Personally speaking I love Ghoul School, it's not as good as Reluctant Werewolf or Boo Brothers (my personal favourite) but I enjoy it a lot more than Scooby Doo goes Hollywood. I used to watch it all the time when I was a kid I only stopped watching it so I could prevent the video from completely wearing out.I'm not really a fan of the newer movies like witches ghost or zombie island, it's not that I think their bad I just prefer the cell animation that I watched when I was growing up.Any kid who loves Scooby Doo will probably enjoy watching this film, there are some cheesy puns in it but I don't think that will bother them.

I'm not usually one to lay the praise on a television movie, but this movie simply took it to a whole new level. I was always something of a Scooby Doo fan when I was younger, and after several years, just catching this movie on Cartoon Network brought back some memories.I remember when this movie would premiere on television ALL THE TIME!! I would never get tired of it, no matter how many times I sat through it. Some scenes and quotes from this movie are somewhat memorable (take note that I say "somewhat" because I can recognize a lousy pun when it's told.) Some of the music was memorable, and the thing that definitely got this movie up on my list, is the fact that Shaggy and Scooby actually warm up to the girls, even though they ARE ghouls through and through. We get enough of them running like chickens in the television series and other movies, although in this case, it's refreshing to see them gradually get a little more open minded, although the ending is rather sensible when they run away from the "new students". One year at Grimwood is enough.Normally, I thought '80's television movies were unbearably cheesy, but this gave me a merciful break from that. I've always loved this particular '80's movie, because Hanna-Barbera is one of the greatest animation duos in the world.Upon reading other reviews for this film, I recall one reviewer noting that the vampire Sybella was his/her one reason of seeing the movie. While mind-wandering boys share those same kind of sentiments no doubt, I would have to note that I was indeed one of them when it came to the original characters of this movie, although for me, it was for Phantasma, or Phantie the Phantom. There was just something about the obnoxiously 80's hairdo and the fact that I thought she was really cute that just got into my head.Although several reviews have completely panned this film, I seriously recommend this film for children who are into Scooby and the gang, or for die-hard fans of the old cartoon who are willing to see some long lost forgotten ground.

Eesh! What is this supposed to be? Shaggy and Scooby's solo outings usually make for good movies. But Ghoul School comes nowhere near the surprisingly good Boo Brothers or Reluctant Werewolf and is so far behind modern Scooby Doo animation. It really is the cheapest, shoddiest Scooby effort I've ever seen.There isn't even a mystery, thus explaining the lack of the Mystery Machine (an ugly red van is the replacement). So why on earth they bothered to make this a Scooby Doo movie is puzzling if they weren't deliberately exploiting a popular character. It's just all wrong! Shaggy gets a job in an all-girl (actually Ghoul) school teaching Phys. Ed. I'm sorry but when did Shaggy become a qualified Gym Teacher? There's some pointless story involving a volleyball competition with a Military School next door that isn't good enough to distract from the bore and then after that some old hag called Revolta turns up and turns them all into zombies. Uh...yeah. Shaggy obviously saves the day but by this point I had dozed off. It bored me to sleep!The 1.33:1 full frame picture shows how cruddy the animation is and the sound is plain old mono. Aside from the usual 'how to draw' extras this DVD also features a trailer that cheekily uses lots of footage of modern Scooby animation and mixes it with Ghoul School to make it look new. I wasn't fooled.Don't buy this. Rent it for the kids if there is really nothing else.

You know what this movie needs? MORE bad puns!! Yes, more!Seriously, the depth of every character is simply that they say one word that somehow relates to who or what they are. Now, I don't expect much in the way of characters for a kids cartoon, but come on. Seriously, I think a group of eight year old children could have produced a better script.We have one character who is a young vampire and, as such, can turn into a bat. So, all her lines revolve around her making a pun with bat. Such as "that is a BAT idea!" And yes, even "I shall do my bat." Which, to me, doesn't even work. Bat and best don't even begin to rhyme.And there is the young mummy who only ever talks of her "mummy" (GET IT? LIKE HER MOM! OH THE COMEDY! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ugh). However, later on when we get to meet all the children (the students in said "Ghoul School") we do not meet her "mummy," but rather her father. What?And in the meantime, we see Shaggy and Scooby occasionally chipping in a line here or there and the obligatory eating and getting scared/running away sequences. There is one such sequence where they decide to run away from the fathers of the children and, all of a sudden, the all-too annoying Scrappy Doo makes an appearance. You don't see him for like fifteen minutes, without explanation, and suddenly he literally just jumps into the running away scene for no particular reason.And don't even get me started on the volleyball scene and the lack of rules (okay, okay, little kids, whom this cartoon was intended, won't understand anyway, but it was SO bad that the producers HAD to know they were destroying any semblance of the game's rules). And yes, we also have a character that is a combination of a bat and a spider. And his name? Spiderbat, of course.Yes, this will probably appeal to some children, but even I didn't enjoy it when it was out. Even at the tender age of nine I could tell this was garbage and having just watched it again on television, I can plainly see why. Avoid this at all costs. It will make you "batty!"