Disney/Stuff I Grew Up With: A Goofy Movie (1995)

The reason I put this film in the section of Stuff I Grew Up With was because this came out in 1995 when I was seven years old and watched it many times from then up to the end of elementary school. I can't really remember how I first saw it though. I didn't see it in the theater and, while I rented it many times after I first saw it, that's not how I actually first saw it. It was probably one of two things. They might have had us watch it at school at one time, which happened quite a bit when the teachers had forgotten to plan out the lessons for the day or they just want to teach. The other possibility was that a cousin of mine had the VHS and he may have shown it to me. Whatever the case, I loved it as a kid and when I rediscovered it after I got back into Disney, I still thought it was a great flick. I agree with Doug Walker in that I was surprised that some wanted him to bash it in a Nostalgia Critic episode because it is a well-made little movie. Granted, it is one of the more dated films Disney has ever produced in any capacity since the fads, styles, and music are very 90's but I think the story still holds up.

After having a nightmare where he finally gets with Roxanne, the girl of his dreams, only to turn into a monstrous version of his father, Goofy's son, Max, heads off to the last day of school in order to impress Roxanne and prove to her that he's not a loser with an over the top stunt. Although he gets in trouble with the principal for it, Roxanne, along with all the students in the school, was blown away by the stunt and this gives Max the confidence to ask her out to a big party to celebrate the end of the school year as well as to watch a pay-per-view concert featuring a popular singer named Powerline. Unknown to Max, though, the principal has called Goofy and tells him that Max is heading for trouble if he doesn't do something about it. Worried about his son, Goofy decides to take Max on a fishing trip with him across the country, unwittingly derailing Max's date. Max isn't happy about it at all but when he tries to tell Roxanne that the date is off, he doesn't want to lose her as a potential girlfriend and tells her that Goofy is taking him to L.A. to see the concert and to join Powerline onstage. It doesn't take Max long to reveal how much of a mess he's gotten himself into and as he tries to cope with his dad's well-meaning but embarrassing antics during the trip, he has to figure out how he's going to pull himself out of it and not lose Roxanne.

This was the first film to be directed by Kevin Lima, who had worked in the animation and art department on other Disney and non-Disney animated films and he would go on to direct Disney's Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians (his weakest film by far), and Enchanted, as well as two TV movies based on the character Eloise. I think Lima proves to be a capable director with this movie and by this point, should have directed more movies than he has. Also, this movie isn't technically part of Walt Disney Pictures' official animated feature canon since it was also produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and its Australian animation department. You can tell as well. The animation and design are much better than the direct to video films the Australian department usually made but it's still not quite up to par with Disney's usual feature standards.

Lima said that his intention with this movie was to make Goofy a three-dimensional, multi-faceted character and while some may not find that to be feasible, he and the crew actually did a good job in doing so. This movie enforces something that I'm sure everybody has already known about Goofy (voiced by Bill Farmer): he's a good-natured, well-meaning guy who tries to make things right but his clumsiness and lack of intelligence causes him to mess things up. He loves his son, Max, dearly, tries to be a good father to him and make him happy as best as he can but everything he does just frustrates Max even more. He wants to be part of Max's life and have the same close relationship with him that he did with his own father and there are moments where he remembers the good times he had with Max when he was younger. However, he just can't get it through his head that Max is at that point where he wants to have his own life. The good thing is that the two of them do have a reconciliation and Goofy seems to learn that he can be a part of Max's life but he's also going to have to back off a little bit as well. Above anything else though, Goofy is always an understanding father. By the end of the movie, Goofy learns about the dilemma that Max has gotten himself in and becomes determined to help him out by getting him onstage with Powerline. One thing that's not different about Goofy, though, is his clumsiness. He's still one of the most uncoordinated and unintentionally destructive characters ever and the filmmakers taking that into account as well as giving him more emotional depth is a big part of the joy of this film.

