Swat the Fly (1935)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Mildly entertaining short finds Betty Boop getting ready to bake while her dog Pudgy tries to catch some sleep. Soon a fly comes by and starts bothering both of them so they must try and destroy it. SWAT THE FLY isn't a classic Boop short by any stretch of the imagination but I thought there were enough good moments to make it worth sitting through. I thought most of the jokes were rather minor including the first one dealing with Betty pouring some baking powder. The rest of the jokes revolve around the fly as it torments the dog by flying through its ears and then goes after Betty in countless ways. The majority of the running time has the fly just buzzing around while Betty throws countless items at it. The biggest problem is that none of this is all that funny and without the laughs it just becomes somewhat annoying as it goes along. Typical for the artists, the animation is very good throughout and there's a lot of imagination here but there just needed to be more laughs.