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Blondie's Hero

1950

2/5

Uh, Blondie meets Beetle Bailey, I guess?

So, Dagwood gets laid off due to his company "restructuring," so he has a couple weeks off. He goes to the bank to make his final house payment, where he's accosted by a scammer who tells him he'll help him sell his house for 4 times what he paid for it. He also gets recruited into the Army Reserve after he loses a fist fight with a vegetable stand owner.

Hijinks ensue when he makes it to camp for his first day of Army Reserve training, including being berated by a child drill sergeant, having a dream about dying in war, and nearly shooting Blondie and Daisy when they come to visit.

Meanwhile, the crooks have already sold the house while Blondie was away, for far less than they promised, and pocketed all the money. The Bumsteads get back home to find it no longer belongs to them, and they hatch a plan to catch the crooks. They lure them over to Alvin's aunt's house, where the police are also waiting. Due to Dagwood's training, he's able to knock all of them out with his bare fists, after which they're arrested. He also goes back and socks the vegetable stand man, just because.

I mean, it's got a lot of excitement, and punching, and intrigue, and dream sequences. It has Alvin. It's better than some of the other Blondie movies, and nowhere near as bad as "Hillbilly Blitzkrieg." Still pretty painful to sit through, though.