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Summary: Scooby Poo! WHY oh WHY!
Review: First off, the movie's timeline should have been set in the 70's.
Scooby shouldn't have been CGI, but a real Great Dane using CGI element only when needed. There should have been some sort of interesting mystery for the crew to solve and keep the audience wondering. Shaggy looked like shaggy, but should have been a burn out. It would have been cool with somewhat scary looking villains or ghosts. I would have targeted the movie for teens and adults more than kids, anyway it was the cartoon they watched in the 70's, not the freaking kids nowadays. But this is Hollywood for you. They should have left it alone in it's original cartoon glory and not touch it unless they were going to make something good! What are they going to do next? Snoopy and the Peanuts, or maybe Herculoids the motion picture.
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Summary: Pure Scooby Doo Fun
Review: This movie, even though it was silly, it still was good. It was better than I thought it would be. When I first saw the previews and saw that Freddy Prinze Jr. was going to be in it I thought, ohhhhhhhhh great, a Freddy Prinze Jr. movie(of course it was scarcasm) but when I saw it I thought is want that as bad as I thought it would be. Freddy Prince Jr. was pretty good.
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Summary: RUT ROW RAGGY...
Review: Mystery Inc. is on the move... they moved from bad scripts and very dated personalities on celuloid, to the big screen. All I can say, is ... ITS ABOUT TIME! Personally I grew up with the scooby cartoons, and really disliked them emensly. When the film came out, I avoided it like the plegue... Who wants to pay too much for a ticket, sit in a chilled movie theater where your shoes stick to the floor, in a room full of people you don't know and watch something you aren't going to like? I guess the answer would be me, a friend was visiting that was an emense scooby fan, and it was on Pay-Per-View, so we watched it. I was surprised, at the movie, at my actually enjoying the movie, at me finally going out and buying the DVD. As for the story line, Mystery Inc is breaking up, all but Shaggy and Scooby want more fame and noteriety... They divide to go out and solve their own cases, but all get summoned individually to an island retreat for college spring break clientell... college students turn into zombies (ooh there's a surprise), and the gang is forced to work together to solve the mystery. Watch it, take it at face value, and enjoy.
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Summary: Why is everyone giving this bad reviews?
Review: To be honest, I was never the biggest fan of Scooby Doo. I used to watch it as a kid - and liked Daphne's whole look to be honest! (I like purple) But then they brought Scrappy Doo into the whole equasion, and almost booted Scooby out. Scooby or Scrappy? Scooby every time, there's really no contest.Then this comes out. Some people are never really sure of original cartoon character being put into a computer, and coming out nothing like how they were - for instance, the Garfield movie that is coming out this summer. He TALKS. But I'll still want to see it. There wasn't that much action in this, so that was quite disappointing. The humour was quite good, especially from the fabulous Matthew Lilliard as Shaggy. How good a choice was he for Shaggy?! Pure genius. The rest of the cast were great for Daphne, Fred & a relatively unknown Linda Cardellini for Velma - who looks totally different! Maybe I wasn't getting some of this movie, but when all their inner spirits came out and swapped bodies etc, was it just me, or did Velma totally change?! Or was that supposed to be part of the story? Cos suddenly, she was still wearing that orange top, but it changed from a poloneck, into a V-neck, very low cut, and she had a pair to rival Daphne's! And then it changes back. Zoinks indeed! And Sarah Michelle Gellar is just a tad too old to be playing Daphne. If you look closely in a couple of scenes, she is wearing way too much concealer under her eyes, to cover up any possible bags, which seems almost too light for the rest of her skin, and makes her look really gaunt in the process. This is a good movie if you're a fan of Scooby Doo. The DVD has lots of extras, if you could work out how to get into them, without getting distracted by Scooby Doo messing about, and if you can get past the fact that Scooby's mouth doesn't match what he's saying (which some reviewers obviously can't), then you can sit back, relax, and enjoy. And maybe get drunk to understand it more.
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Summary: Quit the bashing...
Review: I am so tired of seeing the horrible reviews this movie recieved. I am 20, so no, I didn't grow up in the 60's and 70's watching this show. However, I DID grow up in the 80's and 90's watching this show, so maybe I just have a different take. Okay, so Freddy Prinze, Jr. was not the most perfect choice for Fred. A lot of reviews resent his representation as an attention starved and fame hogging character, but I have to say that while the movie took it to the extreme, it by no means pulled it out of thin air. And Daphne was always getting captured and lost in the spooky old dungeons and mansions, and it was normally Velma or (Duh duh duh!) good ol' Freddy to the rescue. And the romantic connection everyone is claiming came from nowhere at the end of the movie? Were ya'll even watching?!? While Gellar and Prinze may only have been chosen for their star power and not for their excellent casting as the characters, they DO portray the relationship that we all know existed between Daphne and Fred rather well. And NO ONE can tell me Velma and Shaggy weren't brilliantly casted!
