Betty Boop And Other Cartoon Treasures

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Betty is as cool as always!, 2004-11-17
90 minutes of laughter! Betty Boop in Swat the Fly, Betty Boop Little Jimmy and Is My Palm Read

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Worth $2, but no more., 2004-11-04
I'm a Fleischer fan, so the prospect of having a DVD full of Betty Boop was very appealing to me. There's good news and bad news: it's cheap (good), but low quality and fraudulently marketed (bad). br / br /The DVD promised "Betty Boop and other cartoon treasures". In fact, there is twice as much Popeye as Betty Boop. (Only a couple are Fleischer classics, though.) Meanwhile, Treasure Box Collection sells a DVD labeled "Popeye", which is only 1/3 Popeye and 2/3 Superman. And the Superman disc has...? I guess the idea is to sell you an armload of them, so you actually get what you paid for eventually. Not quite bait-and-switch, but close enough for me. br / br /Visual quality is poor, but watchable. Audio quality is as good as could be expected, given the source, but in "Not Now", the audio is out of synch with the video by a full second. But for $2, you can't really go wrong. br / br /If you're a big Popeye fan, all the cartoons you're looking for are on the "Betty Boop" disc. If you want Superman, buy Popeye. If you want Betty Boop, buy ...?

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Cartoons on this edition, 2004-07-18
I bought this "Betty Boop and Other Cartoon Treasures" DVD at the local Dollar Store. Such a deal. Mine had 5 Betty Boop and 9 Popeye cartoons. Seems odd they gave Betty Boop top billing but less content. The Betty Boop cartoons run one after the other, no menu controls them (You can click the "Next" button to cycle through them). The Popeye cartoons can be selected individually from a menu.brHere's what is on the DVD:brBetty Boop (All Black White cartoons):br--Is My Palm Read - (February 17, 1933) - Bimbo is a fortune teller; Koko is his doorman; Betty is a customer. Bimbo sees a ride on a steamship, a wreck, Betty stranded on a tropical island. Betty then gets trapped inside a haunted grass hut; Bimbo gets her plea for help, and comes to her rescue. Back at the fortune telling booth, Bimbo reveals himself, but the ghosts come out of the crystal ball and start chasing them.br--Betty Boop and Little Jimmy - (March 27, 1936) - When Betty's exercise machine goes haywire with her in it, she sends Little Jimmy in search of an electrician, but he's distracted along the way looking for an optician, politician, magician, musician, ... By the time he gets back, Betty is practically a stick figure.br--Betty Boop in Swat The Fly - (April 19, 1935) - While Betty Boop tries to cook, a fly drives her and Pudgy the Pup to distraction. br--Betty Boop in Blunderland - (April 6, 1934) - Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle and finds herself through the looking glass into a modern, urban wonderland. The shrinking potion comes from a "Shrinkola" dispenser. When most of the characters assemble, Betty sings "How Do You Do" to them. But the jabberwock steals Betty away, and everyone comes to her rescue.br--Betty Boop and Pudgy in Not Now - (February 28, 1936) - A caterwauling cat annoys Betty Boop and Pudgy; the latter tries cat-chasing, but bites off more than he can chew.pPopeye the Sailor (Color / Black White cartoons): br--Popeye For President - (March 30, 1956) (Color) - Popeye and Bluto are running for president; it's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive is the only remaining voter. But she won't vote until her chores are done, so Popeye and Bluto compete to cut her wood, plow her fields, and store her hay. And then it's just an old-fashioned fight.br--Spree Lunch - (June 21, 1957) (Color) - Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye.br--Fright to the Finish - (Aug 27, 1954) (Color) - Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon ghost). He pins the blame on Popeye and then goes to comfort Olive. Popeye retaliates by turning invisible, thanks to a jar of vanishing cream.br--Taxi Turvy - (June 4, 1954) (Color) - Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular. br--Shuteye Popeye - (October 3, 1952) (Color) - Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back. Popeye makes a mistake: he traps the mouse in a spinach can that isn't completely empty.br--With Poopdeck Pappy - (Nov 15, 1940) - (Black White) - Popeye's pappy, age 99, wants to go out at night; Popeye wants him to sleep. Popeye tries leg irons, but Pappy manages to put them on Popeye and sneak out to a sleazy bar. Pappy dances with other men's girlfriends, bumps into everyone, and throws his dancing partner into the band. Soon, the whole bar is lining up to get a piece of Pappy just as Popeye arrives. It takes a little help from some spinach, but Popeye gets everything sorted out, and he escorts Pappy back to the ship, where he hogties him into his hammock. To no avail; as soon as the light's out, Popeye discovers Pappy's snuck off again and tied a net around Popeye's bed.br--Little Swea'Pea - (September 25, 1936) (Black White) - Popeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.br--I'm in the Army Now - (December 25, 1936) (Black White) - Olive tells the boys she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station, but they can only take one. There follows a duel of clips from previous shorts as they attempt to prove who is the winner.br--Customers Wanted - (January 27, 1939) - (Black White) - Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing arcades show clips featuring each of them, with well over half this short thus recycled.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

More Popeye than Betty Boop, 2004-06-28
Despite its title and description, this DVD contains only one Betty Boop cartoon, "Betty Boop and the Little King" (1936) (in black and white), and over a dozen other (mostly Popeye) cartoons, in both color and black and white. It does not contain cartoons entitled, "Is My Palm Read", "Betty Boop in Swat the Fly", or "Betty Boop and Little Jimmy" as indicated on the back of the packaging. However, because I purchased it from a Walgreens store in June 2004 priced at $1.99 each or 2 for $3.00 (along with some other deceptively labeled cheapies), I cannot consider the DVD to be a total disappointment. Recommended more for fans of Popeye.