disgusting, overrated, pointless

Am I Missing Something?

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's not the one that started it all, but it is the first one I saw, the first one that said: "Look at me, Scooby Doo is relevant again!" And it was.Everything fit beautifully with the late 90s. The Stephen King parody, the Hex Girls quasi-Goth band with an environmentalist twist and a love for Wicca. Even the New England town told the viewers that, hey, Scooby Doo is updated, it is in the 90s, and it is not taking itself too seriously.The one regret is that there are no real masked villains, but even then, when you learn the truth, when the mystery is solved, the lack of a mask works for shock appeal.It is a great entry into the world of Scooby Doo and one that set the stage for the franchise to follow.

Out of the first four Scooby-Doo movies, this has got to be my favorite of them all! And it's not just because of Tim Curry, Billy Ray Cyrus and the Hex Girls, but because the plot and character designs are so well done in this that I'd even bought myself a copy of this great film. Compared to Zombie Island, though, the story isn't as dark but it is still awesome animation-wise! It starts out having fake monsters but at the end there's a real ghost. A witch's ghost to be precise. A ghost that also looks nothing like who it was when it was living. In terms of music, it's great! I think that this movie has the best soundtrack out of them all and I'm just so addicted to the Hex Girls. Best cartoon band ever!

How wonderful the advent of DVD so that we can all enjoy our favorite movies and television shows over and over at our own leisure - and commercial free to boot! For me, Scooby Doo is one that I'll always enjoy. I watched the television series as a kid, and seeing it again now brings back many fond memories. The new movies are an extra special delight in that they introduce the aspect of real ghosts and monsters rather than the usual bad guys wearing masks. Although "Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost" starts out with just that, both in the opening museum capture sequence and the first sequence in the New England town, it's soon revealed that there is indeed a real witch in the works.When Scooby and the Gang meet writer Ben Ravencroft (deliciously voiced by Tim Curry), he invites them back to his home town, where they discover tourist season in full swing, fueled by rumors of a witch's ghost in the form of Ben's ancestor Sara Ravencroft (isn't the name Ravencroft absolutely perfect for a witch?). Ben is hurt by the bad name it gives himself and his ancestor, whom he insists was a good Wiccan who acted as a sort of seventeenth century apothecary, using herbs and natural potions to cure people of their ailments. He enlists the help of Scooby and the gang to help uncover the truth behind the witch hauntings and assist him in finding Sara's old journal which he says holds in its pages the recipes for all her cures.It isn't long before the sleuthing youths uncover the real culprits behind the witch and reveal a scheme orchestrated by the Mayor and several other townsfolk. They apologize to Ben saying they just wanted to bring money to the town in the form of tourist dollars. This is a cute and amusing twist, and a nice touch that the townsfolk aren't bad guys at all but simple folk trying to boost their own economy. And it's nice that their trick hasn't done any real harm. Of course this sort of skulduggery could only be feasible in an animated film, as the stunts they pull would be quite impossible in reality, and impossible even to believe in a live-action film. But for me at least, that's one of the charms of watching a Scooby Doo movie.At this point I thought the film was over and was delighted when Ben reminded the gang that Sara's journal still hasn't been found. There was more to come! Velma then finds the clue they need in a portrait of Sara. Earlier, Scooby had dug up an old shoe buckle that Shaggy now wears on one of his sneakers. But Velma has noticed that it's not a shoe buckle at all but the clasp of the journal that Sara is holding in her portrait. Scooby leads them to the spot where he found the buckle and voilà! They find Sara's journal in a buried chest.Now things really heat up, because instead of looking like the innocuous journal of a Wiccan healer, the journal resembles something like the Book of the Dead from the Evil Dead movie. Velma remarks on this and Ben (in typical Tim Curry fashion) suddenly turns on the evil "charm" and reveals that his ancestor Sara was in fact a witch, imprisoned inside the book by her enemies four hundred years ago. It's Ben's plan to free her spirit and have her rule the world by his side.But once freed, Sara has plans of her own, and they don't include playing second fiddle to Ben. She traps him in a magic bubble and then goes on a vengeful rampage. It's up to Scooby and the gang to save the day; and with the help of Thorn, lead singer of the local band The Hex Girls and 16% Wiccan by blood, they manage to cast the spell that sends Sara back into her book prison. She drags Ben with her and the book is then set on fire and destroyed by a burning tree branch.The final action sequences are exciting, funny and extremely entertaining for a straight to video cartoon film, and I highly recommend this and all the other Scooby Doo movies to any fan and anyone who enjoys good fun, laughs, and witches, ghosts, and zombies. And is it just me, or does anyone else get really hungry during the scenes in which Scooby and Shaggy scarf down all the food? All in all a delightful experience.

I thought that this movie was great. It was the first one of them that I had seen (no cash for cable in college). In fact, it was so entertaining with modernizations and spelling out of old jokes (Daphne and Fred always going off together during the splitting up parts, not to mention the jealousy) that it wasn't until the 2nd viewing that I realized that one my all time favorite actors was one of the voices (the god Tim Curry).Even after seeing some of the other straight to video movies this one is still my favorite. I hope that there will be more, even with the laugh-til-my-face-hurts live action theatre release movies. Keep the Scooby saga alive!