I first had the opportunity to watch this movie last year on an aircraft. It was probably just as well I didn't because half of the soundtrack would have been cut by the airline censor !
I eventually watched it yesterday on video, and found an amusing, entertaining movie with a traditional underdogs vs the big boys story line that was almost believable. Russell Crowe plays the captain of a remote Alaskan ice hockey team who gets the bad news that he has been dropped after 13 years only to find that they need him back the following scene to lead the team against the New York Rangers.
There are a lot of little sub stories, some of which work and some of which don't, but the upshot of it is that they get to play their heroes and manage to *****deleted by the censor*****.
The ensemble cast perform pretty well, and there are no major stars. However, I could not figure out what Burt Reynold's role really was, he was stuck somewhere between the doubting Thomas proved wrong and the father who reconciles with his son, but never really got to either.
On the whole worth watching for 2 hours if you can take the gratuitous swearwords which rule this film out for younger children (who probably would enjoy it), without really adding to the film. Why do they have to do this ?
I eventually watched it yesterday on video, and found an amusing, entertaining movie with a traditional underdogs vs the big boys story line that was almost believable. Russell Crowe plays the captain of a remote Alaskan ice hockey team who gets the bad news that he has been dropped after 13 years only to find that they need him back the following scene to lead the team against the New York Rangers.
There are a lot of little sub stories, some of which work and some of which don't, but the upshot of it is that they get to play their heroes and manage to *****deleted by the censor*****.
The ensemble cast perform pretty well, and there are no major stars. However, I could not figure out what Burt Reynold's role really was, he was stuck somewhere between the doubting Thomas proved wrong and the father who reconciles with his son, but never really got to either.
On the whole worth watching for 2 hours if you can take the gratuitous swearwords which rule this film out for younger children (who probably would enjoy it), without really adding to the film. Why do they have to do this ?
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