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[Pak-Man]

Gumby: The Movie

Feature film · 2021

Beloved children’s entertainment should not be this trippy or surreal, but it turns out to be great riffing fodder when it is.

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

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The plot of Gumby: The Movie is fairly straightforward: An Alien creates Gumby and Pokey out of a slab of Moon-Clay, then sends them to Earth, which is populated by the country of Gumbasia, which builds casinos and colossal statues in Gumby's image, despite the fact that we just saw him come from the moon. Pokey is involved in a tragic accident that causes him to merge with a clay dinosaur and a blue demigod. This three-headed ball of clay has to be separated by a doctor performing a risky experimental procedure. Meanwhile, Gumby is somehow already in a band (despite just coming from the moon) and he washes a firetruck.

Our apologies, this only describes the first three minutes of Gumby: The Movie. We regret to inform you that it doesn't make a ton more sense after this. You've got predatory farm loans, dogs who cry valuable jewels, robot doppelgangers, infringing lightsaber fights, groupies, manure piles (a major plot point actually hinges on manure piles), not one but TWO songs about how great Gumby is, and bending the laws of reality by warping into various books and VHS cassettes (OK, maybe they were Betas, do not email us about this!)

Beloved children's entertainment should not be this trippy or surreal, but it turns out to be great riffing fodder when it is. Join noted Blockheads Mike, Kevin, and Bill for Gumby: The Movie!

[Pak-Man]

Well, one thing's for sure. Gumby's music sure does depress his dog.

[dbsommer]

Who was this made for? Seriously. It is way too adult for kids, yet too kiddy for adults. I mean I enjoyed it, but i have no idea of what the makers were thinking.

[RVR II]

Who was this made for? Seriously. It is way too adult for kids, yet too kiddy for adults. I mean I enjoyed it, but i have no idea of what the makers were thinking.

Probably for viewing while on LSD

[Pastor of Muppets]

This release has me confused.  IMDB says it came out in 1995.... but I have a very early memory of asking my mom to take me to the Gumby movie back when I was a little kid of single digit age.  It would have been in the 80s, probably around 1987.  So I dunno what's going on.  It's possible my memory is conflating this movie with "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones", which did come out in 1987 and I remember we were going to see that but didn't get around to it and Mom rented it from the video store like a year later.  I also remember going to a pizza place called "Space II Pizza" and trying rice pudding.  I was a little kid and I liked pudding, but I hated rice.  So I was extremely curious.  I still hate rice pudding to this very day.

[Pak-Man]

I went through the same thing. I know I've seen it, but I have no idea why I saw it when I would have definitely been starting college at the time. Probably, I rented it and watched it with my youngest brother, but I could have sworn I rented it for myself at a much younger age.