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Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Hockey Homicide" is an American English-language cartoon from 1945, so this one is already over 70 years old, which means it is from the last year of World War II. It was made by the Kinneys and Dick Berg and this as well as the inclusion of voice talent Pinto Colvig means that here we have another Disney cartoon and this one is among the many films starring Goofy elaborating on certain situations or sports. When we say hockey here in Germany, we usually mean field hockey, so I was initially a bit surprised to see that the on-ice activity was meant. But my surprise quickly left and turned into laughter and admiration as this is definitely among the better, if not best, Goofy films. The scenes with the audience were maybe the funniest overall and it starts right away with the 2 viewers realizing they have the wrong teams on the sheet after their 100 corrections. But everything on the ice is really funny too, be it the poor referee, the 2 star players who constantly get penalized or the entire team taking place in the stands eventually watching the audience fight down there. Nice writing and narration too. How can you not love Goofy after seeing films like this one. I very much enjoyed the watch and I think from what I have seen this is the best cartoon / short film from 1945 and this means quite something as the year of course falls into Golden Age of Animation, a time that really had a lot to offer in terms of both quality and quantity. It really is a shame that the Academy never really cared for these Goofy cartoons. But we do as they have aged so well. Go see this one now.

Vimacone The Goofy shorts of the 40's are the zaniest cartoons that Disney ever produced. The fact that this kind of zaniness came from Disney is striking, considering from all accounts he was against brash slapstick of the Warner Bros. or MGM sense.Most of Goofy's shorts from this time frame demonstrated, satirically, how to perform an activity, mostly playing a sport as described by an off screen narrator. In this short, the narrator explains to the audience how hockey is a spectator sport, but not in the context you would expect.Like any sport, with an audience of insanely devoted fans, the arena goes out of control. What makes this the craziest Disney short ever produced, is during the chaos, random clips of climatic scenes from previous Disney features and shorts are edited into the excitement (among them Monstro the Whale from Pinocchio). When watching this for the first time, I was reminded of the Pacers and Pistons basketball riot that took place in Detroit only the players didn't attack the fans in this short.If you thought Disney only produced soft and lighthearted adaptations of fairy tales, watch this short and you'll see that they could do a great range of genres.

morrison-dylan-fan Getting caught by surprise with Disney's wonderful Western spoof Goofy short Californy er Bust,I quickly decided to get out of the saddle,and join Goofy for a deadly round of hockey.The plot:Playing in a packed out stadium,hockey teams the Loose Leafs and the Ant Eaters get ready to play the game of their lives in the championship final.As the game reaches the half way point,the over excited crowd reveal that they are not going to allow the 2 teams to be the only people on the pitch,for what may be the most violent hockey game of all time.View on the film:For the animation in the movie,director Jack Kinney disappointingly relies to much on clearly reusing animation from Goofy's past short titles,which leads to the stylish "fresh" animation being snowed in by Kinney's recycled footage.Thankfully giving the film the burst of life that it richly deserves,Doodles Weaver delivers an electric performance as the movie's narrator,with Weaver making Bill Berg and Dick Kinney's screenplay move at an amazing pace,and also giving the film's ending a real shot of lightning.

Ron Oliver 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.