'Betty Boop's Halloween Party' may not be one of the best Betty Boop cartoons. This said, it is still a very good cartoon in many ways, despite having a title that can easily mislead people.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 flaws are few, but as said the title is misleading. The party only takes up a very small portion of the cartoon and it's over too soon and is not as memorable as when 'Betty Boop's Halloween Party' becomes spookier and more imaginative. There are too many characters somewhat, and some are better than others.However the Halloween atmosphere is great, the visuals help give the cartoon a spookiness and much of it is wonderfully bizarre and deliciously surreal. The black and white animation is extremely good, smooth, meticulously detailed and well drawn with the black and white not looking too primitive. A lot of it is actually very imaginative as well, some of the most inventive, fantastically surreal and eye-popping of the early Betty Boop cartoons to me. The music is both atmospheric and infectious.It's never a dull cartoon either, and the spirit of Halloween is incredibly well evoked, as well as some welcome humour, even if it is more risqué in other Betty Boop cartoons. The voice acting is fine.Overall, good Halloween fun. 8/10 Bethany Cox

"Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party" is one of the shorter Betty Boop cartoons at 6.5 minutes. It is from the year 1933 and of course it is another Fleischer Studios production. Betty likes to party and has invited all her friends over for Halloween. The first half of the film is basically the preparation, then the party begins and finally a villain shows up to destroy the fun, but Betty scares him away. Nothing scary about this little movie though despite the time of the year that offers some scares occasionally. The title is a bit of a lie as there is probably only a minute actually dealing with the party itself and this minutes is not really funny or entertaining. Same can be said about everything before and afterward. This was not a good Betty Boop cartoon. It had so many characters, but they did so little with them. Not recommended.

This has it's moments as an early Pre-code Betty Boop. On Halloween a scarecrow finds a printed invitation to Betty's house for a party. He shows up, and after warming himself he assists her in setting up her home. Like most of the plots of Fleischer's cartoons, the initial structure is jettisoned for new incidents and characters to take over. The last we see of the Scarecrow is his putting up wall pictures of witches and black cats from special paint cans labeled "witch paint" and "cat paint". He flicks these on the walls, and the witches appear on brooms while the cats appear with their backs humped up. Betty is shown coring pumpkins (actually a cat descends with a device to do the coring, but Betty acts tired after each one is cored).Soon the guests arrive, and we see them bobbing for apples - one gets knocked out by an apple he is supposed to catch with his teeth. Then, about two thirds of the way through the cartoon, we see a gorilla arrive. YOU TUBE suggests that this particular cartoon was taken off the television shows of the 1950s and 1960s because it is a racial stereotype (presumably for African - Americans), but it does need stretching to see that. The idea of a gorilla as a symbol for a Black male is an old one, but this gorilla has nothing suggestive of what racial stereotyping would suggest. It just is a bullying gorilla, who first hits a tree (hurting a behind that suddenly appears), and blackening the eyes of a inoffensive owl. He then sees the party, and appropriates all the apples in a bobbing for apples. But soon he is being pursued by goblins and witches, apparently directed at him by a mysterious big cat. He is eventually chased out of the party, to the happiness of the other guests. But was that supposed to suggest the stereotypical superstition associated with male African-Americans too? I still find it quite a stretch.It is not a bad cartoon, but not one of the best efforts by Fleischer's studio.

I really like some of these Betty Boop cartoons. Many of the early ones deal with the overlap of evil, sex and hallucinogens, often mixed with jazz and Black men. This is one of the tamer ones in terms of the evil tone: she's in control where often she isn't.But it is worth seeing quite apart from that because it is pre-code Betty. The animator had a real sense of sexual movement, and in spite of her dog's face this is one enticing body. When she calls the demon-bears to her party, she does so by bending over and wiggling her panty- covered butt at us three times. That wouldn't happen in a couple years.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.