Champions, 1992
(Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Joshua Jackson)
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Disney produces this feel good ice hockey gem as only disney knows how to do. This is cheese at its all time quadruple-brie best but you can't help but warm to the young 'district 5' rapscallions who band together to take on the (would steal your nan's toffees) Hawks.
Estevez plays hot-shot lawyer Gordon Bombay who has lost sight of his humble pond-skating roots. Too focussed on winning at any cost, Gordon bombs out with an all American DUI. As often is the case, he gets away with coaching a local sports team while remaining on full-pay at his 'Ducksworth' law firm.
The now too familiar journey to redemption for Bombay is not exactly breaking the mould for disney but after 100 odd minutes, and 17 years later, this reviewer couldn't care - characters like Charlie Conway, Hans, Coach Reilly, Fulton Reed and Goldberg, the Goalie, still hold a special place in most people who grew up in the 90s' hearts. You may still roar with laughter at fart jokes and poo gags if you haven't matured quite as much as expected (personal gag - eds.)
Famed director Stephen Herek (pfft!) and most of the cast haven't been sighted since but you have to hope that even Matt Doherty, who plays the awkward ginger geek Averman, might still look upon 1993 with fond memories.
'It ain't worth winning, if you can't win big.'
A family classic.
7/10
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