Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!

Scooby-Doo: Pirates Ahoy! is the tenth direct-to-video film based on the Scooby-Doo cartoons.
 	
Directed by 	Chuck Sheetz
Written by 	
Margaret M. Dean 
Jed Elinoff 
Scott Thomas
Producer(s) 	
Margaret M. Dean
Chuck Sheetz
Country of origin	United States
Language 	English
Running time 	79 min.
Distributor 	Warner Bros. Home Video
Previous Movie: 	Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Next Movie: 	Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)
It was released on DVD February 24th 2006, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, though it featured a logo for and copyright to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons at the end. It features the Mystery, Inc. gang travelling to the Bermuda Triangle on a creepy eerie cruise, with ghost, pirates, and monsters. Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Mindy Cohn and Grey Delisle reprise their roles of the gang.
==Story==
The Mystery, Inc. gang travel to the Bermuda Triangle on a creepy eerie cruise and meet ghost pirates.
==Plot==
The story begins on a small boat in the Bermuda Triangle. Astrocartographer Rupert Garcia is in his quarters, trying to make sense of an old, bizarre star map which he recently acquired. The ship sails into a sinister fog, and is soon engulfed. A dragon galleon appears next to the ship, and skelton pirates swarm the ship. The crew disappears and Garcia hides in his quarters with the star map. The villainous Captain Skunkbeard enters the quarters, along with his cockney first mate, the aptly named Woodenleg Wally. The pirates cannot find Garcia, who hears from hiding that the pirates are looking for him and his map. The pirates give up the search and scuttle the ship, and return to their galleon and disappear into the fog. Garcia escapes to a life raft, and is marooned on the open sea. The next day, Fred is treating the Mystery Inc. gang to share in his birthday present: a mystery cruise, compliments of his parents Skip and Peggy Jones. While preparing for the ship launch, Scooby and Shaggy have a creepy encounter with a sinister-looking cloaked man, whom the duo are sure is up to no good. The gang meet the bubbly and hyper Cruise Director, Sunny St Cloud, and the captain, Captain Crothers. The Captain says they are bound for the Bermuda Triangle, and St. Cloud promises some creepy intrigue. A montage of sloppy "mysteries" that are staged by St. Cloud and Captain Crothers follow, which the gang solves with ease (including some monsters from the Original Series). This peeves the other guests, who have no mysteries to solve, as they are all wrapped up in two days. Soon they rescue Garcia, who spins his tale of the ghost pirates. The gang naturally assumes that this is a setup to another mystery. St. Cloud and Crothers are obviously puzzled and have no idea who the man is. He is taken below deck as a man in a jetpack appears from the sky and lands on deck. He turns out to be Biff Wellington, an English billionaire who is known to be fun-loving yet eccentric. He plans to stay on the ship as well. That night, the gang attends a costume party dinner. The creepy cloaked man appears on stage, who turns out to be Mister Mysterio, a famous hypnotist. Shaggy and Scooby are picked from the audience to demonstrate his powers, but they prove immune to his hypnotism: yet the audience falls under the trance, except for the gang, Garcia, and Skip, who were looking outside the windows (due to the appearance of the sinister fog). Mysterio dispels the hypnotism and disappears in a puff of smoke. The creepy fog then engulfs the cruise ship. The ghost pirates wreak havoc, chasing the cruise guests about, who all mysteriously disappear. A thunderstorm also begins, among other supernatural phenomena. Skip and Peggy are kidnapped, and the pirates retreat back to the galleon and leave (after destroying the cruise ship). At this time, the gang realizes it is not a sham mystery but a real one, and they and Garcia are the only ones left aboard the damaged ship. With his help, they follow the glowing trail left behind by the galleon and arrive in a secret harbor. There, they find Garcia's old ship, and then are captured by the ghost pirates, who take them aboard their galleon. The pirates are looking to find a meteor of mystic power, which fell into the triangle ages ago and could be pinpointed using Garcia's map. They need both the map and Garcia to find it. The gang is tied to the mast along with Skip, but there are no other cruise guests around. The galleon enters the heart of the triangle, and begins to see