Since A Goofy Movie is a sequel to the show Goof Troop, there are a bunch of characters from that show that are present here, the most notable, of course, being Max Goof. It's funny, when I was a kid, I was used to Dana Hill's performance as Max on Goof Troop and, since I was only seven or eight at the time, didn't understand why Max's voice was different here. Mom had to explain to me that it was because Max was in upper high school in this film and was much older. In any case, Max (voiced by Jason Marsden) is starting to look a lot like teenage version of his dad, which is exactly what he's afraid of. Heck, the film starts with him having a nightmare about turning into Goofy, much to Roxanne's horror. On top of that, when he accidentally does Goofy's "hyuk" laugh in front of Roxanne, he's absolutely mortified. He absolutely does not want to be a carbon copy of his dad, which builds upon one of the plot elements from Goof Troop where he wished that his dad would be more normal than he is (in fact, this issue of Max being like his dad was discussed in the show). You get the feeling that deep down, Max does love his father but just wishes he would let him have his independence and not embarrass him so much. It's funny because when I was a kid, I actually thought that Max was really mean to Goofy, although even then I kind of understood it. Now, I don't blame either of them. While Goofy was only trying to get closer to his son, Max had every right to get really mad at him at points because some of the stuff he put him through was very embarrassing. Max did tell Goofy part of the reason why he didn't want to go on the road trip and therefore, it is a little frustrating that Goofy still made him go, even though you know why he did. You could say that Max should have told Goofy the truth from the start but that's not the stuff a teenager would normally talk about with his dad, particularly when your dad is Goofy. So all in all, Max is a little mean to Goofy here but you do understand it and I like him here (I did think he wasn't as likable in An Extremely Goofy Movie but that's a story for another day).

You couldn't have a movie based on Goof Troop without Pete and P.J. (voiced by Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen respectively, as it was in that show), although I have to wonder what happened to Pete's wife and daughter from the show? Did Peg divorce Pete and take Pistol with her or something? For that matter, in this movie, Pete works with Goofy at the mall as baby photographers. Did the used car business he had in Goof Troop go under? In any case, Pete's his usual abrasive self in this movie but never to the point where he's absolutely hateful. He thinks he knows everything about parenting and tries to give Goofy advice, such as saying that you got to be firm with your kid, "keep 'em under your thumb" and "they'll never wind up in the gutter" as he says. Basically, this means being a bully to your kid, which is how he treats P.J and this makes for a great dichotomy between the two pairs of father and son. I always felt so bad for P.J. since he has just an obnoxious jerk for a dad who makes him feel like crap most of the time. In any case, I've always liked P.J. as a character because he's that one true buddy who always has your back and never lets you down, although he's not the most optimistic person in the world. Going back to Pete, he's also kind of a rat in this movie because he feels that Max is a bad kid from the start and goes as far to tell Goofy that Max messed with their map so they would head to L.A. Yes, Max did change the map and he shouldn't have done that but honestly, he and Goofy were having a really good time up to that point and they may have headed to Lake Destiny, Goofy's intended destination, after the concert, but Pete had to go and spoil it. It looks like Pete takes some enjoyment out of telling Goofy this, even though he claims he hates to be the bearer of bad news. Look at the devilish grin he makes when he overhears Max and P.J. talking about the map situation. It's like he's thinking, "I've got you now, Max." In fact, even in Goof Troop, it felt like Pete had something against Max. In any case, my favorite scene in this movie between Goofy and Pete is when he tells Goofy what he heard Max say about the map while they're relaxing in a jacuzzi (by the way, Pete in a speedo? Gag!) Goofy refuses to believe Pete and when he tells him to check his map, Goofy says, "I trust my son. You know, maybe Max isn't all the things you think a son should be but... he loves me." Pete says, "Hey, my son respects me." Goofy just says, "Yeah." I like that because it subtly reminds us that Goofy has seen how Pete treats his own son and he does not want his relationship with Max to go that way. You wouldn't think there would be this much depth in a movie about Goofy, let alone in a scene between Goofy and Pete, but it's there, which is why I'm disappointed that this movie doesn't get more credit than it does.

