Gumby: The Movie

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What an insane and weirdly dark movie. I still remember the star wars parody segment where gumby gets his hand cut off.

The characters are timeless, But this movie is way too long. It should be more executed and simple to for kids. The acting needs work.

I was never a huge fan of Gumby, thought the cartoon was relatively week even for its time compared to such things as Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and other better made animations. Still, the show was nothing like this as this thing is so out there and all over the place. Then, at the same time it is also so boring making me wonder what exactly they did with the budget of 2.8 million dollars as it was not spent on this! Seriously, no voice actors of note and it was not exactly brimming with special effects! Also, in the show, did Gumby generally go in and out of books? Why was this even featured, he has a city that he lives in, but he and his band play within a book. What is the deal with this thing!?! The story, well, the story is crazy as Gumby and Pokey descend from the heavens and Pokey goes into a toy shop where he gets caught with other clay figures a dinosaur and a girl named Goo. We watch as doctors perform surgery to separate them and then Gumby is in a band and his father and mother from the shorts are present, so why show them coming from space? I don't know, but what it boils down to is Gumby and his friends wanna to throw a concert to help farmers in a book whose farms are about to be foreclosed on and a dog cries pearls prompting blockheads to go through a whole lot of trouble to try and make the dog cry and none of it makes any sense! The film would be perfect for today's generation as so many kid's shows seem geared to kids with add, yet at the same time why are there plot points about loans and stuff? Seriously, Gumby wants to help them and has scads of money at the end to do so because the dog has cried lots of pears (never explained why, but best not to dwell on anything) but instead of just paying off their debts, Gumby offers them loans with lower interest rates before ascending back to the moon...what a hero? The film is a crazy mess with a love thing shoe horned in at the end and references to Star Wars without actually using the Star Wars name. I've seen a couple of shorts and they are not quite this random with the plot, kind of surprised this is what they came up with. I almost believe they let a kid of three or four write the screenplay to it.

It was a nice film! It is Great for all kids. It can also get your Kids into books because he moves in and out of them.

I watched this movie when I was a child, and I loved it! Forgot about it over time until I'm just flipping through free movies on Vudu turned it on immediately and my kids love it just like I did. 100 percent pure nostalgia for me!! And very surreal watching my children enjoy it just the way I did

Folks, I'll be straight with you. This is not the greatest film ever made. In fact, it's not the best Gumby film ever made (although it's the best--read: only--full-length Gumby film ever made). I attribute this largely to the fact that Gumby and his secondary characters are intended to be digested in five-minute doses. An hour and a half with them is a little bit like a phone call from an old friend you haven't talked to in years, who stays on the phone long after you remember how much better you liked them when they hadn't been chewing your ear off for hours. In other words, as you watch the movie (if you're over the age of 8 at least), you're glad to see Gumby is doing well--he's got a new band, some new friends, even some groupies. And in fact, if you liked Gumby in normal-size episodes as a kid, you almost feel validated somehow because the slightly weird character you liked finally got his own movie. But as the clock ticks forward, you begin to wonder why there needed to be a Gumby cartoon of this length. In fact, you realize, even if you'd really wanted an hour-and-a-half-long Gumby fix, you'd rather have watched 15 or so regular Gumby shorts. But I must admit, once a Gumby fan, always a shameless Gumby fan. It has its moments, and if you like the little green guy with the pointy head, you'll get a kick out of it. But let me put it this way: I've owned the VHS of it since about 1997 and have watched it twice in the past eight years. It's not a movie you'll be watching again and again if you buy it, no matter how much you like Gumby. That said, a word about the two new characters: I can accept a guy named Gumby. I can accept, even, that his dad's name is Gumbo. I can accept a horse named Pokey, a girl named Goo, a kid sister named Minga, and even a dinosaur named Prickle. Not to mention a red teardrop with a face that has limbs coming directly out of said face, and the fact that said teardrop is a professor of some kind. I can even accept the fact that everyone in the world looks normal, except for Gumby and his pals, who are highly stylized blocks of primary colors. But I draw the line at two guys named Claybert and Fatbuckle. What kind of names are those?