Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
Tags: satire

Plot synopsis:
Scooby and Shaggy take the gang to a comic book convention called the "Mega Mondo Pop! Comic ConApalooza" (featuring people dressing up as many Hanna-Barbera characters) to enter a costume contest as their favorite comic book superheroes, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. Fred is eager to see the new and darker Blue Falcon film, produced by Jennifer Severin, starring Brad Adams as the new Blue Falcon. At the convention center, they meet Hank Prince, the owner of a comic book store Shaggy visits regularly, and his nephew, Austin. They also find the actor of the original Blue Falcon show, Owen Garrison. They eagerly approach Garrison to get his autograph, but instead they listen to their favorite celebrity ranting about how the studio is planning to remove all the original Blue Falcon shows for the upcoming new Blue Falcon movie.
Later, the gang watches the trailer of the upcoming Blue Falcon movie. During the screening, a monster (who Shaggy and Scooby identify as Mr. Hyde, a villain from the original Blue Falcon television show) appears and unleashes a swarm of bats which terrorize the public. The gang offers to help investigate the situation.
The next day, the gang returns to the convention to wait for another Mr. Hyde attack. The gang meets Jack Rabble, who makes a living signing autographs. They first show the others a recording of Severin boasting how the Mr. Hyde incident has been increasing publicity for the Blue Falcon movie. The second footage has Adams talking about how he dislikes his role as the new Blue Falcon and hopes that Mr. Hyde will draw the public’s attention away from him giving him a chance to quit. They also found out from Austin that the Mr. Hyde attacks are based on original Blue Falcon episodes and that Mr. Hyde uses green ooze that turns people into monsters in his next appearance.
Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy flee into the storage rooms where they find Mr. Hyde’s secret lair. Mr. Hyde chases them onto a big Frankenstein Jr. balloon, which he uses to fly across San De Pedro. Mr. Hyde unleashes his green ooze on the entire town and at city hall, oozing Scooby, Shaggy, and the mayor. Angered and humiliated by this assault, the mayor fires the gang.
Later on, the gang watch a news report and learn that the premiere of the new Blue Falcon movie will now be held at the baseball stadium. The gang heads back to the convention center, and Austin manages to acquire entry for them. With Jack Rabble’s help, Fred, Velma and Daphne find Mr. Hyde’s hideout and discover that Mr. Hyde has surveillance cameras of the whole convention center and the baseball stadium. From there, they see a giant Mr. Hyde rampaging in the stadium.
Meanwhile, as they seek something to eat, Scooby and Shaggy see people fleeing away from the stadium, causing them to run into the stadium and find the giant Mr. Hyde chasing Austin. Scooby regains his superhero mentality and rushes to confront Mr. Hyde. Scooby and Shaggy manage to rescue Austin, but they are booted into the air by the giant Mr. Hyde. Fred, Velma and Daphne arrive and manage to bring down the giant Hyde. They find Garrison in the giant robot, suggesting that he was Mr. Hyde all along. However Garrison claims that someone knocked him out and placed him inside the robot.
Scooby and Shaggy witness the real Mr. Hyde stealing an armored vehicle. Scooby pursues Mr. Hyde and causes the vehicle to crash into the giant Mr. Hyde robot. Mr. Hyde then unleashes his Hideous Hyde Hound on Scooby. Garrison, while wearing the original Blue Falcon uniform, saves Scooby, destroys the Hideous Hyde Hound using the Falcon Car, and stops Mr. Hyde from escaping. The gang unmasks the real Mr. Hyde, who turns out to be Jack Rabble.
Rabble explained that he was in a RC combat league but was kicked out when one of his robots went haywire and destroyed the arena. It was during his autograph career when he devised a plan of revenge. He built the Mr. Hyde robot to attack the convention to force the movie premiere into the stadium. He then put Garrison's knocked out body in the giant Hyde robot to frame him in the stadium attack. The attack would then also force a detour for the armored truck he was targeting for it was carrying more than $5,000,000 from the entrance fees for the convention. Impressed by the action following Jack Rabble's arrest, Severin makes a sequel to the new Blue Falcon film with Garrison as Blue Falcon and Scooby-Doo as Dynomutt.

Review: Highly Entertaining Feature.
