While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual?While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual?While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual?
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Jack Mercer
- Kitten
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Betty Boop
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Willard Bowsky(uncredited)
- Writers
- Warren Foster(uncredited)
- William Gilmartin
- Joe Stultz(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- Quotes
Betty Boop: You've been a very bad dog, and I'm going to punish you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Fantastic Friday #26 (2022)
- SoundtracksWe Did It
(uncredited)
Music by Sammy Timberg
Lyrics by Bob Rothberg
Played during the opening credits
Sung by kittens
Featured review
Betty Boop at her most saccharine
A good deal of the pre-Production Code Betty Boop cartoons are daring and creative, with content that makes one amazed at what's gotten away with. While the later Betty Boop cartoons made after the Code was enforced are still watchable and exceptionally well-made, they are so toned down that they feel bland.
Fleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. Their visual style was often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation. The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her. The good news is that she has not lost her charm, she is still cute and her comic timing is good.
Less good is that, thanks to the production code her sensuality is heavily muted, and it was like she had lost a large part of what made her such a unique character back then and what made her popular, her treatment of Pudgy also seemed a bit unusually cruel for her and she isn't in enough of the cartoon to shine properly.
If anybody enjoyed the pre-code Betty Boop cartoons for being wonderfully surreal and for its daring risqué content that was ahead of the time back in the 30s and wouldn't be seen a lot now in cartoons, they will be disappointed here. Both are missing which gives a rather tame and bland feel here.
'We Did It' is very reliant on the cutesy factor, and to me it goes overboard in it, you'd be hard pressed to find a more saccharine Betty Boop cartoon than the latter half of 'We Did It'. So much so, it was like it replaced imagination, creativity laughs and edge, because along with the surreal and risqué factor all four of those were lacking in 'We Did It'.
On the plus side, as always the animation is extremely good, very beautifully drawn and meticulous in detail. The music is infectious and dynamic with the action.
Pudgy is adorable, as are the mischievous kittens, and the voice acting is good.
In summary, watchable and very well made but the saccharine-ness just got a little too much at the end of the day. 4/10 Bethany Cox
Fleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. Their visual style was often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation. The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her. The good news is that she has not lost her charm, she is still cute and her comic timing is good.
Less good is that, thanks to the production code her sensuality is heavily muted, and it was like she had lost a large part of what made her such a unique character back then and what made her popular, her treatment of Pudgy also seemed a bit unusually cruel for her and she isn't in enough of the cartoon to shine properly.
If anybody enjoyed the pre-code Betty Boop cartoons for being wonderfully surreal and for its daring risqué content that was ahead of the time back in the 30s and wouldn't be seen a lot now in cartoons, they will be disappointed here. Both are missing which gives a rather tame and bland feel here.
'We Did It' is very reliant on the cutesy factor, and to me it goes overboard in it, you'd be hard pressed to find a more saccharine Betty Boop cartoon than the latter half of 'We Did It'. So much so, it was like it replaced imagination, creativity laughs and edge, because along with the surreal and risqué factor all four of those were lacking in 'We Did It'.
On the plus side, as always the animation is extremely good, very beautifully drawn and meticulous in detail. The music is infectious and dynamic with the action.
Pudgy is adorable, as are the mischievous kittens, and the voice acting is good.
In summary, watchable and very well made but the saccharine-ness just got a little too much at the end of the day. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Feb 10, 2017
Details
- Runtime6 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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