While the special effects are lavish, they are also very watchable and add to the spirit of fun of the movie.
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In keeping to the spirit of the cartoon, this movie has quite a number of foot chases that see Shaggy and Scooby-Doo doing silly things to get away from the bad guy. The reporter Heather is also bent on ruining the Mystery Inc’s image in the press. Alas, Patrick may or may not be a prime suspect along with Old Man Wickles. A mystery masked villain is trying to use DNA technology to create real monsters from the costumes that are on display, and it is up to our gang to stop this villain before the monsters take over Coolsville and then the world.Īlong the way, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo struggle to become more useful members to their Gang, Fred grapples with his self-esteem issues, Daphne has to learn that she is more to the others than a mere pretty face, and Velma has to deal with intimacy issues when she falls for the museum curator Patrick. Alas, the opening night where the Mystery Inc are the guests of honor end up an utter fiasco with the Pterodactyl Ghost coming to life and with Shaggy and Scooby-Doo’s unwitting aid nearly destroys the museum.
All the costumes of the villains the gang has trounced in the past, such as the Pterodactyl Ghost, the Miner 49er, the Black Knight Ghost, Captain Cutler’s Ghost, the Tar Pit Monster, and the 10,000-Volt Ghost, are on display. In this movie, the Mystery Inc are finally getting their due props by their hometown of Coolsville when the Coolsonian Criminology Museum allocates a special exhibition in their honor. The Mystery Inc in this movie is more like the Mystery Inc in the cartoon, with the exception of Daphne, who is now a more feminist kickass babe than a mere damsel in purple outfits. To my pleasant surprise, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed is a superior movie to the original Scooby-Doo, not because it has a bigger budget and more extravagant special effects, but because the sequel is more in the spirit of the original Hanna-Barbara cartoon series. Main cast: Freddie Prinze Jr (Fred), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne), Matthew Lillard (Shaggy), Linda Cardellini (Velma), Seth Green (Patrick), Peter Boyle (Old Man Wickles), Tim Blake Nelson (Jacobo), and Alicia Silverstone (Heather Jasper-Rowe)