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They were still trying to make Bimbo the star and they still don't really seem to know what they wanted to do with Betty yet., 1 April 2005
Author:
Robert Reynolds (minniemato@hotmail.com) from Tucson AZ
Very early entry in the series. Betty Boop is still formative in this
one (dog ears are still present) and they still seem to be feeling
their way here. Bimbo is here and a focus of the short is a plot the
Fleischers employ to much greater effectiveness later in the Popeye
series-a run-in with a magician. They seem to be on the verge of
discovering that Betty is a better character (and certainly better to
support a cartoon series) than Bimbo, who is a reasonable secondary
character, but just not substantial enough to build a series around.
The bits aren't funny because of Bimbo-he's just there and only
occasionally interesting on his own hook. Things just bounce off Bimbo.
There's no spark. That can work if a character if there's some
characteristic to grab the audience. After all, Mickey Mouse was
largely just a foil for gags or a straight man after a while, but
Disney invested him with enough personality early on that he grabbed an
audience. Bimbo never had that going for him.
Good cartoon-nothing special, but worth a look. Recommended to Boop
fans.
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