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Scooby-Doo
- Review Date: May 19, 2003
- PG
- Genre: Family and Kids
- 2002
Common Sense Media says
Too scary for most kids, too dumb for most teens.
Parents say
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Kids say
QUALITY
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this movie has more intense, scary special effects than you'll find in the cartoon Scooby-Doo features. The characters are in frequent peril, though no one gets hurt. There is some drug humor (as "Pass the Dutchie" plays on the soundtrack, what appears to be marijuana smoke turns out to be something else) and some vulgar jokes and graphic bathroom humor. The girls wear very skimpy clothes.
What's the story?
The Mystery Machine crew has just discovered the secret of the ghost who captured Daphne (it's a man in a mask!), when their egos collide and they decide to go their separate ways. Two years later, they find out that each of them has been hired by Mr. Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson), whose Spooky Island theme park is a little spookier than he had in mind. Fred, Velma, and Daphne try to solve the mystery on their own, but find that they have to work together to find…well, this time it's not a man in a mask, exactly.
Is it any good?
By trying to reach younger and older audiences, this movie ends up somewhere between a live-action cartoon that is much too scary for most kids and Saturday Night Live sketch that goes on too long for most teens.
The young stars have the voices down perfectly and do the best they can to bring the characters to life, but that only emphasizes how sketchy and shallow the cartoon characterization really is. Freddie Prinze, Jr., who will hopefully someday find a movie that will show off his considerable talent, has his best moments when Fred becomes something like a hip-hop zombie. And as Shaggy, Matthew Lillard is at his best anytime he isn't challenging Scooby to a flatulence and burping contest.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about why the friends broke up and why they got back together.
They might also want to talk about what has made Scooby and his pals so enduringly popular over the years. Which version of the show do you like best?
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Scooby-Dumb not Scooby-Doo
A horrifyingly bad Scooby-Doo movie. Rude humor, some scary scenes (for young viewers). It's idiotic, unfunny and a real mess alongside awful acting.
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May 7, 2010
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Scooby-Doo Review
Rating: OFF 2+ for violence, adult content, language, consumerism, drugs, messages and role models
"no kids under 2.5 may watch this"
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PG-13 should be
totally PG-13 both of the films they're good
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Kid, 11 years old
April 17, 2011
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just bad
A reason why scobby doo is losing poupularity,rude,crude,volient a awful script , a horendous and cliched script and plot and some truly chessy acting
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This movie is rated off for younger kids
It was pretty scary at a hotel because monsters came in. Some characters traded voices with each other and that was so weird. A man's skin on his head got pulled off and looked like an ugly robot afterwards. Scrappy-Doo peed on another character and that was so groce. When he characters were in the plane, there was some punching going on. This movie was dumb and scary.
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Shaggy.
Not the best Scooby, but it works. Pretty adult.
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Good movie
I think its good movie buts its not appriote for young viewers when they whick bodies.
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Disgusting, Yet Good!
Although I don't recommend this movie for those under ten, this movie is a great watch! The part when Scrappy urinates on Daphne cracks me up every time!
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It seems like other raters including CommonSense Media didn't actually watch the movie! I only saw the last half, maybe less, and it was awful. It was scary and violent for young children, but to me that wasn't the worst part. Many girls were dressed in very skimpy clothes (extremely short shorts, lots of cleavage showing, etc.). After reading the CommonSense Media rating, I let my 8-year-old daughter watch the movie with her father because she likes Scooby-Doo. As only one other rater seemed to notice, there was a part where Fred and Daphne's bodies were switched. Fred, inside Daphne's body, said very happily/sexily: "Hey, I can look at myself naked!" while he (she) looked down and smiled at Daphne's breasts/cleavage. Then Daphne, in Fred's body, watched Fred (in her body) touch himself and said "get your hands off me!" but Fred was very disrespectful, wouldn't listen to her and kept touching her body (which he was in). Later she said "Fred keeps touching me!" There was also one subtle reference to drugs/being high that I noticed, when Fred's character says to Shaggy (in a paranoid voice like someone who is high and hallucinating), "Listen Man, someone must've spiked my root beer last night!" Then he assumes it's a bad trip and he's high and asks Shaggy to help him come down from his drug high he thinks he's on: "Talk me down, man, talk me down"!
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| Topics: | adventures, friendship, monsters, ghosts, and vampires |
| Studio: | Warner Bros. |
| Director: | Raja Gosnell |
| Cast: | Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| Genre: | Family and Kids |
| Run time: | 86 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | June 14, 2002 |
| DVD release date: | October 11, 2002 |
| MPAA rating: | PG |
| MPAA explanation: | some rude humor, language and some scary action. |
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