Love hockey? Love hockey fights? How about laughing your a** off? This movie has it all and Sean William Scott plays a role much better than Stiffler in American Pie which I love but this suits him perfectly. This is a must watch even if hocky is not your forte. Prepare to laugh and get your adrenaline pumping in this corky but future cult movie.

Can't quite put my finger on why this movie makes me laugh so much - but all I know is the humour is original and it takes you by surprise all the way through the film. I want to watch it again so I can analyse and explain the humour properly. In the meantime, I recommend watching it if you like Sean William Scott and you can handle rough sports, a bit of violence, deep moments of sadness and weird jokes.

Although he may not be the smartest person in the world, "Doug Glatt" (Seann William Scott) is a really nice guy with an incredible skill—he knows how to beat up people. And because of that he earns his living as a bouncer at a nightclub while the rest of his family looks down upon him. Then one day at a hockey game everything changes for him when one of the players decides to go into the stands to beat up his best friend "Pat" (Jay Baruchel). After easily beating the hockey player to a pulp Doug soon lands a job as a top-notch goon for the Halifax Highlanders with a mission to protect the best player on the team by the name of "Xavier LaFlamme" (Marc-André Grondin). Unfortunately, as Doug becomes more popular the spoiled LaFlamme becomes more jealous and insecure. To make matters even worse, the most dominant goon in hockey named "Ross Rhea" (Liev Schreiber) is soon to return from a 20-game suspension and has no interest in sharing his hard-earned reputation with any player from another team. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this movie had the potential of being a true blockbuster but it suffered from one serious flaw in that it had way too much vulgarity throughout the course of the film—and much of it was totally unnecessary. Of course, if this film was intended only for immature audiences then I could possibly understand some of the crass and sophomoric language. But it loses much of its appeal to viewers who are looking for something a bit more wholesome. Again, this film had some real potential. Unfortunately, the director (Michael Dowse) chose to take the low road and for that reason I have rated it a little lower as a result.

With the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs getting under way this week (of 4/10/16), I thought it would be fun to dip into the archives for my review of the 2011 dramedy hockey flick "Goon".Right off the bat (or "stick" in the case of this hockey comedy/drama) I thought that "Goon" was going to be really stupid and that I'd made a big mistake in ordering the DVD. But I decided to give it a chance. And I'm glad I did.This is a flick that could have been a silly and over-the-top throwaway. But thankfully the film makers together with a commendable cast took the story in a whole different direction. And they wound up with a fresh and engaging take on friendship, love and loyalty.Seann William Scott is blissfully ignorant as a man/child with the capacity to become a fearsome enforcer. His character says those bluntly candid things we all would like to if we didn't have a filter. Alison Pill is his too-cute-to-take girlfriend who falls helplessly for the big guy's honestly innocent charm. The seemingly ever-under appreciated Liev Schreiber delivers a memorable turn as an aging hockey thug giving it one last roundhouse swing as he rides the downhill slide to the end of a black-and-blue career. And Jay Baruchel is just flat-out funny and whacked-out as hell as Scott's best friend.Be cautioned, however. The violence is jarring and brutal. But, hey, no one ever confused Pro Hockey with playing patty-cake.This one could have been mindless. The good news is that it not only has a brain, but a big ol' heart to go along with it.