One character from this movie that I'm sad never appeared in anything else save for an episode of House of Mouse is Max's eventual girlfriend, Roxanne (voiced by Kellie Martin). She comes across as a very sweet, nice girl who, despite her beauty (and she is very pretty for an anthropomorphic dog), is just as awkward around Max as he is around her and that's why she never said anything to him before he fell off the bleachers at the football field and she asked him if he was okay. At the end of the movie when Max admits to her that he lied about his going to the Powerline concert and that Goofy doesn't know Powerline as he originally told her, she is completely understanding. Even more shocking to him is that the thing that embarrassed him in front of her, the "hyuk" laugh, was something that she found cute and that she liked him as soon as she heard it. Roxanne isn't in a lot of the movie but she comes across as so sweet and so cute that I really wish that Disney had done more with her. I like her dad too, who is this hulking, intimidating bulldog who is not fond of Max at all and never says anything either except for some low growling. The way he freaks Max out just makes me smirk. I also have to mention Roxanne's friend, Stacy (voiced by Jenna von Oy). She's the exact opposite of the shy Roxanne: she's a fast-talking, outgoing young lady who seems to be the class rep (I always chuckle when she's talking in the auditorium and this geek in the audience is saying, "Yo, Stacy! Take to me, take to me, baby!" much to her annoyance). She's also a good friend to Roxanne in that she encourages her to talk to Max, knowing that she likes him, and even gets rid of a girl who tries to hit on Max after school is over. I wish she was in the movie more because she was a hoot. Finally, I have to mention Max's other friend besides P.J., Bobby. He's voiced by Pauly Shore and just like everyone else in existence, I'm glad that Shore has dropped off the face of the Earth. He's not even credited in the movie, saying to me that even Disney knew that his involvement could hurt the movie. But, I have to be honest, I did think Bobby was a funny character. He's not in the movie much but when he was, I was smiling whenever he talked, putting "age" at the end of a lot of words, like "slurpage" and "smokage." When Max gets excited that Roxanne agreed to go out with him and begins dancing with the principal's assistant, I just love how Bobby is encouraging it, saying, "Yeah, dance with her! Groove with her!" So, yeah, I normally think that Pauly Shore is a blight on comedies or movies in general for that matter but I did like him here.

This movie is very episodic and the songs are tied into those episodes so I'm going to go through each of them. The first song is After Today, where Max and all of the students sing about what they're going to be doing after the last day of school. Max, of course, is assuming that Roxanne will be his girlfriend but I like what everybody else is singing about, like these Goth chicks on a school bus who sing, "No more pep rallies to catch, bleh!" and after the kids get off the bus, the driver sings, "I'm gonna sit on my butt." While it's not my favorite song in the movie, it is catchy and the stuff happening around Max during the sequence is memorable. After that is when Max puts his plan into motion to create an impromptu concert during the principal's speech to the students in the auditorium where he dresses up like Powerline and lip-syncs to his song Stand Out (all of Powerline's songs are sung by Tevin Campbell). It's supposed to just be shown like a music video on a screen that they put up at the beginning but while Max is performing, things go awry when he slips and falls right through the screen, exposing himself to the students. Max decides to go with it and attempts to finish the song but before he can, he's stopped by the principal. This part is okay and so is the song but it's not one of my favorite parts of the movie. I like the reprise of it after school better because it's much like the After Today sequence with Max singing while stuff is happening around him. The part of it that is the most striking to me now because it's something I didn't understand as a kid is when Max skateboards through this house and inadvertently stops this baby from sticking a fork into this power socket. You think about it, if Max hadn't done that, that baby would have been electrocuted! When I watched this movie again when I was old enough to understand it, I was kind of horrified!

One of my favorite scenes in the entire movie is when Goofy and Max set out on their trip. It starts with poor Goofy once again doing his best to cheer Max up, not realizing that he's a big part of the reason why he's so glum. He tries to play games with Max like 20 Questions and when Max turns on the radio to listen to rock music, Goofy tries to get him to sing with him by putting in a cassette of the song High Hopes. That does go over well because the two of them fight over it, changing between the radio and the cassette until the radio breaks. It's after that the song On the Open Road begins. I like this section a lot because of the sequence around the song. It's an interesting duet too because Goofy is singing happily about the joys of being on the open road whereas Max is singing about how pissed off he is and how he'd rather be anywhere else but there. Max is frightened that Goofy's insane driving is going to get them killed, with lyrics like, "The old man drives like such a klutz that I'm about to hurl my guts upon the open road" and "Roxanne please don't forget me, I will return some day," and then sees Goofy heading for a construction roadblock and says, "But I may be in traction when I do!" Soon, all the other drivers on the road join in the song, like these female country singers who ask if that's the way to Nashville (which, being in Tennessee, makes me smile) but the funniest is when Goofy sees this prisoner in the back of a police transport vehicle singing about how he's going to prison. Still thinking that Max may be heading that way, he quickly drives away from that car. There's other stuff like this little guy whose wife is a big, fat woman with a voice like a man, an old woman who drives like a maniac on the road with her cats that are in the car with her looking like nervous wrecks, a corpse who gets out of his coffin in a hearse and starts dancing on the roof (!), and even Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck hitchhiking. It's a memorable sequence in my opinion and I also like the little moment afterward where Goofy is too busy looking at the map and not paying attention to the road, forcing Max to swerve the car out of the way of an incoming truck. Max's facial expressions where he starts out still mad, sees the truck coming, and panics while he steers the car is funny as hell.

