Why is it called that?
Seriously this short is called ‘How to Play Football’, but instead
of talking about the game, they literally muffle that part out, we’re just
watching Goofy play football with a lot fun gags and some great angles thrown
in.
There’s a different announcer than usual and different
opening music, and that works given the tone shift away from other how to
shorts. Also the opening of everyone from
fans to doctors and mascots being important to the game and pouring out before
the players do is great.
This is more energetic than ‘Double Dribble’ was and the
same coach is used in both and that’s good although I don’t know why they went
for the crazy coat gag at the end. It
just seems to come out of nowhere. It
seems to be a gag for the sake of a gag and I think there’s a bit too much of
that going on in this short. I don’t think
we needed the cheerleaders punching each other out gag for instance or the coach
in the locker room gag, and the devil face he morphs into at one point is just
creepy. And were the butt shots really
necessary?
Also a minor complaint for this line” “tech is snowed under
by a wave of tech.” Was that a flubbed
line that never got fixed? The teams are
Taxidermy and Anthropology only one of them is tech. Those names for college football teams are
great though.
All in all it’s still a perfectly well made short. The slapstick is good, the music and announcer
work well. The angles with the football
being tossed and kicked around add nice visual variety, but it’s not one of my
personal favourites of the how to bunch simply because it’s not in that how to
formula, I think it should have been called something else and maybe done a few
less gags.
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