Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Tennis Racquet" is an American cartoon from 1949, so this one will soon have its 70th anniversary. If the name of the Kinneys doesn't make it obvious to you yet that it is another Disney production, then Pinto Colvig should for sure. Everybody's fool Goofy takes on the subject of professional sports again this time and we see him elaborate on the topic of tennis performing as a commentator, athlete and gardener who may take the grooming of the grass a bit too seriously. This recurring joke was maybe the best thing about it all. There are many other fun parts though, especially in the reporter's cabin, like during one scene an audience member is so enthusiastic about the commentator that he watches him rather than the on-court action. This is just one example of how this was a really funny and creative cartoon. Still is today. I write this as somebody who really loves watching professional tennis and it adds a very special note to it. To other tennis fans who didn't like it as much I might say that they shouldn't take it this seriously really as nobody's mocking our great sport. They are laughing with us, not about us or about what we love. To see how old this one is, let me say that the Laver domination was still over a decade away at this point. I'm still glad this was made in color as it really adds something in terms of outfits, the green grass etc. I really love the Goofy cartoons and this is one of my very favorites. It's almost as good on rewatch than on first watch and that's why I would also say it is a contender for best short film from its respective year. Highly recommended, a must-see if you love these old cartoons. This one's even more ahead of its time than most others from the Golden Age of Animation.

OllieSuave-007 Another Goofy cartoon from Disney, where many Goofys gather together to watch two Goofys play a game of tennis. Meanwhile, another Goofy character serves as announcer of the game and another mows the lawn during the middle of the tennis match.Some crazy, slapstick stuff here, but not one of the funniest Disney cartoons I've seen. Though, I did like the show of sportsmanship at the end.Grade C

TheLittleSongbird Goofy is a truly great character, he is immensely likable and while clumsy he is funny and charming at it. And he can work amazingly on his own(as well as with a foil), immediately standing out from the rest of the recurring popular Disney characters somewhat. There are better Goofy shorts out there than Tennis Racquet, but it's still entertaining. The repeated gags with the grounds-keeper and the exaggerated back-and-forth heads with the crowd are overdone and eventually got rather tiring. The story is also rather routine. However, the animation is very colourful and fluid with Goofy very nicely drawn. The music as usual has much character and is orchestrated appropriately and beautifully. The narration is very thoughtfully written, and still manages to not only entertain hugely but also teach, tennis is not my thing or my kind of sport but I learned a lot from Tennis Racquet. Having John McLeish, who was tailor-made for the role, not do the narration is a shock that will take some getting used to, but the narrator here still does a very good job. Goofy's expressions and action and how he defies the narrator and does everything badly provides the best of the humour, and when the humour is at its best it is actually very funny. It's just the repeated jokes that didn't work so well. Goofy in more-than-one-personality/character mode carries Tennis Racquet with real aplomb. In conclusion, a good short but not quite enough to class it among the gems with Goofy involved. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.Goofy uses his TENNIS RACQUET to create merry mayhem all over the court...This amusing little film is another entrant in the long series of Sports Goofy cartoons. Tennis fans will particularly appreciate the way in which their pastime is mercilessly mangled by the Goof. Doodles Weaver is the excitable narrator.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.