{"id":16420,"date":"2014-08-02T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2015-09-23T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:51:09","slug":"the-mighty-ducks-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/02\/the-mighty-ducks-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Ducks (1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is just one in a long line of \u201cBad News Bears\u201d wannabes that pits a crotchety man with a bunch of misfit athletes to use sports as a form of self realization. Thankfully \u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is one of the best of the bunch, choosing hockey this time to help a group of smart aleck kids come of age. There\u2019s also Emilio Estevez who is a cynical businessman with the heart of a hockey player, who finds that he still loves the game despite his regrets.<\/p>\n

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After a drunk driving incident, businessman Gordon Bombay is given a chance by his boss to redeem himself and keep his job. He\u2019s offered a chance to coach the district five peewee hockey team made up mostly of delinquent and under achieving students, all of whom love hockey in their own right. \u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is comprised of interesting and very entertaining young characters, all of whom have their own abilities on the ice, as well as their own personal back stories that help define \u201cThe Mighty Ducks.\u201d Thankfully, while the movie itself does adhere to the idea of giving its child characters overly cloying personalities, they also manage to display very down to Earth human sides.<\/p>\n

Thus, they\u2019re often flawed and charming individuals with their own goals and missions for the game of hockey; Joshua Jackson is very good as the team\u2019s unofficial leader Charlie, who is struggling in school and trying to help his well meaning single mother. There\u2019s also Elden Henson as the team\u2019s strong arm, Fulton, whose rocket fire puck shot makes him the secret weapon of the group. The seasoned cast adds a lot of interesting friction to a movie that could have been abundant with attempts to pander to younger audiences, casting Lane Smith as the film\u2019s rival to Gordon. Smith is the epitome of the coach that takes the sport so seriously, he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to win.<\/p>\n

Joss Ackland is also very good as Gordon\u2019s hockey mentor Hans, and MC Gainey is very underrated as Gordon\u2019s driver and friend Lewis. The most interesting drama stems from the clashing between the adults, all of whom have something to prove, and or gain with this battle between the rising status of the Ducks and their main nemeses, the Hawks. While \u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d boasts some interesting drama, it\u2019s also a riveting action film, with fine editing that depict some really fun hockey action on the ice. The final game in particular is still a blast. \u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is a pleasing and entertaining sports film, and one that can be appreciated by a wider audience thanks to its solid writing, and strong performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is just one in a long line of \u201cBad News Bears\u201d wannabes that pits a crotchety man with a bunch of misfit athletes to use sports as a form of self realization. Thankfully \u201cThe Mighty Ducks\u201d is one of the best of the bunch, choosing hockey this time to help a group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,219,290,302,340,580,617,974],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-m","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16422,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/16422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}