| The movie starts with a dream sequence. Max, Goofy's son, is dreaming
of his true love, Roxanne. In the TV show Max is an older kid, in this
movie he is definitly a pre-teen or young teenager. In his dream,
Roxanne inhabits a beautiful golden wheat field and sits there on top
of a tall pedistal, with a classic Greek dress and a "Come Hither" look
on her face. Max runs toward her, and she floats down from the
pedistal to join him. Unfortunately for Max, as they look into each
other's eyes, this idealic scene is interupted by the realization of
Max's worst fear, that he will become his father. The beautiful
landscape changes into nightmareish thorns, Roxanne pulls back, first
supprized, then terrified, as Max changes, one part (i.e. teeth, feet,
etc) at a time into his father, acquireing the mythic physical
clumsiness along with the looks. As Roxanne screems and turns to run,
Max slamms awake, in his room, on the last day of school.
Max gets a phone call from his friend PJ (Pete Junior, yes that
Pete, but the attitude is not hereditary). Max is late, for something,
we find out what later. Max promises to be there and scrambles to get
dressed. Goofy comes in to the room looking for dirty clothes, there
follows a typical dad vs son "I thought we talked about cleaning your
room" exchange followed while Goofy picks the clothes up with the
vacuum cleaner!
(I'm going to have to reduce the resolution on this)
While Max hurries to school the other students burst spontaneously into
song (Yes it's a Musical!) about how glad they are that it's the last
day of school. At the end of this song Max liteally falls at Roxanne's
feet (he is his father's son) and is too embarased to ask her out, as
he had been planning. The real life Roxanne is as pretty as his dream,
but is clearly a mortal girl about Max's age, whatever that is.
Next Max catches up with PJ, and they connect with Bob?, clearly an AV
geek. The three of them are planning something, but Bob insists in
being payed, with a pressurized cheese can which he squirts directly
into his mouth.
We seque to the last day of school assembly. The student body
president is inviting the kids to her house for a party next week,
where they will watch a concert on pay per view. She then introduces
the principle. The principle's speach is interupted, as Max, PJ, and
Bob activate the stage screen and Max, dressed as the Rock star from
next week's concert, lip syncs one of his hits, to the delight of the
assembly. However, the principle interupts, collars the three
miscreants, and drags them off to his office.
The principle speaks to the three of them one by one. Roxanne seeks
Max out, seems she wants to invite him to the party! Max is psyced!
However the principle calls Goofy and convinces him that Max is a
juvinile delinquent. Goofy decides to take Max fishing, thus
preventing him from going on the date with Roxanne.
Max trys to tell Roxanne that his Dad is dragging him off on a trip,
but ends up concocting a lie that He'll be on stage at the concert the
party will be watching!
The rest of the movie is a hilarious road trip, with Max trying to
trick Goofy into driving to LA. Several misadenture stops along the
way. Conflict but eventual reapproachment between father and son and
an amazing sneek on stage mishap, where Goofy helps Max make his lie
come true after all. On the way, Bigfoot makes a cameo appearance, and
several more songs are sung.
At the end Max confesses his deception (a la Alladin) and Roxanne
forgives him. Goofy makes one last amazing pratfall and the credits
roll.
All in all a much better movie than I expected and well worth seeing
once.
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| I took my two kids to see it Saturday afternoon while Daddy worked on
the taxes. I thought my daughter (age 7) and I would be bored but that
my son (3) would love it. Turns out that my daughter loved it, I
thought it was cute, and my son thought it was O.K. (at least that's
the feeling that I got because his vocabulary isn't at full speed
yet--plus, he was *definitely* most interested in the $25.00 Goofy
stuffed doll that was on display in the gift shop as we walked out of
the theater! Of course, I wouldn't buy it!)
I agree with the previous noters that the movie is more entertaining
than expected, mostly because of the music. It's not Beauty and the
Beast (my favorite), Mermaid, Aladdin, or the Lion King but it is an
enjoyable 1-2 hours for any age.
Nancy-
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