When Mystery Inc. are guests of honor at the grand opening of the Coolsville Museum of Criminology a masked villain shows up and creates havoc before stealing the costumes of the gangs most notorious villains Black Knight Ghost Pterodactyl Ghost and Tar Monster. Could it be that their nemesis mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo has returned and is trying to recreate their deadliest foes Velma has a crush on the hunk museum curator Patrick Wisely but why is he acting so suspicious The Mystery Gang is hard pressed to succeed this time since pesky TV reporter Heather Jasper-Howe insists they are buffoons.
Review
Live action update of HannaBarbara's early 70s animated TV series with lots of entertainment and amusement . The film concerns about our friends ¨the Mystery Inc.¨ group with Scooby Doo Shaggy ( Matthew Lillard ) and the remaining group (Sara Michelle Gellar Freddie Prince Jr Linda Cardellini )and takes place an eerie museum of criminology where are robbed some stuffed monsters for nefarious purposes . Meanwhile Daphne falls in love with the museum curator (Seth Greene). The equipment members are going out to investigate with its van towards a dark mansion whose owner is a suspect old man (Peter Boyle) . A reporter(Alicia Silverstone) accuses them as responsible a robbery . The Mystery Inc soon realize that they cannot resolve this case without help from each other .
In the picture there are comedy tongueincheek slapstick humorous moments mild diversion and is pretty amusing . All are given a preteen treatment which means no gore and no bad language just some oldfashioned sympathetic scares being funny watching humans meld into the CG characters . However it contains bad taste when takes place a contest about fart jokes between Shaggy and Scooby . Of course coward Scooby steals the spectacle as foodobsessed canine antihero with its grimace faces and gesture . Many gags are good however the tale sometimes drags . Special mention to gags as the tournament between Fredd ( Freddie Prince) and the monsters besides those intervening ShaggyScooby they make a likable and superb comic couple . There appears even an electrifying monster similar to એorbidden planet¨ film monster . Movie combines live action with computer generator animation on Scooby Doo creation special effects are well done . The motion picture is regularly directed by Raja Gosnell who also realized the original . Kiddies may find the corny flat humor as bemusing but most adults will be disappointed exception the fans the classic cartoon series created by Hanna Barbera . It is clearly aimed at the junior audience . Protagonists' antics might provide the silly smiles but this cartoonist physical comedy is mostly ineffective . Rating average but entertaining with lots of fun and as amused as the first and it will be best appreciated by preteen enthusiasts of the cartoon movies .
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