I have loved Scooby-Doo, ever since I can remember, and even after 20 years I still laugh watching a Scooby-Doo episode or movie or comic, never have I been more disappointed in this franchise than after watching this movie.
It started on a interesting point of gang being in the wrong, and planning on retiring (that was the only interesting part), but from there on out it is a mess of a movie, I think it was supposed to continue form where the Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts left as it was never finished and we only got to see 11 ghosts captured so even if they had just introduced those 2 ghosts and the old side character ghosts (the fat one and tall one do not remember their names) it would have been a better movie.
The Characters are butchered so amazingly that it is painful to watch, lets take it from top.
1. Vincent Van Ghoul - He was supposed to be the greatest warlock in the world in Scooby-Doo universe and here he is reduced to making bad puns.
2. Flim Flam - He was a smart and quick thinking kid and here he is doing merchandising and being no help whatsoever they could have just introduced him along with Vincent.
3. Fred Jones - Just because you want a strong female character that does not means that the leading male character becomes a bumbling buffoon with no character whatsoever why could they not have collaborated while Daphne shows him the ropes about the supernatural he uses his experience, and why the hell did he go to Cheer leading Camp.
Daphne and Velma character where handled with mediocrity.
It is hard to misuse Shaggy and Scooby so no comment on that.
They want to promote feminism, fine ,but don't do so if you cannot write a good story around it, and stop misrepresenting feminism.
And lastly (sorry it took so long) why are they shying away from Scrappy-Doo at least try and revive him, well I won't fault the movie to not include him but he was in the original series so they could have tried.
It started on a interesting point of gang being in the wrong, and planning on retiring (that was the only interesting part), but from there on out it is a mess of a movie, I think it was supposed to continue form where the Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts left as it was never finished and we only got to see 11 ghosts captured so even if they had just introduced those 2 ghosts and the old side character ghosts (the fat one and tall one do not remember their names) it would have been a better movie.
The Characters are butchered so amazingly that it is painful to watch, lets take it from top.
1. Vincent Van Ghoul - He was supposed to be the greatest warlock in the world in Scooby-Doo universe and here he is reduced to making bad puns.
2. Flim Flam - He was a smart and quick thinking kid and here he is doing merchandising and being no help whatsoever they could have just introduced him along with Vincent.
3. Fred Jones - Just because you want a strong female character that does not means that the leading male character becomes a bumbling buffoon with no character whatsoever why could they not have collaborated while Daphne shows him the ropes about the supernatural he uses his experience, and why the hell did he go to Cheer leading Camp.
Daphne and Velma character where handled with mediocrity.
It is hard to misuse Shaggy and Scooby so no comment on that.
They want to promote feminism, fine ,but don't do so if you cannot write a good story around it, and stop misrepresenting feminism.
And lastly (sorry it took so long) why are they shying away from Scrappy-Doo at least try and revive him, well I won't fault the movie to not include him but he was in the original series so they could have tried.