A Goofy Movie is a 1995 animated musical comedy film, produced by DisneyToon Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures.
The film features characters from The Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop, the film itself is a sequel to the TV show. The film can also be considered a road movie. The film's plot revolves around the father-son relationship between Goofy Goof and Max as they struggle to find common ground despite Max Goof's persistence in having his own life, and winning the girl of his dreams. Whereas Goofy believes that he's losing Max due to them not spending too much time together like they use too, including that his son might end up in a gang or in the electricit chair, thanks to the misunderstanding of Pete and Principal Mazur since Goofy didn't know that Max interrupted the principal's speech to do a Powerline impression to impress the girl of his dreams, Roxanne. In the end, Goofy learns that instead of just reliving the past, that it's best to just experience new things thanks to Max changing the map's location to L.A instead of going to Ihalo, like Goofy planned to so he can have Max fish with him in Lake Destiny like he use to do with his own father. Goofy also learns that even though Max is growing up, it's just best to ease up on his clumsiness and emotions, when it comes to giving his son privacy with his school life and Roxanne.
Plot
It is the last day of the school before summer for Goofy's teenage son Max, who has a plan to shed his "Goof" label and impress his crush, Roxanne. Max and his two friends P.J. and Bobby hijack the auditorium stage in the middle of Principal Mazur's speech, creating a small concert where Max performs while costumed as Powerline, a famous pop superstar. The performance succeeds in making Max a school celebrity, but Mazur puts it to a halt and the trio of friends are sent to his office.
While waiting outside Mazur's office, Roxanne talks to Max and they both agree to go together to a party that Roxanne's friend and student body president, Stacey, is holding to watch Powerline's latest concert on pay-per-view. Unknown to Max, Mazur calls Goofy while at work, (his job is a department store children's photographer), reporting Max's actions as "dressed as a gang member, your son caused the entire student body to break into a riotous frenzy!" Believing that Max's exhibiting behavior that will lead him to a life of criminality ending in the electric chair, Goofy decides it is time to re-establish his relationship with his son, which has drifted apart over the years.
Goofy decides to take Max on a fishing trip to Lake Destiny in Idaho, on the same route he and his father took years before. Max tries to dissuade his father, but is shoved into the family car, a yellow AMC Pacer Wagon, and the holiday begins, but not before Max visits Roxanne at her house to tell her the news. When Roxanne disappointingly mentions possibly finding someone else to go with to the party, Max quickly creates a lie claiming he and Goofy are going to the Powerline concert in Los Angeles and will be on stage with Powerline. Roxanne, though initially dubious, falls for it. Goofy and Max head out on their uneasy road trip, but it is not incredibly fun as Goofy hoped.
The trip starts out on a bad foot to say the least. While Goofy tries to bond with Max, Max is sullen. Goofy later makes a stop at a run down theme park called Lester's Possum Park, which Goofy had gone to as a boy. While there, They also watch an out-of-date country folk jamboree of animatronic possums (parodying The Country Bear Jamboree), which malfunction halfway through the show. Afterwards, Max is humiliated by having an opossum leap down his pants and then beingdragged into a country dance by Goofy. Max attempts to hitchhike back home, which confuses Goofy, as he thought that he and Max were simply having fun. Later, they unexpectedly run into Pete and PJ; and are chased by Bigfoot during a fishing practice session involving Goofy's Perfect Cast technique.
Trapped in their car by Bigfoot, who has the car keys, Max and Goofy spend the night in the car. While Goofy is asleep, Max changes the road map destination from Idaho to Los Angeles . The next day, Goofy pronounces Max as official navigator of the trip while they stop at a roadside diner, unaware of the change in direction. The two go places where Max or Goofy likes and the two rebuild their relationship and have fun. But Goofy later discovers the switched map when Pete overhears a conversation between Max and PJ, and feels shocked and betrayed.
Goofy and Max later approach a highway junction where left goes to Los Angeles, right to Idaho. In a panic, Max picks left. Not too happy with this, Goofy angrily stops the car at a mountain viewpoint but forgets to put the brakes on, which causes the car to go onto the road when Max leans against it. As the two Goofs pursue the car down the road, eventually landing in a river on the car, they get into an argument. Max clued in to his dad discovering the switched map, and stated he's not a kid anymore, and that he wants his own life. The argument concludes with Goofy saying that he just wanted to be part of Max's life as he grew, and Max explaining why he wanted to go to the Powerline concert in the first place. Goofy then tells Max he'll take him to L.A. just as the two approach a waterfall. The car twits in th water as Goofy and Max try to swim against the waterfall current and Goofy falls off the car and Max goes to the waterfall in the car. Goofy finds the fishing rod and gets near Max jumping on rocks. Max tries to grab the fishing pole but misses. The car crashes into a rock and turns around and Max gets involved in a warp. Goofy uses the Perfect Cast to catch the car just before it falls from the waterfall. As Goofy tries to rit it in, the car weight pushes him into the waterfall but he grabs from a rock. A scared Max sees to the bottom of the waterfall as Goofy is released from the rock. The car falls but the warp turns into a parachute and saves Max's life. Max grabs the fishing rod and saves Goofy. But the handle splits from the rod and Goofy falls. Max saves him using the Perfect Cast.
