OllieSuave-007
Goofy visits a basketball game where he is the only one rooting for the visiting team. There's really not much of a story here, just a lot of Goofys on the court playing a very confusing and chaotic game. Lots of back and forth, and in the basket then out then basket. The announcer tries his best to cover the game, but you'll have to listen very carefully to follow.Almost no laughs in this one, and Goofy is hardly in it.Grade D--
morrison-dylan-fan
Getting set to write my 900th IMDb review,I started to take a look at the film box sets that I've left unfinished. Gathering up the movie box sets,I spotted the complete collection of Goofy shorts that I have left half finished! Which led to me getting ready to see Goofy dribble.Joined by only one fan,visiting team Polytechnic University (PU) find that they have some serious competition against home team University U.As the game reaches its final minutes,the players start to show their "special moves" in the hope of shooting the winning slam-dunk.Backed by a thrilling score from Oliver Wallace,director Jack Hannah gives the basketball match an amazingly fluid appearance,with the rundowns the court being shown with an excellent smoothness. Drawing up 2 teams,the screenplay by Bill Berg & Milt Banta gives everyone in the match a distinctive feature,which go from the players being hilariously lumbering giants,to a cigar-chomping manager,who chomps on his final cigar as Goofy takes the final shot to win the match.
TheLittleSongbird
Goofy is a great character. He is very funny and appealing, and can work very well on his own. Here he takes on the sport of basketball and does so to amusing enough results. Double Dribble is one those shorts of his that is fun and amusing, but not hilarious. The best laughs come from the small Goofy, who is funny and very cute, and I did like how simple the gags were and how the players reacted to one another. There is a running gag however of the Goofs when doing the jump ball that they slapped one another, it was amusing to begin with but got repetitive and tiresome. The story is also routine, with the format and some of what we see quite familiar to us from other Goofy shorts. And while Goofy is still appealing and lots of fun as multiple personalities, we don't see the real him coming out in Double Dribble. The animation is very nicely done though, it is fluidly drawn and the colours have life. The music is lush and characterful, while the narration, very well voiced also, does a good job at both entertaining and teaching. The story while familiar and routine does move swiftly, has a nice light tone and the ending shows a short that has heart and a little bit of a change from the laugh-a-minute visual gags and slapstick seen in shorts before. To conclude, nice and entertaining enough, but not one of Goofy's finest hours. 7/10 Bethany Cox
ccthemovieman-1
Most of this cartoon is simply a college basketball game between the home team, University U. versus visiting Polytechnic University (U.U. vs. P.U. - get it?) Poor P.U. only has one fan in the stands.We then watch the craziest basketball game ever played, where everything wild happens including spectators making baskets! It's just pure lunacy. Until the last 45 seconds, I found it amusing but nothing to laugh out loud over. In the end, however, the little on the end of the bench who is forced to play, provides some big laughs. He inadvertently becomes the hero, of course!
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