(Yeah, there's a couple spoilers below.) But then, my kid didn't grow up with Scooby Doo. This is the sorriest excuse for a reboot/prequel/whatever-that-was I've ever seen. They can't be bothered to even get Fred's hair color right. Oh, wait. This is before he "went blonde", I guess.
The biggest annoyance is they mess with the core theme of all the Scooby Doo shows - there ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS GHOSTS/GOBLINS/Ghouls etc. But in this one, there's a real possession and real magic. Ooooo, spooky. NOT. The second biggest annoyance is the attempt at a "love story" between Fred and Daphne and between Shaggy and Velma. Oh, puh-lease. All those years of Mystery Inc, and there was an unrevealed "past" between them all? Not buying it.
This was so lame, they had to resort to the only cartoon character (that'd be Scooby)doing "cartoon" jokes, like painting a fake doorway and then going through it to get some laughs. These jokes were just stuck in at various times. The story didn't hinge on them.
Anybody under the age of three will like this, it's got Scooby Doo in it. A kid of five will probably wonder why they messed with a good cartoon. Anybody that grew up with Scooby Doo will consider it painful to have to sit through. My kid's a teenager. Their tastes are incomprehensible.
The biggest annoyance is they mess with the core theme of all the Scooby Doo shows - there ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS GHOSTS/GOBLINS/Ghouls etc. But in this one, there's a real possession and real magic. Ooooo, spooky. NOT. The second biggest annoyance is the attempt at a "love story" between Fred and Daphne and between Shaggy and Velma. Oh, puh-lease. All those years of Mystery Inc, and there was an unrevealed "past" between them all? Not buying it.
This was so lame, they had to resort to the only cartoon character (that'd be Scooby)doing "cartoon" jokes, like painting a fake doorway and then going through it to get some laughs. These jokes were just stuck in at various times. The story didn't hinge on them.
Anybody under the age of three will like this, it's got Scooby Doo in it. A kid of five will probably wonder why they messed with a good cartoon. Anybody that grew up with Scooby Doo will consider it painful to have to sit through. My kid's a teenager. Their tastes are incomprehensible.