Doobie-doo- and Scraggy, too...

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2012)

Sometimes it pays to read the fine print- but I wasn't paying attention: I glimpsed the trailer and thought that this was a remake of Sam Raimi's THE EVIL DEAD. Which it ain't. Sorta. It's a limp-wristed attempt to cash in on the SCREAM formula, with a dash of WESTWORLD thrown into the mix. In the process, it manages the amazing feat of dumbing down the old SCOOBY-DOO cartoons- a show made for American children with Special Needs! At no point in the proceedings- not ONCE- did I feel empathy for ANY of the cardboard cut-outs; the unleashing of the cgi didn't make it any easier to sympathize with them, either. (It's yet another of those man-versus-cgi scenarios that leaves one wondering just what the **** the filmmakers were thinking when they conceived it.) Giver a pass.