Review(s): DVD The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies
Globetrotter Get no scooby snacks
I ran into Curly Neal at a supermarket opening and asked him about "appearing" in the Scooby Doo Cartoons. he said that he gets nothing from the DVDs since he didn't do the vocal work and his likeness was covered under promotional appearances as a Globetrotter. But he didn't seem too bitter about it since a lot of small kids knew who he was from these cartoons - doesn't hurt that he still looks young.
I get a kick out of watching these adventures although not the same rush as when I was a kid - seeing Don Knotts and Shaggy together, that was star power.
Retarded
Scooby-Doo has existed in various incarnations since the 1960s. Its popularity lasts to this day. Why? It's a retarded series about 4 kids and their Great Dane that ride around in a van and solve mysteries wherever they stop. The dog, Scooby-Doo, can talk, but it can only kinda sorta talk. Why not give it a full vocabulary then? The kids aren't that spectacular: Fred is the level-headed one, Daphne is the ditz (but she's hot), Velma is the unattractive brains, and Shaggy is the hungry slacker (stoner?). Really, the stories are dorky and unrealistic. The kids manage to stumble accross a mystery wherever they go (where do they live, anyway?), out-smart some dim-witted villains, and solve the mystery by the episode's end. I used to like Scooby-Doo when I was little but not anymore - except for the live-action, theatrical movies. They ridicule the cartoon series. Check them out but avoid the cartoons.
Missing the best ones
While I understand copyrights and the need to secure permission to include the missing 10 "movies" - Warner Brothers, you need to put urgency on this and issue a second dvd compilation with the missing movies - no repeats please, that's horribly annoying.
and, I can't resist this one but reviewer "bobby the c" has annoyed me. I am Wiccan and would like to have Phyllis Diller's episode prominently displayed on the cover. :)
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Chuck Jones and other great studio animators sneered at the cheap look and lazy craftsmanship of Hanna Barbera's television cartoons in the 1960s, but there's no question HB's original, 35-year-old Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is enduringly beloved. The Complete First and Second Seasons includes all 25 stories first broadcast from September '69 to October '71, a growth period in which canine hero Scooby's voice (by Don Messick, who also voiced The Jetsons's pup, Astro) was gradually refined from murky garble to Scoob's more familiar, "Rrroowwrr"-inflected, human-like speech. This set also represents the pre-frills Scooby-Doo: no guest appearances by Don Knotts or Batman, no Scrappy-Doo--just adventure and occasional bubblegum pop tunes by Danny Janssen and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Howard Swift - William Hanna - Joseph Barbera DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This show looked awful. If you can stomach the weak computer animation. These cartoon clones that lack and charm and the warm funny jokes of the earlier Scooby Doo films, and realize that this came from the same film studio that gave us the awful live action Scooby Doo films, then that says it all. The Warners dvd disk of this film is also awful with both a lousy cartoon and their version of bonus features looks like some of the same cheap artists who did the JLU and Teen Titans cartoons on DVD, also did this. It make me sick. I think it would make anyone who grew up watching Scooby Doo, yearning for the days when Bill Hanna and Joe Barbara were doing them. They at least knew what they were doing. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Frank Welker - Casey Kasem Director(s): Tim Maltby DVD Release Date: Released the 08 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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My grandosn loves Scooby-Doo, and this disk is no exception. In fact, he took it home with him. It has the same high quality of all Scooby cartoons, and the monsters are just scarey enough to be fun and not really scare the child. We buy all the Scooby we can for the sense of adventure and because the monsters are always proved to be nothing to be afraid of. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Scott Jeralds - Tom Mazzocco - Chuck Sheetz - Tim Maltby - Russell Calabrese DVD Release Date: Released the 09 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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