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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc., in the end, is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is. A fourth group, whether they like Scrappy or not, view the whole thing as in bad taste, as Scrappy and Scooby's relationship was based off of Joseph Barbera and his uncle, who basically became his father after his biological father abandoned his family, and the movie basically turns Scooby from the former into the latter.
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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If [[spoiler:If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc., in the end, is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is. A fourth group, whether they like Scrappy or not, view the whole thing as in bad taste, as Scrappy and Scooby's relationship was based off of Joseph Barbera and his uncle, who basically became his father after his biological father abandoned his family, and the movie basically turns Scooby from the former into the latter.]]
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* DesignatedHero: Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby are pretty unlikable in this movie due to getting hit with AdaptationalJerkass. When Fred, Daphne, and Velma spend much of the movie bickering, Shaggy suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're abducted by monsters, and the gang (in a flashback) casually abandons Scrappy in the middle of the desert where he could have easily died (yeah, he did pee on Daphne and act annoying, but that was still uncalled for), it's hard to feel anything but contempt for them.
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* DesignatedHero: Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby are pretty unlikable in this movie due to getting hit with AdaptationalJerkass. When Fred, Daphne, and Velma spend much of the movie bickering, Shaggy suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're abducted by monsters, and the gang (in a flashback) casually abandons Scrappy in the middle of the desert where he could have easily died (yeah, he did pee on Daphne and act annoying, but that was still uncalled for), it's hard to feel anything but contempt for them. This also makes the movie's claim of Scooby-Doo being a pure soul individual rather dubious.
* HilariousInHindsight: Velma burst out laughing while telling the story of how the gang abandoned Scrappy-Doo can make [[spoiler: her death at the hands of Scrappy-Doo himself]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'' look like LaserGuidedKarma.
* HumorDissonance: When Velma is telling the Scrappy-Doo anecdote to a guy at the bar, they are both burst out laughing after the story is over, even if one ignores Scrappy's {{Hatedom}}, it's very hard to find amusing an story about a small dog being abandoned in the desert.
* HumorDissonance: When Velma is telling the Scrappy-Doo anecdote to a guy at the bar, they are both burst out laughing after the story is over, even if one ignores Scrappy's {{Hatedom}}, it's very hard to find amusing an story about a small dog being abandoned in the desert.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Despite a few token gestures, Fred and Daphne's romantic relationship really only amounts to just a few...moments. It's clearly based on the fan speculation that they were an item in the original cartoons, but it's barely more developed than that mere {{Fanon}}. Aside from Velma's (possibly drunk) recollection of the two sitting next to each other looking romantic-like, Fred openly lusting after Daphne when he switches bodies with her, and them sharing a rather abrupt kiss which ends just as abruptly, Fred and Daphne's romantic chemistry is rather... nonexistent, to put a word on it.
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** Despite a few token gestures, Fred and Daphne's romantic relationship really only amounts to just a few...moments. It's clearly based on the fan speculation that they were an item in the original cartoons, but it's barely more developed than that mere {{Fanon}}. Aside from Velma's (possibly drunk) recollection of the two sitting next to each other looking romantic-like, Fred openly lusting after Daphne when he switches bodies with her, and them sharing a rather abrupt kiss which ends just as abruptly, Fred and Daphne's romantic chemistry is rather... nonexistent, to put a word onit.it.
** But hey, at least they interact during the movie. The same can't be said about Velma and his unnamed SatelliteLoveInterest, they had one conversation at the bar about the [[SarcasmMode extremely charming]] topic of abandoning dogs on the highway and apparently that's enough romance for the two to share TheBigDamnKiss at the end of the movie.
** Despite a few token gestures, Fred and Daphne's romantic relationship really only amounts to just a few...moments. It's clearly based on the fan speculation that they were an item in the original cartoons, but it's barely more developed than that mere {{Fanon}}. Aside from Velma's (possibly drunk) recollection of the two sitting next to each other looking romantic-like, Fred openly lusting after Daphne when he switches bodies with her, and them sharing a rather abrupt kiss which ends just as abruptly, Fred and Daphne's romantic chemistry is rather... nonexistent, to put a word on
** But hey, at least they interact during the movie. The same can't be said about Velma and his unnamed SatelliteLoveInterest, they had one conversation at the bar about the [[SarcasmMode extremely charming]] topic of abandoning dogs on the highway and apparently that's enough romance for the two to share TheBigDamnKiss at the end of the movie.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Even some defenders of the Scrappy-Doo twist felt it could have being executed better, given that besides the fact that [[spoiler:Scrappy wanted to create a mystery that would bring the Mystery Gang together so he could enact his revenge, the movie never bothers to connect Mondavarious's actions and resources with Scrappy-Doo's agenda, leading to some viewers questioning how did he managed to achieve an enormus supernatural conspiracy and why would that have any connection with his hatred with the Gang. Most importantly, once Scrappy-Doo is revealed as the BigBad, he quickly becomes an GenericDoomsdayVillain that has very little to do with the original character, if they had builded a mystery that would make sense for Scrappy to pull off or gave him a personality closer to his canonical counterpart post-reveal, it could have been a more satisfactory TakeThatScrappy]].
