Sentences with phrase «hockey comedy»

Although not officially cancelled, the writing is clearly on the wall for the doomed hockey comedy.

The producer of hockey comedy Goon says piracy doomed the film to financial failure.

George Roy Hill's classic Slap Shot may still hold the title as the quintessential hockey comedy, but Goon certainly deserves to be mentioned in its company, juggling charm and grit and raunch and bloody teeth with assuredness and aplomb.

A smart script and vivid characters make this rowdy hockey comedy much more engaging than we expect.

(In French and English with subtitles) Goon (R for drug use, graphic sexuality, brutal violence and pervasive profanity) Seann «Stiffler» Scott stars in this overcoming - the - odds hockey comedy about a halfwit bouncer who leads a ragtag, semi-pro team of misfits to glory on the ice.

This year we had three strong, very different nominees — Denis Côté's documentary meditation on captive animals; Michael Dowse's wildly profane yet tender hockey comedy; and Sarah Polley's genre - bending family memoir.

Most pleasant surprise Goon Easily the raunchiest (and funniest) hockey comedy since Slap Shot, the gleefully vulgar Goon stars Seann William Scott as a sweet, dumb guy with a mean right hook that gets him drafted to be the enforcer for a minor - league Halifax team.

There hasn't been a great hockey comedy for quite some time, and I'm here to punch you in the face with my affection for the sport, its players, its fans, and hell, anyone who just likes a good rousing crowdpleaser but doesn't mind a lot of profanity or graphic fisticuffs.»

While hockey comedy Goon, released in 2011, didn't completely transcend sports movie standards, it was a fresh mix of vulgarity and brutality with genuine wit and heart.

These Seann William Scott hockey comedies blend Disney underdog structures with a story like The Replacements, where even a single win is considered defying the odds.

Back in 2012, I saw and reviewed a little independent film called Goon, an ice hockey comedy with a ton of heart that easily joined the ranks of one of my favorite sports films.

This is where George Roy Hill's beloved hockey comedy comes in: It undermines the lure of winning with an appeal to the worst instincts.

This sequel to the 2012 hockey comedy Goon continues the story of Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott), a genuinely nice guy who became a brawler for a minor league hockey team because he couldn't do anything else.

The hockey comedy Goon was a nice little underrated gem of 2011, and while there had been talk of a sequel in the interim, it was unclear if the follow - up would actually come to fruition.

But in Michael Dowse's hockey comedy Goon, Scott stars as Stifler's polar opposite: «Doug, the nicest guy you'll ever fight.»

But that didn't stop actor Jay Baruchel from getting his passion project off the ground: a sequel to the hockey comedy Goon that he wrote back in 2011.

Thankfully for him, fans of the 2011 hockey comedy Goon have been wanting to see him return to the ice for years, and how the American Pie franchise star finally has his skates on and fists up for the sequel.

One of the early surprises of 2012 was the hockey comedy Goon.

You wouldn't quite call it a sleeper hit (it didn't even reach $ 10m at the box office), but there's been talk of a sequel to the hockey comedy Goon ever since its release back in 2011.