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.
One of the early surprises of 2012 was
the hockey comedy Goon.
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.
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.
But in Michael Dowse's
hockey comedy Goon, Scott stars as Stifler's polar opposite: «Doug, the nicest guy you'll ever fight.»
The producer of
hockey comedy Goon says piracy doomed the film to financial failure.
Not exact matches
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.
(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.
Stories We Tell, a doc from Toronto, unfolds as a procedural home movie, investigating the filmmaker's family secrets; and
Goon, shot largely in Winnipeg and set across the country, is a viciously funny
comedy about
hockey violence.»
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.
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.