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.

TheLittleSongbird 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

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.

laishers 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