Mask of the Blue Falcon (2012) *** (out of 4) Entertaining feature has the gang traveling to a comic convention so that Scooby and Shaggy can meet the original actor who played the Blue Falcon.
Soon Mr. Hyde shows up and starts destroying everything in sight and clues make one think that it's the original actor who is upset over Hollywood's new movie, which was made without him.
MASK OF THE BLUE FALCON is without question one of the more entertaining Scooby movies of recent years for a number of reasons.
The biggest is that there are a lot of winks to earlier cartoons and not just Blue Falcon but there are also brief cameos from other famous characters.
Most of them are in the form of fans dressing as the characters but these here are still a lot of fun and especially an appearance by Fred Flintstone.
We even get a brief shot of Captain Caveman.
Another reason this film works so well is that the story itself is actually pretty good.
I thought the idea of an actor being upset that he's getting pushed aside by an update film was quite interesting and made for a fun adventure.
Even the mystery itself was handled pretty well.
The villain Mr. Hyde was another plus as he was great fun to root against.
The vocal performances were all extremely good this time around with Matthew Lillard (Shaggy) and Frank Welker (Scooby, Fred) really standing out.
The animation was also very good throughout.
Fans of the old TV show or the new one will certainly enjoy this film as it has a good story, great characters and goes by at a very fast pace..
A decent Scooby outing..
This is another entertaining enough 'Movie' that sees the gang going to a comic convention, and a mystery of course then developing.These 'original movie's' that Warner Brothers churn out to DVD are hit and miss affairs, but this one on the whole is good fun, with Matthew Lillard and Fred Welker on good form as Shaggy and Scooby.
I didn't like what they did to the character of Velma though.While not spectacular, this is a decent Scooby outing..
Scooby-Doo and the faded superhero....
Having grown up watching Scooby-Doo on weekend morning TV and having a son that loves Scooby-Doo as well, then it took no convincing of me to sit down and watch "Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" when my son asked me to watch it with him."Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" is true to every other Scooby-Doo animated adventure, for better or worse.
Sure, there is the familiarity aspect to it, but at the same time there is also something new, as it was quite nice to see superheroes make an appearance in a Scooby-Doo adventure.The animation is good and the art style is very much in tune with the traditional art that defined Scooby-Doo ever since the early beginning.As it always is with a Scooby-Doo animated movie, the voice acting is great, and they got a good ensemble of cast members to perform the voices of the various characters.
It is always nice to have the familiar voices of Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle and Matthew Lillard in these movie.There is an abundance of references and nods towards other Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
And it was actually a fun way that they put them into this particular Scooby-Doo adventure."Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" is definitely one of the better animated Scooby-Doo movies I have seen in a while.My rating of "Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" is 6 out of 10 stars..
An Honest Review.
Would it be fair to say: "They had me at 'hello'"?
Here we have Scooby Doo catering to comic book nerds like me, the type of adult fan boys that remember when Magneto ran the X-Men, the type of fan boys that still drool over the classic Hannah-Barbara superhero cartoons that warped us as children, molding us into fanboys even though most of them came out a decade or two before we were born...And Scooby Doo goes to a comic con full of references to those beloved cartoons, even dressing as one of the characters in a Scooby-Cosplay.Then, the Big Bad is in the same vein as the classic Scooby and...my floor is covered with drool and my girlfriend is wondering what she's doing with a ten-year-old stuck in an adult's body.it is super fun, it is a total throw back to the Classic Scooby of old...and unlike the Goblin King, is still has enough to appeal to the fans that were created from the movies and not from the old cartoons..
Blue Falcon 2: The Return Begins Again--I love it..
I haven't seen any Scooby Doo cartoons since I watched some of the feature length animations made in the 1990s, but I was lured into this one by references to Frankenstein Junior and The Herculoids on the DVD cover (wasted on most U.K. purchasers, to whom these characters are virtually unknown, unless they are incurable fanboys or cult TV nerds like me).
I doubt the number of people who have heard of the Herculoids or remember Frankenstein Junior and the Impossibles from the late '60's in Blighty run to three figures.
Anyhow, this is all a bit of a letdown, as these characters are represented purely by a hot air balloon of Frankie and an amusing sequence when Freddy, Daphne and Velma dress up as three of the Herculoids to get into the rather sparsely attended Comic Convention where this particular adventure takes place (I wasn't really expecting the originals to be shoehorned into the format, but still...).
