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Summary: Not Your Father's Goofy
Comment: This is my grandson's favorite movie. If your children love skateboarding, ESPN X-Games and good kids triumphing over mean kids, this is a good acquisition. I enjoy watching it with him as well, although this Goofy is a vastly updated (and improved) version of the one I remember as a child. May not be appropriate for the very young.
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Summary: Googy Movie
Comment: I guess the movie is fine....it's just the condition it was in
when I received it. It was a mess....the DVD was flopping around
in the box and the box was crushed. It's a good thing that it was
a gift for my son (who doesn't care what it looks like). If I had
gotten it for someone else I would have been too embarrassed to give
it to them. I guess it's a good thing it wasn't broken.
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Summary: An Extremely Goofy Movie
Comment: Okay. Well, I'm 11, and almost 12 years old, and somehow (i have no idea how), last year, suddenly got big into Max. I don't even know how it happened! I remember watching this movie when I was little on tv--just a part of it, because my sister's boyfriend said he liked it. I didn't like it. But now, I just really can't say how I suddenly got into it!
So anyways, I had my mom order the movie. And I remember, I was really sick, and laying in bed, really sick. She came in and showed it to me. I was SO unbelievably happy. I watched it, and couldn't stop laughing (even though it was hard to laugh, i still did). I instantly fell in love with Max and to this day in my book he is, "DROP DEAD SEXY." and my friends hear that way too much. LOL. XDD!
Compared to the First Movie:
Well, I actually didn't see A Goofy Movie until after this one. The story was this: I suddenly really wanted A Goofy Movie ( a couple weeks ago, late September). And then I found out it was going to be on TV! So we taped it on our DVD Recorder. I watched it. And the thing was, I was even sicker than I was when I watched An Extremely Goofy Movie. It was harder to laugh, but A Goofy Movie was, yes, MUCH funnier. I bought the CD, and now listen to it every single day. (My sister has a copy, and she absolutely LOVES Powerline XD btw, she's 18) Now that I saw both movies, I'm alittle dissipointed with the sequal for only one reason--No songs! D=
But there is a wonderful thing in it...NO ROXANNE! Now Max is all mine ^^ *glomp*
Yes, before I saw A Goofy Movie, somehow, I absolutely HATED Roxanne because Max liked her. It was a silly thing. I don't hate her as much now, because she's not annoying like other girls are in movies like that, but I'm glad he broke up with her XD. I also love how Max matured <3 <3
This movie is my third favorite~It could be yours, too
OMG THAT WAS SO CHEESY XDDD
Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely Goofy Movie
Comment: My son is 2 1/2 and loves GOOFY! This is a really cute movie and a big hit with our son.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not as good as the original at all.
Comment: I adore A Goofy Movie. It's one of the top animated movies I've ever seen, Disney or not, and when Disney decided to give it a sequel, I didn't have much hope for it. As you may know, it's one of their many direct-to-video/dvd releases. This generally means a dumbed down plot, cheap animation with more CG than actual hand-drawn parts, and just plain less quality than the original had. Does An Extremely Goofy Movie follow this rule of the direct-to-video market? Yes. And that's a shame, as it could've been another home run for Goofy. With this sequel, it's like they forgot everything from the first movie and made this just for the sake of making a sequel. I -just- got done watching it, and there isn't a whole lot that's memorable. It was just a movie to watch in order to pass the time. Not something to warm up to, get a family closer, or anything that the original had. You might think I'm saying this just because I grew up with A Goofy Movie, and saw it years before this one. Normally, you'd be right, but I can tell you in all honesty, that even if I hadn't seen it, that wouldn't have helped this one at all.
An Extremely Goofy Movie continues the lives of Goofy and his son Max. But this time around, Max is going off to college, and leaving home. Roxanne, the girl he won over in the first movie, isn't anywhere to be found and isn't even mentioned, so we can assume that things didn't work out for them. Goofy, still as protective as ever, can't get ahold of the fact that Max is a man now, and needs to leave in order to move on with his life. He finally lets go, and watches his son move out. This is tough on most parents (who haven't been driven crazy by their teenagers anyway), and this scene should've been a sad one. But they rushed it, and pound the fact that Goofy's sad into your head so much, that you can't feel as bad for him as you should. I'll get to that in a minute though. Max is still friends with PJ and Bobby, and they all head off to college together as an XTREME (hoo boy, I typed that and meant it) sports team. They try to impress the college's star X-Games team, but end up being their rivals since Max wouldn't join them. "Either we all join, or it's nothing" is what he tells their leader. Predictable, I know. So of course, they become enemies. But the twist is that Goofy was laid off from his job, and can't find anything since he only has 3 years of college under his belt. Already, you can see where this is going. Yep, he goes to Max's school to finish his last year in order to get a new job. Just when Max thought he was safe too. This of course leads to more embarassment, but it shouldn't. Didn't Max learn to accept his dad in the first movie? That's how it ended anyway. I guess this movie forgets all of that since Max is once again, an uptight little jerk. Blah blah blah, Goofy ends up with the rival team, blah blah Max gets mad at Goofy, blah they both make it to the finals of the X-Games, and there can be only one winner. It's all predictable, and by the end of the movie, I didn't care who won since we know they won't be facing eachother really.
