An Extremely Goofy Movie / YMMV

Adorkable: Sylvia, the soft-spoken library clerk, who quickly reveals herself to share Goofy's giddy affinity for '70s trends among some of his other awkward quirks. The two of them bond on the spot, and their relationship is endearingly nerdy.
Awesome Music:
- The use of some classic 70s disco tunes, especially "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb during the dance floor scene. Disco ain't dead yet!
- The girl group Cleopatra covering "Right Back Where We Started From" in the end credits.
Catharsis Factor: Tank tossing Bradley into a blimp to his Uncertain Doom. 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.
Contested Sequel: 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 Aesop Amnesia, the Extreme Sports Plot, it not being a musical even though the first one was, and being another Direct to Video Disney sequel (though not to a Disney Animated Canon movie this time) as reasons they dislike it. Fans tend to mention the realistic depiction of Empty Nest Syndrome, Bobby getting more screentime, Goofy getting a Love Interest, PJ getting a happy ending in general, and the great animation as what they enjoy.
Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Beret Girl, especially in the Furry Fandom and among PJ fans, most of whom are at least mildly annoyed she didn't get a name. She is also part of a popular Crack Pairing with Bradley.
- Tank, due to his personality and his Heel–Face Turn.
- 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.
Fan Nickname: "Mocha Chino" for Beret Girl. It's an In-Series Nickname to some degree as "Miss Mochaccino" was used as part of a derogatory comment by Bradley.
Fanfic Fuel:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Even though Sylvia doesn’t become Goofy’s official love interest after this, her potential interactions with Minnie Mouse and Daisy Duck are quite interesting to think about.
Fanon: The interpretation that Bradley has a Freudian Excuse (of a Missing Mom and a father who is worse than Pete) to explain why he behaves the way he does. While it started as one fan's Epileptic Trees, it has been adopted by others since in several pieces of Recursive Fanfiction.
Fan-Preferred Couple: 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).
Foe Romance Subtext: 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.
Harsher in Hindsight: Goofy says that he won’t see Max again until Christmas time. To date, Max's final appearance in any Disney media has been Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, released four years later, after which he was Put on a Bus for 16 years until he made a brief cameo in DuckTales (2017).
Love to Hate: 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 defeat courtesy of Tank being one of the most memorable aspects of the film.
Memetic Mutation:
- "Do you ever wonder why we're always, like, wearing gloves?"
- Max's hilarious screaming when Goofy enters the college.
- "I'm just a-YEARNIN' for some LEARNIN'!"
Misaimed Fandom: YouTube comments all over the place for both movies (but not Goof Troop) 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 radically different father, indicate this is not the proper reaction. Unfortunately, not even the disco scene itself is immune.
Moe: Sylvia. She's just as goofy as the dog himself.
Moral Event Horizon: Bradley is just a Jerk Jock 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.
One True Pairing: Goofy and Sylvia.
Popular with Furries: Considering the source material, who didn’t see this coming?
Signature Scene: The disco scene at the club.
So Okay, It's Average: Aesop Amnesia aside, it's considered to be one of the better Direct to Video Disney sequels, even if it's still nowhere near as good as the original.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character
- 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.
- Beret Girl is given hints of Hidden Depths 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.
- 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.
- 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.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The film has several compelling subplots and story ideas that many fans and critics felt were shafted in favour of a predictable Extreme Sports Plot and Goofy and Max getting Aesop Amnesia.
- PJ finds a love interest in Beret Girl, which allows him to come out of his shell and be genuinely happy for arguably the first time in the entire series. Unfortunately, most of his Character Development happens offscreen and he is literally shot out of the film in the third act.
- 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.
- 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.
Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
- 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 Funny Animals, 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.
- Many of Bradley's facial expressions, even the ones that are not intentionally meant to be scary, are incredibly exaggerated and clash with his more realistic design.
Unintentional Period Piece:
- While the original was a snapshot of high school in the mid-'90s, this one is a snapshot of the extreme sports trend of the Turn of the Millennium. Goofy's disco obsession also makes this the rare work which dates itself with what was nostalgic at the time.
- One notable case is that ESPN's appearances have the "graffiti" style logo for ESPN 2 (created when ESPN 2 was "The Deuce", a youth-targeting spinoff of ESPN, which served as the inspiration for 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.
- 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.
Values Dissonance: 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.
Values Resonance: 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.

YMMV / An Extremely Goofy Movie

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