Allow me to vent for a few minutes--I feel like I need to get this off my chest, otherwise I feel like I might sound like a broken record in the upcoming weeks. This short--as has been mentioned by Metal--is the first of the Shemp remakes, recycles, rehashes, retreads; whatever you want to call 'em.
And for the most part, my opinion of these shorts is that they are all average to below average--some of them being downright terrible (i.e. Flagpole Jitters). With the one or two exceptions imo being Of Cash and Hash --which I think is the rare case of the remake being better than the original--and Loose Loot is very good as well; not better than Hold That Lion, but still great nonetheless.
Those 2 examples aside though, the recycles for the most part do very little for me--I just look at them as being a cheap way for Jules White to rip off the theater owners back then who thought they were buying "brand new" Three Stooges shorts. Of course, long before the days of television repeats, and VCRs, and now DVD players, I imagine folks back then probably didn't know they were getting gypped.
But here in 2016, there's no other way I can look at these shorts but ripoffs. OK, now that I've gotten that off my chest, I'll get to my opinion of Booty--This one is a lot like the later Husbands Beware in that the first 6 or 7 minutes are all new footage and the new stuff is actually quite funny. In particular, I enjoyed the scene where Shemp thinks he blew off his leg--very funny stuff.
So funny, that I imagine the writer for this short--if given the opportunity--could have developed a good "all original" film. But, that's not what we get, as the 2nd half of this is 99% stock footage from Lion.
But those first several minutes are funny enough to give this one a somewhat respectable grade.
5 pokes out of 10...