Is like Fight Club (yes you’ve heard that one before) on ice.
But slightly brain damaged.
Doug is the sweetest guy ever, he was also a brick shit house bouncer that could pull your head off for about 5 minutes at the very start of the film. Sean William Scott had put on a fair bit of weight for the role and with a fairly meaty beard he looks the part and plays it pretty damn well too. I’d find it hard to imagine that stifler could bludgeon anybody the way Doug goes, which goes to show that Scott has moved in a different direction, which is good.
The way Doug gets into Ice hockey is perfect. It’s just ridiculous enough for you to almost believe it to be true. I’m not telling you, just enjoy it for yourself.
A small clue is that Doug’s brother is the foul mouthed host of a local Hockey news show thing, whatever you want to call it.
Doug, from the outset of his puck slinging career is told not to actually sling pucks. He is purely there to beat the living crap out any body.
This happens a lot. I must say, it is cathartic, obviously there’s a love interest and she gets him in trouble, and she’s tortured blah blah blah. I’m sorry but I find no place for romance in a film with this much blood.
i appreciate that it is part of this new Roganesque era of comedy we’re in, and that’s cool. but this can totally be ripped out of the script.
Doug’s main competitor in the rink and the man he must defeat is Ross Rhea, (Liev Shreiber) Sabretooth does a pretty good job and punching the shit out of people, so does Doug.
Conflict.
END.
I appreciate this film is not new, I appreciate that it is not a Oscar winner.
But I didn’t even know about it until this week, and maybe you didn’t either.Now that you do, you should watch it. because it’s brutal and hilarious.
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