2011’s hockey comedy Goon wasn’t groundbreaking, but it was grounded—you could feel the shoosh of skates scraping across ice and smell the funky pads in the locker room. It had a casualness that allowed you to smile even when you weren’t laughing, and a subtle charm that seemed to grow with subsequent cable viewings.
By contrast, Goon: Last Of The Enforcers—written and directed by Jay Baruchel, and available On Demand and on iTunes—is so manic and convoluted that the only thing it reeks of is desperation.