Reviews for An Extremely Goofy Movie

I’m starting to believe that Disney has a hang-up with creating sequels. It seems like every time I turn around, there’s a new one out, and sometimes it’s the second sequel to a hit Disney movie. But I’ll admit, An Extremely Goofy Movie had a better plot concept then most of Disney’s ventures. It’s a pretty continuous story, picking up where the last left off. The basic plot is a lot like A Goofy Movie. Only instead of being in high school, Max is an 18 year old college student heading off to the State University, WITHOUT his goofy dad. For Max, life couldn’t be better. For Goofy, life couldn’t be worse.

Max and his two buddies, PJ and Bobby decide to compete in the X-Games – an extreme ESPN sports competition that the snobby, stuck-up, cheating Gama Mu Mu Fraternity has won every year since the Games premiered. Max and his buddies are ready to beat the Frat guys, and they make a little bet with the President of the Gamas – whoever loses the X-Games becomes the other’s “towel-boy”. Back at home, Goofy loses his job, and is informed at the local unemployment office that he can’t get another job without a college degree. Goofy gets a brilliant idea – he’ll go to college with “Maxy”! Showing up in bellbottoms and wide-collar shirts, Goofy becomes the laughing stock of the campus (to which he alone is completely oblivious to), until he shows the local college kids that he has all the moves from the 70’s. Just to add to the lovely plot, Max dumps his dad on the Gamas, Goofy gets a girlfriend (the stuck-in-the-70’s librarian), and he ends up competing against his own son in the X-Games, until Max announces on live television on front of 20,000 sadistic sports fans that he needs his dad’s help to win. Together Goofy and Max prove that they need each other some of the time.

So what’s the music like? Not as good as the first soundtrack, which wasn’t the best Disney could do there either. The second soundtrack has a lot of disco remakes and dance hits. Not my favorite stuff, and the characters don’t sing, but it works nicely as “background” music.

Yea, it’s a lot like the first one, but yet, it won’t make much sense if you DON’T see the first Goofy Movie. I LOVED the first one – it was completely awesome, and Squirrelperson did a great review of it! But the second? Not AS good, but certainly not Disney’s worst sequel.