I liked the first "Mighty Ducks" movie. It was cute. I saw most of the first sequel. It was...okay. Then I saw "D3: The Mighty Ducks". Suffice it to say that this one is about forty miles south of "sufferable".
The kids here, now admitted to college, are to play on their hockey team on a sports scholarship. However, it's a whole new ball game (so to speak), and they must all (with the exception of one of the kids, now AWOL) face personal loss, a mean-spirited new coach (Nordling), a nasty all-star college hockey team they must face off against on and off the rink and, first and foremost, the lack of involvement of their old coach (Estevez).
Now, what is wrong with this film, you may ask? You sitting down? Okay - this is a pretty downbeat story for a Disney flick, especially when it deals with change, new environments and challenges.
It was NOT a good idea to have the new coach to be such a one-dimensional, unbending jerk and then do a sudden 180 degree turn to be a good guy! What the...?!
The pranks the Ducks pull on the varsity team are so lame that the Delta House would turn their collective nose up at it.
And all the kids are even more cookie cutter, flat-as-the-sidewalk caricatures of teens as you'd find on NBC Saturday morning TV. What a shame.
Even the hockey games fall flat. I mean, how many times can you watch "Rocky" re-generated into every possible sports movie situation ever made? Well, there's always curling....
Long story short, it's not even good as disposable kiddie fare! What can you say about a film when it doesn't even hold up to "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo"?!!!
And in what would be the last smart career move on his part for a while, Estevez took a smaller role in this movie. If he wanted to make a BRILLIANT career move, he would have backed out altogether.
Oh well.
One star for "D3", for the knowledge that this was the LAST "Ducks" movie. And I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief for that one. I know I will.
The kids here, now admitted to college, are to play on their hockey team on a sports scholarship. However, it's a whole new ball game (so to speak), and they must all (with the exception of one of the kids, now AWOL) face personal loss, a mean-spirited new coach (Nordling), a nasty all-star college hockey team they must face off against on and off the rink and, first and foremost, the lack of involvement of their old coach (Estevez).
Now, what is wrong with this film, you may ask? You sitting down? Okay - this is a pretty downbeat story for a Disney flick, especially when it deals with change, new environments and challenges.
It was NOT a good idea to have the new coach to be such a one-dimensional, unbending jerk and then do a sudden 180 degree turn to be a good guy! What the...?!
The pranks the Ducks pull on the varsity team are so lame that the Delta House would turn their collective nose up at it.
And all the kids are even more cookie cutter, flat-as-the-sidewalk caricatures of teens as you'd find on NBC Saturday morning TV. What a shame.
Even the hockey games fall flat. I mean, how many times can you watch "Rocky" re-generated into every possible sports movie situation ever made? Well, there's always curling....
Long story short, it's not even good as disposable kiddie fare! What can you say about a film when it doesn't even hold up to "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo"?!!!
And in what would be the last smart career move on his part for a while, Estevez took a smaller role in this movie. If he wanted to make a BRILLIANT career move, he would have backed out altogether.
Oh well.
One star for "D3", for the knowledge that this was the LAST "Ducks" movie. And I think we can all breathe a sigh of relief for that one. I know I will.