SCOOBY-DOO     - A    Narada    Film Review
   
Scooby-Doo ,    Directed by Raja Gosnell, Produced by Richard Suckle/Chuck Roven

      Viewed On 16 June 2002 .

            The reason you went to Scooby-Doo is because the guy sold you the wrong ticket in your local multiplex.    Or you had to take your kids.    Or you are retarded and your kids took you.    Or, you are some hapless movie reviewer.   So now, no matter who catches you walking out of the theater, you have a ready-made and sorely needed face-saving excuse.   But be sure to ditch the ticket stub on the way out - whatever you do, don't put it in your pocket.   You don't want to accidentally pull it out when you go to pay for coffee, or have someone find it in your trash.   Best to burn it - don't forget, any thorough DNA analysis could pin you to the scene of the movie.
             Scooby-Doo will not be entertaining for an adult.   The reason this movie got a rating at all, is because kids go to movies, and it's conceivable that they might enjoy it, - although at the screening I fidgeted through, I don't think more than half of them were watching.    I'm not going to blame the little .. uhhh....uhhh.. boys and girls for making noise throughout the screening, because with a film like Scooby-Doo, I would just be making myself look stupid for not knowing beforehand that it could not possibly be any other way.
            The special effects were creditable, but nothing we haven't seen before.   The cast, Freddy Prinz Jr as Fred , Sara Michelle Gullar as Daphne , and Rowan Atkinson as Emile Mondevarious, and several others, played their parts adequately as cartoon characters.   They obviously, nay, brazenly used the movie as an auditioning platform for Mr Roberts or Sesame Street.    --And let me be the first to wish them all the best - it would be a sure-fire means of keeping them out of any future full-length feature films.
            
        LEAST Enduring Line Or Phrase:   "I don't like the looks of this..... "

Reviewed by Narada for Bangkok Eyes - 16 June 2002

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