Scooby Doo lost its mojo when it stopped revealing the ABSENCE of supernatural crime; which demystification was its Thematic Purpose. The fact that it's pushing anti-humanism on top of abandoning that purpose, is just furry fart sprinkles on a canine crap cake.
But that's what made the original Zombie Island movie so special.
After about 30 years of fakes, they finally come face-to-face with REAL monsters, and they reacted surprisingly realistically. It even takes Fred about half the movie to accept it's not some advanced fakery, because of all they've seen and done together.
It's what I love about it.
...That being said, those movies they made in the '80s, like Reluctant Werewolf, sucked.
Reluctant Werewolf was almost certainly an original movie that slapped name branding on to help sell than Scooby Doo. Most of the 80s was like that, but that one much more so.
One capstone inversion can be cute, I guess. Expectations dashed: O What A Surprise! etc. But Inverting All The Things - including wholesomeness - isn't cute, or even middling. It's straight up shark-jumping evil.
Scooby Doo lost its mojo when it stopped revealing the ABSENCE of supernatural crime; which demystification was its Thematic Purpose. The fact that it's pushing anti-humanism on top of abandoning that purpose, is just furry fart sprinkles on a canine crap cake.
EDIT: Goodbye, Phoenicia...
But that's what made the original Zombie Island movie so special.
After about 30 years of fakes, they finally come face-to-face with REAL monsters, and they reacted surprisingly realistically. It even takes Fred about half the movie to accept it's not some advanced fakery, because of all they've seen and done together.
It's what I love about it.
...That being said, those movies they made in the '80s, like Reluctant Werewolf, sucked.
Reluctant Werewolf was almost certainly an original movie that slapped name branding on to help sell than Scooby Doo. Most of the 80s was like that, but that one much more so.
Yeah, the only half-decent movie out of the Superstars 10 was The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones.
One capstone inversion can be cute, I guess. Expectations dashed: O What A Surprise! etc. But Inverting All The Things - including wholesomeness - isn't cute, or even middling. It's straight up shark-jumping evil.
I guess it depends how old you are.
I really enjoyed the early 2000s cartoons, and slightly less so the movies (2 >> 1), despite, yes, that difference from the original…
But if you grew up with the Hanna-Barbera originals, I can see how that would jar somewhat… As would Scrappy’s portrayal in the movie, lol…