Scooby-Doo's A Nutcracker Scoob [VHS]
Scooby, Scrappy, and the gang are helping out Tiny Tina and the other young residents of a children's home put on a Christmas pageant when they are interrupted by a spooky apparition. Is it the work of the dastardly businessman who would do anything to buy the home? Or is someone else after the emerald hidden on the premises? You can bet the canine-human team will find the answers inside of 23 minutes--and wind up in tutus on skis to boot. Next, Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy scare up a monster in Alaska in the seven-minute short "Alaskan King Coward." Filling out the 45-minute tape are two other shorts: an episode ofSquiddly Diddly, Hanna Barbera's ghostly version ofThe Flintstones, and Cartoon Network'sShake & Flick, a mostly wordless caper about a dog and a flea doing battle in the Colosseum and other historic locales in Rome. The first three are fine for kids 2 and older, but the loud violence of the fourth cartoon is for slightly older audiences.--Kimberly Heinrichs