Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

This lively animated feature based on the TV cartoon series shows what happened to Mystery Inc after they grew tired of unmasking fake monsters: Daphne is a chat-show host, with Fred as her producer/crew; Velma has a mystery bookshop, and Scooby and Shaggy work in airport security. But Fred brings them back for Daphne's TV show, and a return to some of the fun of the series before it became diluted with Scrappy-Doo. The story's stuffed with time-filling incidents, usually involving food and slapstick, and aficionados of the original show will warm to the antics of Shaggy and Scooby, who scoff and scarper as if in a time warp. But once the zombies emerge from the swamps of a cat-filled Louisiana plantation, the action takes a turn that's rather creepy for a children's cartoon.