Rating: 
Summary: Didn't Like it. Sorry.
Review: I hate to say but I am totally dissapointed with this movie. Let me start that I've never been a really big fan of Scooby Doo but this movie eats the cake as it really does nothing for the original cartoon series from the 1960s. The actings is absolutely clumsy and the script is drab. The whole plot was absolutely ridiculous and forgettable. I'm not saying avoid this at all costs but don't expect anything out of this film. Hopefully the sequel will be better.
Rating:
Summary: Dissapointing and very messy.
Review: Let me get started that I never was and still am not a fan of the whole Scooby Doo franchise, even when I was younger so I kept my expectations relatively low but even then, this big screen adaptation completely comes crashing down to the ground in a lot of ways. The plot is decent enough, telling about the gang who has gone their separate ways but reunite after they all get an invitation to Spooky Island where they discover an amusement park but strange things happen and endanger all of them and they all have to work together to find out what's going on to the tourists. Too bad the bumbling acting and miscast actors and actresses just ruin it from here. What really kills this film in my opinion is the grossly miscast actors that played the characters. No offense against any of them but this glaringly shows that where they stand, they were completely unsuitable for their roles. The most glaring of all were the actor who played Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers and especially Sarah Michelle Gellar who I feel really dropped the ball on this one. They all act completely out of character and hardly even act like real heroes at all. Instead they just look like they were all just going for some Jurassic Park style joyride through caverns and acting like fools. In many ways, this feels more like watching a bad episode of TRL (Total Request Live) on MTV) with the worst of behavior of the characters. The music from Suger Ray is not bad and it's kind of funny watching the band members chase around the characters but they make up the bulk of what's good about this movie and even then, even they could not save this movie. The other redeeming quality is the ending which I must say isn't all that bad either but then again it was great just because the movie was over and that I could finally go and see something else instead. These things prevent this movie from being a one star but just barely a two star. I really tried to like this movie but even when the brain is turned off, there's nothing that was on here that was enough to persuade me to ever see this movie again. It's this kind of stupidity and dumb acting that has turned me away from comedies and made me shift into much darker more dramatic movies as of recently. It's not the worst movie in the world by any means but this "Scooby Doo" movie just fails in so many ways that it wouldn't kill me if I were to never see it again nor it being taken out of print. There is nothing that a "Special Edition", Expanded Edition, or truckloads of extras could rescue this waste of film from the dumpster. A complete waste of film. I can't even believe that they are even making a sequel. This isn't the worst movie in the world by any stretch of the imagination but it wouldn't kill me if this were to vanish from existence. There are some redeeming qualities in this film but they are few and aren't enough to make this movie worthy of killing time. If you're in the mood to see something that isn't necessarily thought-provoking and want some brainless comedy, then I would suggest "Eight Legged Freaks" which I feel was much better. Don't bother too much with the much hyped sequel in the works. For all we know, it will flop big time when it's released to theaters. On the other hand, with a more positive note, I hope they learned the mistakes made in this first "Scooby Doo" movie and try harder on the sequel but I have my doubts on that.
Rating: 
Summary: An Excellent Rendition
Review: First of all I think they did a great job with this movie. It follows closely with the cartoon and fans will not be disappointed. The actors are excellent and fit the parts very well and the storyline is actually pretty good. When I first watched this movie I had my doubts, I thought it would be stupid and they would never be able to make a good Scooby. Scooby was great and they did a great job with his animation and personality. I recommend old fans and people who aren't fans to watch this movie.
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Summary: This was the best movie I have ever seen-uh, huh
Review: I hated this movie!! It was so fake and wasn't even funny. This movie needs to be thrown down the garbage dispenser, then dug out of the ceptic tank, flushed down the toilet, then taken to the dump in which the manager of the dump will stomp on the remains. Whoever wrote this movie is mentally disturbed. Sure I went to the theaters to see it, but my mom fell asleep in the first five minutes. To tell you the truth, I can't tell you the storyline, because I honestly don't know. I was more interested in the back of the head of the guy in front of me. Anyway, I wouldn't recomend this movie even if my life depended on it. Lesson learned from Scooby-Doo: Computerized dogs can't solve crimes any better than real dogs.
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Summary: Im suprised, it was funny and good
Review: I first saw this movie at my little cousins house and before I watched it Im like should I watch it and Im like,im gonna give it a chance and when I put it one I laughed my ass off, and I told my sisters that it was good, so we rented and they watched it, it was so funny my mom wanted to watch it and she laughed her ass off.This maybe for kids, but grown ups could watch the movie and laugh there asses off.Really worth watching for kids and grown ups.
Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: Although I wasn't a fan of the original Scooby-Doo cartoon, I decided to watch this movie because I remember reading that the movie was actually better than the cartoon. Wrong! Although the casting director made some perfect choices (wait until you see and hear Matthew Lillard as Scaggy - he's perfect), nothing can help the script. Yes, it pokes fun at the original characters and premise, with lots of references to the pot-smoking, free love, horribly dressed seventies. Yes, the plot is classic Scooby, with its hauntings arranged by villains - and hints of real ghosts. And yes, it tries to appeal to this generation of kids, particularly boys, with the elementary school playground humor of bodily functions. But even with some genuinely funny moments, nothing gels. It just comes across as an asinine attempt at nostalgia. This movie was a complete waste of my time. I still can't believe I watched the whole thing. If you loved Scooby-Doo, you're much better off parking in front of the television with the original.
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Summary: Stay away from this movie!!!
Review: Ok, I wanna start saying I'm a HUGE Scooby Doo fan, I simply love all the movies and cartoons avaiable, they are really funny and interesting. With that thought, I have all the reasons to tell you the truth about this horrible cash-in movie: IF YOU REALLY ARE A SCOOBY DOO FAN AND REALLY LIKE YOUR CHILDRENS, DO EVERYTHING THAT'S POSSIBLE TO STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!!! IT'S A DISGRACE, IT SIMPLY RUINS WITH SCOOBY DOO'S GOOD NAME! Freddie seems like Johnny Bravo, Daphne is a frightened young child who wants to prove something for people, Velma are a dumb, and one scene, Scooby (the first character that are 99% good) and Shaggy (the second character that are 99% good) are competing who farts harder. Worst: there are not a single funny joke in the whole movie (except the end, that reminds me "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island"), the story is a disgrace, far from the interesting misteries Scooby and the guys always solved on the cartoons. And to disgrace even more: Scrappy Doo are the main bad guy!!! WHAT'S THIS?? IT ONLY CAN BE A VERY BAD JOKE! THAT'S NOT THE SCOOBY DOO'S REALITY, IT'S ALL WRONG!!! IF SCOOBY DO HAVE STARTED LIKE COMIC BOOK, IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED PROFANATION FOR THEIR FANS!! IF MY GRADE ARE RIGHT? NO! IT'S -5 STARS, OR WEAKER. Geez, how can awful things being so difficult to forget! That's what I want, to forget this junk forever. Now they are trying to disgrace the Scooby Doo's name a second time, so I wanna give my previous advice for people: DON'T GO TO THE MOVIES TO WATCH SCOOBY DOO 2, FORGET ABOUT, IF YOU RESPECT THE SCOOBY'S LEGACY! WAIT WHEN, REAL ARTISTS, WHO CARES ABOUT THE RIGHT THINGS, GET A GOOD STORY AND MAKE A DECENT SCOOBY DOO MOVIE, NOT THIS TRASH. At least, this movie is useful for just three things: 1) To illustrate perfectly what NOT to do in a future Scooby Doo adaptation; 2) To show how NOT TO DO an adaptation of a TV cartoon, or any other adaptation; 3) To reinforce the idea that Scooby Doo are a FAMILY'S CARTOON and it have to remain like this, without this tragic and scatologic adaptation for disturbed teens. Ps.: Now it's the time that people starts give me negative votes about my review. Go ahead, I don't care about that! It only proves how blind people are these days. I made my part, to warn you, but if you want to continue lying to yourself, c'mon, and give me a negative vote! The worst blind is the one who refuses to see!
Rating: 
Summary: Would You Watch It For a Scooby Snack???
Review: Well, "Soitenly"!!!!! I mean, Jinkies, this IS the Scoobster, even if he is a little physically altered by his CGI conversion to pseudo-reality.
But, is it any good? Well, actually, yes it is. Could have been BETTER, I think, but it was passable enough...and enjoyable enough...as lightweight entertainment. Better than that if you evaluate it solely as a "kiddie" movie.
If you want to analyze it as "Cinema", it has to get mixed reviews. It was only partially well-cast. Matthew Lillard as Shaggy OWNS the show. He IS the shagster. All the body language, the vocal nuances, the facial expressions, the "eye language", it is all there. If anybody else could top Lillard as the definitive Shaggy, I'd be interested to hear who it could be. And Linda Cardellini as Velma was also an inspired choice. Could have been that Christina Ricci might have done equally well, but who is to say? The Cardellini performance is fine with me.