There are numerous background gags involving other H-B characters, and it's all good fun for freeze-framing fans, although South Park did it first and better with Imaginationland.Warners, like Paramount with Star Trek, are very good at biting the hand that feeds them, and the rest of the cameos by obscure 1960s characters are represented by ill-fitting costumes worn by overweight and shabby convention-goers.
These caricatures are quite funny and on-the-nose, and provide most of the fun in this routine yarn, which revolves around Scooby and Shaggy being fans of Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon, a sort of robot Scooby clone and deliberately bland super-hero from what Jimmy Carr memorably termed "the Scrappy-Doo years", that awful dead period of the 1970s and 1980s pre-Simpsons and Cartoon Network, when virtually all animated cartoons were unwatchable.Fanboy writers Marly Halpern-Graser and Michael Ryan, and director Michael Goguen, all with much similar fare behind them, litter the background with posters and sight gags recalling all the obscure Hanna-Barbera creations of the 1960s I love, and appear to feel the same way I and many of my generation do about the vicious and nasty versions of our childhood heroes presently being offered to today's deprived youth.
Ironically, while successfully making their point, they've produced a film far more cynical than all the episodes of Family Guy and South Park combined, in which every character outside the regular cast is bitter and twisted and phoney.
Star Trek fans and Comic Convention attendees have been so cruelly (and often accurately) lampooned over the last two decades that they must have the hides of rhinos to still be showing up at these things.What's left to say?
Matthew Lillard's Shaggy is as pitch perfect as ever, but I'm not so sure about the new audible Scooby Doo, who is much more coherent than he used to be.
When did that happen?
It's not dull, and the animation is fine (the green goo sequence is particularly well done, and a long way from when the characters simply ran from left to right), but the welcome critique of the ludicrous Batman situation, whereby the classic and most popular version of the character from the '60s is being deliberately sat on while Warners persist with endless reboots of the one who dares not even speak his name (while providing a bonanza for bootleggers as the most pirated TV series in history) will obviously go over the heads of the kids...
and may even have gone over the heads of the Warners suits!
Jeff Bennett provides such a perfect imitation of Adam West that I actually assumed it was him doing the voice--not unreasonable, as he's played similar roles on numerous other occasions merrily sending himself up.
And Billy West of Futurama does a mean Paul Lynde impersonation!.
Really, really impressive.
Naturally I'd see Scooby Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon because from a very early age I've loved Scooby Doo(still do as well).
I've enjoyed most of the movies, though none are quite as good as Scooby Doo Where Are You?, The Scooby Doo Show and The New Scooby Doo Movies, at the same time on the other side of the spectrum all are a thousand times better than Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue!
The best for me are Witch's Ghost, Big Top Scooby Doo, Goblin King and Zombie Island, Monster of Mexico is the only one I didn't care too much for.
Post-Goblin King, the movies have been consistent in quality ranging from decent to great, Music of the Vampire being the weakest and Big Top Scooby Doo!
being the best.Scooby Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon is really impressive, one of the better Scooby Doo movies in my opinion if not my personal favourite.
The only real let-downs for me were that Velma came across as too much of a jerk to me, rather out of character for Velma.
And Mindy Cohn doesn't bring out enough of that resourceful and likable personality of Velma's, some of her delivery was a little too sarcastic for my tastes.
Some people may be disappointed considering that this is the Blue Falcon of how little of Dynomutt there is except in reference, a brief glimpse in the opening credits sequence and when Shaggy and Scooby are watching an episode in the Mystery Machine.However, I really liked the animation style.
There is a lot of the What's New Scooby Doo?
and Mystery Incoporated styles- mostly in the character designs- but also some of the classic feel of Scooby Doo Where Are You?
The backgrounds are fluid and detailed and the colours colourful and haunting.
The character designs are more than convincing too, Fred was closer to the classic Scooby Doo Fred than the Mystery Incorporated Fred, which I did like very much and prefer.
The comic style opening credits sequence is very cool, any comic book or Scooby Doo fans will love them.
The soundtrack is also a success, managing to be catchy and atmosphere-enhancing.There is also some great writing, in terms of humour and whatnot it has a pleasing mix of classic Scooby Doo and the Scooby Doo of the past 15 years or so.
