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Scooby-Doo Movie Rating: 
Scooby Don'tPreppy Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.), damsel-in-distress Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), brainiac Velma (Linda Cardellini), slacker Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Shaggy's Great Dane Scooby-Doo investigate ghostly happenings at Spooky Island amusement park, where college students are being turned into zombies. | |
| Fans of the cartoon series, which started in 1969 and continued through the '80s, might get a kick out of seeing the live-action version, but everyone else will wonder who let this dog off its leash. On the plus side, the film has some good fun-house sets and decent visual effects (Scooby is a completely computer-generated character). On the minus side, though, you have to put up with a flimsy plot, loud soundtrack, bad acting, lousy direction, sloppy editing, and absolutely no laughs. Scooby-Doo? Don't. |
 Matthew Lillard and Scooby-Doo. Courtesy of Warner Brothers. |
Gay Interest:
One of the movie's more inexplicable moments has the four sleuths switching genders. Speculation that Velma was the first animated lesbian is given credence by Cardellini's tough demeanour. Prinze plays Fred like a vapidly stylish gay boy with his immaculately coiffed hair and perfect good looks. Also, Prinze and Lillard are practically longtime companions - onscreen, that is - having made seven movies together. | |
