Michael Lysaght
So, before I go any further, this film is pretty stupid. The director, Raja Gosnell is best known for a bunch of pandering kid's films. The common approach that I hate with this branch of "kid's films" is that there's no attempt to intellectually challenge the kid audience. It's always cheesy lines, pointless slapstick, and jokes about farting or basic toilet humour. Kids deserve better than that, in my opinion.That being said, this movie is still a guilty pleasure of mine. It's incredibly over-the-top and full of energy, yet the dialogue and story lines are so childish. Apparently, early drafts of the script were meant to include more adult themes, such as addressing the fact that Shaggy is actually a stoner, and Velma a lesbian. The film actually goes the safer kid-friendly route, although they do leave in some questionable scenes such as when Fred's soul gets transferred into Daphne's body and "she" says the line, "I can look at myself naked", which is still jarring to me after I saw the film in the cinemas as a child. Another example is when we see smoke coming out of the Mystery Machine, alluding to Shaggy being a stoner, only to reveal that he's barbecuing.The film is harmless, really and most of the cast perform well. Matthew Lillard does a pitch perfect performance of Shaggy, Linda Cardellini's Velma is fairly accurate, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Daphne is done all right, even though with the inclusion of her apparently being a martial arts master, that it brought up a tonne of Buffy the Vampire Slayer parallels. The one weak link of the human protagonists is Fred, played by Freddie Prinze Jr. He comes across like a conceited tool throughout the film. Typical paint by numbers "leader." The story is pretty standard although it does go a bit off the rails by the end. As I said, it's a harmless film, that for the most part, the kids will enjoy, if they have the stomach for the CGI monsters.
mcfarlanejjm
Sigh... This joke has been done before, but there's more Doo Doo than Scooby and there's more Crappy than Scrappy..Where do I begin? I'm torturing myself just to review my thoughts on this film for you guys. Just going to hop straight into it.The beginning starts off with a bloody hip hop yo yo Scoob piece of crap. The song sounds cheap and too modern for my liking. Representing the kids nowadays and their love for Drake and Kanye West. Surprisingly enough, it ends at the typical scooby episode with Daphne already bloody captured by nothing. Why do I say nothing, because the CGI is horrible. I've seen better CGI In goldeneye's opening sequence. I mean dear god! The ghost looks like a stock footage paste in and doesn't fit in with the background. Scooby now looks like a freakish dog mutant. There are such pleasant images in this film for its crappy cgi. Also makes no sense how they literally quit after completing the mystery. Even worse than the reason of why Spider Man quit in Spider Man 2!Since I'm bored of reviewing this awful excuse I'm just going to say that the monster is REAL and the bloody villain is Scrappy. Everyone is out of character, they'd never do what they did to scrappy on the original franchise. This film can go to hell...
Terryfan
I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids and your dog too! 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. Actually I was laughing through out the movie while it did have some moments that made me go what were they thinking? 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. Also we are introduce to Mary Jane (Isla Fisher) N'Goo Tuana (Steven Grives) and Voodoo Maestro (Miguel A.Nunez Jr) As the plot goes on I like how they added the theme song because come on everyone has heard "Scooby-Doo where are you"? and know that theme by heart just having that theme more than once really does a good job. In fact a lot of the music in the film is enjoyable and the songs they feature in it have that special it factor.As for the acting, it is actually good Matthew's performance as Shaggy is just superb as he study the character very well He just shine as Shaggy, Sarah was very good as Daphne, Linda did well as Velma and Freddie did look the part of Freddie. But yeah the movie does feature some good acting just got to be more open mind about it. As for Scooby Doo I enjoy the C.G.I. Scooby Doo the cast did a great job with interacting with Scooby Doo to make it believable so props to themHowever what I didn't like about this film was the fact that it had moments that make you "What were they thinking"? and it really should have been left out of the finish film but again who knows it could have been a lot of worse which is why I'm glad I got it on DVD so I can skip the parts that didn't serve any sense.But still as a fan of Scooby Doo I got to say this is actually a funny movie and it is quite entertaining plus well thought out comedy bits that gives that cartoon feel to the film so yeah give this movie a chance you might be surpriseI give Scooby-Doo a 8 out of 10
