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The Mighty Ducks (1992)

post #1 of 32
3/25/10 at 9:40pm
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Probably THE film that introduced me to the underdog sports movie formula. For that alone, the movie holds a special place in my nostalgic heart.

Don't have much to say about it other than...

Joshua Jackson looked like a girl.

I love the evil Hawk kid who fouls one of the Ducks out of the game. When asked by a teammate, "Whaddid you do!?" his response is a malevolently satisfied, "My JOB!!!"

And then the image of Emilio Estevez happily shouting, "MORE FUN! MORE FUN!" as he and his kids cheer in a big group hug have been burned into my brain.
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post #2 of 32
3/25/10 at 9:56pm
I have never actually seen this. I just wanted to say that I have seen the cartoon series inspired by this movie, which was about an actual team of "Mighty Ducks" - anthropomorphic ducks in mecha body armour and with hi-tech weaponry.

The opening credits literally depicted one of the Mighty Ducks running away from an explosion.
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post #3 of 32
3/25/10 at 9:58pm
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I remember that.

Even as a kid, I didn't get it. What happened to Emilio!?
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post #4 of 32
3/25/10 at 10:01pm
This series helped get me into hockey from an early age as a kid, so I'll always have a soft spot for it. It also tried to make the term "cake-eater" happen. Don't know if that ever took off. Love how evil Lane Smith is in this.

That said, the Mighty Ducks is fine and all, but it's D2: The Mighty Ducks where the real magic lies. That movie is so gleefully retarded. Everything from the mega-hick Texas hockey player to Kenan's ridiculous "knuckle-puck" is so amazing. Best part is definitely Team USA learning how to play "real hockey" from South Central LA street hoods. That scene also features my favorite bit-player ever, a dude credited as "Mr. Alley-Oop."
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post #5 of 32
3/25/10 at 10:09pm
Seconding the love for D2, which combines the seriousness of the original without tipping into super-ridiculous territory like D3.
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post #6 of 32
3/25/10 at 10:58pm
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Well, D2 IS the movie that taught me how to distinguish between Iceland and Greenland.

I love how D2 just starts with Emilio Estevez and Joshua Jackson never dealing with the fact that Estevez went out with his mom and presumably dumped her (or was dumped). Was she ever mentioned in the second movie?

Never saw D3.
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post #7 of 32
3/25/10 at 11:02pm
D3 is an odd duck (zing). On the one hand, it actually deals with the kids learning how to play real hockey. They learn that their hijinks aren't really gonna save them. So that's pretty neat.

The problem is that the movie is just lame. A lame duck (Z2: The Mighty Zing).

Charlie's mom does come back, though. Sadly, Emilio's in it for all of five minutes.
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post #8 of 32
3/25/10 at 11:15pm
[QUOTE=Mr. Coombs;2876213]This series helped get me into hockey from an early age as a kid, so I'll always have a soft spot for it. It also tried to make the term "cake-eater" happen. Don't know if that ever took off. Love how evil Lane Smith is in this.

That said, the Mighty Ducks is fine and all, but it's D2: The Mighty Ducks where the real magic lies. That movie is so gleefully retarded. Everything from the mega-hick Texas hockey player to Kenan's ridiculous "knuckle-puck" is so amazing. Best part is definitely Team USA learning how to play "real hockey" from South Central LA street hoods. That scene also features my favorite bit-player ever, a dude credited as "Mr. Alley-Oop."[/QUOTE

I love the Magic Negroe's that teach the Ducks how to play better and then the leader smiles as they skate off, "Go get 'em, Ducks."
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post #9 of 32
3/25/10 at 11:18pm
Loved part 1 and 2 as a kid.

Part 2 has nothing to do with any hockey reality, its just bizarre. I mean Iceland is the hockey power of the world. Trinidad has a hockey team? What? Its like making a movie about baseball and having Mongolia dominate everyone. Its even more strange since the first one is pretty realistic.

