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2* {{Adorkable}}: Sylvia, the soft-spoken library clerk, who quickly reveals herself to share Goofy's giddy affinity for [[TheSeventies '70s]] trends among some of his other awkward quirks. The two of them bond on the spot, and their relationship is endearingly nerdy.
3* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
4** The use of some classic 70s disco tunes, especially [[https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LeujZNV08 "Shake Your Groove Thing"]] by Peaches & Herb during the dance floor scene. Disco ain't dead ''yet''!
5** The girl group Cleopatra covering [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGQeU1aKsFQ "Right Back Where We Started From"]] in the end credits.
6* CatharsisFactor: Tank tossing Bradley into a blimp to his UncertainDoom. Considering all the dastardly actions the latter has done throughout the film, up to purposely leaving the former to die just so he could win the race, it's absolutely rewarding.
7* ContestedSequel: Opinions on this movie vary widely, with some viewers thinking it's completely unwatchable, some loving it when they hated the first one, and others who love both films. Critics cite the removal of Roxanne, Max and Goofy's AesopAmnesia, the ExtremeSportsPlot, it not being a musical even though the first one was, and being another DirectToVideo Disney sequel (though not to a Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon movie this time) as reasons they dislike it. Fans tend to mention the realistic depiction of EmptyNest Syndrome, Bobby getting more screentime, Goofy getting a LoveInterest, PJ getting a happy ending in general, and the great animation as what they enjoy.
8* EnsembleDarkhorse:
9** Beret Girl, especially in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom and among PJ fans, most of whom are at least mildly annoyed [[NoNameGiven she didn't get a name]]. She is also part of a popular CrackPairing with Bradley.
10** Tank, due to [[BoisterousBruiser his]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality]] and his HeelFaceTurn.
11** Sylvia Marpole. Certainly helped by her attractive appearance, loving and {{Adorkable}} personality and relationship with Goofy. Unfortunately, she didn’t end up integrated into the "Mickey and Friends" ensemble, to the dismay of many fans.
12* FanNickname: "Mocha Chino" for Beret Girl. It's an InSeriesNickname to some degree as "Miss Mochaccino" was used as part of a derogatory comment by Bradley.
13* FanficFuel:
14** As seen in ''Goof Troop'', Goofy, Pete, Max and PJ tend to get into wacky misadventures together quite often, while Max and PJ have grown a lot more chummy with Bobby since ''A Goofy Movie'', turning their dynamic duo into a power trio. All five characters share one scene at the start of the movie, where they seem to be pretty well-acquainted with each other, so one can only imagine the sort of wacky misadventures these characters had during the gap between the two movies, with Bobby as their new fifth wheel.
15** [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Due to their absence without mention]], fans frequently hypothesize and discuss where Roxanne and Stacey were during the events of this film, and whether they still keep contact with Max and his friends.
16** One can only imagine how Pete would react if PJ chose to introduce him to his girlfriend, as well as seeing the confident adult his son has grown into.
17** Even though Sylvia doesn’t become Goofy’s official love interest after this, her potential interactions with WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck are quite interesting to think about.
18* {{Fanon}}: The interpretation that Bradley has a FreudianExcuse (of a MissingMom and a [[AbusiveParents father who is worse than Pete]]) to explain why he behaves the way he does. While it started as one fan's EpilepticTrees, it has been adopted by others since in several pieces of RecursiveFanfiction.
19* FanPreferredCouple: Many fans of the movie (and Goofy, in general) ship Goofy with Sylvia, rather than Clarabelle Cow (who was already paired with Horace Horsecollar to begin with).
20* FoeRomanceSubtext: Bradley toward Max, just a little. When they first meet, his greetings sound like come-ons, and they decide that whoever loses the finals will be the other guy's towel boy. It's a little weird.
21* HarsherInHindsight: Goofy says that he won’t see Max again until Christmas time. To date, Max's final appearance in any Disney media has been ''WesternAnimation/MickeysTwiceUponAChristmas'', released four years later, after which he was PutOnABus for 16 years until he made a brief cameo in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''.
22* LoveToHate: Bradley is a smug, narcissistic sociopath who will go as far as endangering the lives of others (including Tank, his right-hand man) for the sake of winning. He is still considered a very entertaining villain, with his [[LaserGuidedKarma defeat]] courtesy of Tank being one of the most memorable aspects of the film.
23* MemeticMutation:
24** "Do you ever wonder why we're always, like, wearing gloves?"
25** Max's hilarious screaming when Goofy enters the college.
26** "I'm just a-YEARNIN' for some LEARNIN'!"
