Scooby-Doo

Plot synopsis:
The members of Mystery, Inc. solve the case of the Luna Ghost at the Wow-O-Toy Factory. However, long-time friction between Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, and Velma Dinkley finally boils over and the gang break up, leaving Shaggy Rogers and his dog Scooby-Doo heartbroken. Two years on, Shaggy and Scooby are invited to solve a mystery on the popular resort Spooky Island, owned by Emil Mondavarious. At the airport, the five members of Mystery, Inc. unexpectedly reunite. Fred has become a popular celebrity, Velma works for NASA, and Daphne has undertaken martial arts to avoid being kidnapped again. However, while Shaggy and Scooby are thrilled with the reunion, the other three refuse to work with each other.
On the flight over, Shaggy falls in love with a girl named Mary Jane, who loves Scooby Snacks, but is allergic to dogs. Upon arriving at the island, the gang meet Mondavarious, who claims the visiting tourists have been cursed into a brainwashed state. Velma attends a ritualistic performance hosted by N’Goo Tuana and his henchman, Zarkos, a famous luchador. N’Goo claims the island was once ruled by ancient demons til Mondavarious built the resort, and they plot their revenge.
Due to a misunderstanding when talking to a local voodoo priest, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby venture into the resort’s ghost ride, meeting Fred and Velma inside, where they split up to look for clues. Fred and Velma come across a strange school designed to educate inhuman creatures about human culture, while Daphne discovers a pyramid-shaped artifact called the Daemon Ritus. The gang flee to the hotel, but an army of demons attack, kidnapping Fred, Velma, Mondavarious and other tourists, while Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Mary Jane escape.
The next day, Daphne is captured by Zarkos, while Shaggy and Scooby learn the tourists are possessed by the demons. They run into Mary Jane, but Scooby realises she is possessed too. Shaggy and Scooby argue, but the latter falls down a hole into an underground chamber, where Shaggy finds a vat of protoplasmic soul of everyone captured. Shaggy frees Velma, Fred, and Daphne’s souls. Velma discovers the demons can be destroyed by sunlight, but Fred and Daphne become trapped in the wrong bodies until the Daemon Ritus corrects it. The gang come across the voodoo priest, who explains the demons’ ritual will allow them to rule the world for the next ten-thousand years when a pure soul is offered as a sacrifice, namely Scooby. Mondavarious is revealed to be the leader of the demons.
The gang plot a trap to defeat the demon cult, but it fails, and Mondavarious sucks out Scooby’s soul using the Daemon Ritus. Shaggy tackles Mondavarious, revealing he is a robot, piloted by Scooby’s estranged nephew Scrappy-Doo, abandoned by the gang years ago due to his egotism. Using the absorbed souls of the tourists, Scrappy transforms into a monster and tries to kill the gang.
Daphne battles Zarkos, kicking him into the ritual chamber where the demons are exposed to sunlight and die. Shaggy rips the Daemon Ritus from Scrappy’s body, freeing the souls. The real Mondavarious emerges from a prison cell, claiming Scrappy replaced him two years ago for his plan. Scrappy, N’Goo, and Zarkos are arrested, while the reunited gang are asked to solve another mystery.

Tags: psychedelic, horror, cult, romantic

Review:
I've always been a big fan of horror films and when I was too young to watch them, SCOOBY was my favourite cartoon because it had cool heroes and I could see all sorts of monsters in it.
Just to say that I wasn't very excited at the perspective of seeing my cult cartoon turned into an unnamable stuff as the first pictures in the magazines announced a visually ridiculous movie with probably (like most of the other TV series adaptations) a boring and incoherent script.When I left the theater, I was in love with this movie.
Even if the team's composed of five characters, they're all treated with the same importance, and that's rare enough to be underscored.Matthew LILLARD IS Shaggy: he reproduces perfectly the attitude of the animated character and his capacity to make you believe in the virtual Scooby is very impressive: when he's with him, you feel like if the dog was really on the set.
I wasn't in favor of the use of martial arts through the character of Daphne but finally, kung fu fits in the universe of SCOOBY DOO as it's used with parsimony to bring a few more good gags.As a conclusion, I would say that SCOOBY DOO's a terrific movie: it's fun, fast and very well acted.I found in it everything that made me love the cartoon and even more.
Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy all feel like their cartoon counterparts adding to the effectiveness of the movie.
It works mostly because the entire cast plays it straight.Sarah Michelle Gellar looks nothing like Daphne in the cartoon, but she is good.
Great special effect and the movie moves quickly.My only real complaint--did we really need a burping/breaking wind contest between Scooby and Shaggy?A very good family movie--I liked it a lot.
Story: The gangs got invited to the themes park of Spooky Island to solve the mysteries, as it seem that who ever visit the island go back home in a very odd behavior.Though it kind of pretty weird watching it at first, you will used to it and somehow I did quite find it pretty enjoyable and it did stick pretty good to the cartoon story, that the reason I like it.The cast was alright, actually it better than expected, Velma look-a-like the most.
As Scooby Doo ,Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) along with the remaining group (Sara Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prince Jr , Linda Cardellini) are back to solve a case that takes place at an eerie island where occurs weird events including some monsters with nefarious purposes .
It's followed by a second part in similar style , cast and realization , titled ¨Scooby Doo unleashed¨ with lots of fun and as amused as the first , and will be best appreciated by preteen enthusiasts of the cartoon movies ..
I'm 25-years-old and yet I'm so taken by the concept of Scooby Doo. I mean, I've been ready for this movie for a long time.
There are a few adult jokes, but this is a family movie and if you put too much into adult themes, complex story lines, and character development, you would definitely disappoint the real Scooby fans, who will continue to watch the movies and cartoons long after this movie has had its run.If I take out my bias of Scooby, I must admit that I don't think this movie would stand on its own.
It also seems odd with their appearance in the film that Sugar Ray didn't write an original song, instead recycling a song off of a 9 month old album (though the song was probably new when they began filming, but still...).It's really sad that a generation of kids are being exposed to THIS variation of Scooby, rather than any of the classic cartoons - even Scooby and Scrappy-Doo (the most deplorable of all the series) was better than this.
Potentially Scooby Doo was & could still be, a very good film, but it was let down solely by the plot.Unlike others I thought the casting was good & there were some good performance, Shaggy particularly & some good scenes & funny moments.Unfortunately, the storyline was one, largely alien to Scooby Doo, the cartoon & it's viewers.
There was no real mystery in here at all & nothing to keep the viewer guessing.The farting & burping scene seemed merely to appease the 3 year olds in the audience, the characterisations seemed a little too different to the originals & I wasn't convinced by 'Scrappy as Villain', but there was enough in the film to still make it a fairly good effort all round.A low 5/10.
Kids go to these movies expecting to see a big screen version of the cartoons they like and instead are presented with sticky adult material.
This film version opens with a similar scene of a " Ghost " having his masked pulled off only to reveal it's a man screaming " If it wasn't for those pesky kids I would have got away with it " so thankfully we're not going to be watching a feature film whose only connection with its source material is the title , something like WILD WILD WEST , STARSKY AND HUTCH and THE CHARLIES ANGELS movies all suffer from this As for the cast Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard make fairly good jobs in their respective roles as Fred and Shaggy , though Sarah Michelle Geller is slightly to hard faced to be truly convincing as Daphene , possibly the sexiest cartoon character in history .
My children own the first season of the original Scooby Doo and they loved recognizing the cartoon villains in this movie.
I believe the secret to enjoying this incarnation of Scooby Doo is to ask yourself just one question: Have you ever watched more than one entire episode of the cartoon series?
Apologies if you are hopping, surfing or whatever the word is for reading this page to give this a glorious 2 thumbs up or a 10/10 mark this review is not for you!However if like me the bile that has built up inside you, days after the accursed event has reached boiling point and you feel that you must reach out to the world and cry "SCOOOOOBYYY DON'T" then this might be slightly more your cup of tea.First I would just like to point out that this film has NO FUN in it whatso ever.It is unfunny, horribly acted, bad plot and just about the only good thing that happened was that it ended.
