I have seen the future of rock and roll and it is the Hansons

Rating: 8/10 (27 December 2006)

Paul Newman as foulmouthed captain of bad minor-league hockey team that gains a following when they bring on the legendary Hanson Brothers and shift focus to beating people up. This one is a totally hilarious parody of machismo, without moralizing thank God; there are gestures toward conventional Hollywood morality, but they are almost always brutally undercut. The characters are all recognizable types that you never see portrayed in movies with such rigor, eg the sex-crazed teammate who is also totally disgusting (he keeps wiggling his tongue). And now I understand why the Hansons are punk-rock heroes, they are absolute superstars in the Warhol sense of the word. An American film that actually refers to Peterborough, Ontario by name; meanwhile Canadian features were doing everything possible to conceal where they were made in the name of being more like American films! Oh the irony. NB there is one 'kind but stupid' Francophone which I suppose constitutes a stereotype. And yes, it is Written By A Woman.