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DVD Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed (Widescreen Edition)
The animated pooch detective returns in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which packs a wealth of ghostly villains from the Saturday morning cartoon into one movie. When Mystery Inc. opens a museum exhibit of costumes of their old foes, a new masked foe appears and steals everything--and before you know it, all the costumes come to life, chasing Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr., Head Over Heels), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar, TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Velma (Linda Cardellini, Freaks and Geeks), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard, SLC Punk), and the computer-animated Scooby Doo all over Coolsville. It's no better or worse than the first Scooby Doo movie. Watching live-action scenes that you've previously seen in two dimensions is vaguely uncanny; it's like deja vu turned inside out. Also featuring the weirdly unsynchronized lips of Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Seth Green (Austin Powers), and Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein). --Bret Fetzer
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Rah-blah-blah-blah-blah, sucktacular!...(for the most part)
I'm not going to say this was a horrible film, but I will tell you that it is nowhere near as funny or as original as the first. Hell, why don't I just come out and say it. Scooby Doo 2 blows eggwater. The humor is so downright stupid that it's past being funny, it's just... stupid. Doo and Shaggy are acting more than ridiculous, whereas in the first film they showed at least a few signs of minor intelligence. The fart contest in the first movie was laugh your @$$ of funny, and while I will tell you that the little farts snuck into this movie here and there might spark a chuckle or two, that's probably all they can do for you.
From the opening scene I could tell I wouldn't be laughing much at this movie, other than watching all those overexaggerated fans squabble over autographs from different members of Mystery Inc. with a grimace, it was all to obvious to see the dog asking Scooby to sniff his butt was thrown in there to set a good tone for the rest of the film's comedy, and it pretty much did: just a few rungs above pathetic.
All ol' Scooby did for most of the picture was babble incoherently while Shaggy paraded around like a doof, not knowing what the hell he should be doing and lowering himself to the point where he has you wondering if this is the way his character was written here or if Matthew Lillard is just plain crazy. I couldn't tell you. Other than fart jokes, the writers tried to sneak a lot of worded stupidity to make us chuckle at whatever would spark such dialogue, whether it be bad judgment, lack of intelligence, what have you. Make no mistake, there was a definate lack of intelligence here.
The supporting cast members of Mystery Inc. didn't do much to enlighten the comedy/pace either, other than Sarah Michelle Gellar. If I didn't have an overwhelming crush on her I would never have sit through this to the end, I did find it quite interesting when she went up against the 8 foot black knight ghost, good stylized action in my opinion.
Otherwise, there isn't much more to say. I can't even give credit to the return of the villains from the old show, because they brought in too many of those as well. It would have been nice to bring back one or two of them, or simply produce live-action versions of 3 fan favorite Scooby Doo episodes, but they just crammed too much into a movie that didn't have a lot going for it anyway.
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Lets get a third effort in this fun franchise :)
Contrary it appears to public opinion (if box office receipts are anything to go by) I actually preferred this sequel to the original SCOOBY DOO.
Gone is the ridiculous unmasking of the improbable villain (though this one is pure fantasy too) and we actually seem to have a plot here with actual clues to uncover. Whereas the first one seemed to play like some wacked out amusement park ride, this one plays it all a little straighter without losing its Scooby sense of zany humor.
The movie opens as a museum exhibit is being unveiled covering the history of Mystery Inc. Things get steadily worse however as one of the disguises comes dramatically to life Soon the team are being chased by all manner of monsters as well as a rather vindictive television reporter (played by 1990s sex symbol Alicia Silverstone).
There are some real red herrings in the convoluted plot of this movie, but there is actually a coherant follow the clues structure to this movie that was sadly missing from the team's freshman live-action version.
Yes, this movie is far from high art, but its colorful and fun...
Please give us a SCOOBY DOO 3 as this franchise just seems to get better and better.
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