After that is when Goofy takes Max to this tourist trap that his dad took him took him to when he was young: an opossum-based theme park. They see this really bad show with animatronic possums which has corny singing, an emcee who is so old that he looks like he's about to keel over any second, and animatronics which short-circuit badly. I think anybody can relate to this kind of situation because if you've ever been on a road trip with your family, you've more than likely encountered those really bad, worn-down attractions that small-town locals try to put on. When Max sees that mother dragging her less than enthusiastic kid into the park, I can totally relate to what he's thinking because I've seen more than my fair share of that. I'm also sure most can relate to their parents putting humiliating hats on them at these types of parks, like when Goofy puts that possum hat on Max. You can probably also relate to those people who wear costumes at those parks who come up to you when you're really not in the mood, although I hope none of you have every smacked the mask around like how Max does to this loser dressed up as a possum. Finally, even though it is painful to watch, Max's explosion at Goofy at the end of the scene is totally understandable to me. It had been building to that point ever since Goofy forced him to go on the trip and humiliating him in front of all those people by twirling him around despite his protests was the last straw. On the same token, you do feel bad for Goofy due to the fact that you know he just wanted to have some fun and with reconnect with his son. His hurt expression says it all.

After that is when the two of them camp beside this small lake in the woods and Goofy tries to give Max fishing lessons but Max is still acting distant towards him. That's when Pete shows up with this ridiculous RV that has everything: a hot tub, a big swimming pool, a basketball court, a little bowling alley, retractable saw-blades that slice down trees in order to make room, and a satellite dish on top of it. You also get to see P.J. singing along with another Powerline song while cleaning his room. It's a really funny image because he can't sing as well as Max but he's not at all embarrassed because he tells Max, "You're just jealous, man, because you ain't got the moves!" At the same time, that's when Pete gives Goofy that bad "keep 'em under your thumb" parental advice, and therefore, he forces Max to go fishing with him. The moment before that when Pete forces P.J. to kick down one bowling pin left standing is where I really feel bad for P.J. It's made even worse when Pete says, "High five, son" but when P.J. attempts to do so, Pete pulls away his hand, yells, "Psych!" and laughs at P.J. What an asshole of a father Pete is. Anyway, while showing Max the Perfect Cast that his father taught him, Goofy accidentally hooks a slab of steak that Pete is barbecuing and ends up getting the attention of Bigfoot (voiced by Frank Welker), who tries to get the steak but is reeled in by Goofy after he bites into it. He then attacks them and chases them back to the campsite, where Pete promptly runs off with P.J. in the RV. Goofy and Max manage to make it to their car and Bigfoot, while still trying to attack them, becomes curious and distracted by shifting through a box of their supplies near the car. The movie becomes like Cujo here where Goofy and Max are trapped in the car all night by Bigfoot, who's thrown the keys away and attacks whenever they try to get out, like when Goofy tries to get a can of soup that Bigfoot threw onto the hood of the car. At one point, Bigfoot ends up with headphones on and hears the Bee-Gees singing Stayin' Alive, to which he promptly disco-dances to.

