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Goal II: Living the Dream (2007)

 -  Drama | Sport  -  29 August 2008 (USA)
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After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid.

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After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid.

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Rated PG-13 for some sexual content | See all certifications »

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Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£326,807 (UK) (9 February 2007)

Gross:

£800,469 (UK) (16 February 2007)
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The Champions League Final Game, played against Arsenal, is actually the first knockout round, when Arsenal won 0-1, Thierry Henry scores the goal we saw in the movie. See more »

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There's no explanation of how Munez little step-brother knew in which Bar Santiago and Real Madrid's players were hanging out, or how he managed to get the keys of the Lamborghini, get into it and drive it out of the parking lot. See more »

Quotes

Rudi van der Merwe: First you listen to your heart, then you listen to your head and then your wife will tell you what to do.
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Followed by Goal! III (2009) See more »

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Big step back
21 March 2007 | by (Croatia) – See all my reviews

I loved the first Goal!. I found it to be the best football movie since Victory,and was glad to know that it would be followed by 2 sequels that will take our Mexican Pele to Real Madrid to play Champion's league final and then to the world cup. Sorry to say,or write,and sorry for myself,this one is a step back,a big one.The only part that isn't worse in this one is Alessandro Nivola,the guy knows what he is doing and does it good.For everything else...hmmm.. First-the script is rather clumsy,making our "hero" deal with such problems as meeting his mother that left him when he was a kid,dealing with a jealous girlfriend,an injury,loss of a friend and an agent....and in a mix of all this he does actually play for Real Madrid and meets Becks,Raul,Roberto Carlos....almost like that isn't the most important thing here and the reason why me and lot of other people want to see this in a first place. The chosen director wasn't the happiest choice because the guy has serious problems with pacing and working with actors like he has already showed in his debut,the 2005 remake of Hause of Wax.I saw that a third Goal! will be directed by Michael Apted and that is a good news,at least I hope so. Well it's not all bad,after all there are so few football movies these days(unlike boxing or American football)that I cherish even a flawed one like this and will definitely check out the third Goal! once it's out.


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