27* MisaimedFandom: Website/YouTube comments all over the place for both movies (but not ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'') either dismiss PJ as "the fat guy" or ridicule him for his weight. PJ's statement that judging people on their size alone is a cultural problem in this movie, combined with how sympathetically he's played over the entire series and the fact that his weight is a very minor part of his character and he's the same shape as his [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan radically different]] father, indicate this is not the proper reaction. Unfortunately, not even the disco scene ''itself'' is immune.
28* {{Moe}}: Sylvia. She's just as goofy as the dog himself.
29* MoralEventHorizon: Bradley is just a JerkJock until he tries to ''kill'' his competitors when they get ahead of him and even leaves his right-hand man to die so long as it means he wins.
30* OneTruePairing: Goofy and Sylvia.
31* PopularWithFurries: Considering [[WesternAnimation/GoofTroop the source material]], who didn’t see this coming?
32* SignatureScene: The disco scene at the club.
33* SoOkayItsAverage: AesopAmnesia aside, it's considered to be one of the better DirectToVideo Disney sequels, even if it's still nowhere near as good as the original.
34* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter
35** Despite her popularity, Sylvia did not become Goofy’s official love interest, nor has she appeared in any official Disney media after the film's release, to the dismay of some. Of course, to be fair, Goofy not having an official love interest has always been part of his character.
36** Beret Girl is given hints of HiddenDepths when she becomes PJ's love interest, but is ultimately left a minor character to the point where she doesn't even get a ''name''.
37** After playing a prominent role in the previous movie, Pete only appears in two scenes, with any thoughts about PJ going to college being minimal at best.
38** Roxanne, Max’s love interest from the previous film, is not seen or even mentioned at all in this one. Even people who otherwise like this movie tend to agree that her absence keeps it from reaching the quality of the first film. The same can be said for her best friend, Stacey, who was also underutilized in the first film.
39* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The film has several compelling subplots and story ideas that many fans and critics felt were shafted in favour of a predictable ExtremeSportsPlot and Goofy and Max getting AesopAmnesia.
40** PJ finds a love interest in Beret Girl, which allows him to come out of his shell and [[EarnYourHappyEnding be genuinely happy]] for arguably the first time in the entire series. Unfortunately, most of his CharacterDevelopment happens offscreen and he is literally shot out of the film in the third act.
41** Because Max spends the entirety of the film focused on the X-Games, he doesn’t get involved at all in Goofy and Sylvia's romantic subplot. Max merely accepts it as a suitable distraction for his father and barely even interacts with Sylvia as a result.
42** Goofy frequently lectures Max and his friends about staying focused on their goals, but their long-term goals and aspirations for their lives are never elaborated on. Max’s major and desired career choice are never even mentioned and his primary goal in the film is competing in the X-Games, which has nothing to do with his actual education.
43* UnintentionalUncannyValley:
44** Many of the designs for the film's new characters can fall into this. While the established characters such as Goofy and Max look like properly done FunnyAnimals, characters such as Sylvia, the Beret girl and Bradley look like humans with dog noses and ears tacked on, which some viewers found occasionally distracting.
45** Many of Bradley's facial expressions, even the ones that are not [[NightmareFace intentionally meant to be scary]], are incredibly exaggerated and clash with his more realistic design.
46* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
47** While the original was a snapshot of high school in the mid-[[TheNineties '90s]], this one is a snapshot of the extreme sports trend of the TurnOfTheMillennium. Goofy's disco obsession also makes this the rare work which dates itself with what was nostalgic at the time.
48** One notable case is that Creator/{{ESPN}}'s [[ProductPlacement appearances]] have the "[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/logopedia/images/a/a3/ESPN2_logo_1999.svg/revision/latest?cb=20160801081047 graffiti]]" style logo for ESPN 2 (created when ESPN 2 was "The Deuce", a [[TotallyRadical youth-targeting spinoff of ESPN]], which served as the inspiration for [[Film/DodgeBall ESPN 8, "The Ocho"]]); the year after the movie was released, ESPN 2 dropped that logo for a simple variant of the main ESPN logo.
49** The film promotes the idea that college is the only path to success. Nowadays, a blue-collar worker like Goofy would be more likely to retrain at a trade school, but then the plot of him going to school with Max would not have happened.
50* ValuesDissonance: The plot centers around Goofy being fired from his job and needing to go to college to find another one. Nowadays, with the cost of a college education a serious barrier to getting a degree, Goofy could potentially find more success at a trade school.
51* ValuesResonance: The movie makes the point that PJ isn't gross or hideous due to his weight. He has a fat positive monologue and Beret Girl finds him attractive, which was a surprisingly body positive message for 2000.

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