As live-action adaptations of cheap, unapologetically stupid cartoons go, this is as good as it gets: The cast is appealing, the sets brightly colored and fun to look at, the mystery as lame and goofy as any featured in the many inexplicably beloved
Scooby-Doo cartoons. Even the CGI Scooby is a marvel of modern special effects technology, even if the results are distinctly grotesque; a cartoon dog with freakish proportions and uncanine expressions becomes very creepy when rendered in an essentially realistic style. The movie opens as the ever-game members of Mystery, Inc. — vain Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr., with a Goldilocks bleach job), beautiful Daphne (Sa...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG
Length:
86 mins