(Again, critics and fans thought this was worse than the first movie, which most of them weren't too keen on, to begin with.) It was ridiculous, of course, but what can you expect? It's based on a ridiculous cartoon. It's not as good as the first movie, but I still liked it. in some kind of machine that can turn monster costumes into real monsters, so not only does he plan to discredit Mystery, Inc., but also take over Coolsville.Īnd I guess I don't want to say any more about the plot. randomonium from the local abandoned mine. and eventually the gang uncovers a plot by the masked figure to use. And there's a subplot about a potential romance between Velma and the museum's curator, Patrick Wisely ( Seth Green), but Velma is scared that he won't like the real her.
They want to become actual serious detectives. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby realize that they're screw-ups, and want to change. So the gang are determined to solve the case and restore the public's faith in them. And there's a reporter named Heather Jasper-Howe ( Alicia Silverstone), whose news reports damage the gang's reputation, as well. Basically, he wants to prove to the world that the gang aren't so great, after all. But one of the costumes apparently comes to life, and does some damage, while another masked figure makes some evil boasts or whatever. We see that to a much greater degree at the start of this movie, when their hometown of Coolsville opens a museum (or the town museum opens an exhibit) displaying the costumes of all the villains they've unmasked over the years. Well, as we saw in the first movie, the Mystery, Incorporated gang are fairly famous and beloved by the public. Streaming sites: Amazon Google Play iTunes Movies Anywhere Vudu YouTube
Ted's Evaluation - 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.IMDb Rotten Tomatoes Scoobypedia TV Tropes Warner Bros. Maybe next time someone will want it "like the first one," which after all did double the business. Where is Rodriguez when we need him? This is a waste. This means you're mostly just looking scared and running away in comic fashion. All this indicates that it got started as intelligently as before, but in development someone must have wanted it to be more like the cartoons. And there's some minor play with Shag and the Dog transforming too. It reminds us that 30 year olds are playing these teenagers.) Anyway, take Velma out of her dorky costume (but keeping the fake teeth) and into something sexy. (Since the first Scooby, we've seen Cardinelli in "Brokeback Mountain." In that, she played the 21 year old daughter to a fifty-something Ledger, though she is quite a but older. Now you have real ghosts wear those costumes. These are the costumes that humans wore, pretending to be ghosts. It certainly seems to have been conceived that way from the basic idea: you start with a collection of costumes from all the old cartoons. The story this time could have been taken to the next level.
Velma's hair was cast as dark red, so both the girls were redheads. It was perfectly right for the project, which after all puts humans in cartoon figures and with the dog, a cartoon figure among humans. And the story rolled with it: all sorts of gags based on different notions of self-reference.
Now along came the movie and instead of humans in ghost costumes, we had ghosts in humans. The cartoon had the same plot for a gazillion years: kids investigate ghost and find it is a human in disguise, sort of a kiddie Baskerville. And I found some of that in the first Scooby movie. I'm convinced that some of the most imaginative scriptwriting is in the most unlikely places: kids movies, porn, what have you.