Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)

Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 reviews
Sales Rank: 444

Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: MCAD21793D
ISBN: 0783267282
UPC: 025192179327
EAN: 9780783267289
ASIN: B00005V0XF

Theatrical Release Date: February 25, 1977
Release Date: March 26, 2002
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5 out of 5 stars True Johnstown PA Story    December 22, 2008
S. Jordan (Paducah, KY)
This movie is Awesome! What makes it better for me, is that it was filmed in my old home town of Johnstown PA. and the team was actually called the Johnstown Chiefs. Definitely one of the greatest Sports movies of all time. A must for a hockey fan.


5 out of 5 stars FOIL FOIL FOIL    December 13, 2008
M. Doan (MICHIGAN)
THIS MOVIE IS AWESOME I COULD WATCH IT ALL THE TIME I WATCHED IT WHEN I WAS A KID AND STILL WATCH IT TODAY


5 out of 5 stars Here's what it is, here's what it ain't    November 4, 2008
New England Yankee (Northern New England)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Slap Shot is bottom-of-the-barrel minor league hockey. It's blue collar, living on the edge of desperation, rust belt culture. It's about a marginal business run for purposes irrelevant to sport. It's people miscast in life from hacks who see themselves as pros, to elitists who deign to play with the low-lifes. It's about people screwing up their relationships, about mis-communication and non-communication. It's about how people hurt each other in order to connect with one another. It's crude and irreverent. It's about the really screwy things people finally rally around. It combines more comedy genres than I can count.

Slap Shot is not a typical heartwarming sports flick. It concludes nothing about good and evil. Or overcoming long odds. It's not about a noble coach or noble players. Or illuminating all the wonderful things inside us. It's not for children. It has little to do with pro hockey.

Slap Shot is often described as one of the greatest sports movies ever filmed, but understand what that really means. This is a dark comedy about the human condition put into a sports setting. Low-end minor league hockey, which is a low-paying dead end for most players, is a perfect setting for the movie's themes, especially when set in a dying backwater city. The characters are losers who cling to their illusions, and circumstances and a mismatch between their ideals and personal illusions has led them straight to the bottom. The finale of the movie is first about one final heroic go at ideals - Old Time Hockey! (and even here there's a manipulative twist) - then decends into absurdity ... and the mood lifts and people finally connect as reality sets in. It's a wonderful, unconventional use of sports in film.

Paul Newman is superbly cast in this film. A lesser actor couldn't possibly have pulled off the complexity in this role. He is simultaneously an idealist, a pragmatist, an aging star holding off the inevitable, a womanizer still in love with his ex, conniving, and personally engaging. His manages all that and more in a completely convincing manner.

The film is a classic. Newman said it was one of his favorite roles. Roger Ebert lists it as one of the greatest American comedies.

Priceless.


5 out of 5 stars To hockey what "Bull Durham" is to baseball    July 16, 2008
Rob the Beer Guy (Vancouver, BC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Just one of those 'classic' sports movies. Aside from the 70s nostalgia, it's the fact that if you've ever worked or played in the minor leagues this movie will ring absolutely true. I finally burned out my old VHS version that I played every October when the NHL starts up. The names, the references, the laughs; even if you don't like hockey, "Slap Shot" can be appreciated for what it is - a look back at the bottom rung of a bygone era in sports.


5 out of 5 stars Damn Funny    July 2, 2008
A. Graziano (Iraq)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This is a very funny movie. When I watched it the first time, I was just thinking "this is not how sports should be played, where is the sportsmanship." But then I watched it again a few days later, and I realized that it is more about how messed up things were in a town like this and in the '70's, and it suddenly made sense that they desperately wanted to keep their jobs, so they did whatever it took. There are a lot of classic lines in this movie, and it kept me laughing the whole time. How can anyone forget the Hanson brothers after watching this movie? Paul Newman does great as well, very tough, very funny. Good movie.