We watch as Doug Glatt (Sean William Scott) goes from lovable idiot bouncer to lovable idiot hockey enforcer.
Based on a minor league player named Doug Smith who was active in the 90’s, it’s a classic sports cinderella story. The movie’s storyline isn’t anything special. What I can say, though, is thatGoon has been birthed by love of the sport, even if a little skewed toward its violent side, and I can feel some stirring somewhere inside where all the pieces of my personality that were once comprised of hockey love lay dormant. Because I sort of left that behind me when I outgrew everything else about where I’m from, I may not have the perspective and cred that would be nice to include in a review of this movie. One of those places other teams didn’t like to play at due to the ardor of the fans. It’s pretty much was, when I was a kid, the definition of enthusiastic hockey town. I loved the sport when I was younger, having grown up in Flin Flon, Manitoba. I had no idea Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg wrote this.įull disclosure: I’m not the biggest hockey fan. Getting past that shit (if I’m right), though, should be easy enough and definitely rewarding since Goon is fucking hilarious. I could be wrong and if I am, all the more reason for bloodthirsty hockey fans to love this movie. Though I don’t have a lot of personal experience with this level of the sport, I doubt it’s as out-and-out violent (especially these days) as it’s depicted here. Most of that is involved with believing some of the calls, or the prime place enforcing has in this movie’s version of Minor League hockey. Goon is a movie for hockey fans who have a healthy sense of suspension of disbelief. It’s all down to this: Scott’s fight-closed eye vs.