Hockey Homicide

A sports announcer, filling in for the narrator, tells the story or rather game in this case about Goofy and the Goofy-lookalikes playing an aggressive game of hockey. You get some classic Goofy moments here and there, and there's some really outrageous hockey plays and fights. Even the audience members got a little carried away, ultimately becoming the watched spectacle themselves.

Lots of action in this one and crazy stuff in this one, but not much funny scenes overall.

Grade C+

In the 1940s and 50s, Disney Studios made a bunch of entertaining how-to shorts starring Goofy. You get to watch him demonstrate how to play tennis, baseball, basketball and hockey...or, really, how NOT to play them!

This installment is about hockey and unlike the other films in the series, it is THE most violent and frenetic...even more so than the football short. This probably explains WHY I like it so much....it's unabashedly violent and silly from start to finish. Wonderfully animated and fun....exactly what you'd want in a cartoon.

This could possibly be the greatest cartoon ever made. The usual slapstick comedy found in Goofy cartoons is here combined with the talent of Doodles Weaver as the commentator of this insane hockey nightmare. Like many of Goofy's other outings this cartoon has some great ideas, but this time there is a quiet note of genius in them. You won't have laughed so much at a cartoon since you were a child

Goofy was routinely cast as the everyman. When Disney wanted to do an instructional video, Goofy was the foil. Here we have an introduction to ice hockey. Two teams duke it out. They are each made of multiple Goofys. The action on the ice is really amped up and the animation manages to keep up with the "fastest sport on ice." The referee is kept busy. The two biggest stars spend the entire game in the penalty box because they can't get near each other without blasting each other. The point is that this is a violent game, no holds barred. I did enjoy the goalies because they seem to have an honored position--until the end.

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

It's HOCKEY HOMICIDE as the Loose Leafs battle the Ant Eaters for the championship.

Here is another Goofy Sports film; the animation is routine, but the story is humorous as it skewers the popular icecapade. Doodles Weaver is the highly excitable narrator.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by 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 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 simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.