The mystery and story are just great, nothing too goofy and nothing too scary either even with the balance of suspenseful and humorous moments.
The perpetrator I did guess twenty minutes before the end, but the twist and how the mystery was solved was more than satisfying.
Shaggy and Scooby have a very likable chemistry, almost as affecting as it was in Big Top, while the message is a very nice one and similarly written in.As for the characters, apart from Velma they are true to character and have strong personalities.
Shaggy and Scooby are particularly true to this, I liked how the film spoofed- in a sense- Adam West and the 1966 Batman show(which I am very fond of) and there is a great villain, scarily antagonistic and with a good motivation.
The voice acting is excellent, Matthew Lillard as I've mentioned many times before does bring a lot of charm and likability to Shaggy, a character that had big shoes to fill.
Frank Welker is great as Fred, and his Scooby voice is growing on me all the time.
Grey DeIsle likewise as a Daphne that has a little more steel than in the older shows.Jeff Bennett is every inch the bitter and somewhat vengeful faded television star, while Dietrich Bader is hip and cool and John Di Maggio brings a really sinister edge to the villain of the piece.
The mayor looks and sounds almost identical to the one from the original Dynomutt show, and Kevin Michael Richardson brings his distinctive voice to the character with no problem.
Everybody else fill their characters very well.
All in all, really impressive indeed, while not up there with the very best Scooby Doo movies it is towards the top.8/10 Bethany Cox.
Mask of the Blue Falcon" is missing two key ingredients: the real Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.
When I first heard about "Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon," I was giddy as a schoolboy.
What could be more perfect than a movie combining two of my favorite Hanna-Barbera characters from my childhood?I would spend many Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons watching Scooby and the gang solve mysteries and then Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, the Dog Wonder, chase down whatever criminal they were up against.
After watching this new animated feature, there's one thing that could make it better.
It would be nice if it actually featured the super hero and his canine sidekick.
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Incorporated gang head to California for the annual Mega Mondo Pop Cartoon-a-Con. Shaggy and the crime-solving canine are most excited to meet their favorite actor who portrayed the Blue Falcon.
The celebrity's appearance at the convention is overshadowed by the release of a new modernized movie featuring the classic super hero.
A sinister villain named Mr. Hyde is intent on bringing the advanced screening of the new "Blue Falcon" film to a grinding halt.
Can Scooby and his sleuthing crew capture the ghoulish Mr. Hyde and discover his motives before it's too late?
What we get with "Scooby-Doo!
What we get with "Scooby-Doo!
What we get with "Scooby-Doo!
What we get with "Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" is a movie ABOUT the super hero, but not including him.
To say I was disappointed when watching this after seeing the original trailers for the film would be an understatement.
That's not to say it isn't hilarious or good.
However, I was really looking forward to a team-up reminiscent of "The New Scooby-Doo Movies."Besides the fictional Blue Falcon actor donning the costume momentarily at the end, all we get is some footage from the old show.
The rest of the time we get scenes from the "new and improved" Blue Falcon and Dynomutt movie.
Although it's a hilarious jab at the way super heroes are updated and made current by movie studios, it didn't satisfy me as a viewer.In the update, Blue Falcon resembles Batman in "The Dark Knight" movies and Dynomutt looks like a Cylon mashed up with Ravage from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen." All I could think while watching it was, "That would be a pretty cool movie!" Of course Blue Falcon purists and fanboys would cry over this the same way they do about any remake or reboot of an iconic character.The whole movie takes place at a comic book convention and it does a great job lampooning the pop culture events and the people who attend them.
Nothing is held sacred when it comes to poking fun at the different aspects of any comic book convention you'll attend.There are overweight attendees dressed in ill-fitting super hero costumes, vendors selling over-priced collectibles, old actors trying to make a living off selling autographs, and studios trying to pitch their newest movie releases.
It's funny to see Warner Brothers poke fun at themselves.As an exciting mystery movie featuring the Mystery Incorporated Gang, "Scooby-Doo!
Mask of the Blue Falcon" gets the job done.
It's family fun that will appeal to parents and their children alike.
Just don't go into it hoping for a team-up between Blue Falcon, Dynomutt, and the Scooby Gang or you'll be as disenchanted as I was.