Gunn’s script pokes fun at the cheesier parts of its source material, while also addressing what the original cartoons wouldn’t.
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It’s not until two years later that the friends reunite, having all been invited to solve the mystery of zombie-like college students on Spooky Island, a theme park and spring break destination.Įven though the Scooby-Doo cartoons first aired in 1969, screenwriter James Gunn (now best known for his work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and DC’s 2021 reboot of The Suicide Squad ) and director Raja Gosnell work in a modern sensibility, transposing the heart and hijinks of the original series into the new millennium – most prevalent is a self-awareness that presents itself as ironic humour, and gives the cartoon’s grooviness a Y2K makeover. Despite Shaggy’s best efforts to implore that “best friends don’t quit,” the gang from Coolsville is splitsville. What should be yet another celebration (with a personal thank you from Pamela Anderson in a cameo role), brings long-simmering tensions to a head: Daphne is sick of being the one that gets kidnapped all the time, and Velma is over the fame-obsessed Fred always taking credit for her ideas. Daphne is yet again captured by the villain, and Velma’s plan is shot to hell, but due to some crafty skateboarding through the factory line by Shaggy and Scooby, the Lunar Ghost is successfully de-masked, and once again Mystery Inc. The film opens on a typical Scooby-Doo scene, with the spooky gang in an empty toy warehouse, cracking the case of the Lunar Ghost. comprised of the beautiful and popular Daphne Blake (Sarah Michelle Gellar) the equally beautiful and popular Fred Jones (Freddie Prinze Jr.) brainiac Velma Dinkley (Linda Cardellini) scaredy-cat Shaggy Rogers (Matthew Lillard) and their talking Great Dane dog, Scooby-Doo (voiced by an Australian, Neil Fanning). Released in 2002 and based on the popular Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Scooby-Doo follows a group of sleuthing friends known as Mystery Inc.
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Growing up in the early 2000s, the live-action Scooby-Doo movie was a regular Saturday night video rental in my house – 20 years since its release, the film evokes memories of the candy-coloured, celebrity-obsessed zeitgeist of the early noughties.
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