Goon Movie Review & Film Summary (2. Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks.
I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. That Sugar Film (2015) Movie Rating. If that's how much you know about hockey, you're nevertheless likely to enjoy . An enforcer, I know by this time, is a brute who is put on the ice not to play hockey but to beat up opponents who are playing it too well. The charm of . Just because he hands out concussions doesn't mean he dislikes anybody. He's just happy to be wearing a uniform. Advertisement. Having recently disliked a movie named . It's not violence itself I object to, but the absence of engaging characters and human interest.
The best thing about . It's Doug's rags- to- riches story. One night, he goes to a game with a friend named Pat (Jay Baruchel), who's one of those fans with a gift for getting under the skins of the players he heckles.
- Directed by Jay Baruchel. With Seann William Scott, Alison Pill, Marc-André Grondin, Liev Schreiber. A hockey player plagued by injuries is confronted with the.
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One player grows so inflamed that he climbs into the stands. Pat is pitifully unable to defend himself, so Doug stands up and cold- cocks the guy, actually splitting open his helmet. That draws the attention of talent scouts, and soon Doug is playing professional hockey. To be sure, he can't ice skate, but skating can be learned.
Not everyone is a born enforcer. The movie is enriched by a lot of material not specifically about hockey. Part of Doug's character is that he's modest about his achievements — and there's a lot to be modest about. His father (Eugene Levy) and brother (David Paetkau) are both doctors, and his parents have big ambitions for him. But Doug is a realist and accepts that he's not the reddest nose of the Rudolphs.
To be offered a paying job is hockey is beyond his dreams. Liev Schreiber would not be my first guess for a supporting role in . Here he plays Ross Rhea, a Canadian star who has always been Doug's hero.
Now is he actually expected to butt heads with Ross? There is a lot of head- butting in this movie. I'm aware of the depressing stories lately about an epidemic of brain injuries in football, hockey, boxing and so on, but in . If you start thinking too much about concussions, it will spoil the movie for you. Doug becomes good pals with Xavier Laflamme (Marc- Andre Grondin), the star of his team, who has a name that sounds like one of Pepe Le Pew's romantic rivals. Laflamme is growing older, and Doug is assigned to be his protector, which means he shields him from assaults from opposing enforcers.
What's clear pretty quickly is that this organized violence is sanctioned and expected in hockey, where a player like Doug might expect to spend much of a game in the penalty box. The punishment these players take is unimaginable. Advertisement. There's a sweet little subplot involving Doug and Eva (Alison Pill), who confesses she finds something irresistible about sweaty hockey players whose bruises are sexier than tattoos.
JoBlo.com's Chris Bumbray reviews GOON: LAST OF THE ENFORCERS! After one too many injuries, hockey enforcer Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is forced to give up his aspirations of going to the big show and settle into a buttoned.
Pill's performance has a comic quirkiness that responds to Doug's inner niceness, which isn't exactly her thing. I've known only one hockey player myself. That was the legendary Eric Nesterenko of the Chicago Blackhawks, who was a regular at O'Rourke's Pub (not precisely a sports bar). He was a big, genial guy, who attended university while he was playing and was later a professor. He liked to talk literature. He was smarter than this movie's Doug, but arguably as tough, and that's another reason I liked . The real Doug Smith, also an enforcer, is seen in the credit cookies.
Review: Goon: Last of the Enforcers - Movie News. Buy Take Me (2017) Hq. Goon: Last of the Enforcers. PLOT: After a new enforcer sidelines him with a serious injury, Doug “The Thug” Glatt (Seann William Scott) prematurely retires at the urging of his newly pregnant wife, Eva (Alison Pill). But, his taste for “Goon” lifestyle isn’t so easy to give up.
When his attacker (Wyatt Russell) becomes the new captain of his beloved Halifax Highlanders, Doug goes to his old rival, Ross “The Boss” Rhea (Liev Schrieber) to learn a few new tricks that can get him back in the game. REVIEW: The original Goon was a movie Jo. Blo. com supported in a big way.
Jay Baruchel makes his directorial debut.
Exclusive: Jay Baruchel confirms to us that Goon 2 will be arriving in the UK this September. With Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel, Alison Pill, Liev Schreiber. Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under. A new Goon: Last of the Enforcers trailer has gone online. The sequel to the 2011 cult comedy sees Seann William Scott return as Doug “The Thug” Glatt, who must.
I actually reviewed it out of TIFF way back in 2. I said it was the best hockey comedy since SLAP SHOT - I meant it, although to be fair, how many hockey comedies have you ever seen? Whatever the case, it was a comedy gem, giving Seann William Scott the best role of his career as Doug “The Thug” Glatt, a violent hockey enforcer with a heart of pure gold. It’s been a long, six year, wait for the sequel. In that time, the director of the first one, Michael Dowse, stepped down, and Jay Baruchel, who wrote and co- starred in the original, takes the helm with a bold, energetic sequel that seems to be patterned somewhat on ROCKY II. Despite this not unexpected formula, Baruchel’s style is madly ambitious, with far more emphasis this time on the fighting, less on the hockey itself.
This is amusingly illustrated by Ross Rhea’s new job, working as a brawler in a travelling ice show filled with former goons that does away with any pretense of actual hockey. Instead, they all just skate to the middle of the rink and fight, with the last man standing being the winner.
That’s actually a pretty bold move for Baruchel, who's gone on- record listing George Miller as an influence. If anything, the fights here show that Baruchel, who’s still somewhat typecast as a lovable goof (even by himself – recreating his role as Doug’s sidekick from the first one), is a legit action director. He’s got a better sense of geography and choreography than a lot of helmers making tent poles, and this is a showcase for his considerable ability behind the camera. One thing worth noting is the complete lack of hand- held shaky cam, replaced instead by clean widescreen compositions and a classic style that’s starkly different from the more punkish aesthetic of the original.
Lest you think it’s all action, the humor is just as bold, with GOON: LAST OF THE ENFORCERS the only movie I can think of where a throwaway gag involving auto- erotic asphyxiation feels appropriate - and brought down the house. Once again, the movie is made by Scott’s earnest, sweet performance as the thick but lovable Glatt, with Pill playing things a little straighter this time as the pregnant Eva, although Elisha Cuthbert picks up the slack as her hard drinking sister Mary - in a scene stealing performance. Schrieber’s gung ho as always as Ross Rhea, with him more of a Mickey or Apollo to Scott’s Rocky this time - a nice touch. Glatt’s locker room buddies all return and make for a lovable bunch, led by Kim Coates as the foul- mouthed coach. Wyatt Russell also makes for a tough antagonist, wearing a badass beard that, I figure, must be intentionally reminiscent of the one his dad Kurt Russell wore in THE THING. Of course, being a proudly Canadian production, the soundtrack is filled with classic Canuck cuts from Chilliwack, Gowan and more.
Now, many American readers are probably wondering when they’re going to see GOON: LAST OF THE ENFORCERS. Canadians get it March 1. Netflix run. Canadian fans, obviously, should run to see this one opening day, and Americans, well, if you live close enough to the border, why not take a little road trip? It’s a really fun sequel, and pretty much just as good as the original.