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Features: DVD, Widescreen, French, Spanish, English
Zoinks! Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his clever crime-solving cohorts Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Velma (Linda Cardellini) are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip Spring Break hot spot.Concerned that his way cool theme park might truly be haunted, Spooky Island owner Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson) tries to reunite those notoriously meddling detectives to solve the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college crowds. Scooby and the gang will have to overcome their personal differences and forget everything they think they know about fake ghouls and phony creatures to crack the case, save themselves and possibly...the world. Ruh-roh!
"I laughed myself stupid..." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"Worth its weight in Scooby snacks..." Gemma Tarlach, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"...captures the essence of its TV inspiration..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
Editor's Note
In this live action rethink of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, director Raja Gosnell puts Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (FREAKS & GEEKS' Linda Cardellini), and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) back into the Mystery Machine with a CGI version of the canine title character. After parting ways to protest Fred's self-centered treatment of the Mystery Inc. gang, they are brought back together by Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson) to help solve a ghoulish mystery at his teen resort and fun park, Spooky Island. Although SCOOBY-DOO is primarily a live action movie, Gosnell keeps the characters and visuals cartoonish at all times. For fans of the series, all of the expected trappings are present (from Fred's ascot to the inevitable "meddling kids" line from the bad guy), but the film also pokes fun at these elements throughout, managing to balance kiddie fun with a more grown-up self-mocking. The CGI Scooby is both convincingly lifelike and clearly make-believe, with action that is more silly than scary so kids and adults can enjoy the film together.
| Features | Additional Scenes | | Audio Commentary By Director Raja Gosnell, Screenwriter James Gunn & Producers Charles Roven & Richard Suckle | | Audio Commentary By Freddie Prinze, Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini & Rowan Atkinson | | Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Featurettes: Unmasking The Mystery Behind Scooby-Doo, Scary Places - Production Design, The Mystery Van, Daphne Fight Scene, & Rain On The Set | | Interactive Menus | | Music Video: Outkast's Land Of A Million Drums | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Access | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | This Is An HD-DVD Made For HD-DVD Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 1/16/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 80966 | | UPC: 00012569809666 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2003) | | | MTV Award, Scooby-Doo, Best Virtual Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | Total Film
"...The human leads are uncannily suited to their roles, energetically bringing their cartoon counterparts to life..." 08/01/2002 p.98The Village Voice 8 of 10
One of the most resilient pieces of late-'60s pop culture, the Saturday-morning cartoon show Scooby-Doo featured a blond surfer type, a hottie in go-go boots, a goateed stoner, a dykey know-it-all with glasses, and the eponymous big dumb dog traveling the country in a sockadelic painted minivan called the Mystery Machine, exposing the fake ghosts of capitalist greed...The movie has Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), Velma (Linda Cardellini), and a creepily digital Scooby reconstituting their commune to solve the mystery of Spooky Island...There's even more leaping through glass windows than in The Bourne Identity, but as this movie knows what it is, Scooby-Doo's a relatively painless 85 minutes. - J. Hoberman
Variety 7 of 10
As live-action versions of TV cartoons go, "Scooby-Doo" ranks quality-wise somewhere between the inspired satire of "Josie and the Pussycats" and the lumbering obviousness of the "Flintstones" films...Despite slapdash nature of plotting and occasional confusion within individual action set pieces, pic is just fast, frenetic and funny enough to amuse both new fans and longtime devotees of the characters who have inspired more than 30 years worth of animated TV episodes and made-for-video features...On a tech level, "Scooby-Doo" -- produced on location in Queensland, Australia -- is first-rate across the board. Production designer Bill Boes does an especially fine job of evoking on screen the seriocomically scary look of the cartoon series settings. - Joe Leydon
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