@Gooby

I apologize for the almost 2 month break but I havn't really seen any movies that tickled me enough to write about them.
Untill tonight.
Its not hard to figure out that I'm a huge sucker for childrens movies with really nice stories. I had a pretty tough week at work and really just wanted to unwind with a couple of glasses of mulled wine, some left over valentines candy and a light movie. As I was walking through Blockbuster's, I ran across a little gem called "Gooby". I was intrigued by the cover which had a giant stuffed animal with a scarf hanging out with a little boy.

The main charachter is a pre-teen named Willie who has an overactive imaginiation. He dreams up things like space cars and thinks he sees monsters and stuff but that his house keeps him safe. All that gets flipped upside down on it's head when his parents tell him that they are moving to a new place. His mom suggests that he takes his old stuffed animal gooby with him to keep him safe and he's like "Mom! I'm not a baby!" and leaves Gooby behind. But then, to Willie (and my) surprise, Gooby comes to life and shows up at the new place!

Man oh Man do they have some adventures too! There is a career reviving supporting star turn by Eugene Levy as the new school teacher "Mr. Nerdlinger", a sucessfull childrens writer and author of the "Fleshington Fish" series. He is very concerned with being famous and believes that getting a picture of gooby will be just the ticket he needs.
At first I thought Gooby was just in Willie's imagination but it is very clear that he is a real thing, as he talks to many other characters, buys movie tickets for children to an R rated action movie.

After I watched the movie I talked to a couple of friends about it and when I described the plot they all made fun of it and said it sounded like it was a movie about a pedophile in a bear suit who goes from child to child, leaving when the kid gets too old or boring. This is absolute horse hockey. There is nothing at all indecent or purile at work here and gooby just loves kids and gives them self-confidence!

There are many great lines and screwball scenes in this movie. Gooby takes Willie to a costume party at a movie theatre and when a bully dressed like a hotdog tries to beat willie up, gooby scares him so bad that he pees himself and says "Willie, the hotdog just peed!". One of the more touching lines is when gooby tells Willie:"I liked being your dad!"

All in all I really liked this movie. Though it is a little difficult to write about I just really felt in my heart that this was a story that alot of people need to see and maybe wouldn't if I didn't bring it to their attention.