Scooby Doo, where are you? The little gang of mystery solvers has descended onto the big screen. Real and breathing
except, that is, for the computer-generated dog. I shall quickly mention the old and new fans of this popular dated cartoon. I do not know how they felt about this movie; I am not one of them. I hate the cartoon for it is not only tersely repetitive but pointless, full of irritatingly repeating clishays and dreary old style animation, which I am NOT a fan of. I only spent money to see this movie out of the interest of how these characters were brought to life. That, and a passive interest in the actors Matthew Lillard and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The Positive Totally within the spirit of the animated Scooby Doo (I am reluctant to say I have watched the cartoon many a time), the characters, voices and actions, as well as those irritating memorable lines such as `like' or `Scooby Doo, where are you?' were readily repeated. The most amusing performance, or the one most to my liking, was Gellar as Velma. She gave a very intense feeling of a bitchy material girl which suites the actress quite well. One comment on her though, WHY WAS THE PURPLE SO DAMNED PINK?! Her clothes should have been more of a blue purple then a pink purple those idiots. Ahm. Right. Sorry but that just really got to me.
The Negative Ok, no offence, I too am a computer freak, but the computer animation mixed with reality in supposedly `living' creatures is reeeeealy starting to get to me in the latest high budget movies. I am so proud of the latest Planet of the Apes for NOT putting computer graphics everywhere were makeup and costume get a little complicated. It looks stupid and ridiculous and just does not fit into the movie realistically.
In conclusion, the movie was enjoyable, but breezy and thoughtless, which, after all, is what it should have been like.
The Positive Totally within the spirit of the animated Scooby Doo (I am reluctant to say I have watched the cartoon many a time), the characters, voices and actions, as well as those irritating memorable lines such as `like' or `Scooby Doo, where are you?' were readily repeated. The most amusing performance, or the one most to my liking, was Gellar as Velma. She gave a very intense feeling of a bitchy material girl which suites the actress quite well. One comment on her though, WHY WAS THE PURPLE SO DAMNED PINK?! Her clothes should have been more of a blue purple then a pink purple those idiots. Ahm. Right. Sorry but that just really got to me.
The Negative Ok, no offence, I too am a computer freak, but the computer animation mixed with reality in supposedly `living' creatures is reeeeealy starting to get to me in the latest high budget movies. I am so proud of the latest Planet of the Apes for NOT putting computer graphics everywhere were makeup and costume get a little complicated. It looks stupid and ridiculous and just does not fit into the movie realistically.
In conclusion, the movie was enjoyable, but breezy and thoughtless, which, after all, is what it should have been like.