![]() ![]() Still it’s an overall charmer, and director Stephen Herek keeps it flying with a nifty mix of slapstick and action.When it comes to sexual wellness or self-pleasure there is no one size or shape that fits everyone. While nicely layered with tough, conflicting personal questions, Ducks ultimately flaps off into easy outcomes and pat contrivances. Ducks defies even “Do you believe in miracles?” hockey lore. While screenwriter Steven Brill deftly mixes in lessons of personal growth around a fight-for-the-championship structure. ![]() Eventually, Bombay even begins to thaw on the personal side, sympathizing with his team’s gutty, take-no-guff swagger.ĭown to its story pads, Ducks is a personal comeback story iced around the competition of a hockey season and playoffs. A veritable rainbow assemblage, they’re a plucky bunch from the wrong side of the tracks and regularly get slaughtered by their privileged, Teutonic rivals across the lake - the perennial champion Hawks.īombay’s not initially receptive to the Ducks’ problems - he once used to be a Hawk himself - but warms up to the notion of competition, namely sticking it to his arrogant ex-coach (Lane Smith), who still tyrannizes the Hawks with his perverted sense of sportsmanship. In this spin, it’s win-at-all-costs attorney Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) who’s been sentenced to coach as a form of community service for a DUI.Ī twentysomething snotnose, Bombay might be more properly named Bombast, such is his arrogance and disdain for the disorganized, motley team he has been assigned. Like The Bad News Bears and Wildcats, the coach is not your standard sideliner. ![]() Elementary school kids should warm to this rambunctious tale of teamwork and personal triumph, happily unaware of its cookie-cutter corners.Ībout the only variation in this outing from its generic brethren is that the sport is ice hockey, the setting Minneapolis. ![]()
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