It was, however, the first Scooby Doo thing my discriminating tastes had ever checked off as "good," and the more time that's gone by, the more nostalgic I feel about it.so just how well does it hold up now? We're going to go through it piece by piece here, a real old-fashioned nostalgic internet movie review that isn't even a youtube video! I still don't think I can count myself a Scooby Doo fan. I'm not going to say that this movie would change my life, exactly. Cartoon Network was making an EVENT out of this, and "THIS TIME.THE MONSTERS ARE REAL!" was the hook they were banking on the hardest, just in time for that year's coming Halloween season.
So color me intrigued when, seven years after the last Scooby Doo TV series (at the time, half my lifespan!) we started seeing this surprisingly dramatic trailer practically thirty times a day. The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo and a few movies like Ghoul School were exceptions, but unfortunately, their corny jokes and saccharinity still landed them in my judgmental "bad" column. I didn't even have a concept of "kitsch" or "ironic" appeal back then - everything was either good or it was bad, and Scooble belonged squarely in the latter category.Ī big part if this was perhaps the fact that I was so, so monster-obsessed from the very beginning, and of course virtually every Scooby series revealed time and time again that the ghost or demon or space invader was just a greedy real estate agent. It was on enough that I'd seen it, sure without the internet, we had absolutely nothing to do those days but watch whatever the hell the television decided we were stuck with at a given moment, but I can't say I ever actually enjoyed the Scooby Doo experience at the time. I had also never, ever sincerely liked anything about Scooby Doo. Pokemon wouldn't come to America until the very following week. Nobody I'd ever met had ever had a cellular phone. That's so long ago that I don't think I even owned my first-ever computer at the time. I was fourteen when this movie came out in September of 1998, admittedly with tastes and passions closer to someone around six. Has he been in enough shit yet? Have there been enough reboots? Have there been enough movies? Enough continuities? Does anyone remember when Cartoon Network played so many reruns of Scoobo that people joked it had become the Scooby Network? SHEESH. We kind of kicked that off with the two anime reviews I've done, but nothing REALLY says "cartoons" quite like this damn dog. It's not entirely inappropriate this year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Scooby Doo as a franchise, and I actually had it in mind to do a "cartoons" theme for this year's Halloween. However, this is possibly the busiest fall period I've probably ever had in my entire life that wasn't related to doing these articles, so you're getting a Scoobus Doobus thing instead. Today is one of the first Friday the 13ths to land during Halloween season in several years, and I'm sure some of you were expecting an exceptionally special, maybe even exceptionally scary article.