Goofy and Max arrive in Los Angeles on the night of the concert, but are accidentally separated. Goofy is pushed into an electrical ball and flies out onto the stage where Powerline is performing his song I2I. As convinced by Max, Goofy does the Perfect Cast technique in a freestyle version as a dance style, and everybody is impressed by it, including Powerline, who then also performs it as well. Max is chased by a security guard up onto the stage's lights, but Max crashes down onto the stage between Goofy and Powerline. The three break into dance with everyone cheering for them. Roxanne, Stacey, PJ, Pete, Bobby, and others watch the concert from various televisions surprised by their performances.
The next day, Goofy and Max pull up outside Roxanne's house in the car, which was recovered and almost repaired. Max reveals to Roxanne he lied to her about mostly everything but she instantly forgives him, revealing herself she has liked him for a long time, ever since he first laughed the classic "Ahyuck" which he was embarrassed about before. The two make a deal to not lie anymore, sealing it with a kiss. Goofy's car blows up and he flies through the air, crashing through the roof of Roxanne's house where Max introduces him to Roxanne.
Voice Cast
- Japanese
- the late Yu Shimaka as Goofy (speaking & singing)
- Kappei Yamaguchi as Max (speaking & singing)
- the late Toru Ohira as Pete
- Urara Takano as P.J
- Yoku Shioya as Robert Zimmeruski
- Kaori Aso as Roxanne
- Junko Asami as Stacey
- Keijin Okuda as Principal Mazur
- ??? as Powerline
- Miina Tominaga as Lisa
- Ryusei Nakao as Chad
- Ikuko Tani as Bigfoot
- Takashi Aoyagi as Mickey Mouse cameo appearance
- Fuyuki Moto as Possum Park Emcee
- Taiki Matsuno as Lester Main Possum Park Emcee
- Yoneko Matsukane as Waitress
- English
- Bill Farmer as Goofy Goof
- Jason Marsden as Max Goof (speaking)
- Aaron Lohr as Max's singing voice
- Jim Cummings as Pete
- Rob Paulsen as P.J
- Pauly Shore as Robert Zimmeruski (uncredited)
- Kellie Martin as Roxanne
- Jenna von Oy as Stacey
- Wallace Shawn as Principal Mazur
- Tevin Campbell as Powerline
- Julie Brown as Lisa
- Joey Lawrence as Chad
- Frank Welker as Bigfoot
- the late Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse cameo appearance
- the late Pat Buttram as Possum Park Emcee (final performance)
- Kevin Lima as Lester Main Possum Park Emcee
- Kevin Quinn as Lester Main Possum Park Emcee (singing voice)
- Florence Stanley as a Waitress
Difference Between Film and Novel
- In the novel, the cardboard cutout of Powerline in Max's bedroom is said to be of Powerline playing the guitar. But in the film, the cutout seen is of Powerline singing into his handheld microphone.
- In the novel, Goofy's inner thoughts on Max’s betrayal after his argument with Pete as he walks to his car in frustration, and sits in it are shown before he discovers the change map. He said in his inner thoughts “Pete was right. Love didn't mean a thing. You had to be tough. Mean. Kids had to be afraid of you”. But in the film, none of this is shown but is implied when he walks slowly to his car and after seeing the map change. Goofy walks back into the hotel room like a mindless zombie by not even saying a word to Max or P.J as he just lays on the bed.
- In the novel, Powerline actually does get two speaking lines: "Cool dance!" (in response to his seeing Goofy do the Perfect Cast) and "Ah-one, ah-two, ah-three," (instructing Max and Goofy to dance with him together onstage). In the film, he doesn’t speak at all. He only sings.
Trivia
- It aired on Toon Disney on November 28, 2003. It aired again on November 29, 2004 and on December 30, 2004. It aired again on March 28, 2005 and on May 4, 2005. It aired again on May 19, 2005 and on August 12, 2005. It aired for the third time on September 27, 2005 and on October 17, 2005. It aired again on October 31, 2005. It aired for the fourth time on October 12, 2006 and on January 28, 2008. It aired for the last time on November 27, 2008.
- It aired on Disney Channel in 2007 and on September 8, 2009.
- It aired on Disney XD on March 4, 2009 and on September 2, 2009.
- Pete's wife Peg and youngest daughter Pistol didn't appear in this movie.
- A sequel to this film was released in 2000, titled An Extremely Goofy Movie. The sequel takes place some time after this film, involving Max's freshman year in college.
- But most knownable is that Roxanne, Max's love interest, did not appear in the sequel at all and was not even mention. However, Roxanne did appear in the television series, House of Mouse (specifically the episode "Max's Embarrassing Date"), where she was voiced by Grey Delisle instead of Kellie Martin.
- This was Pat Buttram's (the voice of the Possum Park Emcee) final film. He died on January 8, 1994 of kidney failure in Los Angeles, California. The film was dedicated to him in memory.
