Scooby-Doo (film)
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Scooby-Doo is a 2002 live-action film, based upon the popular Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. The film was directed by Raja Gosnell and written by James Gunn. It was produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle for Warner Bros. Pictures, and starred Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Fred, Linda Cardellini as Velma, Neil Fanning as the voice of Scooby-Doo (who was created on screen using computer-generated imagery), and Rowan Atkinson as Emile Mondavarious.
In 2004, this film was followed by a sequel, entitled ''.
Taglines:
- "Zoinks!"
- "Throughout The Ages, One Hero Has Cowered Above The Rest."
- "The New Doo 2002"
- "Be Afraid. Be Kind of Afraid."
- "Daphne - Shaggy - Velma - Fred"
- "Doo Happens June 14",
- "A Hero Will Rise. On Four Legs."
- "Where Are You?"
- "The Gang's All Here"
- "Get a Clue."
- "The Ghouls Are Revolting."
Main cast
- Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred Jones
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne Blake
- Matthew Lillard as Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley
- Rowan Atkinson as Emile Mondavarious
- Neil Fanning as the voice of Scooby-Doo
Soundtrack
Grow Up by Simple Plan is on the soundtrack. The song "Grow Up" orginally came out in 2002, on their album No helmets, No pads... Just balls."Freaks Come Out At Night" was a hit for Whodini in the early eighties.
Plot
After solving the case of the Luna Ghost, Mystery, Inc. break up after having a major argument with Scooby and Shaggy the only ones left with the Mystery Machine.Two years later, the gang are reunited (much to their disappointment) as each is individually invited to Spooky Island, a "frightfully" popular theme park owned by Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson). Mondavarious tells the gang that students are mysteriously becoming mindless zombies and only utter pop phrases. Of course, Fred, Velma and Daphne do not agree to team up and so they go in different directions.
Shaggy falls for a girl named Mary Jane, while Velma discovers of a group of so called demons that inhabit the island and seek revenge. A man named N'Goo Tuana (Steve Grives) and a masked wrestler try to spook Velma, but she ignores them. Daphne finds a voodoo man (Miguel A. Nunez Jr.) who tells not to go the Spooky Island castle but she goes anyway. Scooby gets attacked by a demon, but escapes him. The gang investigate the castle and Fred and Velma discover an odd kind of "training" video as if there were real monsters living on the island. Daphne discovers an odd item called the Daemon Ritus. The bad guys nearly track them down, but the gang escape to their hotel.
Unfortunately, the demons attack and kidnap a bunch of tourists including Fred and Velma. The following morning, everything seems to be normal, until Fred appears to be a zombie! Daphne is captured and becomes a zombie as well. Shaggy, Scooby and Mary Jane flee from the chasing zombies, but Scooby discovers that Mary Jane is a monster in disguise. Scooby falls down a hole and Shaggy follows. He discovers a pool full of protoplasmic heads. He rescues Fred, Velma and Daphne from the pool and then spies the Daimonritus. Velma is the first to return to her body and then discovers that the demons were inside their bodies and died when they were exposed to sunlight. Velma also discovers that Fred and Daphne are in each other's bodies.
The gang is reunited, except Scooby, and randomly switch bodies until they return to their own. They then encounter the voodoo man who explains that the demons will rule the world for 10,000 years if they get their hands on the Daimonritus and complete their ritual. But they also need a purely good soul as well: Scooby-Doo.
The gang set up a trap to save the world and destroy the demons but it messes up and Fred and Velma discover that Mondavarious is the main villain. Shaggy knocks Mondavarious out and rescues Scooby. Velma and Fred find that Mondavarious is a robot and the one manipulating him is Scrappy-Doo.
Scrappy morphs into a giant monster named Scrappy Rex and he chases Scooby and Shaggy about. Fred and Velma flee from minions while Daphne fights the wrestler on top of the island. Eventually, the gang's plan succeeds and Scrappy Doo is defeated. Shaggy finds the real Mondavarious in a hole and police arrest Scrappy and his minions. But before the gang can even relax, the news of another case for them arrives.
During the credits, Scooby and Shaggy get their free all you can eat meal, and Scooby desperately tries to find a way to stop overheating after eating a jar of chili peppers.
Sequels
- was released in 2004.
- Scooby-Doo 3 will be released in 2007
Trivia
- Much of the Scooby-Doo movie was filmed at the Warner Bros. Movie World studios located in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- A deleted title sequence featuring the animated characters was animated by Kurtz and Friends, the people who made the title sequence for City Slickers and the Mr. D.N.A. animation for the original Jurassic Park. The abandoned titles are on the DVD for the film.
- The official trailer that was released was a running gag to make it sound like the film was based on Batman, the narrator describing things that the Batman usually does. Then, when Scooby Doo is shown, it is first made to look like Batman from behind, but then it reveals to be Scooby. The narrator explains "he will be called upon to save the world, once again..." and Scooby replies "Who me?"
- Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze, Jr. both co-starred in She's All That, Summer Catch and Wing Commander. Freddie also co-starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- On the hit TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which Sarah Michelle Gellar played the title role, her group of mystery-solving, supernatural-fighting friends were called "The Scoobies" or the Scooby Gang because of their similarities with the original cartoon's mystery-solving team.
- In "", the animated versions of Shaggy and Scooby are seen having lunch with Matthew Lillard. The animated Shaggy berates Lillard for his performance in this movie.
- The alternative rock group Sugar Ray makes a cameo when Daphnie, Shaggy, and Scooby look for Fred and Velma.
- At the end scrappy says 'And I would have gotten away with it if it wern't for you sons of a-
WB Logo Alteration
Before the opening credits, the WB logo appears, then part of it gets eaten, then the SD logo exchanges it.External links
- [The Ultimate Scooby Doo Website] - including history, episode guide, and character bios
- [Official Website]
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