Punching the lights out

Rating: 5/10 (28 August 2018)

Seann William Scott is kind hearted bouncer Doug, the black sheep in a brainy family. He gets picked as an enforcer for a losing minor Canadian ice hockey team. His job is to protect the team's star player by beating the hell out of his opponents. Something Doug is good at as he has no other hockey skills.
Eventually Doug has to go toe to toe with the best enforcer in ice hockey, Ross Rhea (Liev Schreiber) who tells Doug of the downside of his job.
The film wants to be a zany version of Slap Shot. It has wacky characters such as Jay Baruchel who plays Doug's best buddy who runs a blog site. The cast also has Eugene Levy who appeared with Scott in the American Pie films.
Goon is crude, violent and sporadically funny. It benefits from heartfelt performances from Scott and Schrieber. However as a sports movie and a romance, it is uneven and too formulaic to the point of being predictable.