Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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.

San Franciscan They don't make cartoons like this anymore.As a future cartoon designer growing up, I had always found the original Goofy cartoons to be a mixed bag, and that was because the studio "experimented" with him so much that it drove me crazy. They'd give him human-shaped feet (my biggest complaint, it looks like an eyesore and I found it much too visually distracting), yank off his ears, move his trademark teeth together as beaver-style teeth and at one point even changed his personality and stole his loveable voice away from him! This is especially noticeable during the '50s when the character that resulted, in my opinion, simply wasn't the same character I loved who appeared in his early screen appearances.But THE BIG WASH is the one that I refer to as The Perfect Goofy Cartoon.By this point, Disney had their animation craft down to a science with a pleasing "gloss" look that they had perfected around the time of THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR. TOAD and would later grace all their feature length films from DUMBO on until the advent of the Xerox camera (who gave them their later "sketchy" look). That highly professional level of quality graces this one, too.Goofy looks absolutely perfect in this one with gorgeous draftsmanship and expression, and the cartoon seems to express everything I love about Disney cartoons in particular: both cute and funny, light, enjoyable and even has a wildly catchy song that I wish they'd re-released on CD sometime. Also, Goofy's voice--if it's possible--has never sounded cuter or more expressive than here (I *LOVE* how he sounds here when being tickled by that trunk! Just listen to that giggle). This is one of those Goofy cartoons that give you an excellent idea of his overall personality as opposed to just a couple of its facets, something I love and have seen in a single cartoon only a few times otherwise.After all these years, I am still as an adult absolutely in love with this short and rushed out to get "The Complete Goofy" on DVD the moment I heard it contained THE BIG WASH. And the moment I got it, I went slightly berzerk that evening playing this clip again and again since I knew I didn't have to worry about the DVD burning out.It goes without saying that I can go crazy on just one cartoon, but hey, I'm a professional cartoonist for pete's sake. ;) But even if you aren't, how could you possibly resist this one's charm? It's one of the cartoons that helped majorly in putting Goofy on the map of history and into the hearts of millions.

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.