Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)

I love this movie so much

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

It was very funny. Nothing wrong with it at all. Cut it some slack its got its funny parts. Sure its no original but what is.It had its moments where it is dumb. The Hanson brothers add a bit of funny humor back to the movie. The original can not be topped. Nothing can top that it was so funny. But the sequel is not that bad. The acting could of been better and the plot could of been funnier but it was pretty good. All together if your a hockey fan you can find some humor in it. There are many sports movies above this though. Miracle is by far the best hockey movie ever made. Slapshot 2 may have been viewed as awful but you have to go into it with an open mind. Thats for sure. There's parts where it is very very good and parts where its awful but come on people cut it some slack and laugh about it. Its a good movie deep down.

The original Slap Shot movie starred Paul Newman. It was a hilarious look at the seedier side of minor pro Ice Hockey. It has become a huge classic among most Hockey fans. Since I am an Ice Hockey Referee part time, I joke that Slap Shot is mandatory viewing for all referees.Having seen the original, I was skeptical about a follow-up 24 years later. The Hansen brothers reprised their characters well, but everyone else was new. The roles they were playing didn't seem to come naturally to the other actors. Still it was a pretty good acting job overall. There were some lines lifted directly from the original. This was somewhat clever, but after the 3rd time, it was just hokey.Even with this sequel's drawbacks, there were still lots of laughs. The Hansens can be counted on for that. There is some nudity and a brief sex scene that won't work for kids except maybe mature teenagers.So don't go in expecting a clean follow-up to the original classic, just go in for some laughs and a few memories.

I found "Slap Shot 2" to be a movie that never captured whatever it was the original "Slap Shot" had. This is a bad thing. Comparing the acting skills of Steven Baldwin and Paul Newman is a no-brainer. Still, "Slap Shot 2" did have its moments, most of which were in scenes that toned down on the Baldwin factor. I liked the idea of the Harlem Globetrotters meet hockey. It made for a watchable plot. There were some moments of laugher as well, and all in all it was a fun watch, but this is a much poorer movie by far when compared to the original.

Please please please tell me what's the point of this movie? Why make a sequel if you aren't going to be original? The plot and the jokes are pretty much recycled from the first movie. The first movie was good, it was a cult classic.The french translation of the first movie was a masterpiece. I still say that the french translated version of the first is better then the original English version (both are good in their own ways)Here tho we get a bad attempt from the dubbing company to recapture the magic of the original french translation but all we get is a badly translated movie.If you want my opinion this movie belongs in the trash can along with other bad sequels.