In a dilapidated industrial city, a story of a strange kind is related to hockey. The story begins with an attempt by a pathetic American hockey team of the second class to get the biggest popularity in the region. The team uses constant fighting and violence during matches to gain popularity in that small town. It seems that violence and fighting is the best way to get a strong team popularity.
Often raucously funny and subversive, Slap Shot is one of the few sports movies that is openly contemptuous of its sport, or at least the modern state of it.
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.
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Slap Shot" is a sports movie that revels in details of milieu, plot and character. Smokestacks billow white plumes from a perpetually overcast industrial skyline. Everything is old and weather beaten. Every victory is tainted.