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* UncertainAudience: The film is intended to be an AffectionateParody of the franchise, but it takes a lot of liberties with the personalities of the characters, either making them into something they aren't (Fred is a narcissistic jock, Daphne is a ditzy valley girl) or emphasizing their negative traits (Velma is a slightly smug know-it-all, Shaggy is more cowardly and gluttonous than ever). This odd mix of {{Flanderization}} and TookALevelInJerkass makes it seem like the filmmakers didn't understand the source material and thus didn't know how to make fun of it well. For younger fans who didn't watch the cartoons, they'll be lost by the film's continuity nods to the cartoons and the characters being jaded and bitter after years of working together, and older fans will recognize the problems with the characterization and story and be turned off by them. And either way, the franchise was almost always about ''fake'' monsters, here the group ends up fighting real monsters.
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* UncertainAudience: The film is intended to be an AffectionateParody of the franchise, but it takes a lot of liberties with the personalities of the characters, either making them into something they aren't (Fred is a narcissistic jock, Daphne is a ditzy valley girl) or emphasizing their negative traits (Velma is a slightly smug know-it-all, Shaggy is more cowardly and gluttonous than ever). This odd mix of {{Flanderization}} and TookALevelInJerkass makes it seem like the filmmakers didn't understand the source material and thus didn't know how to make fun of it well. For younger fans who didn't watch the cartoons, they'll be lost by the film's continuity nods to the cartoons and the characters being jaded and bitter after years of working together, and older fans will recognize the problems with the characterization and story and be turned off by them. And either way, the franchise up to this point was almost always about ''fake'' monsters, here the group ends up fighting real monsters.monsters[[note]]Admittedly, real monsters would start becoming far more common later on in the various sub-series and revivals after this movie, but it still represented quite a turn at the time.[[/note]]
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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc., in the end, is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is.
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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc., in the end, is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is. A fourth group, whether they like Scrappy or not, view the whole thing as in bad taste, as Scrappy and Scooby's relationship was based off of Joseph Barbera and his uncle, who basically became his father after his biological father abandoned his family, and the movie basically turns Scooby from the former into the latter.
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** In general, the gang comes across as rather unsympathetic here due to being {{Adaptational Jerkass}}es. One rather blatant example is when Shaggy, after Fred and Velma are captured by monsters, replies to Daphne's announcement that they're going to save them by suggesting that he, Daphne, and Scooby [[DirtyCoward make a break for it and let them get eaten]]. Cartoon Shaggy might be a coward, but he's not the type of character that would abandon his friends.
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** In general, the gang comes across as rather unsympathetic here due to being {{Adaptational Jerkass}}es. One rather blatant example is when Shaggy, after Fred and Velma are captured by monsters, replies to Daphne's announcement that they're going to save them by suggesting that he, Daphne, and Scooby [[DirtyCoward make a break for it and let them get eaten]]. Cartoon Shaggy might be a coward, but he's not the type of character that would abandon his friends. He doesn’t go through with it, but still.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: Due to Scooby Gangs abandoning [[spoiler: Scrappy]] in the middle of the desert for merely being a nuisance, and due to the Gang being bigger Jerkasses than before, there were a good number of viewers hoping [[spoiler: Scrappy]] defeated the Gang and got his revenge.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: Due to the Scooby Gangs Gang abandoning [[spoiler: Scrappy]] in the middle of the desert for merely being a nuisance, and due to the Gang being bigger Jerkasses than before, there were a good number of viewers hoping [[spoiler: Scrappy]] defeated the Gang and got his revenge.
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* RootingForTheEmpire: Due to Scooby Gangs abandoning [[spoiler: Scrappy]] in the middle of the desert for merely being a nuisance, and due to the Gang being bigger Jerkasses than before, there were a good number of viewers hoping [[spoiler: Scrappy]] defeated the Gang and got his revenge.
