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©2005 Jason Cross
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 Sunday, June 16, 2002 |
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I confess to my five readers: I saw Scooby Doo this weekend.
What did I think? Hmm...
Not great, not even good at times, but not nearly as bad as I thought it would be. And it's one of those movies that as I think back at it, I actually like better than I did at the time watching it.
There were basically two routes they could have taken in its creation: make the movie for all of the people who grew up watching Scooby Doo or make the movie for the kids right now growing up watching Scooby Doo. They chose the latter.
The best parts of the movie were the beginning, when they were solving the equivalent of a classic caper, guest celebrity and all. Also great was (much to my great great surprise) Matthew Lillard as Shaggy. Oh my god, did I just praise Matthew Lillard. Here come the Four Horseman now... But seriously, and I'm sure you've heard it in every other Scooby review out there, Lillard played the perfect Shaggy.
Not so great: some mediocre acting by the rest of the cast, a plot that just didn't quite jive with that classic Scooby sensibility, and playing too much to the kids. Oh yeah, and this way too long gas and burp sequence in the middle of the film between Shaggy and Scooby that was really unnecessary.
One last bit to leave you with: that awful "Your name means Scooby poop!" line delivered by Velma in the preview that makes you really not want to see the movie - it isn't even in the movie. On the cutting room floor it lies, to find its fitting end forgotten in the sands of time... |
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