By Melissa Antoinette Garza
When I was a really little kid, I use to both love and be afraid of Scooby Doo. I remember sitting in the chair in the living room with my cousin Traci and I would start to cry at the intro. She would always tell me, “stop crying or your mom will change the channel.” I would do my best because I loved the show but there was something about the opening that always made me cry. What’s strange is I could watch Nightmare on Elm St., The Amityville Horror, and Don’t Go to Sleep and be fine yet something about Scooby Doo always got to me.
I haven’t watched much of the recent adaptation of Scooby Doo but my husband rented this film and I decided I’d watch it with him. I was actually impressed with how close to the original it was.
This followed Shaggy and Scooby bringing the gang to a comic book convention where they could see their hero Owen Garrison who portrayed the original Blue Falcon. That said, they were upset that the new Blue Falcon film was going to be shown and that a new actor was taking over the role.
Owen is devastated as receiving money from autographs is his only income, and the studio is now forbidding him from wearing his costume.
Soon, Mr. Hyde appears and begins to disrupt the Comic-Con with bats, ooze, and a Hideous Hyde Hound. It seems that this villain is taking all of the storylines out of the original Blue Falcon. All eyes fall to Owen as the perpetrator, but Shaggy and Scooby don’t believe it. They buy a spy-bot and begin looking at other potential suspects.
Overall, it was a great fun movie. The voices all sounded like the characters I remember and the storyline was very reminiscent of the show I watched when I was a kid. It even compelled me to go on Netflix and start watching the new cartoon.
Scared Stiff Rating: 7/10
