D2: The Mighty Ducks

D2: The Mighty Ducks is a 1994 American sports-comedy drama film, directed by Sam Weisman, starring Emilio Estevez.

It is the sequel to the 1992 film "The Mighty Ducks".

Plot
Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) gets a chance to play minor league hockey, but after sustaining a knee injury, he returns home and is given the job as a coach for Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles, California.

Gordon gets some of the old Ducks players and also gains five new players: enforcer Dean Portman (Aaron Lohr), ex-figure skater Ken Wu (Justin Wong), cowboy & puck handler Dwayne Robertson (Ty O'Neal), female goaltender Julie Gaffney (Colombe Jacobson) and speed skater (but not good at stopping) Luis Mendoza (Mike Vitar).

As the team gets to Los Angeles, they start playing well, but when Gordon gets distracted by the luxurious side of California, the team starts falling behind especially to Team Iceland (who are the favorites to win the Junior Goodwill Games), coached by former NHL player, Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson (Carsten Norgaard).

After getting a wake-up call from team tutor Michelle McKay (Kathyrn Erbe) & Hans' brother, Jan (Jan Rubes), Gordon starts focusing on helping his team out while the Ducks learn from a street hockey team how to play like like the "real Team USA".

Cast

 * Emilio Estevez as Gordon Bombay
 * Kathryn Erbe as Michelle McKay
 * Michael Tucker as Mr. Tibbles
 * Jan Rubes as Jan
 * Carsten Norgaard as Wolf "The Dentist" Stansson
 * Maria Ellingsen as Maria
 * Joshua Jackson as Charlie Conway, #96
 * Elden Henson as Fulton Reed, #44
 * Shaun Weiss as Greg Goldberg, #33
 * Matt Doherty as Les Averman, #4
 * Brandon Adams as Jesse Hall, #9
 * Garette Ratliff Henson as Guy Germaine, #00
 * Marguerite Moreau as Connie Moreau, #18
 * Vincent Larusso as Adam Banks, #99
 * Colombe Jacobsen as Julie Gaffney, #6
 * Aaron Lohr as Dean Portman, #21
 * Ty O'Neal as Dwayne Robertson, #7
 * Kenan Thompson as Russ Tyler, #56
 * Mike Vitar as Luis Mendoza, #22
 * Justin Wong as Ken Wu, #16
 * Scott Whyte as Gunnar Stahl, #9 of Team Iceland

Production
"D2: The Mighty Ducks" was filmed from July 7th to September 24, 1993 (almost a year after the first film's release). It was primarily filmed in Minnesota and California.

The actors from the first film: Aaron Schwartz, J.D. Daniels, Jussie Smollett, Jane Plank and Danny Tamberelli did not appear in the sequel.

Box Office
"D2: The Mighty Ducks" opened at #1 at the box office, grossing $10,356,748 during its opening weekend.

Domestically, the film grossed $45,610,410.

Critical Reception
"D2: The Mighty Ducks" received negative reviews & has a 21% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Desson Howe of The Washington Post wrote: "D2: The Mighty Ducks reaches an extraordinary low – even for a Disney sequel. This unctuous barrage of flag-waving, message-mongering, counterfeit morality, which contains the stalest kiddie-team heroics in recent memory, makes the original, innocuous 'Ducks' look like one of the Great Works".

The Austin Chronicle gave the film one star, saying: "D2 is nothing but pure formula. Only problem is that the formula doesn't work here because it requires the movie to repeat the same ground over again and that's extremely awkward in a story that's already progressed past that point".