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Hockey Homicide
A crowd gathers at the skating rink to watch the big championship hockey game of the Pelicans versus the Aardvarks. Although referee "Clean Game" Kinney does his best to supervise, the hockey game really gets out of hand eventually. Two star players, Bertino and Ferguson, are so anxious, they never get let out of the penalty box, referee Kinney is never able to drop the puck without being physically hurt somehow, and the spectators themselves are so worked into the game, they take out their aggression on the ice while the players relax in the bleachers.
| Release : | 1945 |
| Rating : | 7.3 |
| Studio : | Walt Disney Productions, |
| Crew : | Background Designer, Director, |
| Cast : | Doodles Weaver Pinto Colvig |
| Genre : | Animation Comedy |
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Waste of time
Very Cool!!!
Perfectly adorable
Let's be realistic.
A sports announcer, filling in for the narrator, tells the story or rather game in this case about Goofy and the Goofy-lookalikes playing an aggressive game of hockey. You get some classic Goofy moments here and there, and there's some really outrageous hockey plays and fights. Even the audience members got a little carried away, ultimately becoming the watched spectacle themselves.Lots of action in this one and crazy stuff in this one, but not much funny scenes overall.Grade C+
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.
YET ANOTHER ENTRY in those multi-Goofy how to and sports specials. In this case, it takes on Ice Hockey (Or just "Hockey", as we'd say on the Southside of Chicago). It's manic pace and generously supplied abundance of finely tuned and tailored hockey gags surely must have been a welcome hiatus from the most serious and grim daily War news that had occupied the transcendental over-soul of the World for the previous half decade or so.THE STORY MAKES fine exploitation of every it. The stadium, the rabidly enthusiastic fans, the names of the teams, the official and the break-neck speed of the action all contribute to the fun.IN ONE SENSE, this film must have been both a pleasure to do and also somewhat easier than some others. After all, at its core is lampooning a particular esoteric and highly specialized sector of the Sports World in Hockey and its fans.THE CARTOON ALSO acts as a sort of barometer of the times in illustrating behaviour and practices that were in vogue then, being the mid 1940's of World War II and shortly thereafter. It was a time when the public was just a trifle more formal than now. Our case in point is illustrated so beautifully in the costuming of the spectators portrayed. Simply stated, folks dressed up then. It was suits, ties, nice dresses for the ladies; as opposed to blue jeans & tee shirts of today.BUT THEN AGAIN, on the other hand, we have the game itself. That never does change.
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.