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* DemographicallyInappropriateHumor: Given that the film was originally meant to be a lot more adult-oriented before being retooled to the more family-friendly PG, there are still some suggestive jokes in the final cut.
** Shaggy mentions, "But you don't need to know what ''Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?'' means to love that song!" -- [[BilingualBonus in French]], that phrase translates to "Do you want to sleep with me?"
** Daphne heavily implies that the Luna Ghost kept trying to grope her.
** In an early scene, Scooby and Shaggy are hanging out at a beach in their van, laughing, whilst smoke comes out of the van's roof. It turns out they're really just making eggplant burgers, but the burgers in question feature some [[BizarreTasteInFood rather unusual condiments including chocolate and hot sauce]]. To add to the [[TheStoner stoner]] references, "Pass the Dutchie" is blaring in the background.
** Fred explains to Velma that he is a man of substance and "dorky chicks like [Velma] turn [Fred] on".
** When Mary Jane introduces herself, Shaggy says "Like, that's my favorite name!", referencing how Mary Jane is sometimes used as a nickname for marijuana.
** Right before the gang kicks Scrappy out of the group, he outright tells Fred, "You don't have the scrote for this job, Pally!"
** Velma got drunk after she had too much of a tiki drink while talking to Brad about Scrappy getting kicked out.
** When [[FreakyFridayFlip Fred switches bodies with Daphne]], he states "Hey... I can look at myself ''naked!''", and immediately afterwards, he [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman looks down the front of her dress]] and grins. Later, Fred-in-Daphne's-body can be seen in the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] groping her own body, and Shaggy-in-Velma's body can be seen trying to look up her own skirt.
** Fred[[spoiler:'s soul]] told Shaggy that someone spiked his root beer last night and wanted to be talked down.
** In a scene from a trailer, Fred asks Scooby/[[spoiler:actually Scrappy]] "Did somebody spike your dog bowl?"
** Shaggy mentions, "But you don't need to know what ''Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?'' means to love that song!" -- [[BilingualBonus in French]], that phrase translates to "Do you want to sleep with me?"
** Daphne heavily implies that the Luna Ghost kept trying to grope her.
** In an early scene, Scooby and Shaggy are hanging out at a beach in their van, laughing, whilst smoke comes out of the van's roof. It turns out they're really just making eggplant burgers, but the burgers in question feature some [[BizarreTasteInFood rather unusual condiments including chocolate and hot sauce]]. To add to the [[TheStoner stoner]] references, "Pass the Dutchie" is blaring in the background.
** Fred explains to Velma that he is a man of substance and "dorky chicks like [Velma] turn [Fred] on".
** When Mary Jane introduces herself, Shaggy says "Like, that's my favorite name!", referencing how Mary Jane is sometimes used as a nickname for marijuana.
** Right before the gang kicks Scrappy out of the group, he outright tells Fred, "You don't have the scrote for this job, Pally!"
** Velma got drunk after she had too much of a tiki drink while talking to Brad about Scrappy getting kicked out.
** When [[FreakyFridayFlip Fred switches bodies with Daphne]], he states "Hey... I can look at myself ''naked!''", and immediately afterwards, he [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman looks down the front of her dress]] and grins. Later, Fred-in-Daphne's-body can be seen in the [[FunnyBackgroundEvent background]] groping her own body, and Shaggy-in-Velma's body can be seen trying to look up her own skirt.
** Fred[[spoiler:'s soul]] told Shaggy that someone spiked his root beer last night and wanted to be talked down.
** In a scene from a trailer, Fred asks Scooby/[[spoiler:actually Scrappy]] "Did somebody spike your dog bowl?"
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* AssPull: [[spoiler:The revelation that Scrappy is the main villain. Not a ''bad'' idea for a twist in of itself, especially because of Scrappy being such an unpopular character. The problem is that it come out of nowhere; the movie never explains how Scrappy acquired the resources and the technological ''and'' magical knowledge to operate such a complicated con, with him somehow building a human-like robot that manages to trick everyone in the cast and getting ahold of an ancient demonic artifact able to absorb human souls and power-up the holder. This isn't even getting into how exactly did he get back to civilization after being abandoned in the desert]].
