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Goofy has always been my favorite Disney character ever since I was little. The excessive slapstick in his cartoons has always kept me in stitches. This cartoon has never failed to disappoint me. Typically, most Disney cartoons although funny, tend to be very slow paced and gentle for children's appeal, so even for a Goofy cartoon, the slapstick humor in this short laid very thick throughout. Almost to the point where Tex Avery himself probably would've been proud.

The priceless scenes of Goofy constantly taking a beating, while very violent, is enough to ensue laughter for a very long time. Watching Goofy repeatedly crash into the ceiling and walls and doing that trademark yodeling scream of his, for some crazy reason, just never gets old.

Once again, Goofy's character barely makes it through the door after work. He is a sad case until he reads an ad in a magazine that suggests men like him involve themselves in bodybuilding. So he orders a home gym set and proceeds to fail at every step. He does keep going but, like almost all these cartoons, he ends up worse off than he was before.

"Don't be a spineless, weak-kneed, no-good nincompoop!"

So reads the advertisement in the magazine our lethargic friend reads as collapses in his easy chair after a day of work. He fills out the coupon and in no time (literally) he receives his exercise equipment in the mail, guaranteed to make a new man out of him!

He sets up the gym, gets into his Tarzan outfit and puts on a record which tells him how to proceed. He goes from heavy weightlifting to the horizontal bar for chin ups, to cable expanders for his latissimus dorsi muscles. All of these sequences are funny, particularly the last one.

This is a solid cartoon, full of exaggerated happenings that evoke laughs.

I do like Goofy and actually enjoy his cartoons as an adolescent than as a kid, where I was more partial to Mickey and Donald. Goofy Gymnastics has always been one of my favourite Goofy cartoons. The animation is colourful and fluid, Goofy has been slightly better animated before but he still moves with ease and still looks good. The music is full of the typical energy, with a delightful if brief snippet of Song of the Volga Boatmen. The story is crisp and has its charm, slightly routine, but elevated hugely by the hilarious slapstick that shapes the humour and the cleverly written and thoughtfully delivered(by John McLeish) narration. Pinto Colvig is great as Goofy, who is still as endearing as ever. All in all, I recommend Goofy Gymnastics highly. 10/10 Bethany Cox

"Goofy Gymnastics" is a classic Goofy cartoon from Disney. And, like other Goofy shorts of the era, it's full of violence, violence and more violence...which is why I enjoy them so much!

In this story, Goofy sees an ad for a Charles Atlas-type home exercise course. He responds to the ad and instantly an entire home gym arrives. Again and again, he ends up destroying his apartment and himself...all of which is quite funny and silly.

The animation is as you'd expect from this era...very high quality color. It also is, more than anything else, fun...and that's something that set the Goofy cartoons apart from the Mickey Mouse ones of the era. Well made...and well worth seeing.

I watched goofy gymnastics on Disney plus today it was so funny when goofy comes home from work tired and he trys to do some gymnastics and i liked scene were a fly lands on the weights and goofy doing a body building exercise and he falls down in to the water that scene was very hilarious when he hears lions roaring and ladys screaming the graphics from 1949 were excellently digitally restored for the 21 st century and I liked the scene were goofy falls out of his flat window and smash his face into a paper body builder that scene was so clumsy and funny and i totally enjoyed the short film..