This movie, just re-released this year (2001, originally came out in 1988), appears to be a two-part movie. The first part has Scooby, Shaggy (in a red, not the signature green, shirt) and the annoying little Scrappy-Doo driving to the school where they are to teach gym at an all girls school. Little do they know, when they arrive, it is really an all "ghouls" school, where the pupils are the "daughters of the world's most frightfully famous monsters". After being unsettled by who they are going to teach, they proceed to get the "ghouls" ready for a volleyball tournament against the local boys military school (who are "normal", not ghoulish, kids). The second part of the movie, sliced in half by the tournament itself, consists of a monster named Revolta, who is out to kidnap the "ghouls" and to become the most powerful witch in all of monsterdom.
The movie is kind of cutesy. And the usual formulaic solving of a typical Scooby-Doo mystery is non existent. Scrappy-Doo removes the "fear" content that Shag and Scoob usually show off. It was not mentioned anywhere on the video box cover, nor was there a picture, that Scrappy-Doo was in this film. I would not have purchased this film if Scrappy had been mentioned. To me, it's like when Oliver was added to the cast of the Brady Bunch. Unnecessary, and diminishing to a classic Scooby-Doo movie. I think Shag and Scoob could pull off a movie on their own, without Scrappy-Doo. But, I do truly like to see Velma, Daphne and Fred there, too. Knowing full well that this movie is really for kids (I am an adult of a 4 year old who absolutely loved the movie), I gave it a 6 instead of the 3 I wanted to give it.
Buy it for your kids if you must, but avoid it if you are looking to re-kindle the kid in you with memories of a Scooby-Doo mystery.
The movie is kind of cutesy. And the usual formulaic solving of a typical Scooby-Doo mystery is non existent. Scrappy-Doo removes the "fear" content that Shag and Scoob usually show off. It was not mentioned anywhere on the video box cover, nor was there a picture, that Scrappy-Doo was in this film. I would not have purchased this film if Scrappy had been mentioned. To me, it's like when Oliver was added to the cast of the Brady Bunch. Unnecessary, and diminishing to a classic Scooby-Doo movie. I think Shag and Scoob could pull off a movie on their own, without Scrappy-Doo. But, I do truly like to see Velma, Daphne and Fred there, too. Knowing full well that this movie is really for kids (I am an adult of a 4 year old who absolutely loved the movie), I gave it a 6 instead of the 3 I wanted to give it.
Buy it for your kids if you must, but avoid it if you are looking to re-kindle the kid in you with memories of a Scooby-Doo mystery.