Here is what I found wrong with Scoob
Bad Qualities
1.Although the original two theatrical live-action Scooby-Doo! movies aren't very good films, SCOOB! (while improvement that weren't even shown) isn't exactly anything better, due to the fact that the main issue is that it lacks the charm of the Warner Animation Group movies since it hasn't produced any more Lego movies and the movie is your typical standard "find the MacGuffin" trope film with more focus put on generic superhero, science-fiction, adventure, action and wacky comedy genre like most modern cinematic universes (even movies and animated films as well, except Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar) with not really much of mystery solving, which doesn't really follow the Scooby-Doo formula closely, despite being a Scooby-Doo! film.
Furthermore, what makes the film even pointless is that giving Scooby-Doo a heritage as a plot element is nothing really new in the Scooby-Doo! franchise as Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated has already done this plot element that was very complex and also ties well into the concept of Mystery, Inc. as a whole, and it also ties well into Scooby's relationship with the members of Mystery, Inc. The heritage in this movie is more based on typical sacrificing the chosen one to make things right that's been done in many movies already.
criticism of the trailer is that it depicts Scooby without pronouncing a majority of his words with an R. This actually isn't anything new, considering Mystery Incorporated (which the movie's director worked on) had Scooby speaking in proper English most of the time, as well as the fact that a lot of the recent Direct-to-Video movies downplayed this aspect. Admittedly, this was hard for all of the Scooby voice actors, leading to it being downplayed even in the original series as time went on.
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2.Similar to most films that focusing on the idea for trying to setting up for Cinematic Universe than the actual story, such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro and the infamous 2017 reboot of The Mummy, the film focus on the idea for more mainly setting up a Cinematic Universe for the Hanna-Barbera franchise, rather than being a actual Scooby-Doo! movie that are starting to tire of franchises trying to cash in on the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (though enough, Warner Bros themselves are guilty of this considering how when they tried to to make a cinematic universe out of the The Lego Movie, over-saturation caused it to fizzle out, despite that it never killed the franchise.), in which it focusing on less, and because of this, the film feels very cluttered and rushed story as where it tries to throw in a lot of Hanna-Barbara elements without taking that much time to explore much more of those elements, particularly with Captain Caveman's appearance, who, despite his voice actor getting top billing and being featured on one of the international posters, is just shoehorned for only one scene, didn't end up getting that much more amount of screen time for much of anything to do, something that can be boiled down to the fact that he's hardly in the movie at all and is then left out and forgotten about after being defeated by Dynomutt into protecting the third skull of Cerberus, before being stolen and kidnapped Scooby-Doo by Dick Dastardly and joining the gang for the climax (though however, he does appear in end credits). His connection with Dee Dee and the Teen Angels isn't even touched upon, though one can make the assumption said group hadn't been formed yet in this film's world.
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3.While most of the characters were funny and likable, the new character, Brian Crown/Blue Falcon (Mark Wahlberg's character) was very annoying and unlikable dude bro instead of being a serious and competent personality hero (not even for the mid-2000s standards anymore) as many fans were disappointed that this version of him is actually his son for Radley Crown and not the original of the classic Blue Falcon where it never appear in this movie.
However, the classic Blue Falcon does makes a cameo appearance and it was later revealed that Radley Crown have retired to Palm Beach, Florida, so he is not dead.
4.Despite being part of the main cast for the characters, the three Mystery Inc. members, Fred, Velma, and Daphne (while likable) feels rather pointless and forgettable, as they spend most of the film away from Scooby-Doo and Shaggy ending up getting kidnapped by Dick Dastardly in the process of trying to find them and served no purpose to the actual story.
In fact, they actually did get the least more amount of screen time and were wasted out of the major characters (with the exception of Captain Caveman, who is knocked out by Dynomutt for protecting the third skull of Cerberus) as Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are the characters that the story gives the most focus to, while they were underdeveloped and more underutilised; they could have been written out and it wouldn't have made a difference. It wouldn't even be that much of an issue to cut them from the story since they didn't appear in several movies and shows in the 1980's.
