Gumby: The Movie (1995)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Art Clokey

Writers:

Art Clokey (writer)
Gloria Clokey (writer)

Release Date:

1 December 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family

Plot:

In this offshoot of the 1950s "claymation" cartoon series, the crazy Blockheads threaten to ruin Gumby's...

Plot Keywords:

Claymation | Car Trouble | Horse | Stop Motion | Based On TV Show

Cast

Charles Farrington	...	Gumby / Claybert / Fatbuckle (voice)
Art Clokey	...	Pokey / Prickle / Gumbo (voice)
Gloria Clokey	...	Goo (voice)
Manny La Carruba	...	Thinbuckle (voice)
Alice Young	...	Ginger (voice)
Janet McDuff	...	Gumba (voice)
Patti Morse	...	Tara (voice)
Bonnie Rudolph	...	Lowbelly / Farm Lady (voice)
David Ozzie Ahlers	...	Radio Announcer (voice)
David Archer	...	(voice)
Lillian Nicol	...	(voice)
Rick Warren	...	(voice)

Directed by
Art Clokey

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Art Clokey		writer
Gloria Clokey		writer

Produced by
Art Clokey	....	producer
Gloria Clokey	....	producer
Kevin Reher	....	associate producer

Original Music by
David Ozzie Ahlers

Cinematography by
Art Clokey

Film Editing by
Marilyn McCoppen
Lynn Stevenson

Art Direction by
Gloria Clokey

Art Department
Tom Rubalcava	....	sculptor

Sound Department
Jeff Kliment	....	sound effects editor
Jeff Kliment	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Tom Rubalcava	....	animation effects

Visual Effects by
Stephen A. Buckley	....	stop motion animator

Animation Department
Mike Belzer	....	animator
Steve Buckley	....	animator
John Dilworth	....	animation consultant
Angie Glocka	....	animator
Daniel Mason	....	animator (as Dan Mason)
Harry Walton	....	animator
Ken Willard	....	animator

Production Companies

• Arrow
• Premavision Inc.

Distributors

• Arrow Releasing
• Disney Channel (1990s) (USA) (TV)
• KidVision (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Bros. Television (1990s) (USA) (TV)

Other Companies

• Skywalker Sound  sound transfers

Also Known As:

Gumby I

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | USA:G

Company:

Arrow

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Gumby's all about reading into things

First let me say that my recollections of Gumby from childhood are very hazy. It's much easier to recall those skits of Eddie Murphy playing Gumby on Saturday Night Live, but that's because I see those re-runs on Comedy Central all the time. So as I saw Gumby: The Movie on the shelf at the video store, I wasn't interested in reminiscing my own early years, but more an idea of what that's supposed to be like.

When the tape went in and the movie came on, it was sheer joy from beginning to end. I watched this with several other people also, and made this observation: People who enjoyed Eyes Wide Shut (such as myself) also enjoyed Gumby: The Movie. People who did not enjoy Eyes Wide Shut... well you can guess. I am convinced that much of Kubrick's inspiration for his last work of art, came from Gumby: The Movie. You may think I am joking, but I am as serious as brain surgery.

The entire tone set in the beginning of the FILM, is dark and oooh oooh oooh mysterious. There's a darn drive-in theater on the moon. What does that say to you? Come on now. Gumby is nowhere to be found and Pokey is naturally upset. (Though not as upset as he will be when he melds with two other characters as a result of a tube slide accident.) Yet, even as he is upset, he delivers his lines with the same lack of panache as any other line in the screenplay.

Look at him! Pokey knows that Gumby will turn up somewhere, and they've been in a relationship for so long that you must appreciate the knowledge on their part of the routine. Pokey's been worried before and he recognizes that. Gumby and Pokey have done everything together, yet they somehow manage to honorably "sell-themselves" out one last time here. Old buddies out to make the world honest and pure.

It is entirely too complicated to go into the depth of what every single word from their clay mouths' implies, but it offers the questions and the answers are for you to figure out. Let me ask you this, Why is it that Gumby's dad is red? Shouldn't his parents be yellow and blue? What does this tell you? Gumby's dad is not actually Gumby's dad! But then who is he huh? And NO I was not intoxicated in any way while watching this film, I'm straight edge!

I'm positive that if you are interested in delving into the inner workings of films and not interested in taking things at face value, you will thoroughly enjoy Gumby: The Movie. So watch it again and again. By the way, Would you know you were human if nobody told you? And what kind of shock would it be if you happened to come across the word human in the dictionary?