This is my favorite movie right now.

Rating: 8/10 (9 April 2013)

This is essentially what the movie Rocky would look like in real life! It avoids being simply a remake of Slapshot (hockey movie) and some of the general sports clichés. This movie has soul and heart, not to mention blood and some knocked out teeth.
I enjoy immensely that none of the characters are particularly heroic in any conventional way. It is not a Cinderella story unless Cinderella discovers that she actually is good at cleaning floors, and that's her life's calling. Even the love story is beautifully low key. Things make sense in this movie the way the main character's life makes sense because it just does. AND that is why Blatt is incredibly heroic.
The pranks: one complaint I have about a lot of movies is that it they are simple stories wrapped around a couple of pranks, and we watch the pranks in the previews then go and see them in the theatre. In goon, there are pranks and one liners, but the characters deliver them as they would in real life... maybe its that the characters deliver them rather than the writer.
A kind of violent flick that is totally refreshing.