Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity

A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay

This movie was a cookie cutter of the first film just with higher steaks. The allusion to the Bad News Bears is so strong they even went so far as to use the standard excerpt from Bizet’s “Carmen”: “L’more es un Oiseau Rebelle” in the soundtrack. Also added was a series of goofy stereotypes including a figure skater, a big-eared yahooing token Texan, and trash-talking Kenan Thompson. Did any of their skills benefit the team? Nope! They learned the valuable lesson that their individuality and personal convictions are of no use in the game of hockey. Only mindless conformity what wins the race. Then there’s the Flying V. The multiple duck flying formation applied to hockey. Surprise, surprise! When they put the man with the puck at the front of the formation with all his guards behind him guess who gets sacked first. The answer is so obvious Disney clearly felt too ashamed to even utilize movie magic to make it at least APPEAR the formation was effective. They talked up the Flying V so much throughout these films but not once have I seen it actually do any good! They keep calling Emilio’s character the Miracle man. He must be if his team can win games despite using stupid maneuvers like that. The villains were laughable. They were of course evil for evil’s sake but they were from Iceland! Nothing evil ever came out of Iceland! And besides, who ever heard of an Icelander that was any good at hockey!?! Ridiculous! Ah but then the twist! The evil Icelandic coach shames his team and lo they turn on him and devour him without pity or remorse… or ketchup.