Spoilers Scoob! - Reviews and Discussion

[JD]

The new CGI Scooby-Do/Hanna-Barbera Universe movie was released on VOD by Warner Bros. on Friday.
The movie focuses on Scooby and the Mystery Inc. gang teaming up with fellow Hanna-Barbera characters Blue Falcon, and Dynomutt from Dynomutt: Dog Wonder, and Dee Dee Sykes from Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, to stop a plot by Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races and Dick Dastardly and Muttley inTheir Flying Machines.
Cast:
Frank Welker as Scooby-Do
Will Forte and Ian Armitage as adult and kid Shaggy
Gina Rodriguez and Ariana Greenblat as adult and kid Velma
Zac Efron and Pierce Gagnon as adult and kid Fred
Amanda Seyfried and McKenna Grace as adult and kid Daphne
Mark Wahlberg as Brian/Blue Falcon II
Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly
Ken Jeong as Dyno Mutt
Tracy Morgan as Captain Caveman

My mom and I watched this together on Friday and we both really enjoyed it, it's a lot of fun. Obviously being a big movie the plot was a lot bigger scale than the typical episode of the old cartoon, but I thought they still worked in enough call backs and references to the old cartoons to make it work. I've never really seen an origin story for Scooby and Shaggy or the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang, so I really enjoyed the whole origin story that opened up the movie.
Captain Caveman's appearance wasn't what I was expecting, but it was still pretty good.

Spoiler: Dick Dastardly's scheme

As a dog owner, I got a bit kick out of the end where it turned out Dick's whole scheme was just about being reunited with Muttley.

The whole cast did a great job, with Will Forte, Frank Welker and Jason Isaacs as the standouts.
After this I am definitely in for a whole Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe, I think this was probably one of the best universe starters since the first Iron Man.
I give it a solid A.

 

[thribs]

Listening to Dick I was thinking, “Is that Jason Issacs? Unlikely.” and then to find out it was.
I enjoyed the movie but it’s weird watching a Scooby movie where Daphne isn’t pinning for Fred. Just felt off.

 

[ToddKent]

So have they announced any other movies that are a part of this HBCU?

 

[JD]

I haven't seen any announcements yet, but it's only been a couple weeks since Scoob! came out, so I'd give it time.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

This is one of those I'll check out someday but feel no compulsion until it hits some service I already have (no kids...). The only unfortunate thing is Mathew Lillard felt hurt that he was "brophied" and not even asked to be a part of this project. I'm trying to imagine Forte but I guess I'll get my chance someday as I said.

 

[Christopher]

've never really seen an origin story for Scooby and Shaggy or the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang, so I really enjoyed the whole origin story that opened up the movie.

There was a TV movie origin, Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins, in 2009. It was from Brian Levant, the same director as the theatrical Flintstones live-action movies. And of course there was the series A Pup Named Scooby-Doo that portrayed the gang as preteens, though I don't think that really counts as an origin story, since the team was already established when it began.

The only unfortunate thing is Mathew Lillard felt hurt that he was "brophied" and not even asked to be a part of this project.

Yeah... I was never much of a Scooby fan growing up, but I have gotten somewhat attached to the cast in the Warner Bros. era, largely thanks to Mystery Incorporated. So I'm kind of disappointed that they went for "name" voice casting rather than using Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, and Kate Micucci. I'm actually a bit miffed that they didn't let Welker play Fred. Up to now, he was the only person in more than 50 years who'd ever voiced the teen/adult Fred Jones in animation (the only other Fred voice actor was for the preteen version in A Pup...), and the only remaining member of the original voice cast. So it's a shame to see that streak ended. And I can't really imagine Fred not sounding like Welker, or Daphne not sounding like Griffin (who of course is far from the first Daphne but is the definitive one for me, since, come on, it's Grey Griffin).

 

[Mrs. Silvercrest]

I am not going to read this too close. I haven't seen it yet! But look forward to it. Is it going to come out on DVD?

 

[JD]

I assume it will eventually.