Fleischer were responsible for some brilliant cartoons, some of them still among my favourites. Their visual style often stunning and some of the most imaginative and ahead of its time in animation.
The character of Betty Boop, one of their most famous and prolific characters, may not be for all tastes and sadly not as popular now, but her sex appeal was quite daring for the time and to me there is an adorable sensual charm about her. The charm, sensuality and adorability factors are here and she's fun to watch. Koko has a bigger role to usual and is very amusing, and those skeletons are creepy.
Furthermore, the black and white animation is very good, smooth, meticulously detailed and well drawn with the black and white not looking too primitive. A lot of it is actually very imaginative and impressively surreal, and the skeletons are very well designed. Even better is much the music, which is rousing, catchy and unquestionably accessible to anybody who loves or is familiar with the compositional style.
'Betty Boop's Museum' is variable in terms of effectiveness of scenes, but there is a nice creepiness and a nice sense of fun. The beginning, Betty's mad dash and the cute bit with the dinosaur are the highlights. The voice acting is good.
It is a plot-less cartoon though and does feel stretched sometimes, 'The Skeleton Dance', a masterpiece and an infinitely superior cartoon, it isn't. Betty's depression song is agreed mediocre at best, really not one of her better songs, and the ending is rather anti-climactic.
On the whole, a good Betty Boop cartoon but not one of the better ones