Scooby Doo

People who hate this movie work on the level that they thought the cartoon was something special.

Honestly, the movie is harmless fun.

I watched this on HBO last week. It was harmless fun, but I still hate Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar. I got over my hate for Matt Lillard a long while back. He is rather talented.

Most of the people who get vitriolic over the film should have known better than to have watched it, but the first ten minutes are nutt-punchingly bad (I felt beat over the head immediately). Once that sort of passes, one can appriciate that Mathew Lillard is rather good in the part, and it's fairly harmless. Though the whole Scrappy-Doo subplot makes me a little dissapointed, as I love Scrappy Doo.

As Tony said, it's not like the show was the greatest invention ever.

I am not sure this film warrants an in depth discussion, but just to clarify I agree with Andre. I am not even sure what happened in the beginning because I didn't have much interest and I worked on some homework. I developed mild interest once they got to the island.

It was horrid. But I knew it would be horrid and watched anyway, so I only blame myself. Just like the time I demanded that my acupuncturist "do my eyes" ... IDIOT!!!

Utter crap.

For the first time in my life, I have to agree with Jonas. This movie IS utter crap. The worst kind. And I wasn't that big of a fan of the cartoon either, so Tony's theory is out the window.

I hate this movie with the very fiber of my being.

I've never liked the cartoon. I tried to watch it a lot as a kid, but it didn't take. I hated it. I think it came on right after G-Force or something, so I was seriously not in the mood for it. So, what did I think of the movie? True, reeking crap.

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Those are words I've never heard except in jest....

I have a home made Scrappy Doo T-shirt. Really. I wear it when I'm feeling deeply negative, and it makes me happy.

Scrappy Doo is perfect symbol of the corporate overthink where good things are ruined while trying to make them more palatable to the audeince that already likes them, ala Jar Jar, the red headed stepchild, the revolving cute children brought into sitcoms when the cute younger kid becomes too old, etc.

Also, for the shirts I see at stores like Hot Topics (or whatever generic mall variant on the hip kid clothes shop that generally also sells McFarland toys and Korn posters) that sells to the next geners Snorks and Smurfs T-shirts and all sorts of cultural rehashes to identify oneself as culturally Ironic, Scrappy Doo exists to show how dumb all that shit is. Scrappy Doo is my hero. For he is sordid underbelly of America's obsessession with keeping ourselves infantilized.

"Andre Dellamorte is more culturally ironic than you" wink

For the first time in my life on these message boards, SOMEBODY actually agrees with me! Thanks, kid.

Never mind...this joke failed miserably.

<edited because I was embarrassed.)

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The cartoon was nothing special, but that just means that the foundation of the movie is even more flimsy. The movie has a "plot" that seems to have been edited at random, sliced up and stuck together with no thought to having it make any sense beyond a hypercut swirl of bright colours and delirious movement to distract the audience. It has no idea who it's meant to be aimed at - kiddy fart gags sit alongside drug-and-lesbian humour aimed at the self-consciously ironic twenty-somethings. Having Scrappy Doo as the villain is a lame move that reveals just how cynical the whole enterprise was - everyone hates Scrappy Doo so if we make him the bad guy, that'll be really funny. Except for the little kids who haven't reached the "Scrappy Doo sucks" stage of life yet. But then the movie isn't for them. Is it?

It's a typical WB movie - drag a cultural touchstone out from the bag of characters you've aqcuired through decades of swallowing every entertainment company in your path. Put marketing and merchandising ahead of actually making a watchable movie that makes even vague sense. Cast actors who look most like their 2D counterparts, regardless of whether they can act. Promote the living fuck out of it until everyone ends up watching it "just to see what it's like". Produce sequels until everyone hates you.

The sad thing is, it wouldn't be that hard to make a decent Scooby Doo movie. It's the sort of property that should benefit from a makeover - much-loved characters, an original series that isn't as good as people think, and a skeletal plot that everyone knows, but is ideal for hanging new ideas from.

How it turned into an incoherent injection of stale Sunny Delight into the eyeball is just another example of that WB magic at work.

I have to admit, I had a thing for Velma when I was a kid. And Linda Cardalini was a beautiful vision to me, so much so that I'm blind to the fact that this not a good movie.

And Kid Ego has never watched this film, so he must really hate Scooby Doo. Zoiks, yo.

I hated this movie so much. It wasn't Serving Sara bad, but it was close. The cartoon characters had no depth, no real back story, no personality. No put characters on screen who are just one dimensional and your done no matter how good the story is. Unfortunatly the story was worse than the characters.
The great "kid" movies worked because they characters w/ heart, personality, flaws, and conflict. Maybe if they did a modern day interpretation of Scooby Doo, give the characters some backsory, problems, make Fred gay like we know he is. The sequel will bomb though-I can't see it making any money. Then again people did go see Daddy Daycare so what do I know.

I caught most of this on HBO this weekend. I new it was gonna suck, but what the hell, right? What annoyed me is that, as I was watching it, I kept seeing how it could be better. I never thought I'd say this, but...god, this sounds so stupid...there should have been more intimate, character moments in Scooby Doo. Seriously, it was just one chase scene after another, and the thing that people like about Scooby Doo is these 5 archetypes that they've grown up with. Maybe the sequel will have more dialogue. Oh, god, I just made a wish for the Sooby Doo sequel.

i loved the movie like anything......scooby and scrappy are my favorite ones..

This movie rests strangely with me because I saw it with an ex-girlfriend, and I have vivid memories of that night.

 

Still, it's a pastel trainwreck made up for by the chemistry between Scooby and Shaggy. How is that even possible with a cgi monstrosity? Somehow Matthew Lilliard pulls it off, as he's not only Shaggy brought to life but has an earnestness to him that is contagious.

 

Velma's hot as well, but the rest of the movie is a mess. Little things like the band Sugar Ray showing up, and Daphne acting all Buffy, really date the film. Honestly though, I had fun with it.

 

Kudos to the film for actually being a sequel to the tv show rather than a remake. How often do we get this? Sex in the City, Serenity, The Naked Gun, that's all I got.

I just don't get why all these movies based on cartoon shows have to be meta.  It's like they're starting with Ghostbusters 2.

 

And for the record I did think the cartoon was something special, at least for the first couple seasons, then like all HB creations they kept trying to tinker with it- adding new characters that people hated and removing ones people liked.  For YEARS in the late 70's and early 80's, Scooby Doo was just Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy.

 

Call me crazy, but I think it could have been funnier [and better] if they'd played it a bit straighter, and for the love of god used a real dog.  The movie could have been legitimately spooky, like the cartoon- which had a palpable mood.  I'd love to talk with the creators one day, as it's my assertion they HAD to add a laugh track to the show since it was tracking too frightening for kids.

its a utter crap if compared to the amine series . i don't understand why they try to make movie out of such legendary anime charectats like scoby and Donald duck or for instance Toma and Jerry

Is this a joke post?