Oh and that it was half as long as Lord of the Rings.In fact the only fun that might be even dared to be thought up in conjunction with this unspeakable waste of life is tricking your mate into wasting however long (S)he can stand to remain inside a dark,dank grottoesque hellhole surrounded by hordes of no-longer screaming pre pubescent little horrors, who bored out of their witt's end rely on drinking far too much cola in order that they can leave whichever (soon to be ex best mate's great party idea it was to take his friends to see a once proud and noble cartoon, the stalwart of the cartoon network portrayed like a picasso, lude crude and nothing like the original) that they may spend a blessed few minutes relieving themselves before the ordeal starts againAfter some father/Mother dragged a kid to see this epic of rectal proportions I can fully understand the idea of parental divorce.Thank you for reading and may your life be blessed with the hope that you may never encounter such a villainous waste of £5.50.I am off to ritually cleanse myself by watching Battlefield Earth and Tomb Raider so that my memories may no longer be tainted by such things as Sara Michelle Gellar trying to be anything other than Buffy..
When I was a little kid, I was a big fan of Scooby Doo, from the original cartoon, to the What's New Scooby Too show, to some of the animated movies.
And two installments to the franchise that I practically binge watched as a little fella were these two live-action CGI hybrid Scooby Doo movies directed by Raja Gosnell and written by James Gunn (now famous for Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2).
The characters from the show are decent enough, and Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini and Neil Fanning do really good jobs impersonating Shaggy, Velma and Scooby...can't say the same for Freddie Prinze jr.
Originally, the idea was to make a film with a much darker tone, essentially poking fun at the original cartoon series, much like the Brady Bunch Movie and was set to receive a PG-13 rating from the MPAA.Shaggy was set to be a stoner, Velma and Daphne had a side relationship and there were many references to drugs.
Several rumors about these aspects in the original cartoon series were passed around by fans of the show and were to be incorporated into the live-action film.The plot revolves around the Mystery Incorporated, a group of four young adults: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville "Shaggy" Rodgers and a dog named Scooby-Doo who solves mysteries.
After a two-year disbandment, the group reunites to investigate a mystery on a popular horror resort called Spooky Island.The movie was not well received by critics, but it was enough to spawn a sequel released in 2004, and a telefilm prequel, aired on Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009.This movie is a really great film and critics did take this the wrong way, but they did like some of the things done right and some of the fans really liked this movie.The story is amazing and to the script writer's credit James Gunn, who directed Marvel's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY and the film does stay true to the TV show.
The production and costume designs are really cool also and is fantastic.This film is just spectacular and overall, I love SCOOBY-DOO and it gets a 7 out of 10, because I really give this film an amazing rating.The DVD features on this film is amazing and you have an audio commentary by the director and producers, a commentary with the cast, a two-player game that is very challenging, deleted scenes with optional commentary and those deleted scenes should have been in the movie, the behind-the-scenes documentary is really amazing and fantastic and I think it gives you a damn good look into the making of a movie that I enjoy.
Adults be foreworn, this is not a funny movie and not that well done, fun time but definitely not good whatsoever.The cast of the movie seem to have a great time and the characters do work well, only problem is it isn't acted well and stars such as Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar don't contribute enough or much at all to the cause.
If you watch this or have watched it then the costumes are one of the main memorable things, they are truly ridiculous and although yes the same as the cartoon clothes, just look insane in real life.I said before about kids enjoying it and they should, the jokes are crude in a child's kind of way and the characters are fun I would think for maybe a 5 year old.
Seeing Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma on a live adapted motion picture is a real treat.After the Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways for two years, they each were invited to go to the whimsical resort Spooky Island, run by Mr. Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson).
After they arrive, the discover that the resort affects young visitors in very strange and ghoulish ways, so it is up to Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby to realize they must reunite to solve the mystery.This is an adventurous movie from start to finish, with a predictable, but fun-filled story.
Scooby is filmed in CGI, but voiced by Neil Fanning, and Freddy Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini each did a creative job in portraying Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy, and each matched the original cartoon voices very well, especially Lillard's Shaggy and Cardellini's Velma.
Fred and Daphne are my favorite characters in the movie; Prinze and Gellar did great in their roles and it is just interesting seeing them go from portraying characters in teenage comedies, horror/slasher movies and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a cartoon-based film.The special and visual effects were colorful and the island resort was a little too flashy, looking like it was ripped out of a comic book.