Yeah. It is garbage.
5.Similar to the animated reboots shows and movies, like the 2016 reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, the Mystery Inc. members (except for Scooby-Doo, who is still current voiced by Frank Welker) were recast with celebrity voice actors for no discernible reason. The recurring voice actors for the main cast, like Matthew Lillard (Shaggy), Kate Micucci (Velma), and Grey Griffin (Daphne), were disappointed that they were not contacted to reprise their roles for the film. Despite that, however, the recurring voice actors still continue to voice their characters in the rest of the franchise, especially for direct-to-video, video games and even shows.
For the biggest example, Will Forte's voice performance as Shaggy isn't very good and lacks the charm, compared to the rest of Shaggy's actors, like Matthew Lillard, even though he was trying his best to make it similar to Casey Kasem's impression, to which he considers Kasem an icon.
Amanda Seyfried did a weak job at voicing Daphne Blake since she can sound deeper or may not sound like her cartoon voice actors.
Zac Efron didn't do very well choice as Fred, since he was weak impression of Frank Welker, Fred and Scooby-Doo's voice actor.
On the subject of Frank Welker, while its great to hear that he reprised his role of Scooby-Doo, it comes off as hypocritical as they got him reprise his role as Scooby-Doo but not as Fred and to get any of the other voice actors from the original shows such as Matthew Lillard, making it pander to nostalgia for Welker for the classics, similar to the 2019 remake of The Lion King how they got James Earl Jones to reprise the voice role as Mufasa, but not everyone in the cast.
Gina Rodriguez does the below average voice performance as Velma.
6.While the animation is great overall for Reel FX Creative Studios, it tends to look uncanny at times, like Simon Cowell's incredibly realistic rendering design that doesn't get age well with the Tex Avery-esque cartoony designs of the other characters, who only appears at the first and third act, and Dynomutt's neck is an Inspector Gadget-like cute affection in more traditional animation but due to his more realistic design becomes extremely creepy whenever it moves, resembling something like a python or a severe injury result.
Speaking of which, while the redesigns for Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, and Daphne have been widely praised, Fred's has been met with much divisiveness. This is attributed to the fact that he no longer sports his signature ascot and looks more like a stereotypical TV jock. Not the first time, most of the Post-"Zombie Island" movies and "What's New Scooby Doo" were hit by the same criticism on his design. Fans just can't picture the guy without his ascot.
7.Overused of many unnecessary dated pop culture references, modern teen slang, and product placements used in the film. Such as Brian Crown/Blue Falcon dabbing in one scene after he was introduced in the Falcon Fury, the scene where Captain Caveman referred the Mystery Machine as some "dope" wheels, the mention of toxic masculinity from Velma that comes out of nowhere, and the mentions of IKEA, Netflix, Tinder and Walmart. Furthermore, the soundtrack also contains too many overuses pop-culture songs that are out-of-place and unfitting.
8.Scooby and Shaggy's friendship, while decent and faithful to the source material, feels rather unfocused and the movie wants you to have believe this bond is the glue that holds the film in place and yet it didn't, since it was quite underdeveloped
9.The movie copied many scenes of other movies, such as The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, another film produced by Warner Animation Group. For example: in the said The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, Emmet's friends got captured by General Mayhem, which is exactly the same thing as Shaggy's friends have been captured by Dick Dastardly, but unlike Dick Dastardly however, General Sweet Mayhem isn't actually an actual villain, since she was revealed that she just wanted to make peace with the citizens of Apocalypsburg, just like the rest of Systar System.
10.Even though this isn't the first time that the franchise has done crossovers, this film's crossover is not done too well as the film tries to shoehorned too many Hanna-Barbara characters in, resulting in Mystery Inc. not getting a lot of focus as Scooby.
