Simply A Masterpiece

How sad is this?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

"Double Dribble" (maybe not the best title) is a Disney cartoon from 1946, so already over 70 years old and from briefly after WWII. This one runs for about 7 minutes, slightly over, as they usually do. If you take a look at who made this, you will find the names of many who were pretty prolific and successful for Disney back in the days and with that I am not only referring to Pinto Colvig. His name immediately makes clear that here we have another How-to cartoon starring Goofy and the focus is on basketball this time. I thought it was a very creative and entertaining little movie, still is in fact, and you could see that the writers really understood something about this sport on several occasions. The more random scenes like the trigger-happy referee add some nice comedy too. And the one fan in the audience for the winning time truly embodies the spirit of how it's all about the game and how you can thrive from loving your sport so passionately and dedicatedly and you don't need to be an active player for this love at all. So well done to all the Goofys you see in here. I highly recommend checking this one out and it is a definite contender for best short film from its year perhaps only defeated by Johnny and Alice, a true must-see for everybody who loves these many old cartoons.

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--

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

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.It's DOUBLE DRIBBLE time as U. U. plays visiting P. U. for the all-important university basketball game.Hoop fans will get the most enjoyment out of this little film which spoofs the popular sport. The animation is routine. The main difficulty with some of these Goofy sports cartoons is that the real Goofy never appears, leaving his myriad look-alikes to carry out the plot.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, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. 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.