God knows I bought into the knuckle puck though. Practically destroyed my parents garage door trying to get that shit to work.
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post #10 of 32
3/25/10 at 11:38pm
You got somethin' to say to me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI33bS0lGII
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post #11 of 32
3/26/10 at 2:33am
I'm still waiting for my Air Bombays. For kids who wanna coach.
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post #12 of 32
3/26/10 at 5:37am
Never saw either of the sequels but the original was amusing enough. I actually revisited within the last year and for a sappy kids' movie about fair play and winning not being everything, it was not terrible.

I do recall it being one of those "new release" movies that I was just dying to rent from the video store on a Friday night so I could enjoy with a large pizza and more cola than any human being should possibly ingest in two hours. God, I miss the days when renting a movie could make me that excited. Or maybe it was the whole eating pizza and watching TV thing. Uh, to be an American.
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post #13 of 32
3/26/10 at 2:04pm
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Originally Posted by Hans Gruber's EYE CONDITION! View Post
You got somethin' to say to me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI33bS0lGII
So... popping your collar is the secret to eternal youth. Hilarious!
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post #14 of 32
3/26/10 at 2:13pm
If you watch this on Netflix, "We Will Rock You" doesn't play during the credits. It's been replaced by Generic, Inspirational Hair-Metal Ballad. WTF? Renew your licenses, Disney!
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post #15 of 32
3/30/10 at 11:46pm
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If you watch this on Netflix, "We Will Rock You" doesn't play during the credits. It's been replaced by Generic, Inspirational Hair-Metal Ballad. WTF? Renew your licenses, Disney!
I think Gary Glitter's pedo pariah status is what killed that, not rights.

But that's just a hunch. Someone in Disney might very well be lazy.
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post #16 of 32
4/3/10 at 2:09am
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If you watch this on Netflix, "We Will Rock You" doesn't play during the credits. It's been replaced by Generic, Inspirational Hair-Metal Ballad. WTF? Renew your licenses, Disney!
Strange. My brother watched both D1 and D2 ad nauseum when we were younger and I distinctly remember there being a 30 second commercial for Queen's greatest hits album that preceded D1.

Anyway, if I transport myself back in time to when D2 was released, I can remember thinking how the ante was upped in every way from the original.

"You mean The Mighty Ducks have to take on THE ENTIRE WORLD now? Get outta here!"

Epic, right? Well, Imagine the level of intrigue that overtook my 13 year old brain when I heard the Ducks were adding a few new weapons to their arsenal.

All kidding aside, though, if it's a lazy Sunday and I happen to catch it running on Disney, it's a fine movie to watch and listlessly drift to sleep on the couch. I literally have no problem with it. It is what it is, and what it is is ok by me.

D3, however is The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as far as I'm concerned. Looking back I realize I did not need to know what became of The Ducks after The Goodwill Games. I like to think they're still around that campfire, badly covering Queen songs.
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post #17 of 32
4/3/10 at 2:16am
I took my dvds off the shelf thanks to this thread, so here are more reasons to love D2:

- the bad guy's name is Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson. He's so tough, his already badass first name is not enough to convey it.

- crowd singing "We Will Quack You" as the Ducks show up in their new uniforms

- "2 minutes for roping?!"

- The final game breaks just about every rule of hockey and space/time but is still awesome. Examples include somehow getting Kenan into goalie gear as a trick play in the span of thirty seconds and a shootout where people can apparently just stop moving and wind up a shot. This is especially awesome when you consider the opposing captain's patented triple deke which becomes pointless when he proceeds to stop and shoot.

- At the singalong at the end, it seems some of the new USA Ducks decided to head back to Minnesota despite not, ya know, living there.

I will give this to D3, now that I've rewatched it, though. It's pretty hilarious to watch Charlie bond with his new strait-laced "I hate hockey" love-interest over their mutual love of Pantera.
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post #18 of 32
4/3/10 at 2:21am
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At the singalong at the end, it seems some of the new USA Ducks decided to head back to Minnesota despite not, ya know, living there.
Most notably Keenan who apparently only had his street hockey team back in LA.
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post #19 of 32
4/3/10 at 2:52am
Man, I had a brain fart confusing "History of Rock and Roll Pt. 2" with "We Will Rock You."