- During the behind the scenes of the making of A Goofy Movie. Tevin Campbell who voices Powerline, revealed that his favorite Disney character is Goofy. Because during his childhood, he always watched the classic Goofy cartoons because they were humorous, including that he loves Goofy's personality. But loves the fact that Goofy is a single parent.
- The title of the movie refers to both the main character, Goofy, and the kind of antics he gets into.
- When released in theaters in the USA in 1995, double sided movie posters were given out which had the original movie poster on one side with a blue background and a flipped image on the back with a purple/pink background. The poster measured 40 x 27 inches.
- During the song "On the Open Road", Goofy and Max pass by a familiar pair of hitchhikers, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
- Throughout the film, Goofy is only referred to by his real name once - by Pete, when they meet at the latter's trailer. Otherwise, he's referred to as "Dad" (by Max), "Mr. Goof" (by Max's Principal), or just "Goof" (by Pete).
- The first scene that Jason Marsden (Max) and Bill Farmer (Goofy) recorded together was the argument during the runaway car near the end of the movie.
- The character of Principal Mazur, voiced by Wallace Shawn, is based loosely on screenwriter Jymn Magon's own high school principal of the same name.
- Bill Farmer mentioned that he took his then-five year old son to an advanced screening of the film. Upon exiting the theater, his son was in tears. When asked why he was crying, his son responded with "When Goofy fell off the waterfall, I thought that was you!".
- Bill Farmer also says he recorded for the movie, off and on, for close to two years. He also said that he recorded Goofy’s voice for 43 days.
- Rob Paulsen has admitted several times in interviews that he has never seen this film in its entirety. Meaning that he would only see parts of the film instead of the whole thing when it airs on TV.
- Pete's role was originally written to be larger. He was a trucker who was taunting Goofy the whole road trip similar to the trucker in Duel (1971).
- Donald Duck originally had a larger role where he played a travel agent. Goofy asks "What do you think I should do?" Donald responds incoherently. Goofy responds, "What did you say? Is there someone else I can talk to?".
- On April 7, 2015 the 20th anniversary reunion for the film occurred at the D23 Expo at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Those in attendance included Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Jenna von Oÿ, Tevin Campbell and producer Don Hahn. Wallace Shawn, Pauly Shore, and director Kevin Lima also sent video messages. The panel also included musical performances from Bill Farmer singing alongside Jason Marsden, and lastly Tevin Campbell singing by himself. The whole event was uploaded on YouTube on August 20, 2015 by a YouTuber call mouseinfo.
- During the 20th anniversary reunion, Rob Paulsen reveal that during the production of the Goofy movie. That he got to meet Pat Buttram for the first time. Paulsen recall that Pat Buttram was a sweet guy, and that Pattum didn't have a grudge with Paul being his understudy for the role Chief for the Fox and the Hound franchise. Paul also recall Pattum telling him; that he couldn't do that much with his voice anyway due to him being at old age during the production.
- Although Jason Marsden is a talented singer, he did not perform the musical numbers in the film. It was out of Disney's concern that a Broadway-style musical actor should provide Max's singing voice instead. That actor was Aaron Lohr, a personal close friend of Jason's. However, 20 years later, at the 2015 D23 Expo, during a panel celebrating the film's 20th anniversary, this was rectified when Jason Marsden and Bill Farmer sang a duet of "On the Open Road" together without any prior rehearsing.
- Bill Farmer also reveal during the Goofy Movie 20th anniversary that he does hear Goofy's voice in different languages. But the most surprising to him was hearing the Japanese voice actor of Goofy, the late Yu Shimaka. Farmer reveal that he hear how Yu Shimaka did his Gawrsh A-hyuck Goofy laugh three distinct times instead of doing it all at once. Farmer commented that Yu Shimaka learned how to do the laugh by watching Farmer's own performance as the character.
- A month after the 20th anniversary reunion of A Goofy Movie. Bill Farmer reveal during an interview for Disney Radio, that after Tevin Campbell finished singing Eye to Eye to the fans at the event. He and Campbell finally got a chance to meet each other for the very first time when both of them where off stage.
- The character of Powerline is a mixture of Prince and Michael Jackson.
- When Max is singing in the school auditorium, Roxanne's position changes from close to the stage to the back of the room. The reason the filmmakers did this was to give the illusion that all Max cares about is Roxanne and no one else.
- The inspiration for the film came from Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios at the time, who was feeling distant from his daughter. He decided to go on a road trip with her that brought the two closer together.
- Pauly Shore asked for his role to be uncredited, because he didn't want Disney to sell the movie on his name similar to Robin Williams' request for Aladdin (1992).
- The costume worn by Powerline is a parody of the yellow HazMat costumes worn by Devo, circa 1977/78.
- There was a scene in an early draft that led up to Lester's Possum Park. There were signs for Paco's Water Park posted every 100 hundred miles. The last sign said to turn right, and Goofy says to Max, "You're going to love this!" He then turns left into Lester's Possum Park.
- The 'Lester's Possum Pals' show that Goofy drags Max to is a parody of Disney's own Country Bear Jamboree attraction at various Disney theme parks.