The plot, while not in the "Scooby Doo, Where are you?" fashion, is more along the lines of "The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo" minus Vincent Price. The monsters are real, not masked men. And for all the Christians bashing the movie for that reason, be forewarned, if you deny the existence of evil in the world, regardless of your religion, then you open yourself to it. Being unaware doesn't exclude. Besides, this was a FUN, FAMILY ORIENTED movie, remember. The occult elements were in Scooby Doo fashion, discovering new legends associated with the area in which they are investigating the mystery.
In essence, if you enjoy this movie for what it was intended to be, which was a fresh representation of fantastic characters, which remains true to the ideas implied in the series, as well as a fun film, then you'll get the point. If not, then "Zoinks" you take things way too seriously.
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Summary: Just stick with the cartoon
Review: I hate it when people make cartoons into movies which have actual people casting. It's just not as good as the cartoon. The one thing I hate the most about this movie is the crappy animation with Scooby Doo. His face doesn't look anything to a real dog's face, it looks like it was poorly animated. It's not like it's impossible to make a dog look normal when it opens it's mouth. If you watch Homeward Bound, you'll notice the animation of the animals' mouths looks good. I also think everything else in this movie is inane and stupid.
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Summary: Scooby Poo
Review: This movie was the corniest thing I ever watched. I mean, come on. The dog talks like a retard and needs serious speech therapy (Rooby Coo???), Shaggy needs a facial, and that nerdy one needs a haircut. I wasn't a big fan of Scooby Doo to begin with, and this hasn't done anything to approve that, let alone the opposite,
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Summary: The movie has a real heart
Review: The flick has a real good nature, is kind of simply fun to watch, and truly shaggy & scooby really work. I wish daphne looked more like the cartoon version, but heh, can't have everything. The cast commentary version is kind of nice too. It's an interesting variant which sort of brings the actors down to earth. Maybe it's just me, but whenever I hear actors in semi-normal situations I'm always a bit surprised, in the "so that's how they realy behave" way. 4 stars, instead of 5, because of simple things like daphne didn't look like daphne, etc.
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Summary: MUCH better than expected.
Review: It's funny for the kids and for us adults it's got some great sarcastic humor. Lots of "wink-wink-it's-Scooby-stupid" humor. If you're expecting Lord of the Rings...this isn't it. If you are hoping for Lost In Translation...then go rent it. But if you want a funny film that doesn't mind being silly then you've come to the right place. Get out a box of Scooby snacks, sit back, and enjoy the mad jokes. Just watch out for the ghosts watching over your shoulder.
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Summary: Matthew Lillard IS Shaggy
Review: I was seriously dreading this film. What was conceivably a very, very bad idea turned out to be a surprisingly good film with a fair amount of comedy. Originally a Mike Myers vehicle (thank God THAT didn't work out), but then recast with I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream actors, the realization of Scooby Doo as a CGI character interacting with live action actually works. I'd say it was a one in a million chance but Raja Gosnell managed to pull it off. The most impressive transformation tho is not cartoon Scooby to CGI Scooby but Matthew Lillard's performance as Shaggy. No way would I have believed he could possibly take on the role of one of my most fave characters ever but he just seems to completely disappear and the spirit of Shaggy takes him over. He brings some real integrity to what is widely regarded as an artless family movie. Even Freddy Prinze Jr. (!) seems to nail the voice and narcissism of Fred and Sarah Michele Gellar is quite good as Daphne. Tho I was always more attracted to Velma for some reason and Linda Cardellini brings some true sex appeal to the role. It was cool to hear Shaggy's often unmentioned real name (Norville Rogers) near the beginning, tho I'm not sure everybody will entirely get it. Of course the plot is the usual baloney but there is constant action and invention to keep even the most impatient viewer stuck on till the end. The gang go to a theme park resort called Spooky Island (actually an Australian resort) to solve the mystery of why the wild spring break kids are turning into well-mannered nerds. But not only are there guys in masks but there are some REAL spooks too. I would have liked Rowan Atkinson to have a bigger role as Emile Mondavarious but considering the twist (which comes as an amusing surprise) at the end, the plot doesn't really give room for it. It's good to have him in there though instead of a cast full of 20-somethings. But 99% of the comic genius comes Matthew Lillard. Now that audiences have warmed to a live-action Scooby I'm eagerly awaiting the more sophisticated looking sequel. I'm sure it will be a massive hit just like this. For the REALLY observant try to spot a member of the 'Neighbours' cast from a several years ago among the partying college kids. The DVD is in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen (stay away from the useless Pan and Scan version) with Dolby 5.1 sound. The extras are decent enough but I would liked to have seen the cut lesbian kiss between Velma and Daphne in the 'never before seen' footage
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