Scooby Doo Movie Review:


If you are familiar with the cartoon Scooby Doo, now comes a live version children comedy by the same name. Freddie Prinze Jr. plays arrogant in-love-with-himself but means well Fred Jones, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays arrogant in-love-with-herself but means well Daphne Blake, Matthew Lillard is the silly Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, Linda Cardellini is nerdy but super smart Velma Dinkley and finally Scott Innes is the voice of the computer generated Scooby Doo.

Together they are a super crime fighting team who don’t necessarily get along. As the movie starts the all split up and go their separate ways after a big fight regarding not sharing credit for solving a case.

When they are brought together again to solve some strange mysterious happenings on a scary amusement park, they start to put their differences aside and be a team.

Rowan Atkinson plays the theme park owner Mondavarious and Andres Bryniarski plays Henchman.

All these cast is put into a very silly movie that is hardly amusing and very stupid to boot. It might appeal to really young kids but most adults will be bored with it early on and it is pretty much downhill form there.

The acting is way over the top and not effective except for maybe Shaggy and Velma. The only amusing moment that might work for adults is the crazy maniacal character of Scrappy Doo played by J.P. Manoux.

Scooby Doo has a feel of an uninteresting and foolish aged amusement park ride that you can’t wait to walk away from and forget.

If only it was really funny you could perhaps forgive the tacky sets, bad dialogue and uninteresting story. But no such luck here. Scooby Doo would probably scream “Get me out of hereeee…!”

Gil Benzeevi

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