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Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) 5.9
When Newcastle United soccer star Santiago Munez is offered a spot with Real Madrid, he accepts, but the move - accompanied by big money and fame - tests his ties and loyalties to family, friends and business acquaintances. Director:Jaume Collet-Serra |
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When Newcastle United soccer star Santiago Munez is offered a spot with Real Madrid, he accepts, but the move - accompanied by big money and fame - tests his ties and loyalties to family, friends and business acquaintances.
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Release Date:
29 August 2008 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£326,807 (UK) (9 February 2007)Gross:
£800,469 (UK) (16 February 2007)Company Credits
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Announcer: What a humiliation. A lot of unhappiness around the Bernabeu tonight, a lot of it directed at Gavin Harris. Came out as a hero, he's being called a donkey tonight.
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The Champions League Final Game, played against Arsenal, is actually the first knockout round, when Arsenal won 0-1, Thierry Henry scores the goal we saw in the movie. See more »Goofs
When Munez is playing the Xbox 360, it can be clearly seen that the controller he is using has not been turned on. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Announcer: What a humiliation. A lot of unhappiness around the Bernabeu tonight, a lot of it directed at Gavin Harris. Came out as a hero, he's being called a donkey tonight.
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Not a classic by any means, but at least, in comparison to the first one (Goal!), a more accomplished film.
The game scenes were not as contrived as in the first movie, hardly surprising since some of the clips were straight off real matches.
Becker did not look out of his depth in the company of the likes of Zidane, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham -- as long as he did not have the ball, that is. In a dressing room scene inside the Bernabeu, for instance, Becker's time on the ball in a jolly juggling scene was thankfully limited to one touch.
I guess it's too much to ask for an actor who had real football skills, and I guess that realization kept the cameras more focused on the 'real' football players in game situations. This added more to a sense of realism, as compared to the first movie when Becker was scene doing all sorts of fantastic things -- corny to a trained eye.
This movie's real merit comes from the way it handled the human element: Santi's head getting a tad too big from all the media attention and from being in the company of Real Madrid's galacticos; the lover's tiff with Roz, doubtless echoed in many a professional football player's life; and the surprise of finding he has a half-brother living in Spain along with the painful reunion with a long-lost Mother.
Dramatic without going overboard, and without losing touch with the primary plot that this is a professional footballer's story.