Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
by George Roy Hill
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Actor: Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Michael Ontkean, Paul Newman, Strother MartinDirector: George Roy Hill
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
Movie Review: I'd Rather Be High Sticked Than Watch This Again
Summary: 1 Stars
Many people seem to believe that this is the greatest sports movie ever.
Not only is it _not_ the greatest sports movie ever, but it would have a hard time beating The Mighty Ducks 3 in a shootout.
Slap Shot is a dreary movie, utterly lacking in humor, suspense or style. Its plot is predictable, the dialogue is almost completely expository and unforgivably repetitious, and the characters are unsympathetic and insipid. By the end, I didn't care whether they won or lost, were disbanded or moved to Florida; a nuke could've gone off at the end and obliterated the team -- at least *that* would have been a surprise!
Paul Newman is wasted in this movie. He may also have been wasted on the set, for all I can tell by his performance. The only relief from the tedium in this film are the scenes of hockey violence, and even they get stale after a while (they go on, and on, and on, and on).
Slap Shot is an awful film, completely undeserving of the praise it's received for whatever reason. The script is a nightmare, and cannot be saved by the run-of-the-mill to worse performances, or production values, and its plot is as generic a sports tale as they come.
Find a better movie to watch.
Summary of Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
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 KeoghAction & Adventure DVD Video
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