Gumby: The Movie
Encyclopedia
Gumby: The Movie is a 1995
clay animation
feature film
featuring the character Gumby
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The movie is rated G by the MPAA
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were shown on a television set at the beginning of the movie.
of them. With the help of Pokey, Prickle, Goo, fans Tara and Ginger, 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 as punishment, and Gumby and Pokey decide that things are looking up for them as they head back to outer space
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were out of touch with 1990s audiences.
1995 in film
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clay animation
Clay animation
Clay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay....
feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
featuring the character Gumby
Gumby
Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...
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The movie is rated G by the MPAA
Motion Picture Association of America
The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...
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Opening sequence clip
Part of the 1960s Gumby theme song, along with part of the episode The GlobThe Glob
The Glob is a platform arcade game released by Epos in 1983.-Plot:A simple platform game where the player guides Toby through corridors, up and down the elevators and through the side tunnels in his search for snacks. An assortment of animals relentlessly pursue Toby and fight him for control of...
were shown on a television set at the beginning of the movie.
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 clonesCloning
Cloning in biology is the process of producing similar populations of genetically identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce asexually. Cloning in biotechnology refers to processes used to create copies of DNA fragments , cells , or...
of them. With the help of Pokey, Prickle, Goo, fans Tara and Ginger, 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 as punishment, and Gumby and Pokey decide that things are looking up for them as they head back to outer space
Outer space
Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos....
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Voice Cast
- Dallas McKennonDallas McKennonDallas Raymond McKennon , sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor, with extensive work as a voice actor, in a career lasting over 50 years.-Career:...
- GumbyGumbyGumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...
, Professor Kapp, Fatbuckle, Lucky Claybert (as Charles Farrington), Nobuckle (uncredited) - Art ClokeyArt ClokeyArthur "Art" Clokey was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up...
- PokeyPokeyPokey may refer to:* Pokey the Penguin, a surrealistic online comic strip* Pokey , a character from the Gumby television series...
, PricklePricklePrickle may refer to:*Prickle , a sharp, needle-like structure*Prickle cell of the skin*Prickle , a planar cell polarity protein*the collective noun for a pack of porcupines*Prickle , a character on The Gumby Show...
, GumboGumboGumbo is a stew or soup that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. It consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock, meat or shellfish, a thickener, and the vegetable holy trinity of celery, bell peppers, and onions... - Gloria Clokey - GooGooGoo is a term for a slimy, semi-liquid, shapeless mass."Goo" or "GOO" may also refer to:- Computing :* Goo , a programming language in the Lisp family* goo , a Japanese web search engine...
- Manny La Carruba - Thinbuckle
- Patti Morse (speaking voice), Melissa Kary (singing voice) - TaraTara-Religions and deities:*Tara , is a tantric meditation deity in Tibetan Buddhism, actually the generic name for a set of similar bodhisattvas*In Hinduism:*Tara , a Mahavidya of Mahadevi, Kali or Parvati...
- Alice Young - GingerGingerGinger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....
- Janet MacDuff - GumbaGumbaGumba may refer to:*Agumba tribe, an ethnic group who inhabited the plains of what is now central Kenya, but are now either extinct or assimilated.*Gumba, Nepal, a village in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal...
- Bonnie Rudolph - Lowbelly, Farm Lady
- David Ozzie Ahlers - Radio Announcer (as Ozzie Ahlers)
- Kirby Coleman - "This Way 'N That" Singer
- Anthony McNulty - "Burnzy"
- David ArcherDavid ArcherDavid Mark Archer is a former professional American football player. A 6'2" undrafted quarterback from Snow College and Iowa State University, Archer played six seasons in the National Football League from 1984 to 1989 for the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers and...
- Lillian Nicol
- Rick WarrenRick WarrenRichard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States...
Reception
The movie was subject to mixed to poor reviews by critics. Some critics complained that the animation style looked old fashioned compared to films like Nightmare Before Christmas, while others argued that the soft 1950s-style humor and references to actors like W.C. Fields and Ed WynnEd Wynn
Ed Wynn was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....
were out of touch with 1990s audiences.