Betty Boop's Return to Fame

Betty Boop's Return to Fame is a 2023 American live-action/animated action-adventure comedy film based on the Fleischer Studios character Betty Boop, directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Don Hall. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Syco Entertainment, Smashup Productions and Fuzzy Door Productions, the film stars Chris Hemsworth, Seth MacFarlane, Mayim Bialik, Jillian Bell, and Keegan-Michael Key; Cindy Robinson voices the titular Betty while Maurice LaMarche, Dan Castellaneta, Mark Hamill, and Billy West provide the voices of the other main animated characters. The film follows Toon Talk interviewer Gary Oppenheimer (Hemsworth) talking Betty into making a comeback, which she agrees to if she does it with her old friends/co-stars.

Betty Boop's Return to Fame premiered in Hollywood on May 16, 2022, and was released in the United States on September 12, on the family-orriented streaming service Paramount Prime. It received generally mixed-to-positive reviews from critics with praise for its cast, meta humor, faithfulness to the Fleischer shorts, and its portrayal of the title character, while criticism was towards the premise.

Plot
In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters, Betty Boop, who started off as an anthropomorphic dog, meets Bimbo during production on her debut short Dizzy Dishes; the two later started dating even after Betty was redesigned to her current human appearance, until she and Bimbo went separate ways after the Hays Code had enforced any inter-species relationships. During