The Mighty Ducks Full Movie Download

[Christain Cobb]

GordonBombay is a successful but arrogant Minneapolis defense attorney. After his 30th successful case, he celebrates by going out drinking, but is arrested for drunk driving and sentenced to 500 hours of community service by coaching the local "District 5" Pee-Wee hockey team. Bombay has a checkered past with hockey: as a youth in 1973, he was the Hawks' star player but, struggling with the loss of his father, he missed a tie-breaking penalty shot in the final seconds of the championship game, sending the game to overtime in which the Hawks lost, disappointing his hyper-competitive coach, Jack Reilly.

Bombay meets the team and realizes the children have no practice facility, equipment, or ability. Their first game with Bombay at the helm is against the Hawks, with Reilly still the Hawks' head coach. District 5 is defeated, 17-0, as Reilly demands the Hawks run up the score. Bombay berates the team for not listening to him, but the players challenge his authority. For the next match, Bombay tries to teach his team how to dive and draw penalties, which results in another loss angering the team further. Specifically one player Charlie Conway, who refused to fake an injury. Bombay visits his mentor Hans, who owns a nearby sporting goods store and was in attendance at the game against the Hawks. Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing his father four months before the championship game, and because Reilly blamed him for the loss due to the missed penalty shot. Hans encourages him to rekindle his childhood passion for the sport by skating on a frozen pond like he did when he was a kid. Realizing the error of his ways, he apologizes to Charlie and his mother at their home.

Bombay convinces his boss Gerald Ducksworth to sponsor the team, allowing them to purchase proper equipment and give Bombay time to teach the players fundamentals. Renamed the Ducks after Ducksworth, the team manage a tie in their next game. They recruit three new players: Figure skating siblings Tommy and Tammy Duncan, and slap shot specialist and enforcer Fulton Reed. Bombay, seeing potential in Charlie, takes him under his wing and teaches him some of the tactics he used playing with the Hawks.

Bombay learns that, due to redistricting, the Hawks' star player Adam Banks lives in District Five and should be playing for the Ducks, and threatens Reilly into transferring Banks to the Ducks. After overhearing an out-of-context quote about the team, most of the players walk out (except Charlie and Fulton who form a strong friendship), resulting in a forfeit to the Flames. The Ducks lose faith in Bombay and revert to their old habits except Charlie and Fulton. Ducksworth makes a deal with Reilly for the Hawks to keep Banks, which Bombay refuses on the principles of fair play, which Ducksworth berated him about when he started his community service. Left with the choice of letting his team down or being fired from his job, he takes the latter.

Bombay manages to regain his players' trust after they win a crucial match against the Huskies in order to qualify for the playoffs. Banks decides to play with the Ducks rather than not play hockey at all. The Ducks march through the playoffs, and face the Hawks in the championship game. Reilly orders his team to injure Banks to force him out of the game. In spite of this, the Ducks manage to tie the game late in the final period, and Charlie is tripped by a Hawks player as time expires. In precisely the same situation Bombay faced in his youth, Charlie prepares for a game-deciding penalty shot. In stark contrast to Reilly, Bombay tells Charlie to take his best shot and that he will believe in him no matter what. Inspired, Charlie fakes out the goalie with the "triple-deke" Bombay taught him and scores, winning the championship. Several days later, Bombay boards a bus to a minor-league tryout, secured for him by the NHL's Basil McRae of the Minnesota North Stars, who played Pee-Wee hockey with him as a youth. Although daunted at the prospect of going up against younger players, he receives the same words of encouragement and advice from the Ducks he had given them, promising to return next season to defend their title.

