Lack of good storyline.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"Hockey Homicide" is an American English-language cartoon from 1945, so this one is already over 70 years old, which means it is from the last year of World War II. It was made by the Kinneys and Dick Berg and this as well as the inclusion of voice talent Pinto Colvig means that here we have another Disney cartoon and this one is among the many films starring Goofy elaborating on certain situations or sports. When we say hockey here in Germany, we usually mean field hockey, so I was initially a bit surprised to see that the on-ice activity was meant. But my surprise quickly left and turned into laughter and admiration as this is definitely among the better, if not best, Goofy films. The scenes with the audience were maybe the funniest overall and it starts right away with the 2 viewers realizing they have the wrong teams on the sheet after their 100 corrections. But everything on the ice is really funny too, be it the poor referee, the 2 star players who constantly get penalized or the entire team taking place in the stands eventually watching the audience fight down there. Nice writing and narration too. How can you not love Goofy after seeing films like this one. I very much enjoyed the watch and I think from what I have seen this is the best cartoon / short film from 1945 and this means quite something as the year of course falls into Golden Age of Animation, a time that really had a lot to offer in terms of both quality and quantity. It really is a shame that the Academy never really cared for these Goofy cartoons. But we do as they have aged so well. Go see this one now.

The Goofy shorts of the 40's are the zaniest cartoons that Disney ever produced. The fact that this kind of zaniness came from Disney is striking, considering from all accounts he was against brash slapstick of the Warner Bros. or MGM sense.Most of Goofy's shorts from this time frame demonstrated, satirically, how to perform an activity, mostly playing a sport as described by an off screen narrator. In this short, the narrator explains to the audience how hockey is a spectator sport, but not in the context you would expect.Like any sport, with an audience of insanely devoted fans, the arena goes out of control. What makes this the craziest Disney short ever produced, is during the chaos, random clips of climatic scenes from previous Disney features and shorts are edited into the excitement (among them Monstro the Whale from Pinocchio). When watching this for the first time, I was reminded of the Pacers and Pistons basketball riot that took place in Detroit only the players didn't attack the fans in this short.If you thought Disney only produced soft and lighthearted adaptations of fairy tales, watch this short and you'll see that they could do a great range of genres.

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.It's HOCKEY HOMICIDE as the Loose Leafs battle the Ant Eaters for the championship.Here is another Goofy Sports film; the animation is routine, but the story is humorous as it skewers the popular icecapade. Doodles Weaver is the highly excitable narrator.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by 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 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 blizzard of doomsayers, 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 simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

This could possibly be the greatest cartoon ever made. The usual slapstick comedy found in Goofy cartoons is here combined with the talent of Doodles Weaver as the commentator of this insane hockey nightmare. Like many of Goofy's other outings this cartoon has some great ideas, but this time there is a quiet note of genius in them. You won't have laughed so much at a cartoon since you were a child