This sequel is the one that I remember watching the most. Looking at the year of its release, 1994, would have been prime for my sister and I to go to the video store. I know we watched this one a lot. It had been a long time since watching it and Jaime wanted to see something light.
We start up where the last one left off. Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is in the minor leagues and he's close to being called up to the NHL. He gets hurt though. This forces him to return to Minnesota. He helps with Jan (Jan Rubes) and he learns that Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) does as well. Things look up when the United States hockey team for the upcoming Junior Goodwill Games needs a coach. Jan has been bragging about Bombay. Tibbles (Michael Tucker) offer the job after hearing about the job Bombay did with the underdog team last year.
The team is made up of the core of that squad. That includes Charlie, Fulton (Elden Henson), Goldberg (Shaun Weiss), Averman (Matt Doherty), Jesse (Brandon Quintin Adams), Guy (Garette Ratliff Henson), Connie (Marguerite Moreau) and Banks (Vincent LaRusso). They're joined by Julie (Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine), Portman (Aaron Lohr), Dwayne (Ty O'Neal), Luis (Mike Vitar) and Ken (Justin Wong).
Things seem easy at first. They're beating everyone they go up against and this goes to the head of their coach. He starts to rub elbows with celebrities like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cam Neely, Chris Chelios, Luc Robitaille, Greg Louganis and Kristi Yamaguchi. It comes to a screeching halt though when they run into a bigger and more physical team in Iceland. Their coach was run out of the NHL, Wolf (Cartsen Norgaard). They also feature the best player in the tournament, Gunnar (Scott Whyte). The Americans will have to dig deep and learn to play together if they're going to bring home the gold.
What I realized with this watch through is the similarities to what happened during the 1980 Olympic hockey team run. The difference here is that the Americans came in acting like they were the Dream Team. We get that difficulty of being knocked down and needing to overcome. This is an American story at heart.
It is also fun. Believability goes out the window a bit where the referees are calling some penalties, but clearly not others. Things are done to build tension. This was still a fun movie and it even made me tear up a bit at the end. I've come to realize that isn't as good as I remember, but I find this better than the original personally. I'd recommend giving it a watch as a teen sports movie.
My Rating: 7 out of 10.
We start up where the last one left off. Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is in the minor leagues and he's close to being called up to the NHL. He gets hurt though. This forces him to return to Minnesota. He helps with Jan (Jan Rubes) and he learns that Charlie Conway (Joshua Jackson) does as well. Things look up when the United States hockey team for the upcoming Junior Goodwill Games needs a coach. Jan has been bragging about Bombay. Tibbles (Michael Tucker) offer the job after hearing about the job Bombay did with the underdog team last year.
The team is made up of the core of that squad. That includes Charlie, Fulton (Elden Henson), Goldberg (Shaun Weiss), Averman (Matt Doherty), Jesse (Brandon Quintin Adams), Guy (Garette Ratliff Henson), Connie (Marguerite Moreau) and Banks (Vincent LaRusso). They're joined by Julie (Colombe Jacobsen-Derstine), Portman (Aaron Lohr), Dwayne (Ty O'Neal), Luis (Mike Vitar) and Ken (Justin Wong).
Things seem easy at first. They're beating everyone they go up against and this goes to the head of their coach. He starts to rub elbows with celebrities like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cam Neely, Chris Chelios, Luc Robitaille, Greg Louganis and Kristi Yamaguchi. It comes to a screeching halt though when they run into a bigger and more physical team in Iceland. Their coach was run out of the NHL, Wolf (Cartsen Norgaard). They also feature the best player in the tournament, Gunnar (Scott Whyte). The Americans will have to dig deep and learn to play together if they're going to bring home the gold.
What I realized with this watch through is the similarities to what happened during the 1980 Olympic hockey team run. The difference here is that the Americans came in acting like they were the Dream Team. We get that difficulty of being knocked down and needing to overcome. This is an American story at heart.
It is also fun. Believability goes out the window a bit where the referees are calling some penalties, but clearly not others. Things are done to build tension. This was still a fun movie and it even made me tear up a bit at the end. I've come to realize that isn't as good as I remember, but I find this better than the original personally. I'd recommend giving it a watch as a teen sports movie.
My Rating: 7 out of 10.