It's a Scooby-Doo zombie movie.
Only the zombies don't show up for half the film and they're not even the main villains. Come to think of it, it's strange that are real magic should exist at all.
I get that Scooby-Doo jumps in and out of actual magical entities from time to time but it's always a bid off-putting to me.
Still it was used well enough here.
So The Story Goes that the Scooby-Doo gang has broken up. Supposedly they just weren't feeling there mystery solving ways anymore. But the movie doesn't give a lot of insight into any of that. Instead it wants to show us what these people would be doing if they weren't part of the Scooby gang.
Daphne and Fred get a TV show and live a relatively comfortable life. Velma gets stuck in a bookstore where she seems bored out of her mind.
And Scooby and Shaggy are working at a freaking airport security terminal. My God you can tell this was pre 911.
There's no way in hell they touch that now.
Daphne like the rest of the Scooby-Doo gang became bored with ghost hunting because it was not real.
So she leaves the Scooby-Doo gang with Fred, creates her own television show in where She searches for ghosts and becomes upset again because she can't seem to find any real ghosts.
''Maybe try a different profession Daphne.''
If you're upset with what you're doing try other venues.
You've got a freaking TV show somehow! I'm sure you could do something else. Dive into True Crime or go after low-hanging fruit and do celebrity gossip.
It's the early 2000s It's still kind of viable, you don't have to learn about the internet yet.
But no she still wants to find real ghost and Fred (of all people) decides he's going to get the mystery gang back together to go on an adventure to find actual ghosts. Which leads the Scooby gang into the Louisiana by sheer luck of finding a random woman who take them to a mysterious haunted island.
And honestly it's a good setup for a premise.
I don't know why you needed them to separate but if you have to fill in an extra 15 minutes there's an excuse.
The setting of Louisiana is a great idea. You got an interesting culture, plenty of myths and ghost stories and you can even make some food humour keeping all the Cajun cuisine.
Not that Scooby-Doo really gets into any of that it plays a little bit with some Voodoo mysticism, has one reference to hot peppers. It doesn't utilize its location at all.
All we get is the occasional alligatour
Otherwise you could have set this story anywhere and headed been relatively the same.
It was strange that out of nowhere a bunch of cat deities would pop into the story and reveal themselves to be the true villains of the plot. The zombies if you will are just possessed spirits of people who died and are now trying to help the Scooby gang*.
And they're borderline useless to the movie meaning the title of the film is very misleading.
Also Scooby-Doo (the dog) chasing cats gets more screen time than pretty much any of the zombies.
It gets really boring after you've seen it three or four times.
The animations nice. It has that Batman the Animated Series style to it or possibly that Disney's gargoyles show.
It still looks really weird to see Fred with pupils.
I know all the characters have pupils in this show but Fred is just off putting.
Personally I didn't find it a captivating film.
Got kind of bored towards the 50-minute mark, I was just hoping for the thing to end.
Might have been better as a two-part episode.
I mean don't get me wrong. I didn't love this movie but it is a heck of a lot better than that Scooby-Doo film where Shaggy drives a ghost car, and has to compete against his ''doubleganger'' or whatever the hell that plot was to that 80 Scooby-Doo movie. That thing was awful.
Occasionally Shaggy and Scooby will get scared and they'll cling onto each other out of fright. A pretty common sight in Scooby-Doo animation but every time they do it in this movie the two of them get fuzzy and it looks like an animation Cel from 20 years ago.
I don't know if this was a technical problem with the movie or if it's supposed to be an omage but it looks really out of place.
*You know, they say the zombies were trying to help the Scooby-Doo gang but the first time we see them it's pretty evident that the lead pirate ghost was going to kill Shaggy and Scooby. I mean he had a sword in his hand he was trying to swing at them. I like to think they change their tune when they realized the Scooby gang might be able to actually Wipeout the furry cat people. or their actions are just misleading to keep the audience guessing at the film. Whatever.
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