Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy Review

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy is a 1936 animated short film from the Betty Boop series. It is a very surreal flick.

Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. This is a rare Betty Boop cartoon after the Pre-Code period that is surreal and weird. It’s nowhere near as memorable as those earlier entries, but still there is a lot of charm to be found in the second half sequences where Betty gets super thin and then huge and fat. How everybody including the furniture is laughing here also led to such a trippy movie.

My issue with this flick is that once again they included a comic-strip character that simply isn’t all that interesting. Little Jimmy is a character from the comics published all the way back in the 1900s and he just doesn’t fit with Betty herself as he’s just another cartoon boy that is cute but hardly memorable. The animation is strong here, but the score is forgettable and the first half was lackluster.

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy has a solid second half that is trippy and fun, but the titular sidekick character was forgettable and so was the first half.

My Rating – 3.4