Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School

Plot synopsis:
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenstein's monster, Winnie, the daughter of The Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short), the daughter of a phantom, possibly The Phantom of the Opera; and Tanis, the daughter of The Mummy - all parodies/tributes to the Universal Monsters of the 1930s-40s. Other residents of the school are a floating white hand; an octopus, who is the school's butler; Legs, a spider that helps with the upcoming volleyball match; Miss Grimwood, the headmistress; and her pet dragon Matches (who dislikes Scooby at first, but later becomes friends, and has a strong friendship with Scrappy). Shaggy and Scooby want no part of this at first, but eventually they agree to stay as teachers.
The following morning begins with the class and the new teachers taking ballet lessons. Gym class soon starts, to train the girls for their upcoming volleyball match against the boys of the neighboring Calloway Military Academy. The boys rig the volleyball with a remote control, but because of an accidental squirt of ketchup, the boys lose the remote, Scooby accidentally swallows the remote and it allows the girls to win instead.
The girls' fathers come for Open House, but as they leave, they warn Shaggy and Scooby not to let any harm come to their daughters or they'll be in big trouble. As an additional plot twist, Revolta, the self-styled Witch of the Web, and her minion, the Grim Creeper, plan to kidnap the girls and make them her slaves, by hypnotizing Shaggy into taking the girls on a field trip to the Barren Bog. That same day the Calloway Cadets are at the bog. With the help of Revolta's spider bats, Revolta and the Grim Creeper capture the girls and Revolta makes a potion that will make them evil forever at the stroke of midnight. Scooby, Scrappy, Shaggy, and Matches, along with the Calloway cadets manage to save the girls; and Revolta's plan is foiled.
Despite being well liked by all their students, Shaggy and Scooby have enough of this and run away when monsters such as an alien, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Godzilla enroll their daughters at the school for the following year screaming "Like, meet us in St. Louis". As they leave, they see the girls and Matches wave them goodbye. Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy then give them a last werewolf howl before driving off into the night.

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Review:
Matches, the "pet" dragon of the boarding school, is really great, and the friendship he develops with Scrappy is nice to see.
It all starts as a misunderstanding that results in Shaggy and Scooby meeting monsters they (gasp!) aren't afraid of...
"Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" would come of as one of the lame TV movies they make nowadays, but due to fantastic voice-acting, catchy characters, and an unorthodox(if not expectable) plot{volleyball game, WTF?] this becomes a movie for fans of the original SD series, Casey Casem fans, or for the newer 'What's new, Scooby Doo?' fans to see what it's elder counterparts were like.
The drawbacks are continual graphic hiccups and outtakes they never edited out, Lack of sense in few places(Only five girls in a private school?, and lame villain(Mistress Revolta).
Also, for a movie based on three people who absolutely fear monsters, they seem to take a liking to the girls in the film.
It was a joy to see Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy true to character.
Shaggy's clothes--and the Mystery Machine--appear as they premiered in "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" (1985-1986), providing continuity.
I think it would have made more sense to include Daphne, but it still lives up to Scooby-Doo cannon established from 1969 to the late 1980s.
I also love the Scooby Doo movie where Shaggy turns into a wolf.
One of the best made-for-TV Scooby-Doo films!.
However, this movie was actually aired as part of the "Hanna-Barbera Superstar" 1987-1989 TV series which featured TV movies starring various Hanna-Barbera characters (a notable example is "The Good, The Bad, and the Huckleberry Hound") and "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" is one of them!
The ghoul girls are also neat, from Sibella (the daughter of Count Dracula; her catchphrase is "Fangtastic") to Winnie the Werewolf (her father looks a lot like the Van Heisling werewolf!) Plus, since this was made after the "13 Ghosts" series, Shaggy wears a red shirt and blue pants and he has a red Mystery Machine, and Fred, Velma and Daphne are not in it.
Overall, I recommend it to those who like Scooby-Doo, but not to the anti-Scrappy people!.
It is not perfect and it is not the best Scooby Doo movie, in my opinion that's Witch's Ghost, but Ghoul's School is I think better than people say it is.
I admit I hated this movie when I first saw it as I thought it was corny and lame and the fact that I was going through a Scrappy-hating phase probably didn't help either.
