The Charlestown Chiefs , a minor league hockey team , need to drum up attendance for their upcoming game with another team . Reggie "Reg" Dunlop (Paul Newman who has never been better) is the team's aging player/coach, and the team is dead last in the second-rate Federal League. He meets his players and the opposing ones at center ice to start the Hyannisport game , and some of them resent that the coach put them in the game . In the broadcast booth , Chiefs player Dave Carlson (Jerry Houser), who supposedly was injured in a previous game, reveals that he isn't playing because he actually has a cold. The lone quality player for the Chiefs is Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean) , he is the highest-scorer in the Federal League . Then , the experienced trainer enlists the help of the club's newest players, the dauntless Hanson Brothers (Jeff Carlson , Steve Carlson , David Hanson) , who specialise in foul play, they are three bad maulers with sticks . And the agressive match begins... Slap Shot out slaps... out swears... out laughs...you'll see Paul Newman doing things you'd never expect him to do... saying things you'd never expect him to say!.If this movie doesn't make you laugh, you better look up a psychiatric!!
Dramedy (comedy and drama) that takes us into a world of low-grade , free-for-all ice hockey , where slaps , punches , brawls and kick-asses are more frequent than goals . Dealing with a failing ice hockey team finds successes with outrageously violent hockey goonery , carrying out a really agressive game . Like , their game , the picture is sometimes a bit too abrasive to take .When released in 1977 , this comedy was criticized for its extreme use of profanity and violence . The controversy tended to obscure the fact that Slap Shot (1977) is a fun and marvelously performed movie . As the film is plenty of profanity , hilarious touches with tongue-in-cheek and certain language may be too strong for children . Paul Newman is terrific as an aging player-coach who's a loser in love and on the ice until he instructs the the members of his team to behave like animals during their matches . The always agreeable Strother Martin stills manages to steal half the movie from him . Being well accompanied by an enjoyable cast with full of familiar faces giving decent interpretations such as : Michael Ontkean who delivers the best scenes when he does a mildly amazing striptease to the delight of the crowd and the chagrin of the fighting players , Jennifer Warren as Newman's wife , Lindsay Crouse , Jerry Houser , Kathryn Walker , Melinda Dillon , M. Emmet Walsh and Swoosie Kurtz.
It contains an atmospheric as well as evocative cinematography by Victor J. Kemper , though a perfect remastering being really necessary . Lively and attractive musical score by uncredited Elmer Bernstein. The motion picture was professionally directed by George Roy Hill . This great filmmaker George Roy Hill had a long career from the fifties until the eighties with hit smashes such as ¨The world according to Garp¨ , ¨Slap shot¨, ¨Butch Cassidy¨, ¨The Sting¨ , ¨Hawaii¨ , ¨The world of Henry Orient¨ and commercial failures such as ¨The little drummer girl¨ , ¨A little romance¨ , ¨Slaughterhouse five¨, ¨Throughly Millie¨ , ¨Toys in the attic¨ , ¨Period of adjustment¨ . And his big hit : ¨The Sting¨ and ¨The great Waldo Pepper¨which was third and final of three films that as an actor , Robert Redford made with director George Roy Hill, he first two were The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969) . Slap Shot (1977) rating : 6.5/10 , good but neither excellent , not notable , but decent . The flick will appeal to Paul Newman fans . Worthwhile watching .
Dramedy (comedy and drama) that takes us into a world of low-grade , free-for-all ice hockey , where slaps , punches , brawls and kick-asses are more frequent than goals . Dealing with a failing ice hockey team finds successes with outrageously violent hockey goonery , carrying out a really agressive game . Like , their game , the picture is sometimes a bit too abrasive to take .When released in 1977 , this comedy was criticized for its extreme use of profanity and violence . The controversy tended to obscure the fact that Slap Shot (1977) is a fun and marvelously performed movie . As the film is plenty of profanity , hilarious touches with tongue-in-cheek and certain language may be too strong for children . Paul Newman is terrific as an aging player-coach who's a loser in love and on the ice until he instructs the the members of his team to behave like animals during their matches . The always agreeable Strother Martin stills manages to steal half the movie from him . Being well accompanied by an enjoyable cast with full of familiar faces giving decent interpretations such as : Michael Ontkean who delivers the best scenes when he does a mildly amazing striptease to the delight of the crowd and the chagrin of the fighting players , Jennifer Warren as Newman's wife , Lindsay Crouse , Jerry Houser , Kathryn Walker , Melinda Dillon , M. Emmet Walsh and Swoosie Kurtz.
It contains an atmospheric as well as evocative cinematography by Victor J. Kemper , though a perfect remastering being really necessary . Lively and attractive musical score by uncredited Elmer Bernstein. The motion picture was professionally directed by George Roy Hill . This great filmmaker George Roy Hill had a long career from the fifties until the eighties with hit smashes such as ¨The world according to Garp¨ , ¨Slap shot¨, ¨Butch Cassidy¨, ¨The Sting¨ , ¨Hawaii¨ , ¨The world of Henry Orient¨ and commercial failures such as ¨The little drummer girl¨ , ¨A little romance¨ , ¨Slaughterhouse five¨, ¨Throughly Millie¨ , ¨Toys in the attic¨ , ¨Period of adjustment¨ . And his big hit : ¨The Sting¨ and ¨The great Waldo Pepper¨which was third and final of three films that as an actor , Robert Redford made with director George Roy Hill, he first two were The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969) . Slap Shot (1977) rating : 6.5/10 , good but neither excellent , not notable , but decent . The flick will appeal to Paul Newman fans . Worthwhile watching .