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Summary: Should Have Been Titled
Review: This is a collection of 10 Betty Boop Shorts from the post Hays-Code era. The Hays-Code was Hollywood's self-censorship mechanism which was eventually replaced by the Motion Picture Association of America rating system (G, PG, R, etc). Anyway, Betty Boop was basically ruined by the Hays code: it robbed her of much of what made her special (most notably her short skirts!). Here are the episodes included in order:1) You're Not Built That Way, 1936
2) Training Pigeons, 1936
3) Pudgy Takes a Bow Wow, 1937
4) Pudgy Picks a Fight, 1937
5) My Friend the Monkey, 1939
6) Baby Be Good, 1935 (1 of 2 pudgy-free episodes)
7) A Language All My Own, 1935 (the 2nd)
8) A Little Soap and Water, 1935
9) Not Now, 1936
10) We Did It, 1936 Anyway, these 10 episodes are a pretty poor sampling of Betty's work, even by Hays-Code standards. She hardly even appears; Pudgy is in 8 of the 10 episodes and owns each one of them almost entirely. Betty only gets a chance to shine by hopping a plane to Japan in #7. If you just want to get a sampling of Betty, check out the other Good Times DVD, "The World's First Female Superhero". If you want to see it all (including her best early episodes), wait for the "Definitive Collection" to come to DVD. If you have to have this, buy it in the dual packaged edition with the "World's First" disc also available here on amazon.
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