D1 was a fun innocent movie D2 was about capitalism D3 was more about politics

Usually sequels or thirduels are awful. The Mighty Duck trilogy was really good.

D3 is about the children getting a scholarship to a private high school. They must win games in order to keep the scholarship. They play one game and are axed. They get a new coach, things are different and they whine about it while they have a rivalry with the varsity team that look like 20 year olds.

Goldberg was so annoying he handed out tons of cringespears and annoyinghammers.

Charlie was cringy. He could act, I guess the script made him look bad.

From time to time characters disappear. Example Adam gets placed on the varsity team and that's the last we hear from him.

Russ Taylor could of had a good story arc about needing the scholarship but that went nowhere just as Russ would disappear during games. I mean in D2 he could play then he becomes irrelevant just as the other characters.

The movie has subtle race card moments that were forced cringehash.

Coach Bombay was only around to save the day.

The new coach was good his story was quite touching.

In The final game the varsity team should have won. The Ducks losing a close game could have been the Ducks gaining the Varsity Teams respect. That would have been a better ending than the cringefest that they shown.

What can be learned? You learn that your ego can hurt you more than you realize.

Verdict: Solid quacking trilolgy.

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.

Starting with the good things, it is nicely filmed with crisp cinematography and nice scenery. The soundtrack is great, and Jeffrey Nordling steps into the coach's shoes with enthusiasm with Emilio Estevez making a brief appearance. The Mighty Ducks themselves are performed with real spirit also and the few ice hockey scenes are well choreographed. However, where the film is lacking is in the plot, the plot weren't the greatest in the first two films but here it was really predictable and uninspired coupled with uneven pacing. And while I liked the scripting in the first two, it is fairly weak here. Joss Ackland's role is rather cartoonish, more to do with how the character was written rather than acted, and the direction is nothing special. Overall, merely average and worth seeing, but there are a few components here that make it the weakest of the franchise. 5/10 Bethany Cox