A Goofy Movie

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A Goofy Movie
Promotional Poster for A Goofy Movie
Directed by	Kevin Lima
Produced by	Dan Rounds
Written by	Jymn Magon Chris Matheson Brian Pimental
Starring	Bill Farmer Jason Marsden
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	April 7, 1995 (USA) June 15, 1995 (Australia) December 16, 1995 (Japan) June 13, 1996 (Spain) June 27, 1996 (Hungary and Netherlands) July 3, 1996 (France) July 12, 1996 (Denmark, Poland, and Portugal) July 26, 1996 (Sweden) August 9, 1996 (Norway) August 15, 1996 (Germany) August 16, 1996 (Finland) October 18, 1996 (UK)
Running time	78 minutes
Language	English
Followed by	An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
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A Goofy Movie is a 1995 animated feature and musical film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Paris and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution, featuring the characters from the Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop. A Goofy Movie has a direct-to-video sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie, which was released in 2000.

The film features father-son moments and Max Goof trying to be like Powerline, who is the biggest pop icon in the film - and an obvious mold of Michael Jackson and Bobby Brown - and is voiced by Tevin Campbell.

1 Plot summary
2 Songs
3 Cast
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie begins in the home of Goofy and his now-teenaged son Max Goof (who has aged since his initial appearance on the television show "Goof Troop"). After a hectic morning at home, Max arrives at school and implements his plan to shed his "Goof" label and impress his crush, Roxanne. Max and his friends later hijack the high school's stage while Principal Mazur is giving a speech about an educational summer. Suddenly, Principal Mazur falls through a trap door as the big screen shows Max dancing in Powerline's costume, including his dark glasses, to his hit song "Stand Out". Max trips over a camera cord, falls through the screen, and stares at the audience, which is screaming and cheering for him. After a brief pause, smoke fills the stage and Max moonwalks and dances in a style similar to that of Michael Jackson and Prince. Max is then hooked to a piece of rope and flown through the auditorium, only to be caught while reentering the stage by an irate Mazur, who removes his dark glasses revealing his identity to the audience at the stage.

In the aftermath, the three teens are sent to Principal Mazur's office. After seeing Max dancing with his secretary because Roxanne agreed to go with him to a party, Principal Mazur calls Max's father, and exaggerates Max's actions to the extent that Goofy begins to think that Max was the inciter of a gang fight. Goofy is led to believing Max is exhibiting behavior that will lead him to a life of criminality ending in the electric chair. In an attempt to re-establish his relationship with his son, which has drifted apart slowly over the years, Goofy, inspired by a bobblehead he buys at a supermarket, decides to take his son out on a fishing vacation to Lake Destiny,Idaho, where he and his father went when Goofy was Max's age. Oblivious to the fact that times have changed since his era, Goofy believes this vacation will be like no other, especially when he's spending some good quality time with his son.

However, on the other side of the fence, this vacation is Max's worst nightmare, and it couldn't have happened at a "worse" time- his original plan was to escort his dream date Roxanne to her friend Stacey's end-of-year-party. With his father's vacation already on plan, after trying to explain this to Roxanne, Max not only faces losing what he's worked hard for, but he also faces the possibility of losing his dream date to another guy, thus breaking his heart in the process.

Max considers his only chance to preserve his relationship with Roxanne is to lie to her by telling her that he's going to Los Angeles to attend a pop music concert of Powerline and that he'll be dancing with him on his final number. Roxanne falls for his lie, and Max now faces a huge problem, as Roxanne plans to watch a national telecast of the concert at her friend Stacey's house. Max and Goofy set off for their first destination, which is a small lake in Minnesota; stopping by at Lester's Possum Park (see Triva below).

After being chased by Bigfoot, Goofy and Max are forced to hide in their car from the monster, without their car keys. While Goofy is asleep, Max decides to fulfill his promise to Roxanne, and changes the destinations on the map, ending the alterations by pinpointing their trip to Los Angeles.

