This irreverent and outrageously funny look into the world of professional ice hockey has Paul Newman as the coach of the Chiefs, a third-rate minor league hockey team. To build up attendance at their games, management signs up three odd-looking players whose job it is to literally attack and demolish opposition - to the delight and cheers of a steadily increasing throng of fans.

A celluloid fave of hockey fans, but also a classic that not too many people have seen. Such a shame!

Investigation finished: 2001-06-26

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Story: 8/10 - Free of all Rocky and Karate Kid sports clichés, bad to the bone.

Acting: 8/10 - Paul Newman is very funny, and the goonish Hanson bros. must be seen to be believed.

Violence: 5/10 - It was slagged for it's profanity and violence, come on people, this ain't golf.

Nudity: 5/10 - Any good locker room has loads of nude photos in them, don't they?

Coolness: 8/10 - I got two words for you: Hanson brothers.

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