- During the Powerline Concert, Mickey Mouse can be spotted in the crowd in the lower left portion of the crowd shot immediately after the Stage manager is thrown into the DiamondVision screen. Also, Mickey Mouse can be spotted during the show in the auditorium, when Max flies towards Roxanne, in the left bottom corner, right after the camera focuses the whole room.
- The character of Principal Mazur, voiced by Wallace Shawn, is based loosely on screenwriter Jymn Magon's own high school principal of the same name.
- The nuns that frequently show up are inspired by the movie Sister Act (1992) and include caricatures of Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Najimy.
- The Powerline songs were recorded at Prince's studio in Paisley Park. Rosie Gaines, a member of Prince's group, has a solo in the song "I 2 I". The back-up singers were the gospel singers The Waters.
- This film was originally made around late 1993, and was supposed to be released in theaters during the holiday season of 1994. However, some production problems in France caused the film's release to be pushed back to 1995, while The Lion King (1994) was reissued to fill in for the film's absence.
- Tevin Campbell only needed a couple takes to record the Powerline songs.
- Roxanne's dress during the opening dream sequence is very similar to the one worn by Fay Wray in King Kong (1933) where Max transforms into a King Kong-sized version of Goofy.
- A copy of the Aladdin (1992) soundtrack can be seen at the bottom of the record store's window display during the song "After Today”. It has the genie's lamp on the cover.
- Carl's Butt Caverns is a parody name for the Carlsbad Caverns national park located in the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico.
- In the scene Goofy is taking Kimi’s baby picture, stuffed animal versions of Bambi and adult Simba can be seen in the pile in the background.
- There was a 4K restoration done, supervised by director Kevin Lima, a year before the movie was released on Disney+. During the restoration, it was discovered the file was only 2K.
- Max's transformation into his dad during the opening nightmare sequence was inspired by An American Werewolf in London (1981).
- Early drafts of the script had different destinations for Goofy and Max to drive cross-country to including getting to Hawaii and getting on a game show called America's Funniest Gladiators.
- During the song "On the Open Road' a limousine drives by and a character wearing a sequined white glove (supposedly Michael Jackson) is seen waving from the sunroof.
- This film marks the only time that Star Trek (1966) has ever been directly referenced in a Disney film. Co-writer Chris Matheson's father Richard Matheson wrote The Enemy Within (1966).
- The traveling pair who sing about the "week of rest and relaxation" during the song "On the Open Road" She is the Powerline singer Goofy bursts in on during "I2I" at the end of the movie, and if you pay attention, you will see the driver of her car's picture on her mirror. The driver is also seen unloading Max and Goofy in the instrument cases at the Powerline concert.
- During the movie, Max inadvertently destroys two giant screens. One at the begining of the movie, and one at the end. Both accidents occur during a Powerline song.
- In the scene after Big Foot attacks Max and Goofy, Max kicks the glove box and the map falls out. Max, then, looks at it. The starting location is around the area of Columbus, Ohio, answering a question that's been around for ages: "Where does Goofy live?".
- Pat Carroll, voice of Urusla from The Little Mermaid (1989), originally recorded the voice of Treeny, the large woman seen during "On the Open Road" and as the Powerline solo singer. She is credited in a list of additional voices. Her only line that remains is "Yeah”.
- During the song "On The Open Road" Goofy's keychain has the famous Walt Disney's logo "D" on it.
- When Goofy and Max are in the bat caves taking a photo of themselves with flash (which causes the bats to fly out at them), you can see that the sign above the caves as they're running out reads: "Carl's Butt Caverns".
- Goofy's car is an AMC Pacer. The elementary school director Kevin Lima attended was located around the corner from an AMC dealership.
- There are several references to Disney characters, including Max saying Goofy's 'best buddy' is Donald Duck, and a cardboard prop with Ariel from The Little Mermaid (1989) after Max gets "busted".
- P.J.'s intials stand for "Pete Junior".
- The title "I 2 I" was inspired by Prince's song titles such as "I Would Die 4 U".
- The cast recorded together which is rare for animated films/TV shows.
- The old woman in the hot rod during the song "On the Open Road" is a reference to the 1960s Southern California Dodge commercials featuring actress Kathryn Minner who was the inspiration for the hit song, "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)”.
- When the two Star Trek nerds hold up a "Weird Planet" magazine during "After Today", on the back is an ad for Sea-People (a parody of Sea-Monkeys) and an ad for free $20. The mail-in request card is self-addressed to Duck Sales CQ, Money Bin Dr, Duckburg, USA, a nod to Scrooge's money bin in DuckTales (1987).
- Disney Movie Club released an exclusive Blu-ray edition of the movie 24 years after its release.
- Powerline's atom logo was loosely inspired by the way David Bowie's performances were highly theatricalized identities.
- Jymn Magon said that the purpose of the movie was to give Goofy a chance to show true emotion and character development outside of his traditional, humorous storylines.
- Director Kevin Lima's feature film debut.
- This is a full length animated feature film to the 1990's TV series Goof Troop (1992).
