Scooby Doo [G]

Two years ago, the team of Mystery Inc. split up due a clash of egos and now, they find themselves individually summoned to a hot tourist attraction called Spooky Island to solve a mystery: supernatural forces are changing the students that are on Spring Break and the team must overcome their personal battles if they are to save the students and the world. 

I remember watching the original cartoons of Scooby Doo with my brother. We used to love Scooby Doo. This live action movie holds the same comedy and loveable characters, although the story was a bit of a step away from the traditional structure of the cartoon series. Nevertheless, Scooby Doo gets me laughing every time. 

Two years ago, the team of Mystery Inc. split up due to a clash of egos and now, they find themselves individually summoned to a hot tourist attraction called Spooky Island to solve a most sinister mystery: supernatural forces are changing the students they are on the island for Spring Break and the team must put aside their differences and overcome their personal battles in order to save the students and the world. 

I think the one thing that really annoyed me with this movie was the fact that Mystery Inc. really were dealing with supernatural phenomena and not just some mad or jealous person in a costume and mask. Making the mystery real is not really what I felt Scooby Doo was all about: taking some of the scariness away from ghosts and monsters and stuff by showing young children that they are really just people in disguises and there is nothing to be afraid of. Although the use of slapstick comedy and funny verbal outbursts do lighten the atmosphere and make it less sinister, the basic story just was not in keeping with the original cartoons and that annoyed me a bit, an annoyance not dissimilar to that which I felt during Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 

The central cast gave memorable performances with that of Matthew Lillard, who plays Shaggy, leading the parade. He is hysterical and exactly like the Shaggy from the cartoon. Love him. 

Starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, Isla Fisher, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., Steven Grives, and Rowan Atkinson, Scooby Doo is a fun family movie packed with nifty special effects, action, adventure, suspense, monsters, romance, food, and heaps of comedy. It may not be very adult of me to love this film, but seriously, it just makes me laugh every time.