Betty Boop and Pudgy take the train to a ski resort and enjoy the winter sports while Betty evades a masher.Betty Boop and Pudgy take the train to a ski resort and enjoy the winter sports while Betty evades a masher.Betty Boop and Pudgy take the train to a ski resort and enjoy the winter sports while Betty evades a masher.
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Margie Hines
- Betty Boop
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- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Roland Crandall(uncredited)
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A Bewitchingly Lovely and Masterly Gem with an Ultra-Graceful Betty Boop
The cartoon begins with Betty and her diminutive pup Pudgy hastening to catch a train to a ski resort and almost being prevented from boarding it by a "nutsy-dopesy" young masher who badgers our heroine for a kiss. Once the train arrives at its destination, Betty proceeds to skate on a frozen lake with magnificent proficiency while her admirer goes all out to impress her with his less-than-magnificent ski jumping. Unhappily, an emergency soon arises when Pudgy antagonizes a fish who vindictively propels him over the edge of a waterfall and causes him to be borne away by the current on a small slab of ice. An instant later, Betty herself comes tumbling over the waterfall, but she is rescued by the amorous galoot, who subsequently joins her in an obstacle-fraught race to save her puppy's life.
Betty Boop looks heart-dizzyingly gorgeous in "Thrills and Chills"; her new, conspicuously more realistic design is simply utterly perfect. She is a tall, very leggy and deeply elegant and winsome belle who appears to be about twenty-two years old. My own opinion is that no female animated character has ever looked as beautiful as Betty does in this cartoon.
The masher is an endearing fellow who is nothing like the dangerous and sleazy characters who hounded Betty in her earlier cartoons (the Old Man of the Mountain, for instance). He reminds me of an over-excited puppy in his cloddish efforts to get Betty to kiss him, and he certainly demonstrates that his heart is in the right place when he saves Betty and her dog from peril. He is at his most likeable in the adorably pleasant last few seconds of the cartoon, where the expression on his face and the sounds that he utters are hilarious.
The highlight of the short is Betty's super-enthralling figure-skating, which represents the most excellent use of the rotoscoping animation technique that I have seen. Those who complain about Betty's post-1934 shorts being tame and sanitized obviously haven't seen how titillatingly the animators have depicted her legs here!
The musical score is particularly nice, and it wonderfully matches the mood of the cartoon. I do love the whimsical use of the train's toots as a musical instrument, as well as the magical interpretation of "Jingle Bells" that accompanies Betty's pirouetting on the ice. Other than the figure-skating, my favourite moments in the cartoon are Betty and Pudgy's cute game of Xs and Os on the train (Betty's face looks inexpressibly sweet when she steams up the window with her breath), and the anthropomorphization of the tree which occurs in the course of the hurtle to save Pudgy.
This is a Fabergé Egg of a cartoon with a phenomenally charming Betty Boop and a fairytale atmosphere. No one makes animated shorts as exquisite as this in the twenty-first century. I wouldn't hesitate in describing "Thrills and Chills" as one of the loveliest fruits of the Golden age of American animation: a masterwork through and through.
Betty Boop looks heart-dizzyingly gorgeous in "Thrills and Chills"; her new, conspicuously more realistic design is simply utterly perfect. She is a tall, very leggy and deeply elegant and winsome belle who appears to be about twenty-two years old. My own opinion is that no female animated character has ever looked as beautiful as Betty does in this cartoon.
The masher is an endearing fellow who is nothing like the dangerous and sleazy characters who hounded Betty in her earlier cartoons (the Old Man of the Mountain, for instance). He reminds me of an over-excited puppy in his cloddish efforts to get Betty to kiss him, and he certainly demonstrates that his heart is in the right place when he saves Betty and her dog from peril. He is at his most likeable in the adorably pleasant last few seconds of the cartoon, where the expression on his face and the sounds that he utters are hilarious.
The highlight of the short is Betty's super-enthralling figure-skating, which represents the most excellent use of the rotoscoping animation technique that I have seen. Those who complain about Betty's post-1934 shorts being tame and sanitized obviously haven't seen how titillatingly the animators have depicted her legs here!
The musical score is particularly nice, and it wonderfully matches the mood of the cartoon. I do love the whimsical use of the train's toots as a musical instrument, as well as the magical interpretation of "Jingle Bells" that accompanies Betty's pirouetting on the ice. Other than the figure-skating, my favourite moments in the cartoon are Betty and Pudgy's cute game of Xs and Os on the train (Betty's face looks inexpressibly sweet when she steams up the window with her breath), and the anthropomorphization of the tree which occurs in the course of the hurtle to save Pudgy.
This is a Fabergé Egg of a cartoon with a phenomenally charming Betty Boop and a fairytale atmosphere. No one makes animated shorts as exquisite as this in the twenty-first century. I wouldn't hesitate in describing "Thrills and Chills" as one of the loveliest fruits of the Golden age of American animation: a masterwork through and through.
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- Neon_Curlew
- Feb 11, 2021
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