some big laughs

Rating: 7/10 (11 December 2015)

Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a bar bouncer and an embarrassment to his doctor father (Eugene Levy). His best friend Pat (Jay Baruchel) has an online chat show Hot Ice covering hockey action. Their favorite player Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber) gets suspended. They go to a minor league game where one player comes at Pat in the stands. Doug ends up pummeling the player and becomes a sensation. He can barely skate but he still gets on the team Orangetown Assassins as a goon. He gets hired by the Halifax Highlanders to protect their valuable prospect.
This has healthy doses of the classic hockey movie 'Slap Shot'. The trick of this one seems to be making Seann William Scott the straight man. Everybody else is crazy wacky. Baruchel is hilarious and the team is ridiculous fun. There are some big giant laughs in this. The story could be stabilized more by keeping Doug being on one team and having him stay at home. That way his family and Baruchel could have bigger parts in the movie.