One of the few truly great movies ever created, the others being Home Alone and the Back to the Future series. Some people like to put Citizen Kane on that list, but actually that movie is boring and should be avoided at all costs. Wall Street and the Wolf of Wall Street should be boring but they are not, they are just good movies, which is why this movie is great. Sure, that comparison made no sense, but I will continue this review regardless. The Mighty Ducks will surpass your expectation in linger in your memory banks even 10 years after watching the hockey hooligans learning to skate. And that my friend, is the mark of a great movie.

I really like this movie out of the three Ducks movies because to me, this is the only one that feels like a genuine movie to me. A movie that was made from the heart. The reasons for it? There are two of them that stick out to me.Gordon Bombay goes through one hell of a transformation. He goes from a drunk lawyer to reconnecting with his old love and facing a demon that has haunted him up to now. Even the introduction scene carries an ominous feeling. The goalie facing the young Bombay looks more like a menacing monster; as well as it should be since it represents a horrible memory for the man. I remember being scared of that scene as a child, just cause the goalie looked so scary.His character's transformation over the movie is the heart of this film. It's a protagonist who has a REAL arc - beginning, middle, and end. It's all carried out with such poignancy as well. Emilio Estevez does great acting.The child actors do a good job. I mean, they're KIDS, and this is a kid movie...but they pull it off nicely. The kids who play Charlie, Fulton, Jesse, and Banks especially. They make you take their characters seriously, which is different from a normal kids movie.The kiddy parts don't make me cringe, but make me smile. I guess because it's not overdone.Sorry to say, but the other two movies to me relied too much on either hockey action or gimmicks (although I DID like D3's grittier hockey action and more serious story with Charlie). They didn't have the heartfelt story that this one did. It's all balanced out to entertain the little kids, but Gordon Bombay's arc is one for the adults.I also miss the kids that would end up not being in the future movies. In D3, when Gordon says that the Ducks were unchanged since the beginning, I cringed. I guess I'm the type to cling to sentimental values like that.This was the best movie out of the trilogy to me. That's because it felt like a REAL movie.

Despite the tremendously clichéd plot--that of an aging fallen athletic hero who loses faith in himself and disinterest in the sport until he has the opportunity to turn a misfit team into a victorious one with hard work and much-needed nurturing--the Mighty Ducks is probably for those youngsters of the early 1990s what films like the Karate Kid were to those youngsters of the mid-80s. One of the classics, a guilty pleasure we secretly don't switch off when channel surfing on lazy weekend afternoons. One that marked early careers or more well-known stars today (with the most obvious being a prepubescent Joshua Jackson). For hockey fans alone, it may be enjoyable, despite hockey movies never being very inventive in the tell of the tale (see Youngblood and Miracle for other examples of the same old, same old). But nonetheless, it is still a valued time capsule and a feel good movie that yes, cheesy and clichéd and dated (no one really does much roller-blading anymore--see the practice scenes, can still be enjoyed.

This movie is the best movie ever. well the best hockey movie. with a wild color-full cast of misfits and geeks. 1992 was a great year for this movie. i was personally inspired by this movie,i learned to skate by watching the ducks fly down the ice in the flying v. this is one of those movies where you cant watch it once.This movie is one of those must have's it would be a great birthday gift or Christmas or gift. it would be a pleasure to own this movie. but its on HBO enough to watch it. Emilio Estevez is the man and use to play hockey when he was younger. When Gordon Bombay was a kid he use to skate and play hockey. he joined the Hawks ice hockey team. it all came down to him in the end in a penalty shot, he missed the shot causing the hawks to loose the game.Gordon Bombay was successful lawyer then went to teaching hockey. these kids were not ready. he takes a young group of kids Charlie and Goldberg the lovable goalie. and their other Buddy's. coach Bombay wasn't to happy with there performance for the last few games they lost a lot and tried to get the team to take dives to get penalties. The parents of the children who he teaches aren't happy with coach Bombay's performance.In the end its the Hawks Vs the Ducks with Gordon Bombay's original coach Lane Smith (I) he also was in the movie son in law with Paulie shore. the game came down to Charlie the Captian. there was a pentialy shot for a Hawk player tripping Charlie on a breakaway. It was all down to Charlie and the goalie one on one mono a mono. Charlies famous move is the triple deek you better believe Charlie use this movie to score the winning goal for the ducks. GOAL GOAL GOAL the hole team went nuts the Ducks took the win.DUCS FLY TOGHER. and this movie will always remain my favorite for all time.QUACK QUACK QUACK GOOOOOOOOOOO DUCKS!