brothers from this film would come around to body check those other Hanson brothers and their MMM-BOP crapola
For me, sports movies are okay. Like all genres, they have their good ones, and their bad ones. Who would have thought that one of the best sports movies is actually an anti-sports movie? This film is this one- a nice little gem from the 70s that really exemplifies the zeitgeist of the era with it's crude language,
August 28, 2011Super Reviewer
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