Customer Ratings & Reviews

Watched with the teenage kids. They thought it was cute and it was ok. I would watch it again.

this is just an average movie, but it was good to see the old characters again

Enjoyable movie- my son liked it and was a good clean family movie.

It’s a cute movie. Good for kids. Not my favorite but it was ok.

amusing film giving a the viewer a break from the real world.

Perfectly watchable but nothing really above average.

“SCOOB!” Tries too hard to be a superhero wanna be film for the kids and loses focuses on the Horror elements.

Product with problems and BestBuy's system of rules and rules in small print they do not accept returns. I will not be returning to this store as it has no transparency towards its customers.

The movie sucks honestly. Nothing wrong with Best Buy. But this movie sucks

Scoob!: Movie Review As if it need to be said, 2020 has not been a good year for…pretty much everything and everyone. But it has been particularly bad for movie releases and moviegoers. With lockdowns abound including theaters, movie studios either had to push back their planned 2020 releases in uncertain perpetuity, or utilize other more modern methods, like direct to streaming. Warner Bros. opted for the latter with Scoob!, the latest full-length and first fully animated film for Scooby-Doo. So, was it worth it to forgo a traditional theatrical release and get straight to these meddling kids and their dog too? The short answer is no, it was not. What ultimately comes down to what caused this film to fall short of being a good entry into the decades-lasting Scooby-Doo franchise was essentially the same line of thinking that doomed films like the Tom Cruise Mummy reboot and Batman v Superman. Rather than tell a compact and competent story, Scoob! opts instead to be the first entry to a large and expanded universe of interconnected films, in this case, properties made by the once great and still legendary Hanna-Barbera animation studios. So, rather than tell a solid origin or some other story about Scooby and the gang, Scoob! is more concerned with cramming in tons of references to other Hanna-Barbera characters to setup other possible films and plotlines. Because of this misdirected focus, Scoob! suffers considerably to the point that it really doesn’t even feel like a Scooby-Doo movie at all. There’s no mystery to solve, no whodunit villain identity to unravel, and the stakes at the climax feel far too high for Scooby and crew to be involved in. The only time when the film felt like a genuine Scooby-Doo cartoon was the recreation of the original opening credits for Scooby-Doo Where Are You?, which was admittedly very spot-on. Now, this movie’s universal scope approach to its narrative can net some positives, albeit ones that feel more conciliatory than otherwise. There are ton of references to other characters, from main roles, to brief cameos, to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it quick shots. I first saw this movie on physical disc from a Redbox, and I’m ultimately glad I did for this reason because the ability to pause and rewind and replay in slow-motion this movie was invaluable in catching such fleeting glimpses of fanservice. It was admittedly fun to point out and identify these references, but I won’t pretend that they don’t hurt the overall film’s quality and focus. Still, this lack of focus on what should be the main characters makes the film feel disjointed. Say what you will about the earlier live-action Scooby-Doo films and their debatable quality, but the main casting was spot-on. Each actor was perfect for each role, capturing the look, sound, and attitude from the source material. Here, the choices, aren’t bad, but they’re not as good. Frank Welker is of course back as the voice of Scooby-Doo, and is reliably the same as always with no problem. Will Forte is passable as Shaggy, but falls far short of the uncanny genius of Mathew Lillard. Ian Armitage of Young Sheldon fame is young Shaggy, and he fits well without drawing attention to it. The other kids who voice the younger Scooby gang also do just fine, although their names didn’t strike me as particularly notable, which I would say works in their and the film’s favor. It’s actually a lot harder to gage the rest of the gang because they’re not given enough screen time or material to decently work with. Zac Efron as Fred, Amanda Seyfried as Daphne, and Gina Rodriguez as Velma all do okay, but their roles don’t require more than that. The rest of the characters do alright for what they are, but because they are all from other Hanna-Barbera properties, they feel like they don’t belong here. Mark Wahlberg is the superhero Blue Falcon, portrayed here as a somewhat ineffectual braggart and coward trying to fill the shoes of his distinguished father, the original Blue Falcon. His character arc of trying to live up to his father’s legacy takes up screen time that should have gone to the other Scooby gang and feels completely out of place here. Kiersey Clemons is Dee Dee Skyes (one of the Teen Angels companions of Captain Caveman in the original cartoons), Blue Falcon’s much more competent assistant. Ken Jeong oddly stands out as Dynomutt, the robot Dog Wonder sidekick to Blue Falcon. Even more out-of-place than that, Tracy Morgan briefly appears as Captain Caveman, the guardian of one of the Mcguffins the gang are trying to find. And finally, Jason Issacs voices Dick Dastardly, the never-doubted villain of the film. Again, all these actors do at least passably with what they are given, but the overall effect they have is that of unbelonging. Their presence makes this feel less like a Scooby-Doo adventure and more like a prelude to an interconnected Hanna-Barbera film universe. Problem is, a great many of those characters while similar in tone, are very disconnected in subject matter. Grape Ape doesn’t quite gel with the feel of Johnny Quest, for example (both of whom also cameo here). Oh, and Simon Cowell also cameos as himself in the obligatory celebrity insert a-la the New Scooby-Doo movies. I’m not sure he was still relevant enough in the public consciousness to feature here. The plot also is atypical of a Scooby adventure. It involves Dick Dastardly trying to acquire magic relic Mcguffins so he can steal an ancient treasure, and Blue Falcon recruits Shaggy and Scooby to help because Scooby is somehow the final key to unlocking the magic door behind which the treasure is sealed. There’s something of a twist to the nature of the treasure, but it’s pretty easy to see coming if you’re genre-savvy enough. Also a fake twistout at the end that is also very obvious. Overall, the plot doesn’t work because it’s too epic and fantastic in scope to fit a Scooby story, and far too wide to start a cinematic universe. It would be like instead of Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe started with the first Avengers movie. Too much too soon. DC made a similar blunder with going full steam into Batman v Superman too early. Overall, this film comes off as overcrowded, unfocused, and far too ambitious for its goals when something much simpler and straightforward was needed for a proper and good Scooby-Doo origin film and franchise reboot. It’s not quite bad, but it accomplishes neither what it set out to do nor what it should have done. It barely scrapes by at not completely failing. Final grade: C-

The greatest scene is when Scooby-Doo is declared a hero!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!