I don't want to make it sound like I hated An Extremely Goofy Movie, because I didn't hate it. I just dislike it strongly. From them throwing away the outcome of the last movie, to how they drill everything into the viewer's mind (stay in school and you'll go far), to once again having Max accept his dad. THEY ALREADY DID THIS. What happened to Max when we left him at the end of A Goofy Movie? A lot apparently. There's no romantic interest for him this time around either. He makes small attempts at picking up girls, but it's halted when Goofy gets in the way. Bobby and PJ don't do a whole lot aside from "extreme" tricks on their skateboards and rollerblades, the rival team is ripped straight out of Revenge of the Nerds, and the lack of Pete as a bad influence on Goofy is sorely missed. What I do like, however, is that Goofy gets the girl. Yes, they give him a love interest, and it works. He falls in love with the school's librarian. It's cute, and all of their scenes together made the movie a little better. They click right off the bat, which is funny since these are animated characters. Who knew mood rings and coconuts could bring two people together so easily? Though people with epilepsy should stay away from their dance scene- this bit with a strobe light is going to deal some damage. Something also worth mentioning is that they give PJ a girl for a few scenes, when he's not skateboarding. She's a stereotypical poet, complete with black clothes and constantly snaps her fingers. She also resembles Jessica Rabbit, only less endowed in a certain region. It's just too bad they never give her a name or any other scenes where she does anything. See how much I'm covering here? That's part of why this sequel didn't work- they had too much going on. They barely work on anything for us to really care about. Goofy's a great character, and like I mentioned in my review for A Goofy Movie, it hurts to see him sad, but with all the jumping around, they didn't give us time to do that. Finally, I'm just getting sick of Disney's animation in these sequels. Does every character need to have 11 different shadows on them? What was wrong with how things looked originally? Take one screenshot from A Goofy Movie, and one from this one, and you'll see a big difference in the shadows on the characters. It's getting annoying. And simply zooming in on a character instead of animating them getting closer to the camera should be banned. And whoever got the people to do the song while Max's team is skating around the campus "Don't. Give. Up. Don't. Give. In." needs to be shot.
The picture quality is clean, but because a lot of the movie is done on computers instead of hand-drawn, there's not much good that I'll say about it. Everything's bright and crisp, but the quality that was put into the movie itself is hardly worth mentioning. As for the audio, you can hear everything perfectly, including some minor sound effects. At least here they did a good job. Then again, I could've done without hearing those lyrics to the "Dont. Give. Up." song. Ugh.
Where A Goofy Movie had good special features, An Extremely Goofy Movie has none. First up is Kids' Goofiest Jokes. This is a collection of kids' jokes that were on The Disney Channel years ago that ran between commercials, and it's just kids telling basic jokes that you'd hear from kids that age. There's one that a kid screws up where he says, "What does this sound like? EH-ER EH-ER EH-ER...my mom going through a blinking red light". I would've gotten it if he said it right. Go on and tell me I'm being hard on a kid, but listen buddy, if you can't tell a joke, don't tell it. That's show business. This runs for under 5 minutes [thank god]. Next is yet another interactive story, Me and My Dad. It's a short story about...Max and Goofy getting a flat tire and going to the beach. You can have this read to you by Max or not. Might I suggest you have Max read it, especially if you're on medication. The way he says some words is hilarious. With the trivia game included on the disc, I have a complaint. When the questions popped up on the screen, naturally, I chose the wrong answers to see what reaction I'd get. A screen shot of Goofy or Max looking upset would show up, and then Max would say, "You GOOFED up! Try again!". But...it'd move onto the next question. How can I try again if you move on to the next god damn question? Stupid Max. And it does this every time you get one wrong. And there's a lot of questions too. After I got the tenth one wrong and it kept going, I was confused. Finally is a video by Cleopatra, a band that never made it past The Disney Channel, for Back Where We Started From. It runs for just a little over two minutes, and makes me want to cry. This, is the entire special features section for An Extremely Goofy Movie.
Even Nyquil couldn't make this movie too enjoyable. The pros consisted of Goofy and the librarian's scenes, and that's all. The two whole times Pete said anything made me miss his bad advice and (...)-ness, and the morals were too sweet. Sure, kids under 10 will find something to like about An Extremely Goofy Movie, but it pales to the original, which was a movie for families to enjoy, not just kids. I suggest you stick to that one and forget this was even made. But if you do watch it, get ready to laugh at the little things, like some original Goofy humor when he's at his toy factory, or PJ eating corn on the cob while he's in the van with Bobby and Max on the way to college. Eating corn...on the cob...while going to school. Who knew I'd get a kick out of that?
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