I watched a sports comedy film D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), directed by Sam Weisman and produced by Jon Avnet and Jordan Kerner. The movie tells about the USA junior hockey team´s journey trough the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles, California.
The main character is Gordon Bombay, who was one of the best players in the Minor Hockey League. But, in one game, he was injured on purpose by an opponent player. He got a very bad knee injury, and because of that, he had to end his career.
Other important characters in the movie are the players of the ”Ducks”, Player´s teacher Michelle McKay and a wealthy sponsor, Mr. Tibbles.
It all begins when Bombay returned back to his hometown Minneapolis, Minnesota. There he starts to work in a small hockey shop as a skate sharpener. Few days laiter, Mr. Tibbles walks in to the shop, and offers Bombay a worthy contract as a junior hochey team coach. Bombay gathered up the ”Ducks”, and the journey to Los Angeles is ready to begin.
Before the tournament starts, four new players join the ”Ducks”. When the new players had met the ”Ducks”, tournament is ready to start.
On the way to the tournament final, team goes trough many different feelings. Joy, pride, grief and dissapointment. But the most important thing is, that they had grown up as a team. Coach Bombay dissapointed the team because he just thought the money and the glory he had gained. However, Bombay realised that money can´t give him happinnes, so he apologized the team and gave his all time and concentration to the ”Ducks”. Now they can go to the final with an all new attitude and the hunger of winning.
The movie was very exiting and touching. One of the best movies that I have seen. The English language in the movie was sometimes hard, because there was so much ice-hockey glossary in it, but I managed to underestand it very well.