A few years ago, I came across this movie on Netflix. I don't remember why, but I started to watch it. I loved this movie. This and it's predecessor rank in my top 30 favorite movies ever. After watching this movie, I was all kinds of pumped for college. Yesterday, I revisited this movie after watching the first one, and I have to say that this one is an improvement over the original.
Plot - The plot is solid, and the set up is sort of believable. Goofy going to college, in a million years that would happen. It however rips off Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School. 5/10
Characters - Max is upset by Goofy's presence at college. Goofy wants nothing more than to spend time with his son. Sylvia loves to shake her groove thing, and is sort of the quiet type. P.J. is sort of just there and does nothing really except for fall for Beret Girl. He's even blasted out of the finale by Brad, as he had literally nothing to do. Bobby has incredibly stupid dialogue, it's amazing how he has such a small amount of lines and still tanks the movie's quality. Pauly Shore's best movie. Beret Girl is one of those beat poets and doesn't really do anything except add to the college atmosphere. Tank is the henchman and possibly kills off everyone on the blimp, and Brad is a jerk who nearly killed P.J., Goofy, Max, and Tank. Brad is a sore loser and does nothing but cheat in order to win. While certain characters aren't really that in depth. They are actually believable, even Bobby. The movie is mostly about Max and Goofy's relationship, and both character's personalities are explained in the first movie anyways.7/10
Voice Acting/Dialogue - The voice acting is done really well and above the usual direct-to-video garbage. Bobby as I said is just annoying, and is the only downside to this part of the movie. He only has about 15 lines in the whole movie, so you don't really notice him that much. The dialogue is just okay, it's not great, except for Bobby. Bobby's dialogue is atrocious. Especially, the Rasta pasta line. It's believable, and the few bits of exposition blend in so well, that you hardly ever realize it is exposition. 9/10
Soundtrack - The soundtrack for this movie does not date like how A Goofy Movie did with Stand Out and I 2 I. The movie is actually timeless thanks to the soundtrack, as it doesn't scream, "takes place in the year 2000". That song that song that plays while they're driving through the campus, is what got me pump up for college. It is nothing to brag about however. The movie is actually a lot more quiet than A Goofy Movie, and yet doesn't feel like the theatrical release that it's predecessor was. 6/10
Animation - The animation is neither stunning nor bad. It's kind of just meh. I will point to Max's reaction shot when seeing his father pop up unexpectedly in class in a 70s get up. That is classic. 6/10
Overall - I thought it was a really good direct-to-video outing, and was really surprised at the 57% on Rotten Tomatoes. I was even more surprised at the audience score, 47%. It's not that great of a movie, but it's also not that bad of a movie. In my opinion, that ending sequence felt really sad for me, as it would be the last time we would ever see Goof Troop in movie form. The only problem I have is Roxanne being kept out of the movie, while Bobby stayed in. Screw Bobby, Roxanne was like one of favorite parts of A Goofy Movie. It is however realistic, in that young love like that, doesn't really last. Which is kind of tease, when you hear she reappears in a House of Mouse episode, and is replaced in Twice Upon a Christmas by Mona. I did however like the new character, Sylvia. She was the movie's Roxanne. I'm actually going to bump the score of the movie down .1 point because of Roxanne's omission. Also a mention goes to the fact that the blimp disaster and P.J. being blasted out (no one could survive from that fall), means a lot of people died because of the College X Games. James Cameron would've made a movie about it, starring a romance, and a Celine Dion song. I give it a 6.5/10. Round that, you get a solid 7/10. Hope you liked my first review, or at least found it helpful.
Plot - The plot is solid, and the set up is sort of believable. Goofy going to college, in a million years that would happen. It however rips off Rodney Dangerfield's Back to School. 5/10
Characters - Max is upset by Goofy's presence at college. Goofy wants nothing more than to spend time with his son. Sylvia loves to shake her groove thing, and is sort of the quiet type. P.J. is sort of just there and does nothing really except for fall for Beret Girl. He's even blasted out of the finale by Brad, as he had literally nothing to do. Bobby has incredibly stupid dialogue, it's amazing how he has such a small amount of lines and still tanks the movie's quality. Pauly Shore's best movie. Beret Girl is one of those beat poets and doesn't really do anything except add to the college atmosphere. Tank is the henchman and possibly kills off everyone on the blimp, and Brad is a jerk who nearly killed P.J., Goofy, Max, and Tank. Brad is a sore loser and does nothing but cheat in order to win. While certain characters aren't really that in depth. They are actually believable, even Bobby. The movie is mostly about Max and Goofy's relationship, and both character's personalities are explained in the first movie anyways.7/10
Voice Acting/Dialogue - The voice acting is done really well and above the usual direct-to-video garbage. Bobby as I said is just annoying, and is the only downside to this part of the movie. He only has about 15 lines in the whole movie, so you don't really notice him that much. The dialogue is just okay, it's not great, except for Bobby. Bobby's dialogue is atrocious. Especially, the Rasta pasta line. It's believable, and the few bits of exposition blend in so well, that you hardly ever realize it is exposition. 9/10
Soundtrack - The soundtrack for this movie does not date like how A Goofy Movie did with Stand Out and I 2 I. The movie is actually timeless thanks to the soundtrack, as it doesn't scream, "takes place in the year 2000". That song that song that plays while they're driving through the campus, is what got me pump up for college. It is nothing to brag about however. The movie is actually a lot more quiet than A Goofy Movie, and yet doesn't feel like the theatrical release that it's predecessor was. 6/10
Animation - The animation is neither stunning nor bad. It's kind of just meh. I will point to Max's reaction shot when seeing his father pop up unexpectedly in class in a 70s get up. That is classic. 6/10
Overall - I thought it was a really good direct-to-video outing, and was really surprised at the 57% on Rotten Tomatoes. I was even more surprised at the audience score, 47%. It's not that great of a movie, but it's also not that bad of a movie. In my opinion, that ending sequence felt really sad for me, as it would be the last time we would ever see Goof Troop in movie form. The only problem I have is Roxanne being kept out of the movie, while Bobby stayed in. Screw Bobby, Roxanne was like one of favorite parts of A Goofy Movie. It is however realistic, in that young love like that, doesn't really last. Which is kind of tease, when you hear she reappears in a House of Mouse episode, and is replaced in Twice Upon a Christmas by Mona. I did however like the new character, Sylvia. She was the movie's Roxanne. I'm actually going to bump the score of the movie down .1 point because of Roxanne's omission. Also a mention goes to the fact that the blimp disaster and P.J. being blasted out (no one could survive from that fall), means a lot of people died because of the College X Games. James Cameron would've made a movie about it, starring a romance, and a Celine Dion song. I give it a 6.5/10. Round that, you get a solid 7/10. Hope you liked my first review, or at least found it helpful.