While Eugene Levy is rather wasted as Doug’s father, Alison Pill brings a Sweetening the brutality of the violence. Vulnerability and sweetness to the naive, lunk-headed Doug, his goofy charm It is a triumph of the underdog sports movie, Goon is remarkably sweet-naturedĭespite the amount of blood it splashes across the ice. Only a matter of time before Doug and Rhea meet on the ice…Ī raucous, foul-mouthed comedy that’s as much a Western as Grondin) who’s lost his nerve and lost himself in drugs and women afterīeing hospitalised by league bad boy Ross Rhea ( Liev Schreiber) the king of the hockey goons and Doug’s hero.Īs the Highlanders battle their way to the play-offs, it’s His role in the team is simply to protect burnt-out star Highlanders, winning the heart of adorable hockey slut Eva (an adorable Alison Pill). The other team and generally scare the bejesus out of them.Īn embarrassment to his snotty Ivy League-Jewish family ofĭoctors, Doug finds fame (or at least infamy) and a sense of purpose as a goonĪnd is soon promoted from the local league to minor league team the Halifax Its new goon the guy in ice hockey whose role on the team is simply to beat up The local team’s bogeyman and finding himself offered a place on the team as Man of few words, Doug lets his fists do the talking when his motor-mouthedīaruchel who also scripted) picks a fight at a hockey game, knocking out Thug, a likable, good-natured doofus who can’t skate worth a damn but can soak In sorta/kinda/not really true story Goon, Stifler ( Seann William Scott) plays Doug the Ice hockey comedy that owes more to the Paul What you are going to get is Stifler from the American Pie movies hitting a bunch of Canadians in the face in an If you go into Goon expecting anarchicĮnglish eccentrics hitting each other in the face and speaking in funny voices Goon Show and accidentally gave birth to Monty Python and the alternative comedy scene. Memories of Neddie, Eccles, Moriarty and Bluebottle, the Ying Tong Song and theġ960, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers spread mayhem in The
If you’re British, of a certain vintage and a lover of surrealist comedy, the Chances are, if you’re British, of a certain vintage and a lover of surrealist comedy, the word goon probably conjures up fond memories of Neddie, Eccles, Moriarty and Bluebottle, the Ying Tong Song and the Dreaded Lurgy.