Score one for a short that took me by surprise.
I really didn’t think I was going to like this short very
much considering the plethora of Goofy sports shorts that there are I wasn’t
expecting anything really unique here, but that’s indeed what I got.
Unlike the how to shorts the narrator doesn’t spend any time
explaining the rules or the game we just go right into gags with crowd. The guy trying to relax in the stands and
getting crowded in I’ve seen before, but I like how the gag stays with him and
the guy beside him both cheering for different teams so they’re rough housing
with each other. They interact with the players
too when the puck gets switch out with a burger. The short has a great flow and combines three
different things during the game. The
gags of the spectators in the stands,
Bertino and Ferguson going in and out of the penalty box, and the antics
of the game itself with the referee getting pummelled and the gags with both goalies.
Then at the end the whole thing just goes nuts as pucks are
sent flying everywhere, with a nice bit of foreshadowing too with referee shown
to have extra pucks in his pocket, goals are scored by the hundreds, clips from
other shorts are thrown as the crowd rushes onto to the ice to show the chaos and
it’s all wonderfully tied together by Doodles Weaver’s excellent frenzied
narration.
This is a great
short. I love how energetic everything
is. I love how all the gags are
connected throughout the game. I love that
the players are all named after Disney animators and story men and I love at
the end they’re just sitting up in the stands eating burgers and ice cream
watching the crowd punch each other out.
It’s just a really fun short and I get the feeling everyone making it
had a good a time as the audience does watching it.
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