GOOFY MOVIE CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA MOVIE
It all made sense my natural gravitation to the aesthetics, the familiarity of the energy, Tevin fucking Campbell … how did I not see it before?ĭonald Glover pays homage to the movie that’s now considered a cult classic in this week’s Atlanta with a hilarious mockumentary-style episode that chronicles the making of “the Blackest movie of all time.” The entire thing plays out like a bit you take too far with friends after a smoking session: What if Disney made A Goofy Movie Black on purpose? What if a Black person made A Goofy Movie? What if a Black person was the CEO of Disney? Well, that’s exactly what happened in the Atlanta universe.
The people over at Vice picked up on the story too. Though I loved the movie, I never thought too deeply as to why until I saw a random Twitter thread years ago explaining how A Goofy Movie is actually about a Black man and his son. I remember craving the overly drippy cheese pizza and crushing over both Roxanne and Powerline. A movie that got a lot of time in her DVD/VHS combo player was A Goofy Movie, and of course its sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie. But it made me smile here and there.I used to love sleepovers at my grandma’s house because of her large television, premium-cable subscription, and vast collection of VHS tapes and DVDs. So Roger is a hero for “finding” his long lost son and he wins back his ex-wife-who, evidently, he didn’t actually kill earlier in the movie. Roger defeats this 6’6” war-seasoned soldier zombie with his cloth belt and a positive attitude. You see, his undead ‘Nam buddy kidnapped his son to exact his revenge for not killing him when he was suffering during their war tour. He rescues his son and somehow finds himself in his swimming pool. Unphased by the attack, Roger crawls into this alternate dimension and finds his son in a bamboo cage in a tropical swamp. Did that sentence make sense? Well, neither does this movie!Ĭontinuing the search for his son, Roger creates a portal out of his bathroom medicine cabinet and is swiftly attacked by a tentacle monster. This goes very poorly and Roger is dragged into the closet and then apparently into the tropical forests of Vietnam where he bumps into an old ‘Nam buddy of his before being vomited back into his spare bedroom. Later he enlists his nosy neighbor’s help to ambush the closet monster. He’s a writer and a veteran he’s got this. He simply tries to “deal with it” as if it were a domestic nuisance. Why Roger doesn’t take stock of the situation and sell this evil house and forget about it is beyond me. Of course, two super-ugly house demons try to steal him. We meet Roger’s beguiling neighborhood fox (Mary Stavin Octopussy, A View to a Kill) who, I feel, is only in this movie so that the director could show us her body in a swimsuit. As his next door neighbor gets nosy, a mounted swordfish comes to life, his tools become telekinetically homicidal and the house fools him into killing his ex-wife (appearing as a bloated slimy demon), things still feel slow and random-bordering on boring.Ībout halfway through the movie the soundtrack marks a significant tone shift to something somewhat silly.
The first hint of remote interest comes when he opens a gate to the unknown (i.e., a bedroom closet door) after midnight and an amorphous monster attacks him. Even season one of An American Horror Story–really big house!
After all, no one wants to watch a movie about a haunted 1200 square foot 2 bed/2 bath now do they? Nope, we want a BIG house. Whether it’s The Nesting, The Amityville Horror, The House on Haunted Hill, Night of the Demons, The Haunting, The Shining or this…ALL “house” movies simply MUST take place in a really big house. Uninteresting visions of his son and his time in Vietnam also punctuate the slow-paced fist act of the story. This transition calls difficult memories as his son disappeared while he had lived in the house years earlier and his aunt had suspected that “the house took him.” He also has visions of his aunt warning him about the house. Roger (William Katt Carrie, House IV, Mirrors 2), a divorced and son-bereft writer hitting a slow point in his career, moves into his aunt’s house after her suicide. Even Paranormal Activity 2(2010), although we later learn it’s less of a “house” movie and more of an evil spirit movie. IF YOU LIKE THIS WATCH: I like “house” movies, but I prefer they take themselves more seriously like in The Amityville Horror (1979, 2005), the short from V/H/S(2012), Grave Encounters(2011) or Poltergeist (1982). Unless this is a childhood nostalgia movie for you, I’d suggest skipping it.
MY CALL: Boring, dumb, random…but it comes with a few giggles.
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