Betty Boop: Minnie The Moocher (1932)

★★★★★ · Classic of american culture · RWRamo · 2005-03-21

Although the sound level is so low I can barely hear it with all level volumes cranked. I enjoyed this cartoon. The double edged humor of MF cartoons. And a guest appearance by Cab. If it were not for classic film such as reefer madness, the Blues Brothers, Reefer Madness. I think an interesting bit of the music world would be lost to the sands of time. HideyhideyhideyHO, fix the sound and gimme some mo.

★★★★★ · Simply Amazing · ne7 · 2005-09-20

Incredibly odd and brilliant cartoon which mixes live action and 2d animation that was way ahead of its time. Calloway is on form as he performs his most famous hit, Check out the genuinely unsettling ghosts, demons and monster backing singers ;) Great!

★★★★★ · Amazing! · Tim Crow · 2020-05-31

If only for Cab Calloway's performance this would be the most awesome Boop, but the wonderful animation makes it one of my favorites.

★★★★★ · Nightmare Fodder · rhthesinner · 2005-08-15

Wow! A wonderful, surreal and genuinely scary piece of work. If I had seen this as a child I would have had nightmares for weeks! The animators of today would learn a lot if they were made to watch past masters such as this. Lots of wit and invention on display here. I particularly liked the gramophone business at the beginning. The sound levels are low - yes. But that in no way detracts from the enjoyment of the piece. I never really liked Betty as a child but now I'm willing to watch more on the strength of this.

★★★★★ · Great Stuff from The Great Depression · tondelayo · 2005-08-31

Wonderful music, inventive animation, a wild and weird cartoon. Highly recommended!

★★★★★ · Callaway and Fleischer · toefinder · 2005-09-18

They must have had an incredible amount of fun making this cartoon. Minnie gets caught up with a pot headed coke sniffin junkie who teaches her how to "kick the gong" ( mainline heroin ) . Later she meets up with a pimp, the king of Sweden, who gives her somethin she was needin' (a sad reality of the day for a number of young ladies in a different world around the other side of the tracks). This played on saturday morning cartoons all over america on the major networks. The suburban housewives of the time would have had coronariies had they understood it. This follows in the tradition of…