Friday 8 September 2017

"Goon: Last of the Enforcers" (Guardian 08/09/17)


Goon: Last of the Enforcers **
Dir: Jay Baruchel. With: Seann William Scott, Alison Pill, Marc-André Grondin, Liev Schreiber. 101 mins. Cert: 15

Hollywood’s haphazard summer season persists with this sequel to 2011’s knockabout ice-hockey comedy, a film surely ten people tops felt required any follow-up. Writer-turned-director Jay Baruchel has a funny-strange way of compiling it: he pads his vaguely depressive central thrust – Seann William Scott’s dim-bulb brawler Doug Glatt realising he’s now too old to throw down – with reels of boysy inside-hockey business that yield more shrugs than laughs. Enough useful players are on the roster to generate sporadic mild chuckles – MVP Wyatt Russell, as Glatt’s thunderous bad-boy rival, inadvertently nails a major issue (“the world isn’t watching… just Canada, and maybe three or four states”) – but nobody lands the one knockout punchline that would elevate matters above tolerable mediocrity.

Goon: Last of the Enforcers opens in selected cinemas from today. 

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