Ten out of ten would recommend. This movie is the shoot.
... View MoreHello and welcome to one of the best movies of my childhood. Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed are the best live action Scooby Doo movies and I will take that to my grave. In fact, put that statement on my headstone, please and thank. Scooby-Doo was and will always be a staple in my house. The original series, the series with Scooby-Dum, Scooby-Dee, and Scrappy-Doo, and the animated movies. So, I'm an old Scooby pro and this movie made my dreams come true. This movie is sneaky enough with it's humor to be funny as a child or adult, the villain plot twist flipped my world upside down, man. The actors were my childhood heroes. This movie is perfection. As a child when I first got the DVD, I played it so much that it stopped working and we had to buy extra copies in case I broke them again. (I did.) Anyways, watch this movie, thanks, bye.
... View MoreScooby-Doo was a film from my childhood that I loved and watched numerous times. I grew up on the original cartoon, so you can imagine how a seven-year-old would feel when he sees his favorite cartoon in live-action.Revisiting this one 15 years later was interesting, because on one hand - this is a children's film that isn't really that great. On the other hand, my nostalgia for the character and my ability to notice some more of the nuanced adult jokes kept me from hating it.There are many times where you can definitely tell that this is a product from the early 2000's and some of the jokes just aren't nearly as funny as I remember them being. The plot felt different than an ordinary Scooby-Doo cartoon, but it still had that Scooby-Doo charm to it.There was a twist-ending which I still don't quit understand, but it exists and it's not too terribly executed.If you ever loved the original Scooby-Doo, you might be able to enjoy this film. If anything, put it on and watch it with your kids.
... View MoreIt isn't necessarily bad...But it tries too hard to be the cartoon. In fact it strives to be the cartoon and, honestly, the cartoon does Scooby better.People didn't pay money to watch a live-action movie that tried so hard to be cartoonie that it forgot Scooby had a fairly serious tone to play the comedy off of.Instead it is zany where it should be serious and because of that the jokes never really land.Like when I was a little kid, I watch Scooby Doo because it's fun and its funny. And it does it by balancing the creepy with the goofy.The movie version skimps too much on the creepy and still tries to rely on the humor that worked so well because of the blend.In the end you have humor that ONLY works when it is referencing the cartoons and otherwise fails when it is trying to mimic the cartoons.Stay away from it. Watch the cartoons, most of them land the jokes better.
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