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Pretty Good

Just perfect...

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is a hilarious Goofy cartoon where the works as a caretaker at a circus. He tries his darnest best to give Dolores the elephant a bath, as she avoids him at all cost, resulting in hilarious slapstick comedy and classic, bumbling Goofy moments. This cartoon will certainly serve up some good laughs, and the animation was colorful! Also enjoyed the little tune Goofy sings.Grade A-

"The Big Wash" is a Disney cartoon from 1948, so this one has its 70th anniversary next year. The names Geronimo, Berg and Banta are definitely enough to know that this is another quality watch from the Golden Age of Animation. It runs for 7 minutes as they usually do and show us Goofy in charge of a circus elephant, who unluckily (for Goofy) wants the peanuts, but has no interest in taking a bath. I would say from the comedic and fun perspective this could have been a bit better with the jokes and punchline, but it's not bad by any means either. The clean animation, the charm and of course Pinto Colvig's (as always) excellent voice acting make this one worth seeing. It's not my favorite Goofy cartoon, but it is a pretty solid watch as a whole. I give it a thumbs-up.

The Big Wash has to be one of my favourite Goofy cartoons along with Motor Mania, How to Dance and Goofy Gymnastics. Everything I love about Disney is here. Visually it is one of the very best-looking Disney cartoons, with vibrant, colourful backgrounds and a very well drawn Goofy. As is typical with the Disney cartoons, the music is so dynamic and energetic, adding so much to what's going on on screen. The gags are wonderful, beautifully-spaced out and very funny( all revolving around Goofy and Delores using cunning to get what they want), the best ones being when Delores dresses as a clown and the one with the water inflation. I have a friend whose interest in animation started with this cartoon and that particular gag. Goofy is lovable and perhaps a little stupid in that he doesn't see through Delores' disguise, but we love him for it. Delores the elephant makes her second of three appearances, the others being Tiger Trouble and Working for Peanuts, is funny and very cute and works wonderfully with Goofy. All in all, a wonderful Goofy/Delores cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.Dolores the elephant tries every means possible to get away from THE BIG WASH which circus handler Goofy has promised her.This enjoyable little film was the second of three in which the hefty Dolores appeared for Disney. Although eager to please, the pulchritudinous pachyderm would have only a very short movie career.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.