While all this is going on, two important things happen while Goofy and Max are stuck in the car. While waiting for the car's cigarette lighter to heat up the soup, Goofy reminds Max of Hi, Dad soup, something that Max used to do when he was a little kid where he would spell words out using the letters in the alphabet soup. This is where you get a sense that Max begins to understand his dad, that Goofy remembers all the stuff he used to do with his father and just wants to share that with him. One part that's really touching is when Max, after finishing the soup, uses the remaining letters to spell out Hi, Dad and gives it to Goofy, who almost tears up when he sees it. I know Max is a dick through most of the movie but you have to admit that was nice of him. The other important thing that occurs is Max, unable to sleep due to Goofy and Bigfoot's combined snoring, writes an intended note to Roxanne, first keeping up the lie of going to the Powerline concert and then admitting to it. While lamenting on how hopeless his situation is, he accidentally jostles the map loose from the glove compartment and that's when he changes the route to from Lake Destiny to L.A. He knows he shouldn't and that he's breaking his dad's trust but it is a way for him to get out of the mess he's in. There's a suspenseful part where Goofy starts to wake up and Max, having broken the pencil he was using, quickly uses the point to finish changing the route and puts the map up. The tension is relieved by Goofy, half-asleep, saying, "How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?" Max says, "Uh, three and a half?" Goofy then promptly falls back asleep. After that, Max rips up the note to Roxanne and lets the wind carry the pieces away, with the bit that says, "I lied" getting a closeup in the frame when it gets snagged on a twig. I kind of feel that it's supposed to mean that he not only lied to Roxanne but he's just lied to his dad as well.

It's ironic that Max messed with the map because the very next day, after they somehow managed to get away from Bigfoot, Goofy decides to make Max the navigator of the trip and that he can pick all the stops on the way to Lake Destiny. Before Goofy announces that, you can see that Max is possibly regretting doing that but he decides to go along with since he's the navigator and Goofy would never know. What follows is a montage of all the places they went to, like a beach where Goofy nearly wrecks on a jet ski; an amusement park where Goofy gets sick on the roller-coaster and Max inadvertently makes him sick again afterward; the two of them constantly having to change tires on the car; going to a cave and ending up getting chased out of it by a bunch of bats; and so on, ending with them stopping at the motel where they're again joined by Pete and P.J. This is where that awesome scene between Goofy and Pete that I mentioned earlier happens and when Goofy learns that Max did, indeed, mess with the map. This section is where you can see an emotional arc in Goofy's disappointment. First, he's genuinely hurt by what Max did and the following day when they're heading to the junction that will take them to either Los Angeles or Lake Destiny, he decides to see which direction Max will ask him to take. At the last minute, Max tells him to take the left fork to Los Angeles. This is when Goofy goes from being hurt to downright angry, which is a way we've never seen him before. He angrily swerves the car onto the side of the road, storms out in anger, and walks to an overlook. Max tries to make up with him but Goofy will have none of it, feeling that Max thinks he's just an idiot who can't understand anything. That's when Max accidentally causes the car to skid down the road and the two of them have to chase after it, arguing the entire way. I've never seen this done before where two characters are in the middle of an action and they're arguing and eventually come to a realization. In this case, it's when Goofy and Max fall down into a river with the car, and they argue about what's been happening between them during the film. It ends with Goofy telling Max that he'll always be his son no matter how old he gets.

It's while they're floating down the river on the car that the two of them sing the song Nobody Else But You, which leads to them reconciling. I have to say that song is my least favorite of them all. I don't hate it and it is the point where Goofy and Max understand each other but it's just not a catchy song in my opinion. After it, Max finally tells Goofy about the situation he's gotten himself in and Goofy decides to help him get onstage with Powerline. That's when they realize that the car is heading towards a waterfall and the two of them become separated. Goofy gets Max to grab onto his fishing pole in an attempt to pull him up but Max ends up having to save him when he gets flung off his perch and the car gets a tarp tangled onto it which acts like a parachute that gently takes them down the waterfall. Goofy slips off the pole and Max has to use the Perfect Cast technique to save his father. The moment where Max reels Goofy up and the two share a loving embrace after having nearly lost each other is quite touching.

The scene at the concert in L.A., which is the next to last scene in the movie, is my favorite part of the film by far. Goofy and Max sneak into the backstage area and attempt to get onstage but they become separated. This is where we're finally introduced to Powerline himself, who is an intended combination of Prince and Michael Jackson. I thought Powerline was cool when I was a kid and even though his image and style is dated now, I still like him quite a bit (although his waist is almost non-existent). I love the antics leading up to Goofy and Max getting onstage, with Goofy accidentally walking in on this big woman dancer in her dressing room (Goofy's reaction is hilarious), getting thrown into a special effect meant for the show which promptly electrocutes him and blows him onto the stage, and Max getting chased around backstage onto the lights before landing in-between Goofy and Powerline. In my opinion, the scene of the three of them dancing onstage is just epic and the song I2I that Powerline sings is my favorite part of the entire movie. I don't care if it's dated or what, that song has such a fun, catchy beat to it that when I rented the movie as a kid and watched it half-way through in the morning before I went to school on the last day I was supposed to have it, I tried to find a way to keep it longer just so I could watch the movie to the end in order to hear that song again. It was that awesome to me as a kid and it still is as an adult. The lyrics even fit with the situation between Goofy and Max very, very well. By that point in the movie, they have learned to see things eye to eye, just like the song says.