I am mixed in my feelings about Sarah Michelle Gellar's Daphne. She plays this a lot more neurotically and with a lot more of a chip on her shoulder than any recollected visions I have of the basically good hearted ol' "Daph". And one just KNEW, going in, that the producers would work to play to Gellar's "Buffy" persona at some point, and sure enough, they did (Tho' I admit, I liked the ... kicking she dished out to Scrappy's masked wrestle-mania henchman, and the subsequent disruption of the little creep's plans that flowed from it). Freddie Prinz's Fred Jones just doesn't hit it with me, though. His is the one characterization I can't buy into here. He is just totally miscast. He doesn't look good as a blonde, he doesn't look like the cartoon Fred Jones, and his runaway conceit is a bit too over the top. The dog also doesn't look totally like the cartoon Scooby, but then, SO WHAT? Big whiff. Nobody else looks identical to THEIR cartoon counterparts either.
The sequential presentation is a little skewed, with the best sequences coming right at the beginning (The Luna Ghost), but all in all this is fun hokum that mostly works( the "paging Mr. Doo" sequence is a hoot). I paid for a ticket to see it in the theatre and then shelled out for the DVD. As tight as I am reputed to be, I wouldn't have done that if I hadn't liked the overall effort.
If one is a long-term "Scoobster" fan, though, there is one single scene in this movie that makes any & all of its faults totally irrelevant. A to-die-for moment that many people have waited YEARS just HOPING to see. And director Rajah Gosnell gives it to you. FINALLY! What is it? Oh, Come onnnnnnnn! How can you ASK???
It's when Scooby , at long last, BUSTS SCRAPPY'S CHOPS!!! Makes you want to STAND UP AND CHEER!!!!! Now if these folks at WB/Cartoon Network want to continue on down the sequel road (and Scooby II is about wrapped, I understand), then I would suggest the following to them; take a cue from the old "Scooby Doo Movies" guest-star format (no, I don't mean Pam Anderson!) and cut a distribution deal with Universal. Then go Computer Graphic Imagery crazy and send the gang to Universal's famed, fictional east European monster world (No, not Transylvania)...Vasaria. And by means of CGI hook them up with a Bela Lugosi Dracula, a Boris Karloff Frankenstein Monster, A Chaney, Jr., Wolfman, a Dwight Frye Renfield, and a Lugosi (again) Igor. Add Abbott & Costello to the mix....AND Cassandra Peterson as Elvira and Darren McGavin ("younged up" via CGI like Anthony Hopkins in "Red Dragon") as
Karl Kolchak. Add "The Monster Mash" to the proceedings and GO WITH THE FLOW! Oh, yes...one more thing, Warner Brothers (and Dot). In future let's use the straight-up version of the original theme song a little more in the credits, how about? I'm not saying don't use more contemporary stuff here and there, but...hey...lets always give a nod to the original vision when we can.Deal?
Rating:
Summary: Funny, if rather goofy
Review: Having come to the end of their ability to work together, the Mystery, Inc. gang went their own, separate ways. But, being called out of retirement by the owner of Spooky Island (played by Rowan Atkinson!), the gang unwillingly gets together one last time. But, there's more going on at Spooky Island than a man in a rubber mask, there's evil afoot, and the Mystery, Inc. gang is the target! Scooby Doo, where are you? I don't know what to say, this is a movie that generates a lot of mixed feelings. Heck, I refused to see it in the theatre, as I KNEW that it would be incredibly stupid. Well, guess what? I watched it with my Cub Scout troop, and loved it! Yes, this movie is part spoof of the old show and part remake, but is very well done. Freddie Prinze Jr. is surprisingly good as a narcissistic Fred Jones, but Matthew Lillard absolutely steals the show with a wonderful take on our favorite hippy/beatnik Shaggy. And, while the computer generated Scooby Doo isn't a work of art, it fits the roll of Scooby well, and makes for some great Scooby-and-Shaggy scenes. I watched this movie with a group of boys, who all loved the show, as did I. There's a good deal of cleavage presented, and a gas-passing contest (which the boys loved), but nothing that would keep this out of your front room. Overall, I found this to be a funny (if rather goofy) movie, one that I recommend to your whole family!
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Summary: Zoinks! What happened?
Review: The opening scene took me back to 1971. Wow! Shaggy and Velma were perfectly cast! The plot, however, looses steam after the opening. The movie suffers from trying too hard to balance being: (1) a loving tribute to the cartoon series of the same name; (2) a comedy; (3) a decent mystery; and (3) a spoof of the cartoon series of the same name. To quote Austin Powers, the movie loses its "mo-jo" and ends up becoming rather flat and unaffecting. The dvd extras are disappointing. There are no trailers included and the menus are incredibly hard to read, making it frustrating to navigate them. A decent rental for the whole family. True fans of Scooby-Doo cartoon series will want to buy.
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