- Three-quarters of the movie had to be re-filmed pushing the release date beyond the initial Thanksgiving 1994. "In those early days, you'd set up a camera looking at a large monitor, and you would film that monitor”, the director Kevin Lima explains. "One of the pixels was blown out, and every single scene in the movie had a black dot in it."
- Director Kevin Lima's goal was to make a John Hughesmovie in animation form.
- There were plans for a strong advertisement push, but due to Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg leaving, those plans were halted. This is why there is not as much merchandise from the time as a typical Disney production would have.
- Jason Marsden's first animated feature.
- Bill Farmer did 20 takes for his line, "How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?".
- Director Kevin Lima used this film to work through his feelings with his own father who left when he was 12. He didn't see him again until 20 years later after directing Tarzan (1999).
- The voice of Lester at Lester's Possum Park is the director, Kevin Lima. Lima also provided the voice of Roxanne's father and the security guard at the concert who chases Max.
- The characters of Chad (Joey Lawrence) and Lisa (Julie Brown) had much larger roles in earlier script drafts. There was a whole subplot involving Chad as a bigger threat to Max.
- The crocodile from Peter Pan appears backstage during the concert.
- Likenesses of writers Jymn Magon and Brian Pimentalare seen shooting jockstraps at Max during "After Today", and are also seen during the auditorium scene during Principal Mazur's speech looking at each other tiredly.
- When the principal calls Goofy, torture tools can be seen in his office on the left side of the screen.
- One animator was so insistent on animating the final dance number set to Paula Abdul videos instead of the originally intended references that he was fired and placed on Goof Troop (1992) instead.
- The original USA VHS release had Parachute Expressmusic video "Dr. The crocodile from Peter Pan appears backstage during the concert.
- Carole Holliday, storyboard artist for A Goofy Movie, later became one of the directors for Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004) where Roxanne was to reprise her role as Max's love interest. Her character was dropped due to the animators not having the budget to animate her wavy, long hair. Kellie Martin was kept as the voice but her character was changed to Mona.
- Bill Farmer claims that shortly before he began recording lines for the film, Jeffrey Katzenberg told him to give Goofy a normal speaking voice as opposed to the character's signature, cartoonish voice, much to Farmer's confusion, who felt audiences would want to hear the Goofy they were all familiar with and would be alienated by a regular voice coming out of Goofy. After a week and a half of recording lines in such a manner, Michael Eisner and Roy Edward Disney told Farmer to ignore Katzenberg's demands and rerecord the lines with Goofy's typical voice.
- One of Powerline's original names was Deep Freeze.
- When Max gets stopped by the principal at the end of the song "Stand Out" at the school concert, A wooden cut out of Ariel is sat on top of a skull.
- The giraffes from Dumbo (1941) can be spotted during the song "On the Open Road".
- Dana Hill wasn't available to do the movie by reprising her role as Max as her health from stage 1 diabetes was starting to decline. To make up for this, Jason Marsden was cast to give Max a deeper voice, as this took place five years after Goof Troop (1992) ended and Max's voice changed due to age. The two would meet in person before Hill's passing in 1996, one year after this movie's release.
- The writer, Jymn Magon, watched a lot of road trip movies to get an idea of different tropes of vacation movies to draw from including Vacation (1983) series. Coincidentally, the late Dana Hill (who voiced Max in Goof Troop (1992), the TV show this movie is based on) appeared in the second film in the Vacation (1983)series, National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)as daughter, Audrey Griswold.
- Voice recording of the film began in 1993, and wrapped in early 1995.
- Likenesses of writers Jymn Magon and Brian Pimentalare seen shooting jockstraps at Max during "After Today", and are also seen during the auditorium scene during Principal Mazur's speech looking at each other tiredly.
- Bill Farmer's favorite song in the movie is "On the Open Road".
- When the principal calls Goofy, torture tools can be seen in his office on the left side of the screen.
- One animator was so insistent on animating the final dance number set to Paula Abdul videos instead of the originally intended references that he was fired and placed on Goof Troop (1992) instead.
- Instead of being produced by what was then known as Walt Disney Feature Animation, it was developed independently of the company's other features, using international satellite studios out of Paris, Australia, Spain, and Canada; it was billed as a "Disney MovieToon."
- Jack Feldman and Tom Snow wrote at least 3 different opening songs in order to get to "After Today". Titles of alternate songs include "Made In the Shade" and "Roxanne".
- Jason Marsden was present when director Kevin Limawas scrutinizing over the level of vibration when the name "Goofy" slams into the title. His impression of Kevin was "This guy really knows what he wants”.
- The original USA VHS release had Parachute Expressmusic video "Dr. Looney's Remedy" included before the film.
- Fred Warter was hired as production designer for his usage of bold shapes and colors as well as having an understanding of a broad cartoon style mixed with subtle contemporary design as a way to guide Goofy into the present (1995).
- Disney initially wanted Bill Farmer to change the voice of Goofy to make him sound smarter and more serious (something that actually has been done in animated shorts released in the Fifties and Sixties that featured Goofy). Farmer, confused by this, did an attempt at it, but it was so poorly received.
- The movie had a very limited budget, which is why it took so long to produce.