The story is a departure from usual Scooby Doo fare but it does hold interest, and has a lot of entertaining parts especially the party with the ghoul girls' parents, the match between the girls and the boys and any scene with the villainess of the piece Revolta.And I liked the characters, Scrappy you either love or hate, but Scooby and Shaggy are delightful as always and their antics are just as wildly funny as before.
The pet dragon is a very nice addition, and almost makes the movie, and I liked the ghoul girls too, Sebella is my favourite as she is quite beautiful and has this seductive element to her.
Finally the voice acting is well done, especially Don Messick and Casey Kasem who never fail to bring a smile to my face as Scooby and Shaggy.So overall, it isn't brilliant, but it's better than people give credit for.
this movie Scooby Doo and the Ghoul school is the best.
It's better than any of their adventures that I've ever seen, and I do enjoy seeing Scooby & Shaggy dealing with real creatures.
Featuring an evil witch and a boarding school filled with young girl ghouls, the conflict is refreshing in that it doesn't follow the traditional Shag & Scoob formula.
But the point is, this is a great Doo gang movie.
A cool Scooby-Doo movie I enjoyed as a kid..
I saw this TV movie a few times when I was a kid and, from what I remembered, it was a pretty good movie (where Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo visits a haunted school and attempts to save its kidnapped students) that captures the some of the humor and spirit of the original cartoon series.The animation was bright and the plot was actually somewhat intriguing, making you eager to know that the events unfold.
Although Fred, Daphne and Velma were absent from the movie, Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy did deliver some great fun and laugh-out-loud comedy.
After the conventional theme of villains disguised as ghouls and goblins in the series, it was interesting and noteworthy to see this movie contain real ghostly creatures and real witches as villains, such as the villainess Witch Revolta.There are corny moments here and there, but this is a cartoon and is still better than some of the more contemporary cartoon counterparts of the 2000s and beyond.Grade B.
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) *** (out of 4) Good feature has Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy going to a "school" that is attended by famous monster's children.
At 90-minutes it just runs way too long and the second portion of the film has a fairly weak story involving someone at the school trying to take it over with a new kind of evil.
I thought the final thirty-minutes really dragged in spots and nearly ruined the entire film but the first part is just so good that horror fans should really enjoy it.
I thought some of the best moments involved the monster children and the nice homages to previous movies.
We get Count Dracula's daughter, a mummy, a werewolf and Frankenstein's daughter who is made up to look like the Bride and of course she's named Elsa (Lancaster from the 1935 film).
We also get some pretty good jokes once the parents show up and of course they're enough to scare Shaggy and Scooby.
Cute and charming Scooby Doo movie.
I was something of a Scooby Doo fan when I was younger, and seeing this movie recently brought back some good childhood memories.
This movie and "Scooby Doo and the reluctant werewolf" were my favourite animated movies when I was a little kid.
It's quite refreshing to see Scooby,Shaggy and Scrappy with REAL monsters , not some costumed villains.
Our heroes at first are scared of the girls, but later Shaggy and Scooby actually warm up to the girls.This movie lacks sense sometimes - private school with only five girls ,the boys don't seem to notice or mind that girls are ghouls , during the volleyball match the players break all the rules.
Still , the movie is charming , the humour is nice , characters likable and the voice-acting is fantastic.I give it 5/10..
A classic Scooby Doo Movie.
Personally speaking I love Ghoul School, it's not as good as Reluctant Werewolf or Boo Brothers (my personal favourite) but I enjoy it a lot more than Scooby Doo goes Hollywood.
I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid I only stopped watching it so I could prevent the video from completely wearing out.I'm not really a fan of the newer movies like witches ghost or zombie island, it's not that I think their bad I just prefer the cell animation that I watched when I was growing up.Any kid who loves Scooby Doo will probably enjoy watching this film, there are some cheesy puns in it but I don't think that will bother them..
I liked all those ghoul characters, and I thought it was an interesting plot with that witch Revolta trying to take over the ghoul school.
So maybe it doesn't beat "Zombie Island" or "The Witches Ghost," still I enjoyed this movie..
"Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" is an extremely entertaining and funny film for anyone who likes the humorous and funny "Scooby-Doo".
