I can't believe they were able to make this episode. It's mind blowing that Disney was ok with a retelling of A Goofy Movie. I laughed, I cried, I had to fact check everything, lol!! It all made too much sense. I will not be able to look at Goofy the same ever again. I thought this season couldn't top the episode about Tyler Perry or when the rapper passed away, but it did. Bravo!!!! I'm going to miss this show. It's so smart and a silent "yup! That's so true" finger shake! This is the type of programming along the lines of Peele and Chapelle. This comparison makes sense why it can't go on forever. I wish there is a video short of "The little Prince".
9 Reviews
Is It Good Though? (A Haiku)
ericnh-4560529 October 2022
Yes. Yes, it is good.
It's brilliant actually.
Simply amazing.
I love that Glover & Co. Brought B. A. N. Back for this. The storytelling is masterful. The footage is wild. The raw clips of A Goofy Movie and Astro Boy is a total vibe. I can't imaging how difficult it was to put this production into 37 minutes when it could have EASILY been a full-length feature.
Atlanta is a rare beast. Every week before I hit play on Hulu I get anxious and I think to myself "I wonder what we're gonna get this week?" Because you never really know where Donald and Hiro are going to take us. But it's always a fantastic voyage.
I'm melancholy to see the show go, but it's certainly leaving on a mad high note! On the plus side, out of all the billions of years that life has been on Earth, we've been lucky enough to live during the time that Donald Glover gave us Atlanta.
It's brilliant actually.
Simply amazing.
I love that Glover & Co. Brought B. A. N. Back for this. The storytelling is masterful. The footage is wild. The raw clips of A Goofy Movie and Astro Boy is a total vibe. I can't imaging how difficult it was to put this production into 37 minutes when it could have EASILY been a full-length feature.
Atlanta is a rare beast. Every week before I hit play on Hulu I get anxious and I think to myself "I wonder what we're gonna get this week?" Because you never really know where Donald and Hiro are going to take us. But it's always a fantastic voyage.
I'm melancholy to see the show go, but it's certainly leaving on a mad high note! On the plus side, out of all the billions of years that life has been on Earth, we've been lucky enough to live during the time that Donald Glover gave us Atlanta.
Oh My Gawrsh
mattr-9439929 October 2022
Glover hits it out of the park again with another excellent episode of what has been a big bounce back season for Atlanta. It's a shame it's the last season. This mockumentary style episode recounting the making of A Goofy Movie and the first black CEO of Disney is absolutely hilarious yet also thought provoking and one of the best this show has ever offered. Truly surreal yet grounded and wildly entertaining. Bringing back BAN, the Goofy hats, etc. Were hilarious references and the whole episode is just so well-done you'd think it was real. A truly brilliant episode that will never make me think of A Goofy Movie the same again.
Perfect
albundy6048228 October 2022
Coupled with "Work Ethic", this is the greatest episode of Atlanta so far. A Goofy Movie from a vastly different perspective, it is funny, poignant, inventive, AND manages to shift your view of the world.
ATLANTA is a genre-jumping, sometime uncomfortable and often funny look at life through Donald Glover's perspective. It NEVER fails to bring issues to the forefront, in funny, scary, and forward-thinking ways. Having only seen DG on Community, this show is a revelation. I hope that this show continues for a long time, especially if we get episodes like this...and as a Disney fan for my whole life, it's damn near perfect.
ATLANTA is a genre-jumping, sometime uncomfortable and often funny look at life through Donald Glover's perspective. It NEVER fails to bring issues to the forefront, in funny, scary, and forward-thinking ways. Having only seen DG on Community, this show is a revelation. I hope that this show continues for a long time, especially if we get episodes like this...and as a Disney fan for my whole life, it's damn near perfect.
Emmy Incoming!!!!
hhrexotics8 November 2022
Wow! Just Brilliant what Donald Glover he done.
As if my all time childhood favorite movie couldn't have got any better or the show Atlanta. This was amazing. Thank you for this phenomenal piece of art you shared with us. It was put together so well. It takes a brilliant mind to create a show like this. Made me believe everything from start to finish. I connected with this episode as I feel I'm goofy as well. Lol it's unfortunate the season is coming to an end. I've been watching Atlanta since it premiered and it's just gotten better every time. Early congrats as I know this episode will win some awards! Please continue to share that brilliant mind with us DG.
As if my all time childhood favorite movie couldn't have got any better or the show Atlanta. This was amazing. Thank you for this phenomenal piece of art you shared with us. It was put together so well. It takes a brilliant mind to create a show like this. Made me believe everything from start to finish. I connected with this episode as I feel I'm goofy as well. Lol it's unfortunate the season is coming to an end. I've been watching Atlanta since it premiered and it's just gotten better every time. Early congrats as I know this episode will win some awards! Please continue to share that brilliant mind with us DG.