The Mighty Ducks received generally lukewarm reviews from critics. It holds a 23% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. The site's consensus reads, "The Mighty Ducks has feel-good goals, but only scores a penalty shot for predictability".[6] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[7]

Roger Ebert said the film was "sweet and innocent, and that at a certain level it might appeal to younger kids. I doubt if its ambitions reach much beyond that", and gave it a 2-star rating.[8] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post described the film as 'Steven Brill, who has a small role in the film, constructed the screenplay much as one would put together some of those particleboard bookcases from Ikea.'[9]

The unexpected box-office success of the film inspired two sequels, D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996), and an animated TV series (the latter taking on a science fiction angle with actual anthropomorphic ducks). While both sequels failed to match the original film's gross, they were still financially successful.[11]

Gordon Bombay: Neither do hockey players. Have you guys ever seen a flock of ducks flying in perfect formation? It's beautiful. Pretty awesome the way they all stick together. Ducks never say die. Ever seen a duck fight? No way. Why? Because the other animals are afraid. They know that if they mess with one duck, they gotta deal with the whole flock. I'm proud to be a Duck, and I'd be proud to fly with any one of you. So how about it? Who's a Duck?

This was, of course, my small group for the hike and World Youth Day trip. We came across our name when Fr. Anthony was extolling the importance of small groups to us. "It's how we keep all the ducks together!" he said. Ducks. Like the Mighty Ducks. I put it into Google Translate and found that we could be "Les Canards Puissants" and I was sold on the name (fortunately the rest of the group accepted this decision!).

I can't say much here, of course, but as I close out this blog, I want to express the privilege it was to share life with these young people for over a month. Their sincerity, real grappling with the hard questions life presents to us all, and their gratitude and simplicity were all a witness to me of Christ's life in them. Seeing God move in each heart and seeing each of them respond so generously to Him was a daily joy.

One example of Canard Spirit was when we were joined by two French youth for the hike portion of the trip. Their generous gift of themselves and the group's warm acceptance were both beautiful to see. And when we were at World Youth Day proper and no longer expected to be together, The Ducks opted to stay at the French language catechesis to support our fellow Duck who was part of the team giving the teaching (we did rope a friend in to translate - but it was still generous!).

In the end, the best part of this adventure was the experience of sharing it with others - being changed by them and enjoying the light of Christ in them. And I am terribly pleased that I was able to be a Mighty Duck. Please join me in praying for these beautiful young people - that they would have courage to do all that God is asking of them and that they would, finally, be the saints God made them to be.

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When I posted my way-too-long-in-the-making review of The Mighty Ducks, I was told in no uncertain terms by the always intelligent and insightful commenters of Lighthouse Hockey that the sequel, D2: The Mighty Ducks, was superior to the original.

But we'll get to the ending in a little bit. For most of its running time, D2 is better than its predecessor, dialing back the cute and bringing a slightly more interesting story concerning not a regional small town competition but an international event. This time around, coach Gordon Bombay and (most of) his Ducks are off to the Jr. Goodwill Games in Los Angeles, where they will represent the United States and face off with and against a host of global stereotypes.

Added to "the core" of the inaugural Ducks - Charlie Conway, Goldberg the goalie, Fulton Reed, Adam Banks, those two French kids and unscratcable itch Les Averman - are new recruits from easily identifiable corners of the U.S. Mendoza from Miami is introduced to Mariachi music. The kid from Texas wears a cowboy hat, calls everyone "y'all," and has a lasso as an extra appendage. The Asian kid is a figure skating perfectionist because of course he is. Julie "The Cat" Gaffney gets no cliche because she is from Maine. Instead, she gets a cool nickname and a spot at the end of the bench until she is conveniently necessary.

The final free agent is Dean Portman, who apparently was John Scott before John Scott was John Scott. So now we know who to blame for John Scott. Portman first shows up in a hockey jersey with the sleeves cut off (seriously), wearing a Walkman and pushing every kid, adult and vending machine in sight out of his way because that's what movie bullies do. The other thing movie bullies do is eventually reveal they have a heart of gold, and it takes just a few practices for Portman to go from intimidating boogeyman to invaluable teammate. Kind of like John Scott, I guess.

After the inexplicably interminable credits sequence, the pace of D2 is pretty remarkable. In just about 30 minutes we find out that Bombay (again played by Emilio Estevez) was hurt in his foray into minor league hockey and he returns broken to his home in Minnesota. He's convinced to coach again by magical immigrant Jan, the brother of the first movie's magical immigrant Hans, who is back in Sweden for somesuch reason.

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