Ooops.
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post #20 of 32
4/3/10 at 5:41am
I re-watched these a year or two ago after not seeing them since I was young, and it was a remarkably unpleasant experience. To each their own, but Home Alone held up far better for me (the sequel, not so much).
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post #21 of 32
4/3/10 at 9:48am
One thing is for sure. With out The Ducks, there would be no "Little Giants," which is either a good or bad thing, depending on how your day is going, I suppose.
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post #22 of 32
4/3/10 at 11:53am
Man, I had such a crush on Lunchbox from Little Giants.

Also:

"You lost it for me, Gunnar."
"You lost it for yourself. Come on guys, let's go shake their hands."
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post #23 of 32
4/3/10 at 2:54pm
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Man, I had such a crush on Lunchbox from Little Giants.

Also:

"You lost it for me, Gunnar."
"You lost it for yourself. Come on guys, let's go shake their hands."
Was that Lunchbox, or Icebox? Not sure what they called the fat kid, Moranis' daughter was Icebox, though.
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post #24 of 32
4/3/10 at 3:17pm
Icebox, Lunchbox, it's been a while.

I love how Francis from Peewee's Big Adventure is in Little Giants.
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post #25 of 32
4/3/10 at 3:32pm
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Icebox, Lunchbox, it's been a while.

I love how Francis from Peewee's Big Adventure is in Little Giants.
Francis has even starred in a movie!

I'm sorry.
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post #26 of 32
5/8/10 at 6:22pm
Anybody that's been watching the hockey playoffs has probably seen one of these a hundred times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUnS5...eature=related

Now there is a brand new spot featuring everyone's favorite Duck, Charlie Conway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9u81Jq20g8
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post #27 of 32
5/8/10 at 8:56pm
Tonally, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is to MIGHTY DUCKS (entertaining kids flick, lots of heart), SECRET OF THE OOZE is to D2 (silly and stupid, but still fun in spite of itself), and and TURTLES III is to D3 (dogshit). The only weak link in this is the 3s, as D3 is all srs business with wheelchair daughter subplots and whatnot and TURTLES 3 is senselessly infantile.
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post #28 of 32
5/10/10 at 9:01am
I still like the original Mighty Ducks well enough. It's the rare movie from when I was a kid that if I watch now I don't think is horrendous or that I'm enjoying it out of pure nostalgia (only a little). But I like that at some point they made a kids movie filled with incredibly flawed people. If they made it today Bombay would be a guy who wants to coach the team instead of a guy forced into it because of a DUI.

And really any kids movie with the line "I'll decide who sucks around here" is a cut above the rest.
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post #29 of 32
5/10/10 at 11:02am
D2 > D1 > D3. I liked this series so much that I bought an authentic Mighty Ducks jersey. I remember being pissed that Disney was racist enough to call their front line the "Oreo" team, but other than than the films are a pretty fun ride.
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post #30 of 32
5/10/10 at 11:40am
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I remember being pissed that Disney was racist enough to call their front line the "Oreo" team
Yeah, that always stuck out to me too, although it seemed like they were trying to play the whole "embracing your inner underdog" card. They get called that earlier in the movie by the Hawks players and the two brothers (meaning Jesse and Terry are actually brothers, not making a chocolate wafers joke) get pissed off. Only after that does it stick, which I assumed was a rallying cry kind of thing, although it's never explained.
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post #31 of 32
5/10/10 at 3:37pm
The best part of D2 is the kids ogling a parade models in full length sundresses.
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post #32 of 32
5/10/10 at 3:41pm
What an erotic scene! Made even more erotic by the sensual song playing during that scene!

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOO baby! How about givin' ME some of that HOT STUFF?" (cum i assume)

"Here it TIS!"
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