Betty Boop: An Original Max Fleischer Cartoon

Starring:Betty Boop
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

best that I own, very good quality and sound very entertaining.
fine if you like cute/slapstick cartooons
Not Perfect, but the best Betty Boop DVDs yet
23 classic cartoons

Betty Boop: An Original Max Fleischer Cartoon
Starring: Betty Boop
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00028G716
Release Date: 2004-07-06

Customer Reviews:

best that I own, very good quality and sound very entertaining........2007-06-18

I love this dvd, my husband even watched it several times, and enjoyed it.

fine if you like cute/slapstick cartooons.......2006-06-13

no question. the fletscher bros. betty boops are genius.

however, what these cartoons were best at was not just providing 7 minutes of goofy antics. this is pre-code surrealism. before cartoons were strictly for kids. alice in wonderland before disney.

the "definitive collection" on VHS (pre-DVD) was fantastic: bimbo's initiation, any rags, barnacle bill, red hot momma. it was also closed captioned. (basically the scripts). would have been wonderful if they simply could dump it onto the new media.

these titles (what makes betty boop arty masterpieces and not more of the cute tweety bird for kids slapstick) are not currently available however in any DVD sets. and though this release claims to, there are no English subtitles or closed captioning. (a lot of titles on Amazon are either incorrect or inexplicit in this regard. watch out.)

there ARE some fantastic examples of rotoscoping techniques (particularly of cab calloway) that are worth seeing. the visceral impact of the animation is startling.

the most interesting bb's are before '33, before grampy and pudgy. if you like happy-go-lucky nice fun, these do try (though not as well as bugs or mickey). imagine bugs, woody woodpecker and spoonge bob on halucinogenics, turned up about 4 times. the bb's are an important historical point in cartooning, but these aren't really archives of that, mostly just entertainment for kids to watch. hope they do justice too her some day.

Not Perfect, but the best Betty Boop DVDs yet.......2005-01-21

This is the best Betty Boop DVD set currently available, as it contains most of Betty's highest regarded shorts, including all three with jazz legend Cab Calloway (Snow White, Minnie the Moocher, & The Old Man of the Mountain). If the storylines seem vague and abstract, that was the point. Not only do they contain not-so-subtle drug references (listen in songs for "smokey", "cokie", & "kicking the gong [heroin] around"), but they also evoke a surrealism one normally associates with haute culture filmmakers like Luis Bunuel. And the great thing about this is you can watch it with your kids while they just enjoy the pretty images without a clue!

On the down side, the DVD won't allow any monkeying with the time view, has no subtitles which always help with the poor audio from early talkie cinema, makes you look at their annoying Platinum Video interlude between each episode, and the image quality is inferior to the earlier Goodtimes Betty Boop DVD releases. But this is the best set yet available on DVD and it's so cheap you really can't lose by just buying it right now.

23 classic cartoons.......2004-07-22

This 2 DVDs set is the one you must own if you're a Betty Boop fan. Here's a list of all the cartoons in this set.

Volume1:
She wronged him right
Betty Boop and Grampy
Minnie the Moocher
Musical mountaineers
Stop that noise
Swat the fly
Betty Boop and the little king
Happy you and merry me
House cleaning Blues
The impractical joker
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy

Volume2:
Betty Boop's rise to fame
I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you
Snow-White
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Morning, noon and night
Chess-Nuts
The old man of the mountain
Betty in Blunderland
Be human
Betty Boop's big boss
Parade of the wooden soldiers
Not now

These cartoons are all in original black & white and are enhanced in audio 5.1

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