It doesn't have enough laughs to be a comedy and it doesn't have enough character development to be a drama. So, this halfway comedy-drama centered on hockey does its best to please a general audience, but it really doesn't take off at all. There are genuinely funny moments and some pretty deep emotional ones, but the movie fails to draw the viewer into its fabricated world. I could not identify with the characters, I could not laugh with them, or even commiserate them. Also, for the enormous amount of sex jokes and sexual tension present throughout the movie, the film makers kept away from even a brief nude shot. That adds to the incongruencies of the movie's governing mood (there is none!) and confuses the heck out of anybody watching. I give it a 6 out of 10 just because Russell Crowe keeps the movie believable.
Review of Mystery, Alaska