As I said earlier, you can tell that this movie isn't one of Disney's main animated features. It just has that look to it where it does feel more like a feature-length episode of one of Disney's animated TV shows. That said, though, this movie is very pleasing to the eye. It's bright and colorful, (the opening dream scene that Max has is quite impressive with its flowing field of grain and how dark it gets when Max turns into Goofy), and it's also interesting to, for once, see a Disney movie that takes place in modern day America, albeit with anthropomorphic dogs as the inhabitants. Due to its being set in America in the year it was made, it does end up becoming one of the more dated films Disney has ever produced. Besides the music and the presence of a character played by Pauly Shore, there's also the styles (the baggy pants and the mohawks that Bobby and some other characters have), the skateboards, some of the slang used, the outdated technology (the cassette that Goofy puts into the player in his car), Powerline himself, and so on. I know people tend to cringe at dated stuff and I do too sometimes but in this case, since I grew up in that time period, it's all nostalgic for me and I do enjoy some of it (but, even though I liked his character, Pauly Shore? I still shiver at that).

The movie has a nice sense of humor about it. Some if it is actually fairly mature and downright naughty. The first real scene is Max trying to get dressed for school and Goofy coming in on him when he's in his underwear! In fact, why does Goofy have a towel around his body and on his head as if he's a woman who just got out of the shower? At one point at the mall where Goofy and Pete work, the little girl who's getting her picture taken by Pete runs around the store without her diaper and you get a clear view of her little butt. And let's not forget that aforementioned gag at the Powerline concert where Goofy walks in on that half-naked woman in her dressing room! There's also this slutty-looking girl who tries to hit on Max after he becomes popular. She's the one who Stacy tells to back off because Max is now Roxanne's boyfriend. You could sort think of Bobby as a stoner-type character. The last time you see Pete, he does a spit take but if you take a second look, he's drinking beer! Speaking of which, during the song Nobody Else But You, Max, when referring to Goofy, sings, "Though he seems intoxicated, he's just extremely animated." The best of humor is when the movie actually makes fun of Disney itself. That possum park is clearly meant to be a run-down, tourist trap version of Disneyland and you can't tell me that show Goofy and Max see isn't making fun of the Country Bears attraction. There's a lot more humor in the film, subtle and fast bits that pop up both in the songs and in the actual story, but those are the instances that stuck out to me.

Besides the songs, the movie has a pretty good score by, of all people, Carter Burwell, who usually works with the Coen Brothers. It's a pretty good score that actually has a lot more serious moments than funny moments, although those are in there. It has themes for both Goofy and Max as well as Max and Roxanne, somber music for the moments where Max is depressed about his situation and when he hurts Goofy's feelings when they're leaving the possum park, a funny western-sounding bit of music that plays when Goofy and Max are chasing the car that turns serious when they fall into the river and then goes to touching when Goofy tells Max that he'll always be his son, and a well-done suspense score for when Goofy and Max are heading for the waterfall. The best part of that is that there's a lull in the music when it seems like Max has saved Goofy but it gets serious again when Goofy slips off the fishing pole and screams for Max as he falls. The music that plays when they embrace after Max reels Goofy back up with the rod is very touching as well. Not matter if the movie is live-action or animated, when you've got a good composer, you're going to get good results and this is no exception.

In my opinion, it's shame that A Goofy Movie is so overlooked because it's an awesome movie. It has a new, three-dimensional portrayal of a beloved character as well as other likable characters, a great emotional core with the relationship between Goofy and Max, surprisingly mature dramatic moments, good humor, colorful animation and setting, and some great songs and music. It's simply an underrated gem that tends to go unnoticed even by most diehard Disney lovers because it's not an official part of the studio's line of animated features. If you've never seen it for that very reason, I highly recommend checking it out, especially if you're a fan of Goofy. To me, it's the best feature film debut for Goofy that you could ask for.