D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Robert Lieberman

Writers (WGA):

Steven Brill (characters)
Kenneth Johnson (story) ...

Release Date:

4 October 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport

Tagline:

No Fear. No Limits. No Brakes. Just Ducks.

Plot:

In the third episode of this series, the Ducks get scholarships to Eden Hall Academy, a high ranking prep school...

Plot Keywords:

Coach | Prep School | Hockey | Trilogy | Sequel

Cast

Emilio Estevez	...	Gordon Bombay
Jeffrey Nordling	...	Coach Ted Orion
David Selby	...	Dean Buckley
Heidi Kling	...	Casey Conway
Joshua Jackson	...	Charlie Conway
Joss Ackland	...	Hans
Elden Henson	...	Fulton Reed (as Elden Ryan Ratliff)
Shaun Weiss	...	Greg "Goldie" Goldberg
Vincent Larusso	...	Adam Banks (as Vincent A. Larusso)
Matt Doherty	...	Lester Averman
Garette Ratliff Henson	...	Guy Germaine
Marguerite Moreau	...	Connie Moreau
Michael Cudlitz	...	Cole
Christopher Orr	...	Rick
Aaron Lohr	...	Dean Portman

MPAA:

Rated PG for some hockey rough-housing and mild language.

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #34324) | Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Blake School - 511 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Company:

Avnet/Kerner Productions

Trivia:

Cameo: ['Steven Brill']the carnival game operator at the Mall of America.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Charlie is Rollerblading down the street hill towards the bridge, a blue Camaro turns onto the road to go onto the hill. At the bottom of the hill, the same Blue Camaro turns onto the street again to pass by once more.

Quotes:

Mrs. Madigan: Every Monday you will have a practice quiz. Every Wednesday you will have a real quiz. Every Friday you will have an exam. And any time I FEEL like it you will have a surprise quiz or exam.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Creeps (1997)

Soundtrack:

Grade 9

The ducks have flown the coop!

Now I hate this saying, because frankly, there are so many actors who have been horribly typecast as kids because of this saying, but The Might Ducks movie doesn't work as well with the grown up ducks! Now I didn't have too many problems with this film, I just wasn't that impressed or moved by it. I think many would agree, it's like seeing Rocky in Rocky 5, he's so old and you're afraid that he's going to break a hip boxing. Well, that's D3, the kids are more grown up and less interesting because we know when they become teens, they're less interested in what kept them happy as children.

The kids have scholarships to one of the best high schools, and now have a new coach, Coach Orion. Orion is completely different from Gordon, he's a little tougher and has more rules, but you learn why he is that way later on. The kids also have to worry about the Varsity team of the high school, because this is the team that has the big time seniors on it that want to pick on little freshman. And they do so through silly 5 year old pranks.

While it's not a terrible movie, I liked the second Mighty Ducks a little better and it worked more than D3. But I can see this movie working for pre-teens, I'm serious, because I think they could relate to the film a little bit of being the new kids in school. But for adults alone, I'm not sure, to each his own.