To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
1 Aug 2008
fresh:
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.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
14 Mar 2007
fresh:
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
14 Mar 2007
rotten:
Half the time Hill invites the audience to get off on the mayhem, the other half of the time he decries it.