A flapper girl sings and dances, which stimulates lazy farm animals back to work.A flapper girl sings and dances, which stimulates lazy farm animals back to work.A flapper girl sings and dances, which stimulates lazy farm animals back to work.
- Directors
- Star
Photos
Margie Hines
- Miss Kitty
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe song How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (after They've Seen Paree)? was published 1919. It was composed by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Joe Young and Sam Lewis.
- GoofsOne of the dogs in the kennel loses his entire body for a few frames, leaving his head floating in mid-air.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Farmerette: Here I am, big boy.
- SoundtracksThe Old Grey Mare
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played during the opening credits
Featured review
On the farm
Van Beuren cartoons are extremely variable, especially in the number of gags and whether the absurdist humour shines through enough (sometimes it does, other times it doesn't), but are strangely interesting. Although they are often poorly animated with barely existent stories and less than compelling lead characters, they are also often outstandingly scored, there can be some fun support characters and some are well-timed and amusing.
There may be worse Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons than 'The Farmerette'. That doesn't stop it from feeling bland and cheap, with very little engaging about it. It tries too hard to be cutesy which Van Beuren have rarely been successful at, and there is very little of the absurdist and surreal humour that can be seen in their best efforts, or at least it's not done right. There are a couple of decent things but they are far overshadowed by everything else that 'The Farmerette' does badly wrong.
Best asset about 'The Farmerette' is the music score, pretty much the best thing consistently of Van Beuren's output. Sometimes even the only good thing. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Margie Hines (one of the voice actresses for Betty Boop, the reason why the voice sounds so similar) does a good job as the titular character. Didn't care for the character herself, but Hines is very game as her voice. Some neat sound effects here and there.
Coming onto the numerous criticisms, the animation is not good, in fact it is downright bad most of the time with erratically sloppy character designs in particular while the simplistic background detail and lack of fluidity and crispness are just as difficult to ignore.
Story is very slight to the point of non-existence and suffers from very sluggish timing on the most part. The pace was in serious need of a kick in places especially in the middle where it was especially aimless. It is not as disjointed and makes more sense than many Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons, but it just feels dull and bland.
Likewise with endearing or memorable characters, the lead character is a blatant Betty Boop imitation with a little of her sex appeal but with none of her charm or likeability. The animal characters have very little personality.
Generally the cartoon is very low on laughs, actually none of it is remotely amusing and it all feels rather disorganised. Nothing is inventive, never rising above the forgettable and there is not much absurdist about them. As said it tries too hard to be cute in places, to the point of being saccharine, and it sucks out the energy and humour.
Overall, there is worse in the series and from the studio but there is not much to recommend. 3/10 Bethany Cox
There may be worse Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons than 'The Farmerette'. That doesn't stop it from feeling bland and cheap, with very little engaging about it. It tries too hard to be cutesy which Van Beuren have rarely been successful at, and there is very little of the absurdist and surreal humour that can be seen in their best efforts, or at least it's not done right. There are a couple of decent things but they are far overshadowed by everything else that 'The Farmerette' does badly wrong.
Best asset about 'The Farmerette' is the music score, pretty much the best thing consistently of Van Beuren's output. Sometimes even the only good thing. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Margie Hines (one of the voice actresses for Betty Boop, the reason why the voice sounds so similar) does a good job as the titular character. Didn't care for the character herself, but Hines is very game as her voice. Some neat sound effects here and there.
Coming onto the numerous criticisms, the animation is not good, in fact it is downright bad most of the time with erratically sloppy character designs in particular while the simplistic background detail and lack of fluidity and crispness are just as difficult to ignore.
Story is very slight to the point of non-existence and suffers from very sluggish timing on the most part. The pace was in serious need of a kick in places especially in the middle where it was especially aimless. It is not as disjointed and makes more sense than many Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons, but it just feels dull and bland.
Likewise with endearing or memorable characters, the lead character is a blatant Betty Boop imitation with a little of her sex appeal but with none of her charm or likeability. The animal characters have very little personality.
Generally the cartoon is very low on laughs, actually none of it is remotely amusing and it all feels rather disorganised. Nothing is inventive, never rising above the forgettable and there is not much absurdist about them. As said it tries too hard to be cute in places, to the point of being saccharine, and it sucks out the energy and humour.
Overall, there is worse in the series and from the studio but there is not much to recommend. 3/10 Bethany Cox
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Jan 22, 2018
Details
- Runtime6 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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