- During the song "On The Open Road", when the balloon van door opens, a balloon in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head flies out with the other balloons.
- An excised subplot included the big woman, Treeny, and nebbish man, Wendell, from the "On the Open Road" song as they would show up throughout the road trip. One scene had Goofy accidentally getting hooked onto their car and dragged through a bridge and other things. Early in production, there was a running gag where Treeny would inadvertently get beaten up through Goofy's antics. It was quickly dropped for being unfunny and misogynistic after reviewing the first demo reel.
- The reason why "Stayin' Alive" was chosen when headphones landed on Bigfoot's head was both for comedic purposes and because former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg loved that song.
- In the second scene before Goofy walks in, Max has a Mickey Mouse phone on his dresser.
- One of Disney's first films to be animated digitally. According to the editor, Gregory Perler, half the film was shot on 35mm film and the other half was edited digitally using Avid.
- Pixar director Domee Shi said she was inspired by A Goofy Movie for the story of her directorial debut, Turning Red (2022).
- Debuted at the AMC Pleasure Island theater at Walt Disney World on April 5, 1995. It premiered worldwide on April 7, 1995.
- Kenny Thompkins sculpted one-of-a-kind maquettes of Max and Roxanne that director Kevin Lima keeps in his office to this day.
- The opening credits that say "Walt Disney Pictures presents" was designed to speak to the past versus the title graphics which spoke to 1995.
- An idea they had for a song was doing a parody of The Police's "Roxanne" but themed to the movie, but they decided against it because they didn't want to have to pay The Police royalties on the song.
- Jerry Rees, director of The Brave Little Toaster (1987), was the original director. After leaving, Kevin Lima took over.
- The movie's songs were recorded first.
- A season four episode of Atlanta is a mockumentary about the making of this film. Kevin Lima saw the episode and loved it.
- Most of the kids were based on types the filmmakers knew in high school. For example, director Kevin Limaknew a kid who wore a Star Trek shirt to school.
- There were roughly 30-40 different voice recording sessions during production.
- Comedienne Judy Tenuta recorded her voice as the principal's receptionist, complete with a whole comedy routine. It was not used, and she was replaced by Jo Anne Worley, famous alum of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967).
- The character's name Power Line is likely to be a nod to Kraftwerk, since the name Kraftwerk is the German word for 'power plant', since power lines delivery electricity from a power plant. Although, the Power Line character played music that was very different from that of the electronic music band Kraftwerk.
- According to a demo of the song "On the Open Road", Roxanne's name was originally Dolores.
- Jason Marsden (Max) and Rob Paulsen (P.J.) later worked together in Jungle Cubs (1996) and The Fairly OddParents (2001).
- The photographer at Lester's Possum Park is voiced by Steve Moore. Steve started as a storyboard artist on the film and later sequence directed the "I 2 I" finale at the Disney Australia studio.
- Carter Burwell's first score for an animated film.
- Jason Marsden and Aaron Lohr (who provide Max's speaking and singing voices, respectively) previously worked on the television series Peter Pan and the Pirates (1990), a series Disney currently holds the rights too.
- Early drafts of the script had much broader humor.
- Early drafts also had more horrifying locations that Goofy would have taken Nax. Luckily this was all changed in the final film. The two locations were that Goofy takes Max to a family reunion to see the rest of Goofy’s relatives. Another location was that Max thinks he's going to Paco's Water Park, and just when they're about to get there Goofy turns left and goes into the Possum Park instead.
- Voice recording took place on Stage B at Disney Studios.
- The film is a total of 78 minutes in length. If you were to remove the musical songs from it the film would only be 62 minutes long.
- Was released in it's original 1.85 : 1 widescreen presentation on Laserdisc in the USA, France and Japan. It is also in it's original 1.85 : 1 ratio on the Region 4 DVD.
- The original home media releases in North America for VHS and LaserDisc used a wild font for the words "A" and "Movie" in the movie's logo rather than the serifed font used on the poster and in the movie itself during the opening sequence. The 2000 DVD release and VHS re-release reverted to the original theatrical logo.
- The home media covers for this movie's European releases have Goofy and Max re-illustrated with the yellow and green on their outfits swapped, and added in Roxanne whom was absent from the original artwork for the movie's theatrical release posters.
- According to editor Gregory Perler, when Max plays air guitar in the car, the song is an original one minute cue called 3M8S (the S indicates source music).
- The Pacer and the Pinto were both compact cars of the 1970s which awkwardly borrowed parts from full-size models from their respective companies during product development since those products were designed to be more lightweight while borrowing parts from heavier cars of the era.
- When Max accidentally causes the car to go onto the road, Max warns Goofy about their runaway car, only for Goofy to angrily reply to him "What! Now you wanna drive too?"(implying that in this film Max is still underage to drive yet given that he's 14 years old), hence foreshadowing the House of Mouse episode "Max's New Car" where Max, having grown-up to be old enough to drive by then since the events of this film, asks Goofy on whether he could get a car. This could possibly imply that House of Mouse takes place at least four years after the events of this film, and not too long after the events of its sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie.
