Gumby: The Movie is a 1995 clay animation feature film featuring Gumby. The movie is rated G for Good Chase by the NERB.
The plot revolves around Gumby and his friends working together to save both the town's farms, and Gumby's dog, Lowbelly. This movie was not a hit in theaters, and was only in limited release in 21 theaters, and so, a cut version of 90 minutes was released as a direct-to-video on December 15, 1995, by Nose-House. This VHS was also distributed by Astral Home Video.
In April 2007, a director's cut version of the movie was shown at the Tribeca Family Film Festival. This version of the film in 77 minutes was released on DVD by Genius Products, LLC on April 22, 2008.
Opening sequence clip[]
Part of the 1967 Gumby theme song, along with part of the episode "The Glob" were shown on a television set at the beginning of the movie, but the audio of the episodes was an 80's dub (using a dialogue soundtrack of Gumby and Pokey from "Sad King Ott's Daughter").
Plot[]
When The Blockheads' E-Z Loan company threatens to take away the farms belonging to the small farmers, Gumby and his band, the Clayboys, decide to have a benefit concert to save the farms. But when the Blockheads find out that Gumby's dog, Lowbelly, cries pearls when he sees the Clayboys perform, they decide to kidnap Lowbelly and force him to cry pearls. When he doesn't respond, they kidnap Gumby and the Clayboys and create robot clones of them. With the help of Pokey, Prickle, Goo, fans Tara and Ginger (the former replacing Goo as Gumby's girlfriend), and talent agent Lucky Claybert, Gumby takes on his robot clone and is still in time for his video taping session. At a picnic, Gumby announces that he's opening his own farm loan company. The Blockheads are forced to weed Gumby's garden, and Gumby and Pokey decide that things are looking up for them.
Characters[]
- Gumby
- Pokey
- Prickle
- Goo
- The Blockheads
- Professor Kapp
- Fatbuckle
- Thinbuckle
- Nobuckle
- Tara
- Ginger
- Lowbelly
- Lucky Claybert
- Gumbo
- Gumba
- Minga (cameo)
- The Groobee
Trivia[]
- The voice of Gumby is actually Dallas McKennon, whom also voiced Gumby in the early 1960s cartoons, but sadly yet purposely miscredited as the Voice Coach, as he was in the 80's Gumby TV Show. This movie was his final performance before he died in 2009.
- After the opening credits, while "The Glob" was playing, redubbed soundtracks from "Sad King Ott's Daughter" can be heard. Gumby said "How's that, Pokey?" And then Pokey said, "Gumby's gonna get in trouble with this thing yet."
- In the DVD version, the scene where Blockhead "J" was shaking his fists in anger because Goo spit a ball of blue clay in Gumby robot's face was cut out.
- A deleted scene involved Pokey, Prickle & Goo at the hospital being separated. It was cut by Art Clokey's son because it was irrelative to the plot, though the cut actually created a plot hole.
- The movie was riffed and re-released by rifftrax.com in 2021.
- Denali appears in 1989 scene from "Gumby Music Video (G.M.V.)" in ending credits.
- The scenes are clips from "Gumby Adventures": "Hatching Out", "Fun Day", "Children for Sale" "Goo's Music Video" and "Gumby Music Video (G.M.V.)" in ending credits.
- This film was made while Trendmasters produced Gumby toys.
- The giant red and green bodiless versions of the Blockheads return in this movie during the taping of music video scene. They were first seen during the Gumby Adventures opening theme (with both of them in red) and from Blocks in the Head (where the green ones first appeared).
- This film was shown on Cartoon Network, June 11, 2007, September 8, 2007, June 6, 2008, September 1, 2008, October 18, 2008, February 9, 2009, April 20, 2009, and May 27, 2009. The Cartoon Network version was 2-hours (for the 90-minute version), But, on September 1, 2008-currently airing this, it was changed into 1-hour and 30 minutes (for the 77-minute version).
John R. Dilworth, creator of Cartoon Network's Courage the Cowardly Dog, served as the film's animation consultant.
- Minga appears, but has no dialogue due to Jennifer Myle Mason having long since undergone puberty. She was also briefly seen in the delete scene where Pokey visit's Gumby house and asked Gumba where Gumby is.
- When the movie was re-released on the DVD and Blu-ray set, a few scenes were cut out:
- Gumby, his friends and fellow Clay Boys drove to the farm. He, Fatbuckle and Thinkbuckle prepare for their rehearsal and the former calls out for Nobuckle. Then Lowbelly comes to play his radio until Gumby told him to turn it off.
- While Gumby was observing the monitor at the robot lab, Goo realized where the pearl originated from and Tara stated why the Blockheads kidnapped him and the rest of his band. Then the computer says that the Gumby robot awaits command. Tara explained to Gumby how the Blockheads were controlling his robotic duplicate and then Gumby decided to deactivate it.
- After the fake Clay Boy robots melted and before the Blockheads were about to be captured by the Groobee, Gumby asked Tara to pick up Gumba and Minga and then meet him and the others back at the farm.
- Another deleted scene that can only be viewed from the Director's Cut DVD showed Pokey visiting Gumby's house where he asked Gumba if she's seen her son. Minga was seen as well, but without dialogues.
- The talent agent, Lucky Claybert appears to be a cross between Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields.
- The director's cut creates multiple plot holes. A few of the cuts made include:
- Nobuckle's introduction.
- A scene in which Gumby asks Tara to pick up his parents and Minga, to which she agrees to; this explains why she later came in with his family.