Tiger Trouble

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

Big game hunter Goofy has no idea how much TIGER TROUBLE he's about to encounter in the jungle.

The characters of the Tiger & Dolores the Elephant steal the show in this enjoyable little film, which depicts another truly brainless exploit by the Goof. Bill Peet, soon to become a celebrated children's author, was responsible for the story.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.

I have always loved the Goofy cartoons. I especially love Motor Mania, The Big Wash, Goofy Gymnastics and How to Dance. Tiger Trouble is not one of my favourites of his, but it is typically enjoyable. Goofy is good here, suitably clumsy and lovable, but this is probably the first cartoon I've seen of his where he is overshadowed by the supporting characters. Here they are Dolores, the scene-stealing elephant from The Big Wash and Working for Peanuts, who is very sweet and very funny especially as she sits up prim and proper to eat the picnic and her rhythmic tiger tracking, and the tiger, who while looking more like a Snaggletooth sort of tiger rather than a Shere Kahn sort of tiger plays off against Goofy wonderfully, his best moments being when he loses his stripes and when he drags Goofy into the bushes. The chase through the jungle is also very thrilling. The animation is always bright and colourful, with some of the more detailed backgrounds of any Goofy cartoon, and the music has its usual energy especially when Goofy is trapped in the den and the jungle chase, sounding very much like themes from Cured Duck and Rugged Bear. I also liked that Goofy interacts with Dolores and the tiger instead of the narrator or the audience, that was an interesting change of pace, and the vocal/sound effects prove to be very creative in the case of the tiger's roaring and Goofy's yelling. All in all, a fun and very amusing cartoon. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Just discovered this Disney Goofy cartoon on the Cartoonz for U blog as linked from Daily Motion. The Goof and his elephant are in the jungle hunting. After stopping for a picnic, the tiger finds his prey. A big chase ensues with plenty of funny gags throughout as well as a narrator during the whole thing. Directed by Jack Kinney with a story by Bill Peet, Tiger Trouble is quite funny from beginning to end. Walt himself was worried about how the tiger's stripe would look animated but he must have loved the results especially toward the end. The animator Milt Kahl would eventually also animate the ferocious Shere Kahn in Mr. Disney's last movie, The Jungle Book. So with all that said, I highly recommend Tiger Trouble.

Goofy, on the hunting trail with his elephant through the jungle, run into a tiger while they stopped to have lunch. What follows are some funny moments and chases, hit and misses. From Goofy getting separated from his rifle to the tiger to the tiger peeling off off the sole of Goofy's shoe.

The elephant gives the Tiger a run for his money, trying to rescue Goofy and giving the meaning to how the tiger loses its stripes.

Overall, a pretty funny cartoon with some classic Goofy moments and hilarious sound effects.

Grade B-