- In 2020, DuckTales (2017) creator Frank Angones stated on Twitter that the events of A Goofy Movie are to be considered canon to that show's continuity. This would mean that the movie's events are canon to more than one universe. To elaborate, the movie's events happen in the 1992 Goof Troop universe (which, according to "The Legend of the Chaos God" and Darkwing Duck: The Definitively Dangerous Edition, might also be the same shared universes as the 1987 DuckTales, 1991Darkwing Duck, and 1996 Quack Pack series) and a duplicate version of the same events also occur in the separate universe of the 2017DuckTales reboot.
- The outside of Max's bedroom door bears a fallout shelter sign with inverted colors (a black trefoil with a yellow background, as opposed to a yellow trefoil in a black background).
When Max tells Goofy who Powerline is, Goofy claims Powerline can't be more famous than Xavier Cugat, "the mambo king".
- During "After Today", when the two nerd students hold up a comic book, on the back is an advertisement offering people money in exchange for selling boxes of cards next to a business reply mail card. This is identical to advertisements seen on the back of real comic books,
- When Max and PJ are discussing their plans with Pete's camera at their lockers, a poster can be seen stuck in a locker's doors advertising the Alice Cooper song "Billion Dollar Babies" (mistakenly written as "Billion Dollar Baby").
- During the "Stand Out" reprise after school, Max skateboards through a house whose furniture is being carried out by the "Starving House Pets Moving & Storage" company. This is a parody of real and similarly-named moving companies, such as Starving Students Movers and Hungry Man Moving.
- When in the car leaving Spoonerville, Goofy plays a tape of the Frank Sinatra song "High Hopes".
- During the hot tub scene at the Neptune Inn Motel, Pete mentions and asks Goofy if he’s taking a break from the old "MTV generation" which was a popular music-focused television channel at the time of the film's release.
- In a bit of morbid humor, when Max and Bobby are waiting outside the principal's office, Miss Maples, the secretary, is heard happily humming Chopin's "Funeral March" while typing.
- The score when Goofy and Max chase the runaway car is based on Aaron Copeland's "Hoedown" from his ballet Rodeo.
- During the 25 anniversary, the cast reunited through zoom due to the coronavirus pandemic at the time. The event happened on April 10, 2020.
- When Goofy sees a old prisoner in a police car, the old prisoner says “I’ll be dead at 65”; this is a homage to the year 1965 as that was the last time Goofy appeared in a Disney short, and before his original voice actor Pinto Colvig’s death two years later.
- Farmer also reveal at the 20th anniversary reunion, that the only song he had a hard voicing Goofy was the musical number Nobody Else But You. Because according to him the song was about Goofy and Max's inner thought about how, and why their relationship is strained.
- As revealed by Bill Farmer, the very first goofy yell of the a goofy movie is the original 1947 version.
- Also revealed by Farmer, when recording his part of the “radio battle” scene they didn’t play him the track ahead of time to ensure he be off key.
- Bill Farmer love getting to bring drama to the character and explore Goofy’s emotional depth. He even loved seeing the character show his angry side, as he recalls watching the old classic cartoon shorts and never saw Goofy get extremely angry.
- Bill Farmer’s favorite music score is the scene where Goofy and Max chase the run away car in the canyon.
- According to director Kevin Lima, Peg and Pistol from Goof Troop were originally planned to be in the film, to the point of likely being present in the first drafts according to him. However, as they began to focus more on the father/son dynamic and the contrast between Pete & PJ and Goofy & Max, the team felt their presence was unnecessary and only muddied the story, so both were cut out entirely.
- Early drafts of the movie had a new antagonistic character in Goofy's boss, Don.
- Two songs were cut from the film "Made in the Shade" and "Born to be Bad", the latter of which is a cut Villain Song sung by the original Big Bad, Don (Goofy's boss at his job).
- Kevin Lima on Twitter, said that Pete and his wife Peg never divorced. He also told fans it’s up to their imagination, on what Peg and Pistol are doing during Pete and P.J’s summer vacation.
- When Treeny, the large female singer, first appears with her tiny husband in "On the Open Road," her gruff spoken "Yeah!" is provided by Pat Carroll, but when she sings at the Powerline concert, her voice is provided by Rosie Gaines, who worked with the late rock star Prince.
- Tevin Campbell’s favorite scene is when Goofy and Max dance with Powerline on stage. But loved the scene even more when Goofy first appeared on stage with Powerline.
- To this day many millennials fans in the black community from the late 90s era and early 2000s era see Powerline as a mixture of Michael Jackson and Prince instead of Bobby Brown. Like Jackson, Powerline is great at doing tough fast dance moves. Also like Jackson he has background dancers dance with him during a concert. Also like Jackson, he does a sold out concert that has multiple color lighting and doesn’t kick fans off the stage. Like Jackson, he is inspired by his fans and does new dance moves that are for his young fans. Lastly like Jackson, he has a young fanbase, also doesn’t miss a beat when he gets interrupted and is seen as a pop star. Like Prince, he is shown to have a rock star status, and a curly hairstyle. Also like Prince, he is a solo artist and wear one color outfits. Like Prince, he embraces old school fans and new school fans. Both wear a symbol on their clothes. Both have slick dance moves and energy, along with a flirty nature that harkens back to concerts performed by Prince at the height of his fame. Lastly like Prince, he plays the guitar, have a confident sense of style and sings with a loud microphone.