The Blackest Movie of All Time
dannylee-7808219 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
1. Thomas gets hired to Disney
2. Thomas becomes the CEO by mistake
3. Thomas disappears
This was a documentary-style report on a man named Thomas Washington, who created "The Goofy Movie", which I personally haven't watched. I gotta say the showrunners really tripped me on this one. I couldn't tell if it was real or not until they talked about how the CEO vote. But even then, I thought it was a true story at the end and they just changed some bits. It's a satire on mass media companies such as Disney and how they can influence culture so much. I guess I could have appreciated this more if I ever cared about the character Goofy or watched the movie. That would have made way more sense. But the footages of Thomas felt so real and the footage of Rodney King protests added a layer of reality to the whole episode, which got me confused.
Nonetheless, I'm certain only Atlanta can create episodes like this. Extremely clever and hilarious episode that again captures the versatility of the producers.
This was a documentary-style report on a man named Thomas Washington, who created "The Goofy Movie", which I personally haven't watched. I gotta say the showrunners really tripped me on this one. I couldn't tell if it was real or not until they talked about how the CEO vote. But even then, I thought it was a true story at the end and they just changed some bits. It's a satire on mass media companies such as Disney and how they can influence culture so much. I guess I could have appreciated this more if I ever cared about the character Goofy or watched the movie. That would have made way more sense. But the footages of Thomas felt so real and the footage of Rodney King protests added a layer of reality to the whole episode, which got me confused.
Nonetheless, I'm certain only Atlanta can create episodes like this. Extremely clever and hilarious episode that again captures the versatility of the producers.
Superb Satire
petertdoheny-2566117 June 2023
Although I too have missed the main characters in many recent episodes this piece of divergence is just spectacular.
When it starts, right after the tedious camping episode, I really had no idea what I was watching...had Disney let this go out?
The last media professor almost let it slip when she referred to 1992 in LA as the uprising, but I still wasn't sure.
It was a spoof right?? I paused and started fact checking...then started laughing. Really hard. Just brilliant.
Layer on layer of the story builds up. The stills and aged video clips.
The very idea that the saccharine empire would go within a million miles of the real black experience...frickin genius.
Mr. Glover, kudos. Damn son. Kydos.
When it starts, right after the tedious camping episode, I really had no idea what I was watching...had Disney let this go out?
The last media professor almost let it slip when she referred to 1992 in LA as the uprising, but I still wasn't sure.
It was a spoof right?? I paused and started fact checking...then started laughing. Really hard. Just brilliant.
Layer on layer of the story builds up. The stills and aged video clips.
The very idea that the saccharine empire would go within a million miles of the real black experience...frickin genius.
Mr. Glover, kudos. Damn son. Kydos.
In a world all its own...
antoniocassone201328 October 2022
FXs #ATLANTA has gone from being in a class all its own down to a being in a world all its own in four short seasons. I am really trying to still see greatness in this show, but honestly feel it is forced. I am sticking through it till the end (two more episodes to labor through), but I doubt Emmy will pay attention to this anymore. I just don't get it. Maybe we aren't supposed to get it. If that is the point and it actually is supposed to be funny, then yes, IT IS GENIUS! In the past two seasons, the regular cast members appearances have been far and few in between and too many 'away' episodes, where the show goes off on a tangent - or so it seems. I feel like it should all make sense, but it no longer does. Is it comedy? Is it anthology? What is the point anymore? What happened to the original premise? Why do I care? Should I!
Infuriating.
boothy567813 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I've written this review just to let other people know; you are not alone. You are not alone in thinking that this highly rated and seemingly unanimously loved episode was 35 minutes of your life you will never get back. A frustrating and unwanted intermission in a season showing Atlanta returning to its best after a pretentious and often ridiculous Season 3.
The episode itself serves as a dull, insipid foray back into the infuriating anthology style format of the previous season. However where those episodes provided irony, black humour and allegory in abundance this episode feels like cynical filler devoid of comedy or necessity. As a satirical premise it wears thin by minute 15 and as a spectacle you're annoyed from minute 1. The actors used as talking heads are unbelievable and in most cases devoid of charisma whilst the actual premise is long winded and trudges slowly towards an obvious conclusion. The episode gets more than one star for a fairly emotive last 3 minutes. And also for the fact that it wasn't longer.
Perhaps I missed the point, or perhaps the writing, narrative and development of our central four characters has been that incredible that watching an episode without them feels like an insult in a show that should go on for at least another 2 seasons. Maybe then it is me being bitter. I suppose if that is the case and my review is totally wrong, perhaps it is because I was served sushi when all I wanted was Popeyes chicken.
The episode itself serves as a dull, insipid foray back into the infuriating anthology style format of the previous season. However where those episodes provided irony, black humour and allegory in abundance this episode feels like cynical filler devoid of comedy or necessity. As a satirical premise it wears thin by minute 15 and as a spectacle you're annoyed from minute 1. The actors used as talking heads are unbelievable and in most cases devoid of charisma whilst the actual premise is long winded and trudges slowly towards an obvious conclusion. The episode gets more than one star for a fairly emotive last 3 minutes. And also for the fact that it wasn't longer.
Perhaps I missed the point, or perhaps the writing, narrative and development of our central four characters has been that incredible that watching an episode without them feels like an insult in a show that should go on for at least another 2 seasons. Maybe then it is me being bitter. I suppose if that is the case and my review is totally wrong, perhaps it is because I was served sushi when all I wanted was Popeyes chicken.
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