If you've seen the Brady Bunch and Addams Family movies, you'll have a fair idea what to predict with this film: old sitcom characters trying to live their lives in modern America, self-parodying self-confessions of how absurd they are pepper the movie, culture clash between characters' world and 'new' world gives the chance to fill the movie with the stand-up comics' standard repertoire of topics (wedgies, airline food, diets, burps, farts, teen lingo, cosmetic surgery). So, if you're expecting any new directions in comedy and pop culture referencing, you'll be disappointed. However, if you like Scooby-Doo but don't see it as a sacred cow... er, great dane... you'll enjoy seeing it get the standard comic treatment.
When the story opens with Mystery Inc breaking up, Velma is irked that she once again is the brains behind the operation while Fred gets all the public glory as the 'leader' and Daphne gets her dim-witted self into trouble. This sets the tone for a movie full of self-references, including the inevitable Scooby-Doo jokes about their villains always being someone in a mask, the shark-jumping addition of Scrappy-Doo to the cast and the standard closing line, "I woulda got away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids". When the gang is unknowingly reunited to solve the case of who is terrorising teens at the Spooky Island resort, the movie glides along through a formula from a Hollywood text book. It then takes us to the conclusion wherein the villain being a masked Scrappy Doo seeking vengeance on Mystery Inc. It's a neat twist, but ultimately lacks punch despite causing a few chuckles.
When the story opens with Mystery Inc breaking up, Velma is irked that she once again is the brains behind the operation while Fred gets all the public glory as the 'leader' and Daphne gets her dim-witted self into trouble. This sets the tone for a movie full of self-references, including the inevitable Scooby-Doo jokes about their villains always being someone in a mask, the shark-jumping addition of Scrappy-Doo to the cast and the standard closing line, "I woulda got away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids". When the gang is unknowingly reunited to solve the case of who is terrorising teens at the Spooky Island resort, the movie glides along through a formula from a Hollywood text book. It then takes us to the conclusion wherein the villain being a masked Scrappy Doo seeking vengeance on Mystery Inc. It's a neat twist, but ultimately lacks punch despite causing a few chuckles.
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