Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Betty & Crew has a cure for what ails YOU!

Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)
Starring: Mae Questal (voice of Betty Boop) and William Costello (voices of Bimbo and Ko-Ko)
Directors: Dave Fleischer and Willard Bosky
Rating: Nine of Ten Stars

Bobo, Ko-ko, and Betty Boop are traveling snake-oil peddlers who use Betty's charms to seal their deals.

 
Nice music, weird plot, and even weirder cartoony results of the miracle tonic that Betty & Friends are hawking. All in all, another wildly creative and zany adventure from the Fleischer Studio. It's also one of those masterful bits of entertainment that needs to be experienced cold--I feel that any else I say about the plot and events of the film will ruin the experience.

Aside from the wild strangeness of this cartoon, I also love it because it lets me imagine Betty Boop's world a bit more clearly. There appears to be villages of humanoids like Bimbo in addition to the cities where humans like Betty live. (Heck, Betty's weird looks could be explained by her being a third kind of being... or maybe some sort of crossbreed? After all, when she was younger, she look a bit like a poodle... :) ) 

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