- Film Review
- Reviewed By Sloan Freer
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2 out of 5
Hanna-Barbera's much-loved teen sleuths make their live-action debut in this colourful but woefully misjudged rendition of the popular cartoon series. It attempts to please knowing adults who remember the TV series from their youth with coded drug references and post-modernism, while delivering gags along the lines of a flatulence duel to satisfy otherwise baffled kids. James Gunn's screenplay stays true to the cartoon - in that our heroes investigate a haunted island - but any hope of narrative momentum is undermined by self-referential clever-cleverness. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Matthew Lillard make game attempts at putting flesh on Daphne and Shaggy, but the CGI Scooby is so charmless he sucks the life out of the film. Suddenly The Flintstones movie doesn't look so bad.
Plot Summary
Comedy adventure based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, starring Matthew Lillard, Freddie Prinze Jr, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardellini. Two years after a clash of egos caused the disbanding of Mystery Inc, Scooby-Doo and his teen pals are summoned to Spooky Island holiday resort to investigate a series of paranormal incidents. But in order to crack the case, the feuding gang must first of all overcome their personal differences.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Fred Jones
- Freddie Prinze Jr
- Daphne Blake
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Matthew Lillard
- Velma Dinkley
- Linda Cardellini
- Emile Mondavarious
- Rowan Atkinson
- Voodoo maestro
- Miguel A Nunez Jr
- Mary Jane
- Isla Fisher
- N'Goo Tuana
- Steven Grives
- Zarkos
- Sam Greco
- Scooby-Doo
- Neil Fanning
- Scrappy-Doo
- Scott Innes
- Toy company owner
- Pamela Anderson
Crew
- Director
- Raja Gosnell
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