How to Play Football (1944)
How to Play Football Review
How to Play Football is a 1944 Disney animated short film starring Goofy. It’s quite overrated.
Now of course, this is a personal preference, but I cannot stand sports or sports flicks so obviously this was never bound to be particularly entertaining for me, especially considering that it’s American football and that sport is puzzling to me when it comes to its value. Yes, it has Goofy, and yes, some of the action is fun, but most of it is standard football cartoon stuff as there have been a lot of these movies before.
What I adored, absolutely loved here is the animation. The short is beautifully rendered, gorgeous in its colors and very polished as a whole. It looks fantastic and it sounds terrific with that commentator being a lot of fun. Goofy is also pretty good and reliably clumsy. I just wish that the action and humor were better.
How to Play Football looks and sounds great, but the action is as dull as most of the sports cartoons always are.