The next day, Goofy names Max the navigator of the trip at a small diner, and they set out again. Max now leads them to all his favorite places, such as a baseball stadium and a roller coaster park.

They meet P.J. and Pete (their neighbors) at a motel farther up the road. Pete (who has been traveling with Max and Goofy on different roads with P.J.) has overheard P.J. mentioning Max changed the locations on the map. He then tells Goofy. At first, Goofy doesn't believe him, but soon he begins to wonder if what Pete says is true. He then goes back to the car, and finds he was right. Goofy is traumatized by this.

The next morning, Goofy is unusually downhearted, and Max is confused as to why. They come to a road which has a sign. Left leads to California, and right leads to Idaho. Max reluctantly cries, "Left!!!" at the last second, and Goofy crossly swerves the car to the left. Finally, tired of hearing Max's ideas to cheer him up, and thinking he is teasing him, angrily parks the car on the side of a road and silently walks to an area to be alone. Max asks what's wrong, and Goofy tells him. Max is very unhappy now, thinking he has lost the bond they established. Suddenly, the car starts rolling downhill without a driver, and a wild chase begins. As Goofy and Max chase after the car, the automobile lands into a river with Max and Goofy atop, where the two renew their bond and Max explains what actually happened at school.

Eventually, the river leads to a waterfall, which Goofy and Max, terrified of falling to their deaths, try to escape. Goofy manages to get off, but Max wasn't so lucky. Goofy attempts to save his son, but the first few tries are unsuccessful. Max reaches the waterfall, but is lifted into the air after getting snagged in the tent, which now seves as a parachute. On the final try, Goofy falls and grabs onto the fishing pole he gave Max, but the cork grip slides off, resulting in Goofy falling down the cascading falls. Max, desperate to save him, does a fishing trick his dad taught him, called "The Perfect Cast", and saves him. Max, grateful to see his father alive, apologizes for his mistake. Goofy shrugs it off by declaring their destination is Los Angeles.

While at the concert, Max is chased by a security guard, and Goofy explores the concert hall. They end up on stage with Powerline, where Max tells Goofy to "do the Perfect Cast", which without the fishing pole looks remarkably like Powerline's dance. Everyone at Stacey's house sees Max on stage, dancing with Powerline. PJ also sees this and calls his Dad to watch. Nevertheless, Pete, who was hoping to get Goofy to crack down on Max in a sort of cruel manner, is surprised to see the Goof on TV, even spewing the beverage (possibly some sort of beer) all over the screen.

Despite keeping true to his promise that he will attend the concert, Max decides to tell Roxanne the truth and reveals the fact that he lied and doesn't know Powerline. When asked why he did it, he claimed that he wanted her to like him, only to find out that she already liked him, not only regardless of whether or not he had been on stage with Powerline, but at least in part because of his laugh, which Max had earlier seen as an embarrassing evidence of his mounting similarity to Goofy.

The movie closes as Max introduces Goofy to Roxanne, and the three presumably move on to a brighter future, though Roxanne and Stacey are both absent from the sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie.

[edit] Songs

After Today - This song is sung by Max, the first time he goes to school. He is singing it about how after this day, he'll have everything (Roxanne, fame, etc.)

Stand Out - Max sings this song after he kicks the principal out during a school assembly. He is obviously trying to imitate Powerline, and does a great job until he is caught and sent to the principal's office.

On the Open Road - This song is sung by Goofy and Max, after they have left for the fishing trip. Goofy is trying to convince Max that he will have a good time, but Max isn't very convinced.

Nobody Else But You - This song is sung by Goofy and Max, after Goofy discovers that Max has altered the route on the family map and their car falls into a river. They sing it while they are floating down the river on the roof of their car.

I 2 I - This is the finale of the show, where Goofy, Max, and Powerline all join together and sing about "setting the world in motion," and "seein' it eye to eye." This song also inspired Goofy to turn his "perfect cast" into a dance move.

