Old Time Hockey Movie.

Rating: 8/10 (17 June 2003)

Hockey is the only sport where you beat the crap out of and curse each other for seven games in a playoff series and then line up at center ice to shake your opponents hand, while telling them how much fun it was to play with such gentlemen. This movie is about that time in hockey, old time hockey, when bloody fighting was a necessity. It's a comedy. Look no further than Paul Newman's stylish duds to solidify that statement. Yellow leather? It is also crass, crude, and bloody. It is hard to pinpoint who will like this movie. It ranks number 31 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Greatest Cult Movies, so it will surprise you for better or worse. I had to watch it twice. I was a little dejected by the fact that the on ice striptease was performed by a man, but the payoff, that it was fine family fun when they were fighting and disgusting when the stripping began, is a great jab at the sex and violence debate. It's also just damn funny, especially when the band kicks in, playing that old stripper anthem. Da da da, da da da da da. Da, dun dun, da da, dun dun, da da, dun dun.
Reggie(Taunting a goalie): "Your wife is a lesbian! A lesbian!!"