If the first Goon was “Rocky with Hockey,” then Goon: The Last Enforcer is Rocky II with hockey too. Jay Baruchel’s follow-up to the surprisingly smart, endearing and engrossing sports film is, itself, a surprisingly smart, endearing and engrossing sports sequel, full of raucous laughs but also able to wrest a few salty tears from even the most macho of audience members.
Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is back and he’s just been made captain of the Halifax Highlanders. Unfortunately for Doug this is the beginning of the movie, not the end, and his victory is short-lived. An altercation with rising hockey star Anders Cain (Wyatt Russell) leaves Doug with a potentially career-ending injury, right when his wife Eva (Alison Pill) discovers that she’s pregnant.
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Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is back and he’s just been made captain of the Halifax Highlanders. Unfortunately for Doug this is the beginning of the movie, not the end, and his victory is short-lived. An altercation with rising hockey star Anders Cain (Wyatt Russell) leaves Doug with a potentially career-ending injury, right when his wife Eva (Alison Pill) discovers that she’s pregnant.
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