A Goofy Movie

A Goofy Movie
File:A Goofy Movie.png Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kevin Lima
Screenplay by	Jymn Magon Brian Pimental Chris Matheson
Story by	Jymn Magon
Produced by	Dan Rounds
Starring	Jason Marsden Bill Farmer Rob Paulsen Jim Cummings Tevin Campbell Pauly Shore Pat Buttram
Edited by	Gregory Perler
Music by	Carter Burwell Don Davis
Production companies	Walt Disney Feature Animation Walt Disney Animation France S.A. Walt Disney Animation Australia
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date	April 7, 1995 (1995-04-07)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$35,348,597

A Goofy Movie is a 1995 American animated musical comedy film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, Walt Disney Animation France S.A. and Walt Disney Animation Australia (later DisneyToon Studios), and released in theaters on April 7, 1995 by Walt Disney Pictures. The film features characters from The Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop; the film itself acts as a sequel to the TV show.

Directed by Kevin Lima, the film's plot revolves around the father-son relationship between Goofy and Max as Goofy believes that he's losing Max. A direct-to-video sequel called An Extremely Goofy Movie was released in 2000. The film was dedicated to Pat Buttram.

Plot

14-year-old Max Goof is the son of Goofy Goof. The two have a tense relationship. On the last day of school before the summer break, Max and his best friends P.J. and Robert "Bobby" Zimmeruski hijack the auditorium stage in the middle of Principal Mazur's speech, creating a small concert where Max performs while costumed as the pop singer Powerline. The performance succeeds in making Max a school celebrity and impressing his love interest Roxanne; but He, P.J. and Bobby are sent to Mazur's office. Roxanne speaks with Max and agrees to go with him to a party where Powerline's concert will be aired live, but Mazur forewarns Goofy that Max's actions may result in facing capital punishment.

Goofy desperately decides to take Max on a fishing trip to Lake Destiny, Idaho, following a map route he and his father took years ago, and shoves Max into his AMC Pacer station wagon. However, he is oblivious to what Max is planning to do with Roxanne. Max stops by Roxanne's house to call off their date, but when Roxanne says she will just have to go with someone else, Max instead fabricates a story about his father knowing Powerline. He tells her that he will be on stage at the concert with Powerline.

Goofy plans his own trip against Max's wishes. Max hurts Goofy's feelings after his father humiliates him at an opossum-based theme park. While camping, Pete and P.J. join them. Following Pete's advice to keep Max under control, Goofy takes his son fishing and performs the Perfect Cast fishing technique, luring Bigfoot to their camp. Pete and P.J. flee, leaving Goofy and Max to spend the night with Bigfoot. At night, while Goofy is still sleeping, Max alters the map route to Los Angeles, where the concert is to take place.

The next morning, Goofy decides to make Max the navigator of the trip. The two go to several locations that satisfy both of them. They stop by a motel where they meet Pete and P.J. again. When Pete overhears a conversation between Max and P.J., he tells Goofy that Max has duped him in traveling to Los Angeles. The next day, Goofy and Max come to a junction: One leading to Idaho, the other to California. Max chooses the route to California, making Goofy stop the car and storm off in anger. The car drives off on its own; Goofy and Max chase after it and end up at a river. Goofy reveals that no matter how old Max gets, he will always be his son and the two reconcile with each other. Realizing that Max had promised to Roxanne to go to the Powerline concert, Goofy decides to take him to Los Angeles. But the two nearly plummet down a waterfall, before Max saves Goofy, using the Perfect Cast technique.

Goofy and Max get to Los Angeles and they end up onstage and dance with Powerline, watched by Pete, P.J. and Roxanne on separate televisions. Goofy and Max return to Roxanne's house in their damaged car. Max tells the truth to Roxanne, but she accepts it and admits she always had feelings for him ever since he first said, "Ahyuck!" Goofy's car explodes, but he safely falls through the porch roof of Roxanne's house, and he's introduced to her by Max.

Voice cast

• Jason Marsden as Max Goof (speaking voice)
• Aaron Lohr as Max Goof (singing voice)
• Bill Farmer as Goofy
• Rob Paulsen as P.J.
• Jim Cummings as Peter Pete
• Kellie Martin as Roxanne
• Pauly Shore (uncredited) as Robert "Bobby" Zimmeruski
• Wallace Shawn as Principal Mazur
• Frank Welker as Bigfoot
• Jenna von Oy as Stacy
• Julie Brown as Lisa
• Kevin Lima as Lester
• Tevin Campbell as Powerline
• Florence Stanley as Waitress
• Jo Anne Worley as Miss Maples
• Joey Lawrence as Chad
• Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
• Pat Buttram as Possum Park Emcee
• Herschel Sparber as Security guard
• Pat Carroll as Restaurant waiter
• Corey Burton as Wendell
• Manfred Mann as Muscular Kid

Production and follow-ups

Goofy and Max at the Powerline concert in Los Angeles near the end of the movie

A Goofy Movie was the directorial debut for Disney crewmember Kevin Lima. In 1995, Lima said that "Instead of just keeping Goofy one-dimensional as he's been in the past, we wanted to give an emotional side that would add to the emotional arc of the story. We wanted the audience to see his feelings instead of just his antics."

