Really Surprised!

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I don't care what the bad reviews say I enjoyed this movie. The acting, the story and the music was absolutely perfect for the movie.So what if Fred isn't blonde? That doesn't mean the movie is bad they just want a different approach for the franchise. My favourite scene: When Scooby and Shaggy meet for the first time. Overall good movie and it had an amazing song "You and I" which I listen to a lot.

My brother & I probably watched every episode of the original Hannah Barbara Scooby Doo cartoons in the 80's and so I am very leery of all these newer versions that keep popping up. There was a certain feel in those originals that will never be reproduced and perhaps Scooby is best left in the 70's. I was pretty let down by the Freddie Prince Jr. movies which tried to update Scooby (like a lot of CGI updates, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Smurfs, Garfield, Transformers, etc.)with modern lingo & culture which for some reason means crudeness, krass jokes and even sexual innuendos. This movie was better in that sense, but is annoying when they stray from the original (Freddie is blond, ghosts are ALWAYS people in masks, etc.) And since we're making a "realistic" version, why is Scooby CGI? Why not just use a real Great Dane? Nick Palatas, though doing a decent impression of Casey Kacem's "Shaggy" voice comes across annoying and contrived after a while. Maybe I'm a purist...maybe I'm a grouch, but I kind of wish people would leave the old cartoons alone.

I disagree with the negative posts. Since when did any of us grow up looking the same? Not I. So Fred having brown hair in this "younger version of gang" did not bother me one bit. Change is good, we need that to stay away from being too repetitive as I am not a fan of that. I like changes. I too grown up with Scooby and seen every version including the newer ones. For fresh young new faces I thought they played their role excellent. This gang actually seem like they are having fun together! I felt the first two shaggy and Scooby were the only ones that played their role perfect. I also didn't feel that the gang were as connected either. As much as Scrappy was my less favorite but it had to do with the annoying voice than anything that was the one thing I didn't agree with in the first version is him being the bad puppy (laughing). But like I said change is good! I am hoping for more Scooby with this young gang!!!

I think I read one comment that started with "If you're a fan of the cartoon series, watch the first two movies but ignore this" or something to that affect. Well, I just want to put in my two cents and give this movie the support it deserves, as I think it was great and am surprised at all the negativity about it. I am a huge fan of the cartoon (always watched it while growing up and still love it now), and in my opinion the first two movies DO NOT capture the cartoon at all and are badly cast, whereas this movie TOTALLY embodies the spirit of the cartoon, and as far as I'm concerned seemed like a live-action episode of the cartoon, or a cartoon episode "come to life" if you will - even the ghosts and villain in a mask were perfect. The casting of each member of the Scooby Gang was perfect, yes, even the Asian Velma (which for some reason seems to bother a lot of folks - come on people, Hayley Kiyoko depicted Velma to a tee!); and one reviewer berated that Fred was a douche-bag jock, but I don't think he came across as that; I believe in the movie that he was supposed to be a high school senior and in my experience none of the jocks were as nice as he came across - they were all total bullies. Someone else griped that Scooby Doo looked so small it seemed like he'd been starved, but they are forgetting that Scooby Doo is supposed to be younger in this movie; possible still a puppy. Anyway, all in all I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would love to see it as a live-action series.