Synopsis
After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads them to take on Reilly's tough players.
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Cast
- Emilio EstevezGordon Bombay
- Joss AcklandHans
- Lane SmithJack Reilly
- Heidi KlingCasey Conway
- Josef SommerMr. Ducksworth
- Joshua JacksonCharlie Conway
- Shaun WeissGreg Goldberg
- Vincent LarussoAdam Banks
- Elden HensonFulton Reed
- Danny TamberelliTommy Duncan
Recommandations
- 63
Chicago Tribune
An okay kids' picture about a bunch of misfit hockey players who are brought together to play in the Big Game by a cynical, Yuppie coach (Emilio Estevez) doing community service. [02 Oct 1992, p.C] - 60
The New York Times
As directed by Stephen Herek, The Mighty Ducks moves energetically but lacks the enjoyable quirkiness of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, which Mr. Herek also directed. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
It must be said that this movie is sweet and innocent, and that at a certain level it might appeal to younger kids. I doubt if its ambitions reach much beyond that. - 50
Washington Post
Steven Brill, who has a small role in the film, constructed the screenplay much as one would put together some of those particleboard bookcases from Ikea. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
THE MIGHTY DUCKS is harmless enough, but its schematic retread of a screenplay and its lethargic acting detracts from the unassuming, passable entertainment it might have been. - 50
Boston Globe
Herek's brisk pacing and skillful way with the hockey sequences gives The Mighty Ducks an urgency its manipulative copycat soul doesn't really earn. The Mighty Ducks - with its team calculatedly organized along gender as well as multi-cultural lines - is the kind of film kids like, then outgrow. [02 Oct 1992, p.49] - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The film spends most of its time tracing Bombay’s predictable transformation from supercompetitive to supercompassionate coach, a metamorphosis that will most likely bore young audiences who don’t yet know what a mid-life crisis is, let alone identify with one. - 40
Empire
As a light family sports feel-good this works but don't look for anything more.
