Horseracing!
Another Goofy sports short, but like the good ones it has
something that makes it unique from the others.
In this case it’s that Goofy himself isn’t really the one carrying the
short as a character this time. He is in
the opening with pouring over all the books to pick the perfect horse so hard that
he literally ties himself up in knots, but really it’s more about visual gags with
the different terms for racehorses, the ways of picking a horse, and
combinations of sights and sound effects like when Snapshot is ‘tip-toeing’
during the race that drive this short.
Snapshot is a fun character too with his confident swagger and
need to mug for the cameras. I love that
there is a shout out to this with the names of his parents and grandparents
being things like Flashbulb and Negative.
That and him having to mug for the photo finish so Old Moe win is just
great. However, the Goofy picking Old
Moe bugs me. I think it’s because of the
way the narrator announces him. He says
our psychic friend is going to pick a horse as if we should already know who
this character is, but we don’t. He just
comes out of nowhere and bets on Old Moe, did a scene get cut during production?
Also I would have liked to have seen other horses like Bubble
Bath and Plumber's Friend be more true to their names like Snapshot is rather
than all of them just being one base design with some colour changes. I think it would have given the end of the
short the chance to be just a little bit more creative than the underdog wins cliché. Insomnia could have bloodshot eyes and be
buzzed out on coffee. Flannel Cake could
have a plaid coat design and so on I think it’d be neat.
Still this is a nice little short with fun visuals and an
underdog victory for the end is fine even if I think it could have been
expanded just a little bit more with some more diverse character designs and explaining
who the heck the guy in the mustard suit was.
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