"Double Dribble" (maybe not the best title) is a Disney cartoon from 1946, so already over 70 years old and from briefly after WWII. This one runs for about 7 minutes, slightly over, as they usually do. If you take a look at who made this, you will find the names of many who were pretty prolific and successful for Disney back in the days and with that I am not only referring to Pinto Colvig. His name immediately makes clear that here we have another How-to cartoon starring Goofy and the focus is on basketball this time. I thought it was a very creative and entertaining little movie, still is in fact, and you could see that the writers really understood something about this sport on several occasions. The more random scenes like the trigger-happy referee add some nice comedy too. And the one fan in the audience for the winning time truly embodies the spirit of how it's all about the game and how you can thrive from loving your sport so passionately and dedicatedly and you don't need to be an active player for this love at all. So well done to all the Goofys you see in here. I highly recommend checking this one out and it is a definite contender for best short film from its year perhaps only defeated by Johnny and Alice, a true must-see for everybody who loves these many old cartoons.

Most of this cartoon is simply a college basketball game between the home team, University U. versus visiting Polytechnic University (U.U. vs. P.U. - get it?) Poor P.U. only has one fan in the stands.

We then watch the craziest basketball game ever played, where everything wild happens including spectators making baskets! It's just pure lunacy.

Until the last 45 seconds, I found it amusing but nothing to laugh out loud over. In the end, however, the little on the end of the bench who is forced to play, provides some big laughs. He inadvertently becomes the hero, of course!

Goofy is a great character. He is very funny and appealing, and can work very well on his own. Here he takes on the sport of basketball and does so to amusing enough results. Double Dribble is one those shorts of his that is fun and amusing, but not hilarious. The best laughs come from the small Goofy, who is funny and very cute, and I did like how simple the gags were and how the players reacted to one another. There is a running gag however of the Goofs when doing the jump ball that they slapped one another, it was amusing to begin with but got repetitive and tiresome. The story is also routine, with the format and some of what we see quite familiar to us from other Goofy shorts. And while Goofy is still appealing and lots of fun as multiple personalities, we don't see the real him coming out in Double Dribble. The animation is very nicely done though, it is fluidly drawn and the colours have life. The music is lush and characterful, while the narration, very well voiced also, does a good job at both entertaining and teaching. The story while familiar and routine does move swiftly, has a nice light tone and the ending shows a short that has heart and a little bit of a change from the laugh-a-minute visual gags and slapstick seen in shorts before. To conclude, nice and entertaining enough, but not one of Goofy's finest hours. 7/10 Bethany Cox