Fortunately, I didn't think Scooby-Doo was bad; it is a movie that is great for the entire family and just to enjoy.
I have been watching Scooby-Doo for over 12 years and i am a big fan of the series and every animated movie.
When this movie came out i was so excited that Scooby-Doo will be at the big screen for the first time.
Therefore, I would say that it is an overall great movie for kids of any age that love Scooby-Doo or just enjoy watching an entertaining funny movie..
That's why i went to see this movie at screen at its release and that I have a good time watching it again on DVD.For me, this Scooby franchise is among the best adaptation ever because i find all the original ingredients: spooks, colors and laughs!
The CG Scooby I think works quite well as making the Great Dane look real might have made it just a little too difficult to suspend disbelief long enough to enjoy the movie at all.
If you are inclined to see Scooby Doo, don't let any negative reviews turn you off to it.The cartoon series was never deep, but this movie does add some depth to the characters by exploring their relationships (as much as possible in what is essentially an action/comedy).
Shaggy's character in particular has a lot of heart, which holds the movie together very well.I honestly do not know what a six-year old would think of this movie, but I would recommend it to other Gen X'ers who grew up watching the cartoon when they came home from elementary school every day.
I loved the cartoon as a kid (until Scrappy came on the scene) and have been looking forward to this film for a long time.
Theres no plot, in fact theres no humour, no drama and absolutely no reason for this films existence except to drive revenues to the studios.From Scrappy-Doo urinating all over Daphne to Scooby and Shaggy having a farting competition (oh, yeah - dog DOO doo really is funny for 4 year olds NOT) this movie is so bad I rated it worse than Manos, the Hands of Fate (which I had to be tied down to a chair, and toothpicks affixed to my eyes to watch).Be afraid - be very afraid.
I know a movie like Scooby-Doo is going to be geared towards children.
Scooby-Doo was a film from my childhood that I loved and watched numerous times.
In fact it strives to be the cartoon and, honestly, the cartoon does Scooby better.People didn't pay money to watch a live-action movie that tried so hard to be cartoonie that it forgot Scooby had a fairly serious tone to play the comedy off of.Instead it is zany where it should be serious and because of that the jokes never really land.Like when I was a little kid, I watch Scooby Doo because it's fun and its funny.
If you are a child, then this movie will be entertaining, especially if you love the Scooby Doo cartoons.And this movie is of course aimed for a young audience.
Scooby-Doo is still one of my favorite cartoons and when I first watch the live action movie on HBO it just had to seen to believe.
But still I actually entertain from this movie.The plot of the film is that the Mystery Gang Scobby-Doo, Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), and Velma (Linda Cardellini) are invited to a island theme park by Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson) however things are not what they appear to be.
Being a fan of the original cartoon I went to see this live-action version of "Scooby-Doo" in the theater in June, 2002 (Was it that long ago?).
I've always loved Scooby Doo. Read all the books, watched him on cartoons almost every morning.
I felt that Matthew Lillard and Scooby were the best in this movie as they played their character to almost the exact.
I think overall I am glad they did start the Scooby doo series non cartoon so I do overall appreciate that which is why I didn't give it too low of a rating because it still was a fun movie..
Scooby-Doo is a pretty good movie but it's not the greatest in the world.
The animated gang, Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and yes even Velma have already made movies.
I believe more focus on this with the Scooby-Doo movie would have raised this review another notch.Overall, I felt cheap after watching this film.
Actually I enjoyed the movie, and as a kid I was a fan of the series, with the exception of the Scrappy-Doo episodes, which is when I stopped watching the series.
However, as I watched "Scooby-Doo" the movie, I knew there was something missing.
I guess I shouldn't have been too disappointed about this movie (considering how difficult it must have been to remake a 33-year-old cartoon show as a major Hollywood film), but so much more could have been done.Some other notes about "Scooby-Doo":-the best part of the movie was easily Matthew Lillard.
I've been waiting long to see Scooby Doo, I'm a big fan of the cartoon, and used to watch it religiously when I was little.
My favorite character was Daphne, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, i think she did a great job, she looked so beautiful and at the same time she was hilarious.