Stop That Noise

Stop That Noise (1935)

** (out of 4)

Pretty bland and forgettable short has Betty Boop growing tired of all the noise in the city so she takes a trip to the country for some peace and quiet. Of course, once she hits the country she comes under attack from other noises as well as an angry group of mosquitoes. STOP THAT NOISE is one of the weaker shorts I've seen from the Betty Boop series and I think the biggest reason for that is that it just seems to effort went into it. Usually even the lesser quality Betty shorts still had a large amount of imagination going on but that's certainly missing here. Instead of any sort of imagination we're just given a bunch of lazy gags that are never funny and there's really nothing original here. Obviously you know once Betty goes to the country she's just going to find more problems but sadly none of them are all that funny. The jokes are rather lame and the attack by the insects just never produces any laughs. Even the stuff in the city is pretty bland but thankfully this just runs 7-minutes so it's over pretty quickly.