With all the brand new Netflix motion pictures to look at each month, generally all you want is a nostalgic flick to deliver again some fond reminiscences. So after I discovered that the James Gunn-written live-action adaptation Scooby-Doo was leaving Netflix on February 28, I needed to revisit this outrageously enjoyable cult basic.
Prior to his success of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy and The Suicide Squad, the CEO of DC Studios penned two iconic motion pictures primarily based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Scooby-Doo.
When the film was launched in 2002, it was met with largely damaging evaluations, the one which shocked me particularly was from The Guardian, which hailed the film as “extremely leaden” and “unutterably boring.” Honestly, I do not stand for this sort of slander as a result of whereas it isn’t the most effective Netflix motion pictures and suffers from a 32% Rotten Tomatoes rating, it is nonetheless extremely enjoyable and entertaining.
Scooby snacks, anybody?
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The first Scooby-Doo film thrusts a start-studded solid right into a story that feels devoted to the animated sequence. In it, the Mystery Inc. gang consists of Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne Blake, Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred Jones, Linda Cardellini as Velma Dinkley, Neil Fanning as Scooby, and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers – a job he was born to play, would possibly I add, and one he nonetheless reprises in a number of animated Scooby-Doo sequence now.
Scooby-Doo sees the Mystery Inc. gang individually invited to analyze unusual happenings at a spooky amusement park, two years after a bitter break-up. The crew should reunite to resolve what’s possessing the school college students staying at Spooky Island.
With its timeless goofy humor and slapstick comedy, the Scooby-Doo film turned a smash hit that is nonetheless quoted and remembered to this present day by individuals the correct age. So it was solely proper to supply a sequel two years later with Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which can also be leaving Netflix on the identical day.
In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Mystery Inc. should save Coolsville when an evil masked determine brings to life all of the outdated monsters they uncovered in a bid to smash their popularity. The second film was additionally met with a poor essential reception, and we by no means obtained a 3rd Scooby-Doo film.
While I mourn the lack of a possible trilogy, the Scooby-Doo film continues to be a intelligent tackle the franchise’s historical past and stays a hilarious crime fixing comedy caper with its good casting and intelligent grownup humor references.
One factor that is for sure is that Scooby-Doo proves that not all the things has to have trendy model or wealthy substance to be a great film – generally all you want are some real laugh-out-loud gags.
So when you’re on the lookout for some informal leisure and a film that does not take itself severely, then you need to positively watch Scooby-Doo earlier than it leaves the very best streaming service.
