10 Most Irritatingly Improbable Sports Movies
5. D2: The Mighty Ducks
No one can sit here and make the argument that the plot of The Mighty Ducks is super likely - Gordon Bombay, the somewhat functional alcoholic, manages to take a group of kids who can barely skate the way to the league finals? But it sort of squeaks by, because at the end of the day, it still is just a peewee hockey tournament we're talking about.
D2: The Mighty Ducks, on the other hand, seriously raises the stakes, and it makes zero sense. Because in this film, the ragtag group of teen hockey players are recruited to make up an elite team that will be competing in a prestigious international tournament that is basically on the same level as the Junior Olympics. America has a team representing them, and it just so happens to be comprised of the entire Ducks team with like four other players to round it out.
The audience is just expected to believe that this group of kids, who haven't been practicing in the off season and have seemingly avoided learning the fundamentals of hockey in favor of a few low-rent trick shots, are the best that America has to offer? That Goldberg, of all people, is good enough to compete in hockey on an international level?
Sorry, Ducks, we can toe the party line and quack in unison no longer.