Not Just a Goof (2024)
The unlikely journey that inspired a generation.
Documentary exploring the untold story of A Goofy Movie. Follow a young creative team tackling their first Disney feature, its initial disappointment, and its surprising resurgence decades later. Featuring key interviews and rare footage, this documentary reveals the film's impact and why it remains a beloved classic for a generation.
- Date of release
- 2024-05-04
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Christopher Ninness, Eric Kimelton
Casting
- Kevin Lima — Self
- Dan Rounds — Self
- Brian Pimental — Self
- Gregory Perler — Self
- Steve Moore — Self
- Bruce W. Smith — Self
- David Z — Self
- Jason Marsden — Self
- Bill Farmer — Self
- Christopher Ninness — Self - Narrator (voice)
- Eric Kimelton — Self
- Jeffrey Katzenberg — Self (archive footage)
Interesting facts
Not Just a Goof is a 2024 American documentary film about the 1995 animated film A Goofy Movie, which garnered a cult following. The documentary is written, produced, shot, edited, and directed by Eric Kimelton and Christopher Ninness with animated sequences by the Colombia-based Venturia Animation Studios. It premiered at the DocLands Documentary Film Festival on May 4, 2024. It was released on Disney+ on April 7, 2025, exactly 30 years after A Goofy Movie was released.
Production and release
Initially, the film was going to focus solely on the impact A Goofy Movie had on millennials. Eric Kimelton, one of the filmmakers, is the nephew of director Kevin Lima.
A version of the film was first screened as part of a Disney Vacation Club Members' Cruise on May 20, 2024, at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco on June 29, 2024. Parts of the film were also previewed in August 2024 during D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event.
In March 2025, it was announced the film would be released on April 7, 2025, on Disney+ in the US to coincide with the 30th anniversary of A Goofy Movie with Odin's Eye Entertainment handling international sales.
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