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I simply adore this cartoon! Not only is it for me the single funniest of the Goofy sports cartoons, but also alongside Goofy Gymnastics, How to Dance, The Big Wash and Motor Mania as one of his best ever cartoons. The animation is great, colourful and done at fever pitch, the use of multiple Goofys was an interesting touch, and the story is fast-paced with a wonderfully frantic ending and the game itself as wild as you'd expect. But it was the gags and pace that really struck me that was so good about Hockey Homicide. The pace has so much energy to it it's almost like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon(that's a compliment by the way), there is some inspired use of footage of Pinocchio(with Monstro), How to Play Football and How to Play Baseball, and the gags are delivered in a constant breakneck fashion and keep coming so it's not until the ending(which is still one of the cartoon's highlights) when you can sort yourself out from laughing so much. Goofy is still as clumsy and likable as ever, and Doodles Weaver's narration is very witty. All in all, a riot and is recommended without a moment's hesitation. 10/10 Bethany Cox

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.

Likes ants swarming from a nest, the crowds flock into the arena just in time to see an ice hockey match between the loose-leafs and the pelicans - well that's what it eventually says on the score sheet. The teams are led by "Fearless Ferguson" ("Goofy") and "Icebox Bertoni" ("Goofy") and a heated rivalry is guaranteed! Under the arbitration of "Clean Game Kinney" ("Goofy") - the casting budget was obviously an issue here, off we go and pretty soon it's end to end stuff with the crowds having little idea who's doing what before the much anticipated carnage ensues on and off the ice! As ever, the game is carefully judged to come to an head with a few seconds left to go, and is accompanied by a pun-ridden commentary that tries to keep the punters vaguely informed of the chaos. Indeed, as things hot enough up there's even an opportunity for a "Spitfire" to shoot, too! Does anyone really care about the result - the teams sure don't. Good fun, this - loads of action and hats off to the breathless commentator, too!

This is a hilarious Goofy sports short focusing on one wild hockey game. It moves very quickly, animation fans will want to back up and watch several sequences again. The visual gags are among the best Disney has done. Doodles Weaver, famous from Spike Jones and his City Slickers, plays the role of the play by play announcer perfectly. Watch this along with the great Donald Duck hockey short "The Hockey Champ."

My favorite Goofy cartoon. I love hockey, but sometimes the absurdities of the game overwhelm the sport. This gem captures the lunacy of "let the boys play" to perfection. The whole set of Goofy sport cartoons are masterpieces of slapstick and imagination. Some are to be found on Disney+: why not this one?