I remember seeing this cartoon film from Walt Disney Pictures at least once when I was younger, but for some reason I forced myself into watching it again when grown up, probably just to get a definite opinion, but I knew it was going to be terrible no matter what. Basically school has ended and summer has begun, teenage Max Goof (Jason Marsden) wants to catch the eye of beautiful fellow student Roxanne (Kellie Martin), so he stages an impromptu concert at the final assembly. Max's father Goofy (Bill Farmer) gets a call from Principal Mazur (Toy Story's Wallace Shawn), he exaggerates events and warns that if Max's actions may one day have him facing capital punishment, Goofy has the idea to get Max away from everything by taking him on vacation. Max has succeeded becoming a celebrity and impressing Roxanne, she agrees to go to a party where a live performance by pop singer Powerline will be showing, but then Goofy blows his plans announcing they are going on a fishing trip together in his station wagon, following a map route to Lake Destiny, Idaho. Max is forced to call off the date with Roxanne, but he fabricates a story that his father knows Powerline and tells her that he will be with the pop star when they go live on stage at the concert. Max is miserable throughout the journey to go fishing, Pete (Jim Cummings) and his son and Max's friend P.J. (Rob Paulsen) join them on the way, Pete advises Goofy to keep Max under control, and of course, with Goofy around, the trip is full of disasters, including spending the night with Bigfoot (Scooby-Doo's Frank Welker). Stopping during the journey at night Max alters the route map to change the destination to Los Angeles, where the concert is being held, Goofy decides in the morning to make Max navigator, and allow them to stop along the way wherever he chooses. Pete on one of their stops overhears Max and P.J. talking about Max's change to the map, he tells Goofy, but he refuses to believe him, but looking at the map for himself he knows he has been duped. Goofy gets very angry when Max directs him towards California instead of Idaho, they fight and end up with the car crashing into the river, but they survive, they reconcile and Goofy understands Max wanting to impress a girl he feels for, and Max saves his dad from a waterfall death using a fishing technique he taught him. Goofy and Max make it to Los Angeles and the concert, through unintentional gatecrashing they both end up dancing on stage with Powerline during his performance, watched by everyone from school, including Roxanne. In the end, after returning home, Max tells Roxanne the truth, but she admits she always had feelings for him, since he said "Ahyuck!" (the Goofy laugh), they start a relationship, the car explodes and Goody falls through the house roof, this allows Max to introduce Roxanne to his dad. Also starring Kevin Lima as Lester, Florence Stanley as Waitress and Jo Anne Worley as Miss Maples. The film is essentially a film adaptation of the TV show Goof Troop (which I watched sometimes younger and liked), but with the kid character now a teenager, Goofy in this is unfortunately not suited as a dad, his chaotic antics are not as fun to watch as the original shorts from the past, in fact in this I found him highly irritating, and his teen son with an attitude is no better. In fact the entire film was irritating, only creating titters of laughs, and the most predictable and ordinary story, I knew it was going to be terrible, and it was, not one I'd even bother showing your children, a rather rubbish animated comedy. Pretty poor!
Review of A Goofy Movie
