"Chess-Nuts" (obviously a play on words with "chestnuts"), is a 7-minute black-and-white cartoon from 1932, so it will be 85 years old next year, and it stars Fleischer Studios' Betty Boop. Early on, we see two men playing chess and then the camera moves to the chess board where Betty Boop, the Black Queen, struggles with staying safe from a bad guy. But luckily, Bimbo is nearby to be Betty's knight in shining armor and come to the rescue. I may like this one here more than the regular viewer, just because I always though chess was a fascinating sport, so if you don't care for chess, maybe you should only watch it if you really like Betty and old cartoons. Also, the little fox is pretty hot in here and they made use of Betty's sexy physical side as they rarely did in other cartoons. We even see her in underwear on one occasions. This is also why I recommend the watch here. Thumbs up, this is one of Betty's more daring movies and also among her better ones. Also loved the "3 Blind Mice" reference.

This black-and-white Betty Boop cartoon short was one of those issued on one of the recent BluRay collections and, again, is singled out for inclusion among that "All-Time Top 3000" list on the "Wonders In The Dark" website. Therefore, I had every reason to believe that it was going to be a good one. However, apart from some mildly risqué Pre-Code images of Betty in her garters, there is little to commend it except for its historical value nowadays.The word-play of the title – which also starts with live-action footage of two old men staring each other down over a chess board and ends with them engulfed in their long white beards and a spider's web! – would suggest something akin to Vsevolod Pudovkin's CHESS FEVER (1925) or Laurel and Hardy's ME AND MY PAL (1933). However, the end result is rather bland: Betty Boop, her dog Bimbo and even Koko The Clown are pawns in a chess game who, when they come to life, are pursued by a lecherous king!

This Betty Boop cartoon should have had more laughs to it than it did. It was okay but had too few really good jokes.We see a real life scene of two old chess masters hard at work in a competitive match. The pieces on the board suddenly pop out into animated people here and there. Betty is the queen, of course and some old guy claims he is the king but apparently isn't really. Anyway, the bulk of the cartoon is this old geezer fighting it out with others, and with Betty on a chess board. Half the time they play a football game or just throw things at each other. Several times, the dirty old man pulls Betty's skirt up so we see her panties (this was Pre- Code), and that's about it.Overall, certainly not boring but not one of her best, either.

This short is one of the most eccentric cartoons the Fleischer Brothers ever did! It opens with two men at a chess board, apparently playing a match and then turns its focus onto the pieces for the most bizarre game of chess played since Lewis Carroll penned Through the Looking Glass! Very odd, even for a Betty Boop in the early 1930s. Wonderful short. I sincerely doubt, however, that another commenter was talking about this short, from the gist of his or her comments. In print and available. Well worth watching. Highly recommended.