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DVD Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
When Shaggy inherits an old Southern estate from an uncle, he and his sleuthing hounds take a road trip. But they don't even make it to the mansion before the haunting starts. Amid headless horsemen, walking skeletons, and a menacing butler, Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy get majorly spooked. The three Stooge-like ghosts they hire to help them know more about slapstick than ghostbusting and, to make matters worse, neighbor Sadie Mae has the hots for Shaggy while her gun-toting brother Billy Bob is hot to eliminate him. The local sheriff is no help--although an escaped gorilla is--and the jewels that Scrappy uncovers keep disappearing. This new 91-minute movie fuses together episodes from 1983 of the long-running cartoon, which features Casey "Mr. Countdown" Kasem doing the honors as Shaggy. It's classic Scooby-Doo: bumbling good versus slightly-less-bumbling evil with a lot of laughs for viewers 3 and up. --Kimberly Heinrichs
I ordered this for my grandchildren as I live in England and they are in the states.Both myself and my Son were delighted with the product.Well done,I will certainly use you again.Thank you
Scooby At His Best
This and "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf" are the two best Scooby movies ever made. They were both made in the late 80s along with the more lackluster "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School" as part of Hanna-Barbera's "Superstar 10" series of animated TV movies that included such productions as "The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones". This is one of the few mid to late 80s Scooby productions that kept with the old and tired mystery format of years past. This, however is one of the best Scooby mysteries ever. It is sort of a two part mystery. Shaggy inherits a soutern plantation from his uncle. When he finds out Scooby and Scrappy join him and go down to the south to visit it. The lack of the rest of the gang may dissapoint some Scooby fans but as you watch the movie you won't be able to envision Freddy and the Girls being involved in it. Besides, isn't nice to see Shaggy and the dogs solve a mystery themselves for a change? Anyway when Shaggy gets there he meets his creepy old hunch backed butler Farquard, who thinks that Shaggy's uncle should have left the house and the family jewls to him. He then tells Shaggy about the family jewls that his uncle hid somewhere on the estate to hide it from his enemies (he was a colenol). So the gang goes looking for the family jewls, but they are not the only ones after them, as the "ghost" of Shaggy's uncle and a skull ghost want the jewls too and they will make things exceedingly difficult for Shaggy, as he already has wacky hillbilly neighbors to deal with. Enter the Boo Brothers. They are ghost extermintators that are ghosts themselves and they really need to get their act together! They are like the three stooges and their antics provide the majority of the laughs. I highly reccomend this movie to everyone especially big Scooby Doo fans.
Above average old school Scooby Adventure
This entry suffers from the presence of Scrappy. It was made in the mid-eighties when Scrappy was at the height (!) of his fame (?). He doesn't do much in this so it's not that bad.
The story is about Shaggy (minus the rest of Mystery Inc.) being left a spooky mansion house in his uncles will. Conveniently said mansion is in the middle of a creepy swampland in the Deep South. The kind of place where there are always eyes watching from the trees.
As soon as he arrives, Shaggy has to deal with an annoying southern stereotype sheriff, a weirdo butler who wants to get his hands on the old uncle's hidden treasure, hickabilly neighbors and the ghost of his uncle telling to leave (then why did he give him the house?). There is also an escaped ape on the loose but even though only Scooby sees him (Shaggy doesn't believe it) he's just a big, cuddly monkey who wants to play.
The Boo Brothers are basically ghost versions of the Three Stooges. They're listed in the phone book as being experts in the busting of ghosts. This isn't a job they do well though, so Shaggy's payment at the end is a bit too generous.
There are some laughs to be had and the plot is mildly interesting but too many running jokes are just plain bad. The hillbilly neighbor joke becomes very boring and could have been done without. The animation is a bit dated, though it has enough modern touches (lens flares in car lights) to distract you from it. And I like the dark, decaying atmosphere of the swampland. The color pallet is mostly made up of dark blues and purples (the story takes place all in one night) and the backgrounds are not as generic as the earlier, cheaper TV shows.
For the average fan this is a worthy effort though I would just catch it on the Cartoon Network instead of forking over the cash, unless you're a Scooby completist.
The DVD is in 1.33:1 full frame, as drawn, with a Dolby Mono soundtrack that is unsophisticated but workable. The Region 2 release comes in a sturdy Keep Case but the Region 1 is still in a cruddy snapper. Extras are minimal childish fluff.
Scooby scholars of the old-school set will find much in the Reluctant Werewolf to give them pause. For one thing, Scrappy and Googy, Shaggy's girlfriend, are subbed for missing members of the Mystery Machine gang, and for another, instead of making like bananas and splitting from the monster at the center of a mystery, this crew slides, peel-style, into a strange circus of benign spooks, no meddling involved. The reluctant werewolf is Shaggy; he's forced to finish first in a monster road race if he wants to rid himself of his fangs and facial fur (a dirty trick played on him by Dracula). A truckload of shenanigans, mostly screwball car tricks, ensue. Wacky wordplay works up a handful of howls here, but not enough to make this full-length feature worth tuning into twice... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ray Patterson DVD Release Date: Released the 05 March 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Inspired by Hanna-Barbera's popular cartoon series, which premiered in 1969, Scooby-Doo stars in his second full-length film (made in 1988). Shaggy has accepted a job as a gym teacher at Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls, a gothic girls' school that instructs the daughters of frightfully famous monsters such as Dracula, Werewolf, Mummy, and Frankenstein. Once Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy get over their spooky welcome, they settle into academic and athletic routines (like scarobic exercises) and enjoy an other-worldly relationship with the delightful Miss Grimwood and her gals. Shaggy prepares his students for a big volleyball tournament against the boys' military academy next door, a setup for all sorts of ghoulish gimmicks. And, of course, there's Back to School Night, where the... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Charles A. Nichols DVD Release Date: Released the 04 June 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A lot has changed since the original '70s-era gang of Scooby-Doo fans gave way to today's followers of the hipster mystery cartoon series. For one, nowadays kids don't have to wait around for the half-hour Saturday morning show- -they can pick up a copy of Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. All the familiar elements are here; even the groovy green Mystery Machine makes a comeback, but it isn't as reliable as it used to be. At the outset of Alien Invaders, it breaks down, leaving the crime-solving crew stranded in a creepy desert town overrun by aliens. From there, the plot unwinds faster than Scooby can down a box of his namesake snacks. A band of swollen-headed purple and green space guys--Zoinks--send the terrified teens scrambling for cover, but it's not long... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim Stenstrum DVD Release Date: Released the 03 October 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is a very different Scooby movie. It was released in 1998, at the height of Scooby mania. You remeber, when Cartoon Network was showing reruns of the original series 20 times a day. Warner Brothers Family Entertainment, who had recently purchased Hanna Barbera parent company Turner Broadcasting, decided to bring Scooby and the gang back in a brand new direct-to-video movie. It was majorly hyped and its release blown completely out of proportion, but hey, this was the first new Scooby in about 10 years (Save for "Scooby Doo in Arabian Nights" in which Shaggy and Scooby only make brief appearences). So at the time, this was big news.
This movie is acctually quite different than the Scooby you are used to watching. It is very reflective of the time it was... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Kazumi Fukushima - Jim Stenstrum - Hiroshi Aoyama DVD Release Date: Released the 06 March 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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