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Simply Perfect

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

. . . from America's always-prophetic Warner Bros. Studio is "Fake News." A couple of Bad Hombres (think the odoriferous Don Juan Rump and his stinky sidekick Mike "Girls, send me your USED tampons" Scents) pretend to be World Leaders in Aviation, while in Reality they're ACTUALLY hiding like a couple of perverts in someone else's barn. PLANE CRAZY ends with a triple wedding, in a nod to America's Polygamous Party, notorious for rigging elections through October Surprises involving Highly Treasonous Shenanigans Hand-in-Hand with America's Foreign Enemies so that they can have a First Lady in every bed (and the White House features lots of beds). But Warner reminds us that divorce lawyers are people, too, and that it's just Common Courtesy for the geriatric puppets of Putin's Red Commie Oligarchical Trilateral New World Order Party to dump their aging baby mamas in favor of Foreign-born Trophy Wives who speak a large enough smattering of English to be somewhat effective as Fifth Columnist Spies reporting back to Daddy Putin in Mother Russia, which PLANE CRAZY portends in the guise of the three KGB agents juggling Melancholia "Eye Candy" Rump halfway through Warner's warning about our current sad state of affairs.

Plane Crazy (1933) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Nice two-reeler from Warner features Dorothy Lee playing a stowaway who gets aboard a "round the world" trip with a couple pilots (Arthur & Morton Havel) who are just playing a scam. Once the plane reaches the ground and the media are fooled by the gag, the young lady sings about the various places they've been. PLANE CRAZY certainly isn't going to go down in history as a masterpiece but for those of you like myself who enjoy these shorts it should at least keep you entertained. This is a pretty weird musical as there's quite a bit of story built around it and I think there's actually more story than songs. The Havel brothers and their routine was a little interesting and we did get one good bit at the start dealing with how much it costs for people to go up and down in their plane. I thought Lee was incredibly charming in her role as she certainly came across very good natured and she was someone I would have liked to have seen more of. Her voice wasn't the greatest but it wasn't bad enough to where it hurt the film. The musical numbers themselves were pretty much by the numbers and it's doubtful you'll be singing any of them when the films over with.

In another of those Broadway Brevity shorts, Dorothy Lee who was usually the girl Bert Wheeler panted after in the Wheeler&Woolsey films, came over from RKO to star in this Warner Brothers short subject. Songwriter Cliff Hess wrote some serviceable numbers for this that has Dorothy stowing away around the world and then telling of her adventures and her romance.The plot such as it is doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but the singing and dancing and comedy are what the movie-going public paid to see. I'm sure that the pretty and attractive Ms. Lee kept the audience in their seats and they didn't go for popcorn while Plane Crazy was in between features of a double bill.

There were three things I liked here in this 20-minute short, the kind of film often played in theaters in the 1930s prior to the main feature. They usually promoted unknown talent for a studio, hoping it would be the "break" those people needed to make it into the big-time. Most of the time, it didn't work but often these 20-minute films had some good moments.Early on we get a humorous Abbott-and-Costello-type routine from pilots "Jack (?) and Bill" regarding the fee they charged to take people "up and down" in their plane.In the ending few minutes, I liked the Busby Berkeley-type dance number. It was exactly like the famous Berkeley performances except it only had about 20-25 dancers instead of the normal hundreds. Nonethess, they did the normal ceiling shots looking down, giving up the kaleidescope look. If you know those Berkeley films, you know what I mean.It the middle was a pretty girl with a very pleasing face and personality: Dorothy Lee as "Dottie." However, her voice probably didn't help her reach stardom. It wasn't bad, but it was too much like an Olive Oyl or Betty Boop sound. Miss Lee must have been volatile or a poor judge of males as she married four times within a 10-years span. She had the last laugh, outliving them all before dying at the age of 88.The movie's dialog and the lame jokes in this featurette didn't help anyone in the cast. To my knowledge, none of the actors in here "made it," but kudos for the effort they all gave. A lot of work went into this comedy-musical.