The Mighty Ducks (1992)

"You Quacked At Your Teacher ~ Ducks Fly Together!"

'The Mighty Ducks' released in '92 is probably the only film that can boast that its theatrical success launched a sports franchise. Fact or fiction, as a movie it found a large enough audience to convince Disney Studios to follow-up with two more installments of Mighty Duck Mania.

Plot: Self-absorbed young lawyer, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service for a traffic violation. His assignment is to fill in as the interim hockey coach for a local group of underachieving kids. Coach Bombay, a former hocky star in the same league years earlier, has inherited the worst team in the league. Can he harness their rebellious attitudes and turn them into contenders? Maybe even make them good enough to challenge the perennial champions and his old coach?

Formulamatic but lots of fun anyway. Estevez is surrounded by a strong cast with: Lane Smith as Coach Reilly, Heidi Kling as Casey Conway, Joshua Jackson as Charlie Conway and Marguette Moreau as Connie. July 7, 2006

In the beginning,when the Ducks were born.

Well first let me start off by saying the 1st and I mean 1st movie in a set of follow up movies all ways suck!Why,I'll tell you why.Because the 1st is always the beginning,which is always the formation,which is always the worst.Ex;The 1st season of Full House sucked,becuse...(well the Olsen twins cant really act anyway) but because it was the first time the actors all got together as one as an whole to do an t.v sitcom.They didnt know each other and probaly didnt react good together beause they were just learning about each other.But as season two rolled along the show got better becuase they knew each other then and were'nt as camera-shy.So basically if you can read between lines.........you will get my message(D2 was better for obvious reasons)! January 2, 2006

I love this movie

I am not much of a hockey fan, but after watching this I have had a lot more respect for the sport! This movie is not all about sports; it also has a twist of romance. Everyone, sports fans and not, should watch this movie. November 6, 2005

Decent movie.........Not so decent DVD

Okay, so we all know the story about how the Ducks come from behind to win and how Coach Bombay gets revenge on his old coach for many years of bad memories.

Fair enough.

As corny and as thin as the plot can be at times, it's still a great story with good morals. It's definitely no Hoosiers or Rudy by a longshot, but it's Disney at it's best. It's a classic Disney sports movie as well as a great family film.

Now, the DVD. Let's just say that I sure didn't buy this movie for the special features. There's a menu screen with a chapter search and that's about it.

Ohh, one more thing. Whenever they re-released the film for DVD, I guess they must have inserted Queen's "We Are The Champions" and "We Will Rock You" into portions of the film and at the end credits. One thing in particular that kinda bugged me is that fact that the original score by David Newman is replaced by Queen's "We Are The Champions" right at the part where Charlie scores the winning penalty shot. It's not that Queen's song wouldn't be fitting here. I just felt that the original score added a lot of emotion within the film. Not a huge deal. I just didn't remember that the last time I saw the movie on VHS.

Ahh well. I guess for $8 I really can't complain. July 29, 2005

The mighty Ducks is pretty mighty on my list of top 10 movies.

It's Emilio at his best.forget about the breakfast club and young guns, this movie it the bees nees. It has get family laughs. I'm happy they did not includ the side plot in which one of the boys gets molesteed by there old coach. So go get it and have some fun. July 21, 2005

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