An Extremely Goofy Movie

An Extremely Goofy Movie
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Directed by	Ian Harrowell Douglas McCarthy
Produced by	Lynne Southerland
Written by	Scott Gorden Hillary Carlip
Starring	Bill Farmer Jason Marsden Rob Paulsen Pauly Shore Jeff Bennett Brad Garrett Jim Cummings
Music by	Steve Bartek
Distributed by	Walt Disney Home Video
Release date(s)	February 29, 2000 (2000-02-29)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

An Extremely Goofy Movie is a 2000 American direct-to-video animated film made by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Douglas McCarthy, it is the sequel to A Goofy Movie, featuring the return of characters from the television series Goof Troop. The story follows Max's freshman year at college, which is compounded by his father's presence when Goofy arrives at the same college to get a degree.

Plot

It is an important time in Max's life, for he is now 18 and is college-bound with his best friends P.J. and Bobby. Believing himself to be free of his father, he strives to work together with his friends to become the top team at the college X-Games. Upon arriving, Max quickly gets himself noticed by the "Gamma Mu Mu" fraternity, who are the reigning X-Games champions, in particular their leader, Bradley Uppercrust III. Bradley invites Max to join his fraternity, but Max refuses if he cannot bring his friends along with them. A rivalry starts between Max's team and Bradley's Gammas, and they bet whoever loses in the finals will be towel-boy to the other.

Meanwhile, Goofy does not take Max's leaving well and suffers from empty nest syndrome. His depression causes him to be involved in an explosion at his factory job and he is fired. To make things worse, as Goofy dropped out of college after 3 years during the 1970s, he can't get another well paying job unless he finishes his senior year to obtain a college degree. To his son's mortification, Goofy joins him on campus to achieve the degree. Desperate to get Goofy to leave him alone, Max talks him into pledging the Gammas, which works. Additionally, Goofy meets and befriends the college librarian, Sylvia Marpole, who shares his nostalgic love for the 1970s. Romance soon blossoms between Goofy and Sylvia, and they decided to go for a date that coming Saturday, which becomes a spectacular success with them dominating the dance floor with classic disco.

Although Max is initially supportive of Goofy's "distractions", tensions start to rise between them when Goofy beats Max in the first round during the X-Games qualifiers, though his success is due primarily to cheating by Bradley, who implemented a rocket booster on Goofy's skateboard. Bradley also tries to distract Max's own focus as he skates (by using a pocket mirror to blind Max as he is skating), and as a result, Max's team barely makes it into the semi-finals. After the qualifiers, Max angrily snaps out and yells at Goofy to "Leave me alone and get your own life!!!". Max's rejection causes Goofy to lose his focus, forgetting his date with Sylvia and failing his first midterm. Goofy begins considering to drop out but, after inadvertently getting some advice from Pete, he regains his focus and returns to college. Meanwhile, A depressed Max considers transferring believing that despite making it into the semi-finals, he still let his teammates down, but after some encouragement from PJ and Bobby, he re-considers and decides that they can still win. Goofy returns to campus and happily makes up with Sylvia, who then helps him study for his makeup exams, which he passes with straight-A's. Additionally, Goofy decides to quit the Gammas, not wanting to compete with or against Max at all. The Gammas take this as an insult and literally throw him out. When Goofy re-enters the Gamma house to return his pledge pin, he overhears their plan to cheat in the final X-Games events like they always have. Goofy tries to warn Max about this, but Max, still angry at Goofy, refuses to believe him.

At the X-Games semi-finals, Bradley and the Gammas repeatedly cheat in various obvious ways, but are not caught, eliminating all the teams besides Max's. Just before the final race is to begin, Bradley activates a rocket mechanism in P.J.'s skates that blasts him away, leaving Max's team with only two players. Without enough teammates, Max and Bobby face disqualification unless they can find a replacement player. Realizing that Goofy was trying to warn him about The Gammas' cheating, Max apologizes to Goofy on the Jumbotron and asks him to join his team; Goofy sees this and gladly accepts. In the final race, one of Bradley's cheating maneuvers backfires (Goofy threw his lucky horseshoe at Bradley's face when he was about to push the button that starts the rocket mechanism implanted on Max's skate board) when a giant wire-and-fabric X-Games logo falls on Tank, one of Bradley's minions. Ignoring the accident, Bradley races forward to win the race for himself, but Max and Goofy decide to help Tank escape. Despite the setback, Max manages to catch up to Bradley and wins the race by a nose and receives the grand-prize trophy. Conceding defeat, Bradley shakes hands with Max (showing good sportsmanship) and will become his towel-boy, but Max calls off the bet because Bradley has to deal with Tank. Tank then turns on Bradley for ditching him, by sling shot him into the X-games blimp.

Once the term is over, Goofy receives his college degree (and the trophy) and leaves Max to his own devices at college. Goofy and Sylvia drive off for a picnic, implying that their future will be together.

Cast

• Jason Marsden - Maximillian Goof
• Bill Farmer - Goofy Goof
• Rob Paulsen - Peter "PJ" Pete, Jr
• Pauly Shore - Robert "Bobby" Zimmeruski
• Bebe Neuwirth - Sylvia Marpole
• Vicki Lewis - Beret Girl
• Jeff Bennett - Bradley Uppercrust III / Unemployment Lady / Chuck the Sportcaster / Additional Voices
• Brad Garrett - Tank
• Jim Cummings - Peter Pete / Additional Voices

Soundtrack

Unlike its predecessor, this film is a "straight" picture with no musical sequences where the characters sing on-screen. However, a number of songs are used in the soundtrack and have been included in the official album release which is titled Disney's An Extremely Goofy Movie Dance Party!, released in February 2000 alongside the film itself.

1. Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades - Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
2. Right Back Where We Started From - Cleopatra (band)
3. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
4. ESPN X Games Theme 1 and Theme 2
5. Knock on Wood - Carmen Carter
6. Don't Give Up - John Avila, Terrence A. Carson, Carmen Carter and Carl Graves
7. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Carmen Carter and Donnie McClurkin
8. Nowhere to Run - John Avila
9. "Pressure Drop" - The Specials
10. ESPN X Games Theme 3
11. C'mon Get Happy! - The Partridge Family

Censorship

When this film aired on the North American Disney Channel and its counterpart channel Toon Disney (now Disney XD), the scene where Max and Goofy are saving Tank from the burning "X" logo that fell has been cut out due to the September 11 attacks; Tank, Max, and Goofy are merely shown surviving with no explanation. Another edit is the removal of the ESPN logo from the film (despite the fact the movie was produced and aired by Disney, who owns it), although it still appears during the end credits.

Reception

An Extremely Goofy Movie won the award for "Best Animated Home Video Production" and was nominated for "Best Voice Acting by a Male Performer" at the 28th Annie Awards in 2000.^[1] Rotten Tomatoes currently rates the film at 50%.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Legacy: 28th Annual Annie Award Nominees and Winners (2000)". Annie Awards. http://annieawards.org/28thwinners.html. Retrieved 2007-09-09. 
2. ^ "An Extremely Goofy Movie (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/extremely_goofy_movie/. Retrieved 2007-09-09. 

External links

• An Extremely Goofy Movie at the Internet Movie Database
• An Extremely Goofy Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• An Extremely Goofy Movie at AllRovi