- Also this film is considered by late 90 millennials of the black community to be the number one blackest movie in history. As they see Goofy as the real best prime example of being black, representing his era of music, enjoys old school hobbies like fishing, embracing the new era of music, trying to make new memories with his child and living in a community that reminds them of a black community with nothing but black people and living the life as a single parent. Max is also represented as the black nerd that is unpopular, enjoys dancing, loves R&B music and idolizes a black rock star. However he wants not to be seen as just like his dad and distance himself from him so he can live his own life and be label as his own person instead of being nicknamed the Goof. He also doesn’t want to admit his feelings or problems to his father, goes through anxiety and is insecure about his social status at school or at home which is another stereotype of a boy boy.
- Before the road trip, Goofy mentioned to Max that at his age (14) that he was never invited to parties. Hinting that Goofy was probably being bullied due to his clumsiness and that the only friends he had was Pete and Peg. This could explain why he was very close to his late father and cherish the time he had with him before hitting adulthood.
Though this movie presents itself as a self-contained piece, its being a spinoff of Goof Troop means that it contains numerous callbacks and references to several episodes of that series:
- Most prominently, Max's embarrassment of Goofy and fear of being compared to him by his peers was also a key aspect of episodes, such as "Queasy Rider", "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp", and "Educating Goofy".
The movie takes place at the end of a school year, with Max, P.J., and their fellow students excited to begin their summer vacation, which was also the case for both "You Camp Take It With You" and "To Heir is Human".
- Also in "You Camp Take it With You", Goofy decides to take Max on an impromptu vacation that involves camping by a lake. Pete and P.J. do the same, even arriving in Pete's RV, and meet up with the Goofs during their camping trip, much to the surprise of both father-son pairs (though, in the episode, only the sons were excited to see each other, while the fathers were less than thrilled; in this movie, both the sons and the fathers are pleasantly surprised to see each other). Their camping trip is even interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a humorous, furry wild animal whose presence causes a ruckus: Humphrey the Bear (and his son) in the episode, Bigfoot in the movie (both are even voiced by Frank Welker!).
- Goofy is shown to have a great fondness for fishing, as was the case in episodes, such as "Slightly Dinghy" and "To Heir is Human".
- Pete's super-luxurious, extra-large RV with all of its fancy components is reminiscent of the custom-made RV he built in "O, R-V, I N-V U". Said RV, the Petemobile, was similarly outlandish in its accessories of comfort, but haphazardly put together and far more unstable in its construction when compared the sleeker, more elegantly-built RV that Pete has in this movie.
- When teaching Max how to fish, Goofy has a surprise encounter with the legendary Bigfoot, a creature that Goofy had previously met in "Winter Blunderland. Though, the Bigfoot from that episode was female and had a very different design from the male one seen in this movie. But, both Bigfoots do share the same voice actor: Frank Welker. And, when Pete sees Bigfoot chasing Goofy and Max, he instantly recognizes Bigfoot and flees the scene, calling back to how he too had met the female Bigfoot and had an unfortunate experience with her in that episode.
- One of the stops Goofy and Max visit during the road trip montage is a monster truck rally. Goofy had previously taken Max to one back in "Date with Destiny".
- Throughout the movie, Pete treats P.J. as mostly like a servant rather than a son, making him do a lot of menial labor tasks and heavy-lifting, similar to how Pete had previously saddled P.J. with lots of chores and cheap labor back in episodes, such as "Take Me Out of the Ball Game", "All the Goof That's Fit to Print", "To Heir is Human", "And Baby Makes Three", and "Winter Blunderland".
- Max and P.J.'s affinity for Powerline and his rock music has its roots in episodes that featured their love for other rock groups, such as The Rolling Stones ("Where There's Smoke, There's Goof"), Subliminal Messengers ("Maximum Insecurity" and "Shake, Rattle & Goof"), The Ruptured Eardrums (also in "Shake, Rattle & Goof"), Brass Knuckleheads ("And Baby Makes Three"), and an unnamed rock group ("As Goof Would Have It").
Soundtrack
The soundtrack album for A Goofy Movie was released by Walt Disney Records in 1995.
- Eye To Eye" - Tevin Campbell featuring Rosie Gaines
- "After Today" - Performance by Aaron Lohr and Chorus
- "Stand Out" - Performance by Tevin Campbell
- "On The Open Road" - Performance by Bill Farmer, Aaron Lohr, and Chorus
- "Lester's Possum Park" - Kevin Quinn
- "Nobody Else But You" - Performance by Bill Farmer and Aaron Lohr
- "Opening Fanfare/Max's Dream" (Score)
- "Deep Sludge" (Score)
- "Bigfoot" (Score)
- "Hi Dad Soup" (Score)
- "Runaway Car" (Score)
- "Junction" (Score)
- "The Waterfall!/The Truth" (Score)
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