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Summary: Goofy Rules
Review: This may not include the first cartoon Goofy was ever in but that's because it was before he got his own world. This is all his starring roles. His "How To's" are some of the most classic and funniest ever and Goofy's Glider is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. In the 50's when he evolved into an everyman we get some hilarious results such as the excellent "No Smoking" and "Motor Mania" but also some faithful old How To renditions including my favorite "How To be A Detective" which can't be showed on TV anymore because of its violence. Even though it is a cartoon....but ah well. This is a great collection. The extras may not be as strong as that of say, Mickey Mouse in Black & white but they are great nonetheless. Complaints? yes. One Major One. No "Play All" feature!! But that's just one flaw in this otherwise perfect DVD set.
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Summary: Absence of "Play All" is something like "2nd quality"
Review: We own copies of "Silly Symphony", "Mickey Mouse: In Living Color" and this "The Complete Goofy" from the Walt Disney Treasures - series.Surprisingly, the "Play All" option is missing from this DVD (The Complete Goofy) which was there in the other two ("Silly Symphony", "Mickey Mouse...") We watch this DVD just because we cannot stop watching Goofy. But it is really painful (particularly after having this option in other two DVDs). My first reaction was if I bought something like "2nd quality". There is not a singly story in the DVD which someone would like to skip. Then what was the point in not providing this option.
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Summary: Absolutely Goofy
Review: What more could any Goofy fans ask for than every theatrical short from Goofy's original film series? This DVD set delivers just that. This set that spans Goofy's entire solo film career from 1939's Goofy and Wilber to 1961's Aquamania. The set also explores Goofy's evolution from simpleton to sports expert to 1950s everyman. My favorite shorts in the series are those featuring Goofy in his everyman roles: family man, husband, father, and employee. Much of the cleaver domestic comedy is wonderful, particularly "Father's Day Off". This short features Goofy as a father trying to take care of the house for a day while his wife is out shopping. Goofy's attempts to keep everything running smoothly from dealing with his son to getting all the household chores done has hillarious results. The set also includes lesser seen and often censored shorts including "Californy or Bust", a western film parody complete with Indian attacks, and "Victory Vehicles", which focuses on the transportation problems due to shortages and rationing in World War II. This collection is defiantly recommended to any Disney fan or anyone that can enjoy the comic antics of Disney's Goof.
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Summary: Waiting in anticipation
Review: Will comment again after I receive the package, which I have just ordered from Canada.
Really hope the title I'm "sweating" on, Motor Mania, is the one I saw here in Australia in the 50's titled "Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Walker"
Didn't realise they had different names for different regions in those days?
I'm sure I will be able to correctly rate it highly after viewing.
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Summary: A throw-down classic set.
Review: You can't go wrong with a set like this. Except for the fact that you can't play the whole collection all the way through, it's beautifully-reproduced. These are all cartoons that I got to watch again and again on The (still new) Disney Channel way back in 1984-86, and man, did I ever take them for granted after a while. After buying this, I took a touching trip down memory lane as I watched these cartoons for the first time in nearly two decades. One of the things I'm grateful for is that I can jump to the shorts I like and ignore others without wearing out the recording or quality since this is a DVD. In my case, that's a good thing because I don't like all of them for reasons I'll mention while describing the set in the following paragraph. For those of you who have never experienced the entire original catalogue of Goofy cartoons: if you think today's celebrities go entirely too crazy getting their bodies redone, wait until you discover what the animators did to poor Goofy's design, especially during the '50s! It's a bizarre peculiarity, one that I've found fascinates some and irritates others, and you'll get to witness it here... the Disney staff went overly crazy experimenting with Goofy's design to the point where he sometimes wasn't even consistently logical within the same short! Sometimes they gave him bare skin instead of fur complete with human feet with toenails (UGH!!!), sometimes they removed his ears, at one point they moved his now-signature teeth together into beaver buck teeth, and even got to the point where they were changing around his personality and even robbed him of his unique voice! Whether or not you find this irritating or fascinating while watching all this depends on your personal likes and dislikes. For me, it has always been the former to this day. Even when keeping his design consistent with black feet, they have insisted on giving him human toes instead of doggish ones (and to be fair, I don't like the fact that Mickey and Minnie, not to mention various Tex Avery cartoons, are also this way and I personally think it looks ugly), something which drives me crazy to no end and has long kept me from completely falling in love with Goofy as a splendid cartoon character (I adore animals and like such basic details to look like animals when having them on their "hind legs". I mean, seriously, I love experimenting with character design as much as anyone else, but the liberties they took with THIS character are ridiculous, especially since they all failed and Goofy has now been brought back to his original look on "House of Mouse" after all of that). It made me want to grab a pencil and fix the poor thing all the time, especially his feet. ;) That's a shame too, because I love Goofy and his personality so much... but some of the cartoons keep him consistent to my personal liking and, even with black feet with human toes, at least the design works well enough in those shorts that it doesn't distract me as badly as all the other detail changes do. So I find myself playing the cartoons I enjoy and ignoring the other ones. But as I say, that's one of the cool things about a DVD: you can just jump around at will and play whatever you like the most to death, and that's precisely what I've been doing. I still love "Aquamania", which was done with the then-new Xerox camera, which remains one of the most beautifully-drawn Goofy cartoons ever. The early ones are easily my biggest favourites, but there's one particular here which I've forgotten all about until now and I've been playing it nonstop: "The Big Wash". This one is, in my opinion, the definitive Goofy cartoon: even with the weird foot design, he is animated wonderfully with lots of sharp expression without a single misstep or weird design experiment to get in the way, and his voice here--if possible--sounds even cuter than in the other ones (I love how he sounds when he gets tickled here!). And, of course, the story for it is both funny and cute at the same time. This is the Goofy I loved as a child, not to mention the one that everyone expects to see at Disneyland, in what I call the "top-notch gloss look" Disney perfected in their animation in the mid-to-late 40s that graced such later films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Peter Pan". This set is the first time to my knowledge that Disney has ever bothered to release the *full* collection of Goofy cartoons, and I mention all of the above to assure others that it's worth having for the price even if you don't enjoy every short because you'll be guaranteed to get that "special one" you've been hoping to own for ages (provided it's a theatrically-released Goofy solo vehicle). So it's worth buying just for that opportunity alone. And besides all that technical stuff, it's of course worth having just to enjoy. As a grown-up cartoonist rewatching them all and even "rediscovering" them, I realized that I was watching a part of my own artistic roots. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Except for his poor feet, of course. ;)
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