"A HILARIOUS BLEND OF SUPERBAD AND SLAPSHOT."
- HOTPRESS.COM
"PAINFULLY FUNNY - MAKES YOU HURT FROM LAUGHING SO HARD."
- COLLIDER
"The sleeper hit of the presummer movie season and the best hockey film since Slap Shot (1977), Goon just cold-cocks you into submission with laugh after laugh."
- Boston Herald
"Rating: A-"
- The Onion
"FUNNY, PROFANE. 3 ½ Stars"
- AP
"4 out of 5 Stars. Recommended with affection for audiences well beyond the hockey target market."
- The Epoch Times
"Scott is exemplary at playing a sweet, dumb brute without signaling his own intelligence. Goon is not only rowdy, but also humane."
- City Pages
"VERY FUNNY. Goon looks set to skate alongside, if not slam into the boards, the sainted memory of Slap Shot as the movie that really gets the spirit of hockey’s animal attraction."
- Peter Howell, Toronto Star
"CHEERFULLY CRASS, SUPRISINGLY WATCHABLE, BIG-HEARTED YET UNSENTIMENTAL."
- The Guardian
"ENTERTAINING AS HELL. SLAP SHOT FOR A NEW GENERATION! A profane, pumped-up, playful punch-out of a hockey movie."
- Adam Proteau / The Hockey News
"AN OPUS OF DIRTY JOKES AND BLOODY FIGHTS."
- Sports Illustrated
"PAINFULLY FUNNY - MAKES YOU HURT FROM LAUGHING SO HARD."
- Collider
"It might be the best hockey movie ever made. GOON had me with the first fight."
- Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette
"SWEET-NATURED BUT ARMED WITH A SOLID PUNCH."
- Robert Koehler, Variety
"An instant sports classic!Best hockey movie ever!"
- Greg Miller, KONG-TV
"A hockey movie MASTERPIECE"
- IFC.com
"Goon is an instant classic for hockey fans and lovers of searing lowbrow humor."
- The Montreal Gazette
