Score Trailer: TIFF’s Opening Night Hockey Musical
When the Toronto International Film Festival announced yesterday that this year’s opening night film would be a hockey musical, I don’t think I’m the only one who wondered if it was supposed to be a joke. I mean, don’t get me wrong, TIFF is a great showcase for Canadian culture and talent, but this is the same painfully obvious crap that has been representing our film and television industry for years. Plus… a sports musical? As funny and ironic as it might seem, this is a movie that will never find an audience. And yet I have to admit to being a little bit curious. Now that a trailer has turned up online, my curiosity has been satisfied… it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Score: A Hockey Musical is written and directed by Michael McGowan, the same guy who did One Week, the indie drama starring Joshua Jackson as a young man who decides to go on a road trip across Canada after finding a mysterious message in his Tim Horton’s “Roll Up the Rim” cup. Clearly he’s got no problem with pandering to Canucks. The cast for Score includes Olivia Newton-John, Stephen McHattie, and a host of Canadian celebrities. If, for some reason, you don’t plan on catching this at TIFF, it also hits theatres in Canada on October 22nd. I just hope they release a Sing-Along Edition too. Check out the trailer for Score: A Hockey Musical after the jump.
Comments (7)
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’m speechless.
Posted by Film Ape on July 15th, 2010I’m actually laughing my ass off.
I didn’t notice any celebrities in this, but it sure was funny as hell.
Posted by Henrik on July 15th, 2010What.
Posted by Greg on July 15th, 2010The.
Fuck.
No words…
Posted by Evan on July 16th, 2010Simply love it. Makes waiting for the start of the new season a little bit easier.
Posted by theDia on July 18th, 2010Without a doubt, one of the worst films I have ever seen IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Terrible acting, writing, casting and directing. A complete mistake from top to bottom. What were they thinking? Did they think a musical would work with hockey fans? Did they think hockey would work with musical fans? And who cast those terrible, and I mean TERRIBLE actors in those roles? Did the makers of this piece of unwatchable garbage think that people would look past the third-rate amateurism on display because it was of Canadian cultural significance? Who was in charge here? Didn’t the film maker have any real friends who would come forward and ay ‘ Uh, excuse me, but this is crap’? I just watched the debut of this piece of crap at the TIFF opening and I honestly felt embarrassed by what was on screen. I have never, in my entire life, felt embarrassed by watching a movie before. The audio was actually out of synch, I’m not kidding. The voices and the singing did not match the movements of the lips of the so-called actors. God, I can’t begin to tell how bad it really was. Too many ‘yes’ men. Too much funding for a supposedly Canadian product. Too much rank amateurism on display. I would give this zero stars out of four. A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE PIECE OF CRAP FROM START TO FINISH.
Posted by Joel Parkes on September 10th, 2010@Joel
So a sequel called Overtime is out of the question?
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