Journalist Heather Jasper Howe ridicules the entire gang, starting a smear campaign against them. However, an individual known as the Evil Masked Figure interrupts the event, stealing two costumes using the reanimated Pterodactyl Ghost. Plotįred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo attend the opening of an exhibition at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, which commemorates their past mysteries with displays of each culprit's monster costume. Its poor reception resulted in a third film, set to be written and directed by Gunn, being cancelled. Like the first film, it received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $181 million, considerably less than its predecessor. The film stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Peter Boyle and Alicia Silverstone, with Neil Fanning reprising his role as the voice of Scooby-Doo.
It is the second installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series and a sequel to 2002's Scooby-Doo, and was directed by Raja Gosnell, written by James Gunn, and released by Warner Bros. I think the future of the Republic may depend on young audiences seeing more movies like "Whale Rider" and fewer movies like "Scooby-Doo 2," but then that's just me.Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (also referred to as Scooby-Doo 2) is a 2004 American live-action/ computer-animated horror comedy film based on the animated television franchise Scooby-Doo. I'll give it two stars because I didn't feel anything like the dislike I reported after the first film, but no more than two, because while the film is clever, it's not really trying all that hard. Is this better or worse than the original? I have no idea. Seth Green is funny as the museum curator.
The always reliable Peter Boyle is mean Old Man Wickles, who, if he is not involved in skullduggery, is in the movie under false pretenses. Alicia Silverstone plays a trash-TV reporter who is determined to debunk the myth of Mystery Inc. The original cast is back, led by Lillard as Scooby-Doo's friend Shaggy, and containing Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and Linda Cardellini. Watching it is a little like watching synchronized swimming: One is amazed at the technique and discipline lavished on an enterprise which exists only to be itself.īut a little more about the movie.
This is a silly machine to whirl goofy antics before the eyes of easily distracted audiences, and it is made with undeniable skill.
Once again, to quote myself, I am not the person to review this movie, because the values I bring to it are irrelevant to those who will want to see it. This film is no doubt ideally constructed for its target audience of 10-year-olds and those who keenly miss being 10-year-olds. There was a lot of eye candy on the screen the colors were bright the action was relentless Matthew Lillard really is a very gifted actor, and the animated Scooby-Doo is so jolly I even liked him in the first movie. What I felt as I watched "Scooby-Doo" was not the intense dislike I had for the first film, but a kind of benign indifference. The third movie was Bresson's 1966 masterpiece "Au Hasard Balthazar," which could have been called "The Passion of the Donkey." So you see we have to shift gears quickly on the film-crit beat.
I viewed it as the second movie on a day that began with a screening of "Taking Lives," with Angelina Jolie absorbing vibes from the graves of serial killer victims. I had completely forgotten the earlier film, and so was able to approach the sequel with a clean slate. Now I don't want you to think I walked into "2" with a chip on my shoulder because of the 2002 film.
The event turns into a disaster when one of the monster costumes turns out to be inhabited and terrorizes the charity crowd. are attending the opening night of a museum exhibiting souvenirs from all of the cases they have solved. There is a subtitle: "Monsters Unleashed." As the story commences, our heroes in Mystery Inc. Now I am faced with "Scooby-Doo 2" (or, as it will certainly be titled in France, "Scooby-Doo Deux"). Those were the closing words of my 2002 review of the original "Scooby-Doo," a review that began with refreshing honesty: "I am not the person to review this movie." I was, I reported, "unable to generate the slightest interest in the plot, and I laughed not a single time, although I smiled more than once at the animated Scooby-Doo himself, an island of amusement in a wasteland of fecklessness." "The Internet was invented so that you can find someone else's review of "Scooby-Doo." Start surfing.