The main characters of this film, specifically Goofy, Max Goof, Pete, and PJ, are based on their incarnations in the Goof Troop television show, albeit slightly older: Max and PJ are high-school aged rather than middle-schoolers. However, other characters that had been established in Goof Troop do not appear in this film, such as Pete's wife Peg, his daughter Pistol, and pets Waffles and Chainsaw. Goofy and Pete retain their classic looks from the 1940s cartoons as opposed to the looks that they had in the 1950s cartoons and Goof Troop.

Although based upon a Disney TV series, A Goofy Movie was jointly produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Television Animation. Pre-production was done at the main WDFA studio in Burbank, California, starting as early as mid-1993. The animation work was done at Walt Disney Animation France S.A. (formerly Brizzi Films) in Paris, France supervised by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, with additional scenes animated at Disney's studio in Sydney, Australia (later DisneyToon Studios) under the direction of Steve Moore, and clean-up work done at the main Burbank studio. Additional clean-up/animation was done by Phoenix Animation Studios in Canada, and digital ink and paint by the Pixibox studio in France.

A sequel to this film was released in 2000, titled An Extremely Goofy Movie. The sequel takes place about four years after this film, involving Max's freshman year in college. Characters that returned for the sequel were Goofy, Max, PJ, Pete, and Bobby, but most notable is that Roxanne, Max's love interest, is absent from the sequel and not referenced at all (this could mean that either she and Max have split up or she is attending a different college from him and that they are in a long distance relationship). However Roxanne did appear in the television series, House of Mouse (specifically the episode "Max's Embarrassing Date"), where she was voiced by Grey DeLisle instead of Kellie Martin.

Music

The score for A Goofy Movie was provided by Carter Burwell and Don Davis. Bobby Brown was the original choice for Powerline and had some songs recorded but was cut due to drug problems. Some of the songs Bobby did for the movie were revamped and ended up on his Forever album. The songs "I 2 I" and "Stand Out" were performed by R&B singer Tevin Campbell. The soundtrack album for A Goofy Movie was released by Walt Disney Records on March 18, 1995. Mitchell Musso covered the song "Stand Out" for the DisneyMania 7 album, which was released on March 9, 2010.

A Goofy Movie Original Soundtrack

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I 2 I" (Tevin Campbell)	4:02
2.	"After Today" (Aaron Lohr and Chorus)	2:21
3.	"Stand Out" (Tevin Campbell)	3:00
4.	"On the Open Road" (Bill Farmer, Aaron Lohr, and Chorus)	3:01
5.	"Lester's Possum Park" (Kevin Quinn and Chorus)	1:25
6.	"Nobody Else But You" (Bill Farmer and Aaron Lohr)	2:35
7.	"Opening Fanfare / Max's Dream"	1:25
8.	"Deep Sludge"	2:35
9.	"Bigfoot"	1:50
10.	"Hi Dad Soup"	2:04
11.	"Runaway Car"	2:14
12.	"Junction"	1:32
13.	"The Waterfall! / The Truth"	2:17

Release

A Goofy Movie was originally intended to be released in theaters during the holiday season of 1994. However, some production problems in France delayed the film's release to spring 1995, while The Lion King was reissued to fill in for the film's absence.

The film was first released on VHS home video on September 6, 1995. In the UK, it was released in theatres succeeding the Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain on October 18, 1996 and on VHS in 1997. It was reissued on June 20, 2000, along with a DVD version. To date, this film is the only animated Disney film produced in widescreen that has a pan and scan-only DVD. However, its PAL counterpart does have a non-anamorphic widescreen DVD, and the film is available in a letterbox presentation on Laserdisc.

When the film premiered for the first time ever on Toon Disney HD on June 2, 2008 and on Disney Channel HD on June 10, 2008 (with an afternoon repeat on June 11, 2008), it was in the standard-definition format instead of the high-definition format.

It was revealed inside a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD that this film along with its sequel will be re-issued as a two-movie pack. However the DVD has been put into hiatus, and it's currently unknown if the disc will preserve the film in its original aspect ratio. Some speculate that this 2-Movie Collection will come out on DVD and Blu-ray in 2015.

A Goofy Movie is available for rent on Amazon.com Video On Demand in widescreen.

Reception

A Goofy Movie garnered mixed opinions from critics, and today, it holds a 57% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Variety's Todd McCarthy criticized the film's score, calling the six featured songs "unmemorable". He also felt that the personality of Goofy's character, while agreeable enough in support, proved a bit over the top for a headliner, and that "by any reasonable reckoning, he's distinctly overbearing and selfish, and responds with a bland dismissal to any opinion offered up by his son." However, McCarthy praised the film's technical aspects, citing them as "crisp and clean".

Louis Black of The Austin Chronicle summed up his review by saying the film was "bland, a barely television-length cartoon stretched out to fill a feature, and not much fun." Siskel and Ebert, however, both approved of the movie, praising the color scheme and the "sweet" father-son plot. The film was nominated for "Best Animated Feature" in the production categories and "Best Production Design", "Best Storyboarding", "Best Music", and "Best Animation" in the individual categories at the 23rd Annie Awards. According to Box Office Mojo, A Goofy Movie grossed $35,348,597 at the United States box office, and was the 51st highest-grossing domestic film in 1995.

External links

• A Goofy Movie at IMDb
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• A Goofy Movie at Box Office Mojo
• A Goofy Movie at Rotten Tomatoes
• A Goofy Movie at Disney Wiki