I picked this up for $5 at Wal-mart, expecting another fun full-length Scooby feature in the vein of "Camp Scare" or "Witch's Ghost." Wrong.There are so many things that make this film painful to watch.
Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are headed to teach P.E.
Shaggy and Scooby are great characters, but the movie feels empty and foreign without the rest of the gang.Thirdly...THE CHARACTERS!!
Okay some people think Scrappy is bad, but he's actually a likable character compared to the rest.
And the girls...they might just be the most annoying cartoon characters I've seen in a long time.
Miss Grimwood was the only one with a pleasant voice, and I thought the little dragon/dog was pretty cute.Possibly the WORST thing about this movie was the dialogue.
33 minutes it lasts longer than some non-children's movies, which makes it even more drawn out and lame.Seriously, avoid this at all costs.
It doesn't feel like a Scooby Doo movie...at best, it feels like a really bad spin off.
The Worst Scooby Doo Movie Overall.
Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy head to the Grimwood School for Ghouls in an opening scene that starts the movie on a good note.
There is a bunch of stuff with poorly designed kid monsters, Shaggy and Scooby liking to eat rotten food?!
Fast forward way into the movie until you get to the scene with the Mirror Monster.
Fast forward until you see Scrappy start rapping at the end and watch the remaining few minutes of the movie.
Other positives are the very fluid, expressive animation, the voice talent of Don Messick as Scooby and Scrappy and Casey Kasem as both Shaggy and his Mirror Monster representation.
Shaggy and Scooby only act like themselves on occasion.
(They would not like rotten and would have been scared of the kid monsters for nearly the whole movie, not just a couple minutes.) That purple monster seemed so stupid of an inclusion to me even as a small child.
This movie would had worked better if it stuck to what Scooby Doo is.
Oddly though, making him a gym teacher makes the most sense of anything in the movie if you've seen Scooby Doo, Where are You?
Between being a trackman and Shaggy being, in Daphne's words, "the most groovingest gymnast in school" him being hired as a gym teacher makes a lot of sense.
Despite superior animation, Ghoul School pales drastically in comparison to Scooby Doo Meets the Boo Brothers and Reluctant Werewolf.
The Ghoul School was the movie I grew up w/ so it holds meaning to me more then the others...my brother & I always liked the van Shaggy, Scooby & Scrappy were driving during the opening credits w/ the workout equipment in the back.
I thought this film was funny w/ pretty good characters throughout & of course Matches who is a pet, little fire-breathing green dragon.
The private boys school next door to the ghoul school was funny & seemed like a perfect scenario for our Scooby trio...good beginning & good ending.
Parental Warning: This film contains scenes of Scrappy-Doo.It should be rated XXX just for that, shouldn't it?
But, honestly, this was one of the "easing off of Scrappy" films, so, like in the Werewolf one, he isn't nearly as annoying as he is in his involvement with the rest of the franchise.Really the bad taste that comes in your mouth is the premise.
Shaggy and Scooby go to an all girls school to become gym teachers.First, that sounds like a teenage sex comedy.
Gym teachers like him are the reason that American Education has taken a nose dive and we have a problem with obesity in this country.Anyway, all jokes aside, it's still a girls school, but the girls are Ghouls and their parents come...hilarity ensues...despite the premise.It's actually not that bad and has better moments than the reluctant Werewolf, which is in the same era of Scooby Movies and really oddly made all things considered.Ghoul School feels better, it looks better, and it has better laughs...despite Scrappy's involvement..
This movie is the best Scooby Doo Movie Ever.
Here you will see Shaggy and Scooby as a Ghoul School teacher.
If you like this movie you will like this character..
If you're looking for a good Scooby Doo movie to wet your appetite, then this one's for you!
Shaggy, Scooby, and even Scrappy go to a Grimwood School for Ghouls where they are made the official coaches so that the ghoul girls can square off in a volleyball game against the Calloway Military School for boys.
Elsewhere is the evil witch Revolta, who has plans of her own to kidnap to ghoul girls and put them under her control.
The whole thing's pretty simple: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy and Shaggy go to be gym instructors in a girl's school.