Also, even though there was Scooby-Doo crossovers with Blue Falcon before, it was done way better because the primary focus of the film was kept on Mystery Inc. interacting with Blue Falcon, giving them an even number of screen time, and mystery solving was the main theme instead of typical superhero, science-fiction, action and adventure.
11.The story is rather generic and cliché. Particularly when Shaggy and Scooby-Doo's friendship breaks apart as it coming off for used the "Friend or Idol Decision" cliché, when they are heading out to get the last skull of Cerberus.
12.While the characters portrays faithfully, some characters are not accurate from their cartoon shows that retcons the character, especially in this case of Dynomutt and Captain Caveman. In the cartoon shows, Dynomutt was bumbling silly robot dog sidekick; here, he is rather changed into more sarcastic straight, smarter and blander in the movie. And Captain Caveman just spoke normally words in the movie rather than his "cave-talk" dialogue in the show.
13.The unnecessary faster energy pacing make the movie rather cluttered and hard to follow at times where it never taking time to stop and breathe.
14.While the film does pay homage to many Easter eggs, in-jokes and references, the cameos and references of other Hanna-Barbera characters, like Dee Dee Skyes and Captain Caveman, were out of place and intrusive. As the result, only older audiences and cartoon nerds will know who the hell characters are.
15.The conflict arc between Shaggy and Scooby-Doo is pretty much forced, mean-spirited and childish, especially with the infamous line "I never thought I'd say this, but Simon Cowell was right! You can't count on friendship!"
16.Most of the jokes and humor were either forgettable at best, just cringeworthy and unfunny at worst or even unoriginal, including an opening joke involving a young Shaggy going through a playlist that plays music about being lonely that was ripped off straight from Zootopia and the Blue Falcon's intro being played to "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled.
17.Too many locations in the movie that are just only shoehorned for around in the entire one scene such as Colosseum in Rome and not common Scooby-Doo locations (save from the opening montage with the theme song) and basically can't decide what the locations are, as it was just road trip with the subplot, adventures on aircraft and adventures with hell.
18.Very weak direction from Tony Cervone, the same director behind The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age Smackstone.
Good Qualities about it.
1.It doesn't have the same spirit to the live-action Scooby Doo films, it tends to steer away from its usual mystery genre, and it manages to stay rather faithful to the Scooby-Doo! franchise through its heart and comedy.
2.It does has some good messages about friendship and teamwork; two of the main themes of the source material, and yet this movie takes them to the most elaborate, with examples such as how friendship can live on and how teamwork can lead to more than just the sake of pairing up with one another, which are positive influences on the film's character development and for its target audience.
3.The Mr Peabody and Sherman-esque CGI animation is great, it works well with the film's tone, and it creates very spooky-themed aesthetics, all thanks to Reel FX Creative Studios. Even the character designs match their original versions, except Fred.
4.It does have an amount of fast and thrilling action that ties into the film's cartoony and adventure-like tone, especially the air chase scene when Dick Dastardly's ship battles against the Falcon Fury in the beginning.
5.The scene where Dastardly and Muttley reuniting for the treasure is touching.
6.The ending isn't too bad.
7.The voice acting isn't all that bad, despite the voice acting of Mystery Inc. members being hilariously miscasted.
In particular, Jason Isaacs did an awesome job voicing Dick Dastardly, which makes him an impressive villain
Frank Welker reprises his 18 year role of Scooby-Doo (though not as Fred, who is voiced by Zac Efron), and is still as great as ever.
8.Although the pop-culture songs were out-of-place and unfitting, the musical score by Tom Holkenborg is good.
Summer Feelings", the credits/main theme sung by Lennon Stella and Charlie Puth, is a great summer song with catchy and boppy synths, while the cover of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme by Best Coast is super fun and a solid rearrangement!
which dtv movie did you like
Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob
among others.
I don't need to read an 8 post breakdown to know that it sucked. I heard the next SCOOB movie is just gonna be about the kids.
Yeah but I bet it will suck also.
Hyper realistic Simon Cowell.
If only they kept in Epstein!
Somebody post the Velma's RBG costume webm