The Worst of Netflix: National Lampoon’s Pucked

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After last week’s hackle-raising look at Jeff Dunham, this one, a lousy ripoff Slap Shot with the Hanson Brothers replaced by foxy ladies, felt like a masterpiece of cinema art.

That doesn’t mean it’s actually any good, though:

In the entire history of film, has there been a brand that fell from glory harder than National Lampoon? It’s the brand that led off with Animal House, one of the best comedies of all time, but in the years since, the collapse of the magazine led to the transfer of the name to a company best known for marketing Tim Conway’s Dorf videos to insomniacs in the mid-90s, and it’s all been downhill from there. And down they have gone, sailing right past a made-for-TV “sequel” to Christmas Vacation starring Randy Quaid and smacking right into an attempt at a sexy version of Slap Shot starring Jon Bon Jovi.

Thus: Pucked.

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9 thoughts on “The Worst of Netflix: National Lampoon’s Pucked”

  2. First music, then the Arena Football League, and now hockey movies. Jon Bon Jovi ruins everything.

  4. Ever see that A & E movie where Elwes was playing Ted Bundy? He was good in that. I think he should play more homicidal necrophiliacs.

  7. This is, no question, one of the worst, most ill-concieved movies I’ve ever seen. It starts out about women playing hockey, then jerks strangely into the self-righteous posturing about credit cards that is TOTALLY SINCERE AND SERIOUS, MAN.

    My guess is something happened during production that made them turn in this direction: maybe they ran out of money, lost the arena where they were shooting the hockey scenes?

  8. I’m glad it’s nothing to do with the Real World’s Puck, LurkerWithout. He was too extreme and real for me, there’s no way I could handle more of him. But who could? He is way maxxxed out.