'An Extremely Goofy Movie' is a 2000 direct to video sequel to 1995's 'A Goofy Movie', a film with a strong sentimental vibe for youths of the 1990's. 'Extremely' proves to be better then it really needed to be, I laughed a fair bit. The film recycles the 'Max wants more personal space from his overly involved dad' plot from the first movie, but now transplanted from high school to collage.
Goofy joins Max there upon losing his job, in a very Goofy like manner, and needs to complete his final year to be more employable. You see Goofy did three years of collage back in the 70's but never graduated, and this introduces a retro disco strain to the proceedings, and helps Goofy hook up with a collage librarian who has a taste for the era, and who is drawn as an almost uncomfortably sexual greyhound.
In addition to the intentionally retro stuff, the movie is also now retro for the turn of the millennium, with Max, his friends, and even Goofy competing in an extreme sports competition. There is even some synergy with the ESPN and ESPN II brand names. The bad guy here is a distillation of every a-hole preppy character from an 80's collage film, so there's even another era for which this movie invokes nostalgia. **1/2
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