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70At least the 20 people who saw it with me -- found it hysterically funny. On the other hand, they all seemed pretty stoned.
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70No serious film fan could stomach the cheap gags and farting contests in this goofball tribute. I laughed myself stupid anyway.
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You don't want to love this, but you will. Although Scooby-Doo falls far short of becoming the "Blazing Saddles" of Generations X, Y and Z, it is hard to resist in its moronic charms.
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63Knows when to take itself seriously and when to laugh at itself -- even if its audience isn't laughing along at every gag.
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63Would I see it again? Not even for a Scooby snack.
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63Bland, inoffensive, formulaic and occasionally amusing - just like the animated kids' show that inspired it.
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60Just fast, frenetic and funny enough to amuse both new fans and longtime devotees of the characters who have inspired more than 30 years worth of animated TV episodes and made-for-video features.
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50The movie is so shiny, bright and noisy, the under-10 set ought to be sufficiently entertained.
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Do you really want to spend money watching what is essentially marginality, or would those dollars be better used to see a better film or even buy a good book?
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50This dog will inevitably let down purists looking for the elusive combination of smart and funny.
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I took a 12-year-old along to Scooby Doo just in case I didn't get it. Our verdict: one paw up, one paw down.
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50As live-action adaptations of cheap, unapologetically stupid cartoons go, this is top of the line: The cast is appealing, the sets brightly colored and fun to look at, the mystery as lame and goofy as any featured in the many inexplicably beloved Scooby-Doo cartoons.
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50Scooby's just so dang cute, what's the point in grousing?
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50As this movie knows what it is, Scooby-Doo's a relatively painless 85 minutes.
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50The cast does great impressions of the original cartoon characters, and the computer-generated Scooby is convincing, but it turns out that what we liked about Scooby-Doo in the first place was that nobody was trying.
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42The antics involving ghosts, chases, and burping that divert the small fry don't mix with the jokey, tribute-band dialogue spouting from the Mystery, Inc. gang.
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42The film's technological selling point -- having a computer-animated Scooby in a mostly live-action world -- is strangely unimpressive. In fact, it's virtually unnoticeable: a testament perhaps to the audience's increasing knowledge that in today's CG-driven Hollywood, all movies are cartoons.
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40Not entirely without charm.
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38The best thing you can say about Scooby-Doo is that Matthew Lillard makes a really, really good Shaggy.
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38It's unclear why the writers bothered to update the cartoon, unless it was to expand the possibilities for quips and jokey ideas. If so, they failed in their mission, as the movie elicits few laughs.
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38Captures the essence of its TV inspiration, which is to say that it's not nearly as clever as it thinks it is. It also feels very, very long.
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38Mostly, the plot is busy and incomprehensible and the action sequences directed with all the art of a detonation.
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As reformulated by the aggressively mediocre director Raja Gosnell and screenwriter James Gunn, this Scooby-Doo is entertainment more disposable than Hanna-Barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were.
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25Not only am I ill-prepared to review the movie, but I venture to guess that anyone who is not literally a member of a Scooby-Doo fan club would be equally incapable. This movie exists in a closed universe, and the rest of us are aliens. The Internet was invented so that you can find someone else's review of Scooby-Doo. Start surfing.
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25This excruciating adaptation of the innocuous '70s cartoon show makes the film version of "Josie and the Pussycats" look sophisticated by comparison.
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25Scooby-Doo is bad. Let's just get that right out of the way. Filled with unclever quips, tired humor, a lazy silliness and bland execution, the picture is a tedious puff of nothing.
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20Director Raja Gosnell apparently doesn't even try to pump life into this wan film version of the beloved Saturday-morning cartoon.
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20Get out your pooper-scoopers. Doo happens June 14th, warn the ads for Scooby-Doo. And they say there's no truth in Hollywood.
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10A work of Battlefield Earth-level miscalculation.
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10The gratuitous vulgarity is just one more reason that Scooby-Doo should never have left the pound.
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10Warner Bros. is presumably aiming this movie not at children but at full-grown dopers with bad munchies glued to the Cartoon Network. Dude, pass the Scooby snacks.
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Positive: 25 out of 49
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Mixed: 8 out of 49
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Negative: 16 out of 49
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Ignore the critics. I had a great time watching this hilarious adaptation of the animated TV series from the late 60s.
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Yup. The crude poster says it all....