One of my all time favorites.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

One of the first Goofy cartoons it also has the How to format with the narrator describing Goofy's attempt at flight.There is no other supporting character, its just Goofy with his inept attempts to take off stay up.The attempts at flight are inventive with Goofy trying various methods to take off be it catapulting up and he always becomes unstuck.The best vignette is when he does take off he flies upside down so the sky is beneath him and the ground above him.As its a cartoon short, it remains inventive without running out of puff, whilst Goofy lives up to his name.

With having enjoyed seeing the Disney character Goofy debut in the delightful short film Goofy and Wilbur,I decided to take a look at the follow up to Goofy's memorable debut.The plot:Reading a "How to fly" book,Goofy decides that it is the perfect time to build a glider,so that he can begin to learn about how to fly.Initially excited about the idea of flying,Goofy soon discovers that he might not reach the heights that he had originally expected.View on the film:Revealing a real attention to detail in the animation of the film,co- writer/ (along with Ralph Wright) director Jack Kinney subtly uses shadows to give the movie a much more dimensional feel,with the use of shadows for Goofy's glider,leading to Goofy's wonderful crash landings being given a stronger thud,than they would otherwise appear.Whilst sadly not featuring a supporting character for Goofy to act against,the screenplay by Jack Kinney and Ralph Wright take's full advantage of John McLeish's delicious mock-doc narration by adding a terrific surreal touch to the movie,which includes a (literally) round the world glider flight.

I do like Goofy, although I do have more of a soft spot for Mickey and Donald. I really like Goofy's Glider, it was one of my first Goofy cartoons and it is still one of the better ones to me. It is not exceptional story-wise, but it is animated beautifully, vibrant and fluid as animation should be, and the music is energetic and dynamic. The narration(in the how to format that features in a number of Goofy's cartoons) is cleverly written and thoughtfully delivered by John McLeish, and the sight gags and Goofy's antics(revolving around his clumsiness and doing everything wrong) evoke a lot of great chuckles.All in all, a cartoon that is definitely worth watching. 9/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.The most dangerous place in the air may well be GOOFY'S GLIDER.There are plenty of chuckles in this the first of the Sports Goofy cartoons. Some pertinent information about gliders is actually given in between the Goof's attempts to get airborne. John McLeish narrates in his best documentarian manner.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.