Watching The Goofy Movie, one of Disney's oddball classics, as someone raising teens.
I woke up on the morning I wrote this article when the smoke alarm went off because my fiancée’s tween daughter turned the electric range on too high, and one of the first things I had to do was get her 15-year-old brother to answer a Facebook message. He doesn’t check Facebook as a general rule . This is a regular day now—a lot of sudden reminders that kids are growing apart from you even as they do still need guidance for what seem to you to be the simplest things.
And while it’s a contrivance that the duo keep running into Goofy’s coworker, Pete , and his son PJ , their appearances serve to rekindle Goofy’s conflict and keep it in tandem with Max’s conflict. The clear hero’s journey beats Max overcomes—the rejection of his journey, crossing into the unknown, facing his personal shortcomings and reaching transformation—are all essentially mirrored by Goofy in the same or nearly the same scene.
Goofy isn’t normally that deep a character. It’s to the film’s credit that it manages to keep him recognizably himself as it also provides decades-long voice actor Bill Farmer opportunities to portray the guy as hopeful, hurt, awkward and empathetic.
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