[edit] Cast

Bill Farmer - Goofy Goof
Jason Marsden - Max Goof
Jim Cummings - Pete
Rob Paulsen - P.J.
Kellie Martin - Roxanne
Pauly Shore - Robert 'Bobby' Zimmeruski (uncredited)
Jenna von Oÿ - Stacey (spelled as "Jenna von Oy" in the credits)
Wallace Shawn - Principal Mazur
Tevin Campbell - Powerline
Frank Welker - Bigfoot
Julie Brown - Lisa
Joseph Lawrence - Chad
Wayne Allwine - Mickey Mouse
Tony Anselmo - Donald Duck

Japanese Dub Version

[edit] Trivia

During the "Stand Out" scene where Max portrays Powerline, a tribute to Andy Warhol can be found while Max is dancing on the big screen.
After Max crashes into the screen at Powerline's concert, you can see Mickey Mouse in the bottom right corner when the crowd is cheering.
To date, A Goofy Movie is the only animated Disney movie produced in widescreen that has a pan and scan-only DVD. (However, its PAL counterpart does have a non-anamorphic widescreen DVD.)
During the "On The Open Road" scene, a Wilhelm scream can be heard when Goofy's car crashes into a scaffold and warning signal with construction workers on it. Another can be heard during the Powerline concert scene.
Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck make a cameo appearance together in the film, during the song "On the Open Road" in which Mickey sings one line and Donald looks at him furiously. Mickey appears later among the audience in Powerline's concert. Also Mickey appears as Max's phone and Donald Duck is mentioned as Goofy's best friend.
A Goofy Movie was first released on VHS home video on September 6, 1995. It would be reissued on June 20, 2000, along with a DVD version.
One of the lyrics in the "On The Open Road" song is "I got no strings on me", which is a reference to one of the songs in the Walt Disney animated motion picture Pinocchio. Another is "I'm feeling fancy free," a reference to the Disney film Fun and Fancy Free, which contained the shorts "Bongo the Bear" and "Mickey and the Beanstalk".
Roxanne first appeared in this film. Not only did she appear in this film, she made a brief appearance in the cartoon show, House of Mouse, exclusively in the episode: Max's Embarrassing Date, but was there voiced by Grey DeLisle, instead of Kellie Martin.
Goofy's keychain has the Disney 'D' on it in gold colouring.
A cover of Frank Sinatra song "High Hopes" is briefly heard in the film when Max and Goofy are listening to music in the car.
Lester's Possum Park is an obvious parody of the Country Bear Jamboree attraction in the Magic Kingdom ( in the Spanish version, it's called the Lester's Raccoon Park ).
During the Bigfoot scene, the song heard in the headphone is Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees.
Nuns can be seen in five scenes. The store, the open road song, the diner, the monster truck rally, and the powerline concert.
The car driven by Goofy is a stylized AMC Pacer.
Another known voice actor Dante Basco has a short appearance as the geeky kid who catcalls to Stacy on stage during the school assembly.
The scene with the mime, in which Goofy plays along causing a piano to drop, is set at Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
When playing 20 questions, Goofy says he is thinking of a man. Max guesses 'Walt Disney'. His name is said towards the end of the film when Max attempts to play the game again with his father.
Elvis Presley can be seen in the left side of the diner, behind Goofy.
Pauly Shore plays Bobby, one of Max's friends, but his name does not appear in the end credits of the film.

When Max sings his voice is deeper

When Max is getting ready to perform infront of the school backstage,there is a backdrop of a skull with a mermaid sitting upon it, and a pirate ship is seen, this is a connection to another disney movie, Peter Pan.

[edit] External links

A Goofy Movie at the Internet Movie Database

Goof Troop
Characters: Goofy \| Max \| Pete \| Peg \| PJ \| Pistol
Location: Spoonerville
Media: Video Game
Films: A Goofy Movie \| An Extremely Goofy Movie