To crown everything, the headmistress (who's also the mummy's mother) has a pet dragon who prefers to breathe fire at Scooby-Doo. Then, while they're all out on an excursion to a swamp, an evil witch kidnaps the girls, and Scooby, Scrappy, Shaggy and the pet dragon have to go save them...if they can.I don't think that I've seen most of the Scooby-Doo cartoons - and I deliberately avoided the 2002 movie - but "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" wasn't bad.
Shaggy and Scooby's solo outings usually make for good movies.
But Ghoul School comes nowhere near the surprisingly good Boo Brothers or Reluctant Werewolf and is so far behind modern Scooby Doo animation.
So why on earth they bothered to make this a Scooby Doo movie is puzzling if they weren't deliberately exploiting a popular character.
Shaggy gets a job in an all-girl (actually Ghoul) school teaching Phys.
There's some pointless story involving a volleyball competition with a Military School next door that isn't good enough to distract from the bore and then after that some old hag called Revolta turns up and turns them all into zombies.
Aside from the usual 'how to draw' extras this DVD also features a trailer that cheekily uses lots of footage of modern Scooby animation and mixes it with Ghoul School to make it look new.
There is one such sequence where they decide to run away from the fathers of the children and, all of a sudden, the all-too annoying Scrappy Doo makes an appearance.
You don't see him for like fifteen minutes, without explanation, and suddenly he literally just jumps into the running away scene for no particular reason.And don't even get me started on the volleyball scene and the lack of rules (okay, okay, little kids, whom this cartoon was intended, won't understand anyway, but it was SO bad that the producers HAD to know they were destroying any semblance of the game's rules).
Most likely inspired by the episode from "New Scobby-Doo Movies" where Tim Conway guest stared and Shag and Scoob were the "worlds greatest athletes." This TV movie released in 1988 is another bad `80s Scobby cartoon.
Now I like Scooby Doo, but this tv movie is really lame.
The plot had potential but was dragged down very annoying characters, Scrappy Doo most of all.
Even Scooby and Shaggy don't do anything humorous.
I was always something of a Scooby Doo fan when I was younger, and after several years, just catching this movie on Cartoon Network brought back some memories.I remember when this movie would premiere on television ALL THE TIME!!
Some scenes and quotes from this movie are somewhat memorable (take note that I say "somewhat" because I can recognize a lousy pun when it's told.) Some of the music was memorable, and the thing that definitely got this movie up on my list, is the fact that Shaggy and Scooby actually warm up to the girls, even though they ARE ghouls through and through.
We get enough of them running like chickens in the television series and other movies, although in this case, it's refreshing to see them gradually get a little more open minded, although the ending is rather sensible when they run away from the "new students".
Classic Scooby Doo!!.
I LOVE THIS ANIMATED MOVIE.
This was one of my favourite Scooby Doo movies growing up and they don't do movies like this anymore well animated movies anyway.
I loved all the Scooby Doo movies when I was growing up, they were different and it always represented the TV programme in a good way.
The characters are amazing, you can't go wrong with a classic Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo adventure.
If you like classic animation or classic Scooby Doo then this is for you.
Not really your classic Scooby-Doo movie (INCLUDES SPOILERS).
The first part has Scooby, Shaggy (in a red, not the signature green, shirt) and the annoying little Scrappy-Doo driving to the school where they are to teach gym at an all girls school.
Little do they know, when they arrive, it is really an all "ghouls" school, where the pupils are the "daughters of the world's most frightfully famous monsters".
After being unsettled by who they are going to teach, they proceed to get the "ghouls" ready for a volleyball tournament against the local boys military school (who are "normal", not ghoulish, kids).
The second part of the movie, sliced in half by the tournament itself, consists of a monster named Revolta, who is out to kidnap the "ghouls" and to become the most powerful witch in all of monsterdom.The movie is kind of cutesy.
It was not mentioned anywhere on the video box cover, nor was there a picture, that Scrappy-Doo was in this film.
Unnecessary, and diminishing to a classic Scooby-Doo movie.
I think Shag and Scoob could pull off a movie on their own, without Scrappy-Doo.
Knowing full well that this movie is really for kids (I am an adult of a 4 year old who absolutely loved the movie), I gave it a 6 instead of the 3 I wanted to give it.Buy it for your kids if you must, but avoid it if you are looking to re-kindle the kid in you with memories of a Scooby-Doo mystery.