Winston Sharples' music for the cartoons, as always, is wonderful, it's like the heart and soul of the cartoon and gives it a lot of its energy. The drawing and character designs are smoother than in the previous cartoon Boo Hoo Baby, and are closer in style to the style of drawing in the late 40s Casper cartoons. On the other hand, the animation is very nicely done, with lush beautifully-shaded colours, a great deal of atmosphere (especially at the spooky beginning, that sets up Halloween pretty brilliantly) and the backgrounds have such a meticulous attention to detail. As it is with the Casper series in general (also true of a good deal of Famous Studios' cartoons though, especially the later Herman and Katnip cartoons), To Boo or Not to Boo is structurally a bit repetitive (following the same formula and structure that much of the series adopts) and some of the dialogue does get a bit too twee in places. Of which To Boo or Not to Boo is one of the best of the series. For this viewer, while none of them are personal favourites the cartoons, or at least most of the early ones right through to about the mid-50s, are enjoyable and in the better half of Famous Studios' (somewhat inconsistent) filmography. The Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons may not be for everybody's tastes, with some finding them too repetitive, twee and over-sentimental.
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