Harry here... I've been hearing nightmare stories about the post production process on this movie, but all stuff that I haven't had confirmed, so I've been letting it go. As I've been accused of being hard on this wretching load of steaming dog shit coming to a theater near you. Parents! Read this review, if you really think this humor is appropriate for your pre-teens, take em. Frankly, as a child raised on CHEECH AND CHONG, I wouldn't mind... but SCOOBY DOO isn't CHEECH AND CHONG. Hell, nobody is CHEECH AND CHONG anymore, not even CHEECH AND CHONG. Anyway, here's Jub Jub with his look. It is brutal...
Please call me Jub-Jub,
I accidently sent this review without a name just a minute ago.
So please, Jub-Jub would be fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Folks,
Let me be quick to nip this in the bud. All this "It isn't as bad as we feared!" talk is utter and complete shite.
This "film", er, "movie" is just about the most joyless, useless thing I've ever seen in my life.
Where do I begin?
The opening five minutes is about the only thing likely to please those nostalgic types who want to recapture thier childhood memories of Scooby. Not that these five minutes are at all decent, but they follow the tried and true Scooby formula. Old factory, ghost, the unmasking, meddling kids, etc. What is certainly not going to bring you back to kiddie glee is the CGI abomination prancing around the screen. Is it me, or are the CGI characters getting worse? The thing is just scary looking.
But no CGI is scarier than the site of Freddie Prinze Jr., blonde, on a 50ft movie screen. This guy sucks. One begins to seethe with anger everytime he's on screen.
As for the girls, non-descript. Buffy fans I'm sure will be amused at the sight of Sarah Michelle Gellar, because she's Sarah Michelle Gellar. The Velma girl is forgetable.
As for Shaggy, though it pains me to say it, Matthew Lillard does nail it. Though I hope I never see him in anything else ever again, due to past crimes against humanity, he does do a good job.
Anyhow, after the initial five minutes, the Scooby team gets in an argument about who solved the mystery and disbands. A couple years later we find Shaggy and Scooby on a beach in the Mystery Machine, where they are approached to go solve a mystery at the Spooky Island Amusement Park. Here the other team members converge on thier own quests to solve the mystery and get thier reward money.
At Spooky Island they are confronted with the horror of all horrors, Rowan Atkinson. God, I wish the guy would go away. (I never fell for that Mr.Bean b.s.) Anyway, it seems all the theme park patrons are leaving as mindless zombies, just as you will leave the theater.
I could go on, but not even an apperance by Scrappy Doo (who I never liked anyway) could save this one. Oh, let's not forget the unnessessary marijuana jokes (scooby snacks are toted around in a baggie, smoke pours out of the mystery machine windows. Which seem like they were added to try to add a single laugh to the movie, (I'm sure the 8 year olds will be rolling in the asiles with the weed jokes).
Simply put, the movie is shit. The comedic flair of the cast (save Lillard) is non existent, the script is awful, and the CGI SUCKED. I just don't get it. Ripe source material that's cherished by millions, and they still screwed it up. But then again, it's hard to get pissed, because we knew it would suck.
