The Mighty Ducks | 
 enlarge | Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland, Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Josef Sommer
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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Rating:  31 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM2551
ISBN: 0788817868
UPC: 717951004307
EAN: 9780788817861
ASIN: B000035Z59
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 1992
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Gordon Bombay, a hotshot lawyer, is haunted by memories of his childhood, when, as the star player in his champion hockey team, he lost the winning goal in a shootout, thereby losing the game, and the approval of his coach. When the court orders him to coach a peewee hockey team, the worst in the league, Gordon is at first very reluctant. However, he eventually gains the respect of the kids and teaches them how to win, gaining a sponsor on the way and giving the team the name of The Ducks. In the finals, they face Gordon's old team, coached by Gordon's old coach, giving Gordon a chance to face old ghosts.
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Disney had an unexpected hit with this predictable comedy about a smug lawyer (Emilio Estevez) busted for drunk driving and ordered to coach a sad-sack team of hockey-playing kids as community service. The kids triumph over their sundry problems, and Estevez's character grows up a little. End of story. A perfectly harmless movie for kids and adults who are giving their brains a night off. --Tom Keogh
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 Family-Friendly Hockey Fun December 21, 2008
D'Ann (AZ)
If you're looking for a good hockey movie that the kids can actually watch, this Disney vehicle starring Emilio Estevez is actually pretty decent. Estevez plays hotshot Minnesota lawyer and former youth hockey star Gordon Bombay, who gets popped for DUI and sentenced to community service. His assignment: Coach a hapless youth hockey team made up of misfits from the wrong side of the tracks. It's been called "The Bad News Bears on skates," but The Mighty Ducks is a little too saccharine for the comparison. If you can get past that (and all the shameless tie-ins to the NHL franchise Disney once owned) there's some good hockey action and positive messages about sportsmanship, teamwork, believing in yourself and coming to grips with past mistakes. Especially in the final scenes, when the unheralded Ducks play for the league championship against their arch-rivals, the Hawks, a team led by Bombay's ruthless former coach. (Avoid the movie's two sequels, which don't measure up.)
 Thank you very much, Mr. Ducksworth. Quack, quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth! September 29, 2008
Snow White (Orange County)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The kids classic The Mighty Ducks does everything right; case-end-point, Although there is much to be said for this beloved Disney tale.
Gordon Bombay(Emilio Estevez) was once a boy who loved hockey more then anything, when his father passes away and he loses the final shot for his team and their pee-wee championship he's scarred for life, and turns to a dark future as a no-good defense lawyer. When he gets court mandated community service to coach a pee-wee hockey team, (which seem to look more like a group of misfits then any sort of team) his hatred of children becomes a love, which leads him back to his greater love of the game itself.
The cast of children is full of wide-eyed talent, lead by an adorable Charlie(Joshua Jackson) and hilarious Goldberg(Shaun Weiss) that still constantly make me laugh time and time again.
A fun film for anyone young at heart, hockey lover or not!
"You Quacked At Your Teacher ~ Ducks Fly Together!" July 7, 2006
Brian E. Erland (Brea, CA - USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
'The Mighty Ducks' released in '92 is probably the only film that can boast that its theatrical success launched a sports franchise. Fact or fiction, as a movie it found a large enough audience to convince Disney Studios to follow-up with two more installments of Mighty Duck Mania.
Plot: Self-absorbed young lawyer, Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) is sentenced to community service for a traffic violation. His assignment is to fill in as the interim hockey coach for a local group of underachieving kids. Coach Bombay, a former hocky star in the same league years earlier, has inherited the worst team in the league. Can he harness their rebellious attitudes and turn them into contenders? Maybe even make them good enough to challenge the perennial champions and his old coach?
Formulamatic but lots of fun anyway. Estevez is surrounded by a strong cast with: Lane Smith as Coach Reilly, Heidi Kling as Casey Conway, Joshua Jackson as Charlie Conway and Marguette Moreau as Connie.
In the beginning,when the Ducks were born. January 2, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well first let me start off by saying the 1st and I mean 1st movie in a set of follow up movies all ways suck!Why,I'll tell you why.Because the 1st is always the beginning,which is always the formation,which is always the worst.Ex;The 1st season of Full House sucked,becuse...(well the Olsen twins cant really act anyway) but because it was the first time the actors all got together as one as an whole to do an t.v sitcom.They didnt know each other and probaly didnt react good together beause they were just learning about each other.But as season two rolled along the show got better becuase they knew each other then and were'nt as camera-shy.So basically if you can read between lines.........you will get my message(D2 was better for obvious reasons)!
I love this movie November 6, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am not much of a hockey fan, but after watching this I have had a lot more respect for the sport! This movie is not all about sports; it also has a twist of romance. Everyone, sports fans and not, should watch this movie.
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