My thoughts

I finally got around to watching this one in 2024. I had heard about it for many years (who hasn’t), but for some reason, I didn’t watch until recently

The movie has innocent charm, and there are some funny moments. Emilio Estevez is good in his role . Even if I didn’t watch this movie as a child, I can still understand why a lot of people fondly associate this movie with their childhoods

Still, the movie is rife with cliques. The bare-bones plot is that a self-centered lawyer reluctantly coaches a group of ragtag kids who don’t like him. If you have any experience with movies, you can easily predict what will happen: the self-centered lawyer will learn to care about others instead of himself, and the ragtag kids will come to like him . Along the way, there is a subplot involving Emilio Estevez’s and his childhood hockey coach, which is equally predictable. His coach is a 2-dimensional cliche antagonist from start to end

6.5/10