Scooby-Doo (2002)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 100
Though Lillard is uncannily spot-on as Shaggy, Scooby Doo is a tired live-action update, filled with lame jokes.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 19
Though Lillard is uncannily spot-on as Shaggy, Scooby Doo is a tired live-action update, filled with lame jokes.
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Movie Info
The long-running cartoon from William Hanna and Joseph Barbera that began life in 1969 as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? becomes this live-action, tongue-in-cheek comedy-adventure featuring a computer-generated version of the easily frightened, mush-mouthed Great Dane. Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Fred, the blonde, confident, ascot-sporting leader of Mystery Inc., a ghost-busting service that exposes phony supernatural phenomena as the work of shysters. Working with Fred are: his rich, beautiful
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Cast
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Freddie Prinze Jr.
Fred Jones -
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Daphne Blake -
Matthew Lillard
Shaggy -
Linda Cardellini
Velma Dinkley -
Rowan Atkinson
Emile Mondavarious -
Isla Fisher
Mary Jane -
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
Voodoo Maestro -
Stephen Grives
N'Goo Tuana -
Sam Greco
Zarkos -
Charles Cousins
Velma's Friend -
Kristian Schmid
Brad -
Nicholas Hope
Old Man Smithers -
Andrew Bryniarski
Cavern Henchman -
Jess Harnell
Creature -
Michael Montgomery
Dancer -
Frank Welker
Creature -
J.P. Manoux
Scrappy Rex -
Scott Innes
Scrappy -
Charles "Stan" Frazier
Sugar Ray -
Murphy Karges
Sugar Ray -
Mark McGrath
Sugar Ray -
Rodney Sheppard
Sugar Ray -
Sheryl Benko
Reporter #2 -
Adam Williams
Dancer -
Neil Fanning
Scooby -
Michala Banas
Carol -
Alex Ruiz
Reporter #1 -
Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullo...
Sugar Ray -
Chris Cruickshanks
Tiny Henchman -
Rio Nugara
Island Emissary -
David Vallon
Bartender Dead Mike's -
Troy MacKinder
Guy In The Vat -
Holly Ann Brisley
Training Video Woman -
Robert Diaz Leroy
Training Video Guy #1 -
Remi Broadway
Training Video Guy #2 -
Martin Broome
Melvin Doo -
Simone Dumbleton
Co-Ed -
Jonathan Coffey
Fitzgibbon -
Michael Caffrey
Coast Guard #2 -
Kyas Sherriff
Airport Attendant -
Celeste Gosnell
Airport Family -
Bradley Gosnell
Airport Family -
Cayley Gosnell
Airport Family -
Audrey Gosnell
Airport Family -
Kurt Duval
Spooky Hotel Bartender -
Janis McGavin
Co-Ed Hottie -
Emily Gosnell
Autograph Seeker -
Marea Lambert Barker
Autograph Seeker -
Kym Jackson
Autograph Seeker -
Danielle Starkey
Autograph Seeker -
Craig Behenna
Henchman #1 -
Keith Bullock
Henchman #2 -
Stephen Colyer
Dancer -
Ashley Evans
Dancer -
Mark Hodge
Dancer -
Steve Holford
Dancer -
Matt Lee
Dancer -
Deon Nuku
Dancer -
Robert Ricks
Dancer -
Rodney Syaranamual
Dancer -
Ashley Wallen
Dancer -
Andrew Waters
Dancer
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All Critics (162) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (103) | DVD (33)
Scooby-Doo knows when to take itself seriously and when to laugh at itself -- even if its audience isn't laughing along at every gag.
Top CriticThe acting is stiff, the story lacks all trace of wit, the sets look like they were borrowed from Gilligan's Island -- and the CGI Scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year.
As this movie knows what it is, Scooby-Doo's a relatively painless 85 minutes.
Much funnier than it has any right to be, and filled with just enough inside jokes to please longtime fans of the cartoon franchise.
The movie drags, and the occasional bursts of mirth and self-referential humor can't save it from bogging down.
It's like an amalgam of Ghostbusters, Alien and the Pokemon movies -- minus all the good parts.
Too scary for most kids, too dumb for most teens.
What really makes this movie special is Matthew Lillard's inspired performance as Shaggy. It's not only a dead-on impersonation of the cartoon character, but it also comes with a certain kind of unique joy and a genuine soul.
Too scary for most kids, too dumb for most teens.
Adults might want to leave halfway through but kids will get a real kick out of this.
O roteiro é, na melhor das hipóteses, medíocre, mas o charme dos personagens acaba se refletindo na tela grande.
Far more dull and just plain dumb than it ever is funny.
Bad
... About as close as it can be to the TV series without being animated.
Is this really the sort of entertainment America wants?
'Beating a dead CGI-crafted dog, the disc boasts a redundancy of forgettable featurettes that could easily have been edited into a single documentary.'
There's one big mystery that needs to be solved in this movie - though it has nothing to do with the plot. Why the need for Fred, Daphne and Velma?
...Watchable and mercifully short. Wow, what a ringing endorsement.
Audience Reviews for Scooby-Doo
The rest of the film is a terrible mess of horrendously bad cgi, unfunny childish humour and some very shoddy effects. The classic creation has been forced into the current age with a hideous modernisation including your obligatory rap/hop hop soundtrack that seems to come with most films these days for some reason alongside so many other god awful scenes it no longer bares much resemblance to the original creation.
I dunno why they couldn't go with a more sensible approach and a slightly more genuine ghost story. The cartoons were silly yes but still reasonably coherent and actually quite spooky for kids, but spooky in an enjoyable way, this film is basically just trash...and since when was 'Scrappy' a bad guy!?
As usual and with so many films these days, stick with the original material.
Super Reviewer
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- Shaggy: Hey, you guys, look, I know I'm just the dude that carries the bags. But it seems to me we all play an important part in this group. I mean, we're just like a big, delicious banana split. Fred, you're the big banana. Daphne, you're the pastrami and bubble gum flavored ice cream, and Velma, you're the sweet and sour mustard sauce that goes on top.
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- Scrappy Rex: Gotcha! You look so much bigger on TV!
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- Velma Dinkley: We discovered the mastermind is Scrappy, who sadly was taken by evil.
- Scrappy Rex: [being taken to back of police truck] So I got a little cranky!
- Shaggy: Jeez, Scrappy, no need to freak out and try killing all of humanity.
- Scrappy Rex: [in truck] I would of gotten away with it! If it won't for you misable son's of a... [door closes]
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- Daphne Blake: I am so over this damsel in distress nonsense.
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- Scooby: Shaggy, You're whipped!
- Shaggy: I'm whipped? Oh, yeah? Why don't you say that to my face, man!
- Scooby: Okay, I will. Your mother eats cat poop!
- Shaggy: No, Scooby-Doo, YOUR mom eats cat poop!
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- Fred Jones: [in Daphne's body] Hey! I can look at myself naked!
- Velma Dinkley: Oh brother.
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Kids will possibly find some of it's lazy fart-jokes funny and the setting has certain kind of potential with a island filled with ghosts and goblins. It is obvious that filmmakers here does not take the material too serious and remember to laugh at themselves but still this is a sloppily made film that has cheap looking CGI effects, horrible acting by everyone in the cast and truly awful sets that all look like rubber. I also did find the noisy soundtrack extremely annoying to listen at and when most of the dialogue is screamed it certainly does not make the viewing experience any better.
It just feels that Scooby-Doo underestimates the viewers in every possible way. It does not have enough patience to really make us care anything or anyone on the screen and that is a true shame. Maybe some another time, maybe some another adaptation.