All right. So there’s this movie. It’s about hockey. Women playing hockey. Here is the imdb summary:

The story takes the battle of the sexes into the hockey arena, as Paula Taymore - who almost once made the Olympic team - finds herself drawn into a challenge match against an irritating local men’s squad. Fresh from a painful divorce, and doubting herself, Paula must make a winner out of an explosive, irreverent crew of women hockey players who flock to her town, Red Deer Alberta, to assemble the team.

Not too bad, formula but you know it’s the sort of formula that makes for a decent rental.

I mean hell, the thing has Jason Priestley and Margot Kidder (not mixed together) in it. Doesn’t that give it some kind of odd 9021-oh-look-up-in-the-sky sheen to it? Maybe?

Anyway. The movie is fine sounding. Nothing special, nothing too horrible and unwatchable.

The tagline is The Puck Stops Here. which has to have been used for about 40 billion different things in Montreal alone.

But yeah. There ya go. Perfectly normal movie.

Except that it’s called CHICKS WITH STICKS. Now I know there is a whole knitting thing, a series of books, called the same thing but that isn’t a movie.

See, you go somewhere and you ask if they have CHICKS WITH STICKS for rent? You get a porn. You get a porn that has women who have, shall we say, a little something extra. You do not, under any circumstances, get a hockey movie.

Bad name. Fuck. CHICKS WITH STICKS. Ten inch sticks. Hard sticks. That they want to… just a bad name! Bad name!

It’d be like making a period drama about Victorian times and calling it EXPLOSIVE ASS PLAY SEVENTEEN. I mean, sure, the term was in use during the period as a normal every day saying that covered the wearing of stockings*, but it makes for the wrong impression as a movie title.

You have to be careful with this sort of thing.

Oddly, CHICKS WITH STICKS doesn’t seem to even be out on video. I would’ve rented it, too. Didn’t sound too bad at all.

* No, for serious. It was a French invention. The stocking bit, not ass play in general. Modern concepts of ass play were invented by the Chinese in the year 1072.