I don't know. Maybe the best way to enjoy SCOOBY DOO is NOT to have had much experience with the original cartoon. I never cared much for the cartoon -- I was always more of a Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner man. As a father of a small child, I've had the chance to see it a LOT more lately; I still can't really get into it and I think the cartoon's animation style is positively primitive and cheap-looking. Popeye short features from the 1930's were far, far better examples of the art of animation, and still outshine many modern efforts. But to each his own, and I guess that includes a lot of people, because some thirty years after it started, SCOOBY DOO is still a mainstay of the cartoon world and the stores are full of Scooby Doo stuff.
I thought SCOOBY DOO the movie was fine as a piece of light entertainment. The actors chosen to play the members of Mystery, Inc. were good, and Matthew Lillard (Shaggy) and Linda Cardellini (Velma) were especially good. Rowan Atkinson was really wasted as Emile Mondavarious; that's not to criticize him -- it's just that the character was not developed, and it didn't seem to be a Rowan Atkinson role. He did as well as possible, considering the limitations of the role.
SCOOBY DOO contains some things that "younger and more sensitive viewers might find upsetting or offensive": scary monsters, the notorious farting contest, sexual innuendo, and some thinly-veiled comments from Shaggy that confirm the long-held suspicion that he is a pot-head. But if you can get past these, and if you have no emotional investment in or great expectations about what this movie is going to be, then you might have a half-way decent time with it. Heck, I might even start watching the cartoons with my kid!
Oh, by the way -- I'll agree with a lot of the other posters here -- Linda Cardellini is a DOLL!
I thought SCOOBY DOO the movie was fine as a piece of light entertainment. The actors chosen to play the members of Mystery, Inc. were good, and Matthew Lillard (Shaggy) and Linda Cardellini (Velma) were especially good. Rowan Atkinson was really wasted as Emile Mondavarious; that's not to criticize him -- it's just that the character was not developed, and it didn't seem to be a Rowan Atkinson role. He did as well as possible, considering the limitations of the role.
SCOOBY DOO contains some things that "younger and more sensitive viewers might find upsetting or offensive": scary monsters, the notorious farting contest, sexual innuendo, and some thinly-veiled comments from Shaggy that confirm the long-held suspicion that he is a pot-head. But if you can get past these, and if you have no emotional investment in or great expectations about what this movie is going to be, then you might have a half-way decent time with it. Heck, I might even start watching the cartoons with my kid!
Oh, by the way -- I'll agree with a lot of the other posters here -- Linda Cardellini is a DOLL!
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