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Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed (2004)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 113
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 89

Only the very young will get the most out of this silly trifle.

11

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 24

Only the very young will get the most out of this silly trifle.

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Average Rating: 2.7/5
User Ratings: 188,832

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America's favorite teenage canine-led crime fighters earn a second shot at the big screen in this sequel to the hit comedy Scooby-Doo. The reunited Mystery Inc. team -- Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (Linda Cardellini), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard), and Scooby-Doo (voice of Neil Fanning) -- return to their hometown of Coolsville as heroes when a local criminology museum offers an exhibition of the many ghostly disguises used by villains they've subdued over the

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Drama, Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy

Joseph Barbera, James Gunn

Sep 14, 2004

$84.0M

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Critic Reviews for Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed

All Critics (124) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (92) | DVD (24)

It's a terrible movie. The laughs aren't there. The stunts are stupid. There's no plot whatsoever.

March 29, 2004 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The monsters are the highlight of the film, and if history is any guide, there will be more ghosts and evildoers for our wholesome heroes to battle in Scooby-Doo 3.

March 26, 2004 | Comment (1)
Christina Talcott
Washington Post
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As little as there is to recommend in Scooby-Doo 2, it must be noted that the human cast has done an uncanny job of inhabiting their two-dimensional characters, especially Lillard.

March 26, 2004
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Monstrously silly.

March 26, 2004 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Milder than the 1st, but not Scooby-snack worthy.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media

I don't see how anyone, even Scooby Doo fans, could really find anything worth even remotely liking with this movie.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment (1)
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

You could pass on both Scooby Doo films unless you really have nothing else to do one day. And I mean nothing.

October 2, 2006
Mary Lasse
Christianity Today

I was very glad when it was over. (Blu-ray Double-Feature Edition)

September 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

...just as silly, just as juvenile, just as inane, just as witless, just as dumb as the first movie. (Blu-ray Double-Feature Edition)

September 13, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

The acting is so over the top that any good will developed from the first film is instantly dashed...

September 5, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
Cinema Sight

Those who got a kick out of seeing Shaggy with big breasts may want to head straight to the "Dancing Dog" feature.

August 31, 2004 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

This bellicose, straining mess doesn't even work on the simplest diversionary level.

August 8, 2004 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
David Noh
Film Journal International
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Audience Reviews for Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed

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Well, on the plus side it does not take itself too seriously as a film but there are so many negative sides in this film that they just overcome any possible potential that exists, not that i ever saw any potential.
There are some improvement here over the first Scooby-Doo film, which was a total disaster, but once again there is also too much of that infamous annoying slapstick, fart jokes and bad CGI to make it all nothing but a cheap and dumb entertainment. Kids will possibly forgive many of it's shortcomings and follow its monster filled plot but parents will suffer most likely. At times the whole film feels like it is becoming another sequel of Ghostbusters but more goofier approach.
Director Raja Gosnell is not a director with that impressive filmography. He has brought us films like Big Momma's House, Home Alone 3 and Smurfs, none of those are not necessarily not that good as an films. Gosnell is clearly director who is making entertainment without any brains. He relies on bad jokes, bad effects and does his job as an director sloppily. Scooby-Doo deserves better film franchise than Gosnell has gave us.
January 21, 2013
emilkakko
Emil Kakko

Super Reviewer

Pretty much the same thing here with more nasty looking cgi and even more terrible looking effects, stunts and obvious stunt doubles. The cast are a little more into the flow with this one though, they gel better and actually come across as 'Mystery Inc.' with more success than the previous film.

There is still very childish fart type humour going on, unsurprisingly, which still isn't required as it wasn't in the original cartoon but on the plus side its nice to see ghosts and spooks from the original cartoon used for the plot, always liked that deep sea diver ghost :)

The inclusion of a nice array of phantoms and ghouls only slightly elevates this above the first film but its still quite awful, again...stick to the original cartoon.
January 12, 2012
phubbs1
Phil Hubbs

Super Reviewer

Scooby-Doo 2 - Monsters Unleashed Quotes

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    1. Old Man Wickles: Darn bushes yowling at me again...
    – Submitted by Robbie N (7 months ago)
    1. Fred Jones: You can't fool me, your just Afried to so your sensitive side.
    2. Black Knight: Oh, you touched my little child... And he's really MAD!
    – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
    1. Scooby Brainiac [Voice]: Barking at things, chasing cars! Eating my own vomit! Oh, those were glories times!
    – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
    1. Shaggy: [picks up page, that was printed] All clues... At lass, what are these strange marking?
    2. Fred Jones: [turns page around] Words.
    3. Shaggy: [amazed] Ahhh, words.
    – Submitted by Connor N (7 months ago)
    1. Ned: You were a dude this whole time?
    2. Dr. Jonathan Jacobo: Of course, Dumbkoff!
    3. Ned: [disgusted] But we cuddled!
    – Submitted by Matthew D (8 months ago)
    1. Black Knight: OH! Right in the roundtables!
    – Submitted by Matthew D (8 months ago)

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