The Big Wash

1948
6.8| 0h7m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 06 February 1948 Released
Producted By: RKO Radio Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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Goofy tries his hand at a big job in the circus: feeding and washing the elephant.

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Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Interesteg What makes it different from others?
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Big Wash" is a Disney cartoon from 1948, so this one has its 70th anniversary next year. The names Geronimo, Berg and Banta are definitely enough to know that this is another quality watch from the Golden Age of Animation. It runs for 7 minutes as they usually do and show us Goofy in charge of a circus elephant, who unluckily (for Goofy) wants the peanuts, but has no interest in taking a bath. I would say from the comedic and fun perspective this could have been a bit better with the jokes and punchline, but it's not bad by any means either. The clean animation, the charm and of course Pinto Colvig's (as always) excellent voice acting make this one worth seeing. It's not my favorite Goofy cartoon, but it is a pretty solid watch as a whole. I give it a thumbs-up.
morrison-dylan-fan Before watching the final Lemon Popsicle movie, (ask your parents,kids!) I felt like having a short change of film scenery. With only one film left for viewing on the first disc of the Complete Goofy set,I decided that it was the perfect time to wash up.The plot:Working as a circus handler,Goofy is given the task of giving elephant Dolores her daily wash. Getting all his soap suds ready,Goofy soon discovers that Dolores is a tusk challenge.View on the film:Bringing Dolores in for the first of three Disney appearances,director Clyde Geronimi makes Goofy's new co-star a delightful match. Backed by a vibrant score from Oliver Wallace, Geronimi gives Goofy and Dolores a crisp design which helps to make the hilarious up in the air gags fly. Keeping the title limited to just Goofy and Dolores,the screenplay by Bill Berg & Milt Banta match Geronimi's visual comedy with a delicate building of friendship between Dolores and a new goofy friend.
TheLittleSongbird The Big Wash has to be one of my favourite Goofy cartoons along with Motor Mania, How to Dance and Goofy Gymnastics. Everything I love about Disney is here. Visually it is one of the very best-looking Disney cartoons, with vibrant, colourful backgrounds and a very well drawn Goofy. As is typical with the Disney cartoons, the music is so dynamic and energetic, adding so much to what's going on on screen. The gags are wonderful, beautifully-spaced out and very funny( all revolving around Goofy and Delores using cunning to get what they want), the best ones being when Delores dresses as a clown and the one with the water inflation. I have a friend whose interest in animation started with this cartoon and that particular gag. Goofy is lovable and perhaps a little stupid in that he doesn't see through Delores' disguise, but we love him for it. Delores the elephant makes her second of three appearances, the others being Tiger Trouble and Working for Peanuts, is funny and very cute and works wonderfully with Goofy. All in all, a wonderful Goofy/Delores cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Ron Oliver A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.Dolores the elephant tries every means possible to get away from THE BIG WASH which circus handler Goofy has promised her.This enjoyable little film was the second of three in which the hefty Dolores appeared for Disney. Although eager to please, the pulchritudinous pachyderm would have only a very short movie career.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.