ghosts from the triangle: The USS Cyclops (AC-4), Flight 19, even a sea serpent. Amidst this, the gang manages to escape and explore below deck. They find a lot of modern equipment that was obviously used to project the ghostly images just witnessed. The ship enters an odd ring of rocks, and pulls up the meteor, which glows golden yellow. The gang then engineer a trap, which predictably fails. The pirates then attempt to re-capture the gang, leading to a trademark Scooby-Doo chase sequence, in which the entire pirate crew are captured by Scooby and Shaggy. Captain Skunkbeard is revealed to be Wellington, and Wally is revealed to be Mysterio. The rest of the pirates turn out to be the cruise guests (including the Captain, St. Cloud, and Peggy), shipmates of Garcia, and past conquests of the pirates. Wellington explains that Mysterio convinced him (and likely hypnotized him) that he was the reincarnation of a pirate years ago, and could use the meteor to teleport back in time. The crew were just hypnosis victims under Mysterio's power. This is because when Mysterio hypnotized the guests, he made it so he could control them, even after they were released from the trance. Mysterio's motive was that the meteor itself was pure gold and he was going to steal it to make himself rich. Skunkbeard, still free, attempts to take the meteor for himself, but is stopped by Scooby. At this time, a fierce storm hits, and the gang deduces the forces of the triangle want the meteor back, so they drop it back in the water, and some steering by Fred narrowly gets the galleon out of the ring as it crumbles into the sea. The story ends as the cruise guests are now using the galleon as a large party boat as they sail back to Miami to drop off Wellington and Mysterio to the authorities.
==Cast==
*
Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones
*Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
*Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley
*Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake
*Ron Perlman as Captain Skunkbeard (Biff Wellington)
*Freddy Rodriguez as Rupert Garcia
*Tim Conway as Skip Jones
*Edie McClurg as Peggy Jones as Sea Salt Sally
*Kathy Najimy as Sunny St. Cloud
*Arsenio Hall as Captain Crothers
*Dan Castellaneta as Woodenleg Wally (Mr. Mysterio)
==Notes/Trivia==
*In the end of the movie, Shaggy mentions a run-in with the Abominable Snowman, which they do in the next movie,Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!.
*In the beginning of the movie, Daphne asks Freddie how old he will be turning. Freddie, not paying attention, calls out "43" as he counts the pier numbers they are driving by. If one were to count the years Fred existed as a cartoon character, he premiered in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1969, and this movie was made in 2006. That would actually make him 37 years old. (Although as a cartoon character he perpetually keeps his youth). This isn't an accurate age though since he was already 15-18 when the series started.
*In the movie, Fred is very muscular. During the pool scene when he's shirtless, you can see his washboard abs, chisled chest and very toned muscles.
*In the beginning of the cruise, they solve a week worth of mysteries in two days, which kind of make the others guest upset with the gang.
*This is the first known time we see Scooby and Shaggy resistant to hypnosis, possibly either to do with past experience or the fact they're incompetent making them resist hypnosis. However, It is likely that Mr. Mysterio wasn't trying to hyponist them.
*In the film there are 3 monsters that Scooby and the gang met in the original series.
*While selecting a unique costume theme for dinner, Shaggy and Scooby ultimately dress up as Daphne and Velma, respectively. They would do this again in Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King.
*This is the fourth time the crew has encountered a ghost pirate. The first two times it was Captain Redbeard in The Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode, Go Away Ghost Ship  and then again in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Episode, The Ghostly Creep From The Deep and the third was Morgan Moonscar in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
==Featured Villains==
*Mr. Mysterio
*Biff Wellington
*And 3 Monsters from the Original Series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
*#The Ghost of Captian Cutler from A Clue For Scooby-Doo
*#The Ghost Clown from Bedlam In The Bigtop
*#The Ghost of Slias Long from Who's Afriad of The Big Bad Werewolf?
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