What We Learned: Got them Broadway Blues
The Two-Line Pass —
... Detroit — Did you hear they’re making a Slap Shot 3? They are. Slap Shot 3: The Junior League. Because Slap Shot 2 was so fucking watchable and well-received. Any goodwill the original had built up by the time the Hanson Brothers are teaching a junior mite team how to “put on the foil” and not drink “that darn root beer” must surely be gone now. What a putrid fucking idea. And Leslie Nielsen as the Mayor of Charlestown? Just die already, you old idiot. (However, this is only the second-worst thing in which Mark Messier has been ...
Review: 'Slap Shot 3: The Junior League' (2008)
Puck Daddy —
... major of a town he can't pronounce correctly. Fifty-three seconds into the film, and you're already wondering about over an hour and a half's worth of overlooked details. I'd blame Nielsen, who appears unable to give a clean line-reading of the voiceover; but there's simply no way I can stay angry with the man who gave the world "Don't call me Shirley" and that scene in "The Naked Gun" where he leaves the wireless mic on while taking a whizz. (Check out the "Slap Shot 3" trailer on IMDB.) "Slap Shot: The Junior ...