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* AssPull: [[spoiler:The revelation that Scrappy is the main villain. Not a ''bad'' idea for a twist in of itself, especially because of Scrappy being such an unpopular character. since Scrappy’s status as a hated character would make it rather fitting. The problem is that it come comes right out of nowhere; the nowhere. The movie never explains how Scrappy acquired the resources and the technological ''and'' magical knowledge to operate such a complicated con, with him somehow building a human-like robot that manages to trick everyone in the cast and getting ahold of an ancient demonic artifact able to absorb human souls and power-up the holder. This isn't even getting into how exactly did he get back to civilization after being abandoned in the desert]].
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* AssPull: [[spoiler:The revelation that Scrappy is the main villain. Not only does it come out of nowhere, the movie never explains how Scrappy acquired the resources and the technological ''and'' magical knowledge to operate such a complicated con, with him somehow building a human-like robot that manages to trick everyone in the cast and getting ahold of an ancient demonic artifact able to absorb human souls and power-up the holder. This isn't even getting into how exactly did he get back to civilization after being abandoned in the desert]].
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* AssPull: [[spoiler:The revelation that Scrappy is the main villain. Not only does a ''bad'' idea for a twist in of itself, especially because of Scrappy being such an unpopular character. The problem is that it come out of nowhere, nowhere; the movie never explains how Scrappy acquired the resources and the technological ''and'' magical knowledge to operate such a complicated con, with him somehow building a human-like robot that manages to trick everyone in the cast and getting ahold of an ancient demonic artifact able to absorb human souls and power-up the holder. This isn't even getting into how exactly did he get back to civilization after being abandoned in the desert]].
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* DesignatedHero: Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby are pretty unlikable in this movie due to getting hit with AdaptationalJerkass. When Fred, Daphne, and Velma spend much of the movie bickering, Shaggy suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're abducted by monsters, and the gang (in a flashback) casually abandons Scrappy in the middle of the desert (yeah, he did pee on Daphne and act annoying, but that was still uncalled for), it's hard to feel anything but contempt for them.
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* DesignatedHero: Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby are pretty unlikable in this movie due to getting hit with AdaptationalJerkass. When Fred, Daphne, and Velma spend much of the movie bickering, Shaggy suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're abducted by monsters, and the gang (in a flashback) casually abandons Scrappy in the middle of the desert where he could have easily died (yeah, he did pee on Daphne and act annoying, but that was still uncalled for), it's hard to feel anything but contempt for them.
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The actors, especially Matthew Lillard clearly commit to the film's goofy aesthetic, and their dedication makes it all the funnier.
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The actors, especially Matthew Lillard Lillard, clearly commit to the film's goofy aesthetic, and their dedication makes it all the funnier.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Regardless of how one might feel about Scrappy as a character, you can't blame him for wanting to kill Mystery Inc. after they abandoned him in the middle of nowhere just for being a minor nuisance.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: Regardless of how one might feel about Scrappy as a character, you can't blame him for wanting to kill Mystery Inc. after they abandoned him in the middle of nowhere just for being a minor nuisance. If they really wanted to be rid of him, they could've just waited until they got back to civilization.
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* VindicatedByHistory: The movie was initially panned when it first came out, but after Matthew Lillard took on the role of Shaggy, the hatred died down considerably, as people came to agree that whatever faults lied in the direction and characterizations, the movie had a considerable amount of genuinely hilarious moments, and the casting and costuming choices are still among the most respected of all live-action remakes. This aspect has become a lot more appreciated since Disney bombarded the theaters with live-action remakes widely regarded as unnecessary with progressively more divisive casting decisions.
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* OneSceneWonder: Voodoo Maestro only appears in two scenes, but his presence is fondly remembered for being a hilarious {{Cuckoosnarker}} and his funny dynamic with Daphne.
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* CommonKnowledge: The idea that Scrappy was universally hated by the fandom, was sparked in large part by this movie, in reality Scrappy was a more divisive character, and actually had a large following.
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* ValuesDissonance: Fred's very enthusiastic realization that he can take advantage of the MaleGaze while possessing Daphne's body wouldn't fly today after METOO, and certainly not in a kids' movie.
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* CommonKnowledge: The idea that Scrappy was universally hated by the fandom, was sparked in large part by this movie, in reality Scrappy was a more divisive character, and actually had a large following.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: The tie-in novel removes the questionable content and makes it look like a true Scooby-Doo adventure.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Even ardent haters of Scrappy have noted that he comes off as UnintentionallySympathetic when ousted from Mystery Inc. and further criticized just how mean spirited the film's vilification of him is.
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* AlasPoorScrappy: Even ardent haters of Scrappy have noted that he comes off as UnintentionallySympathetic when ousted from Mystery Inc. and further criticized just how mean spirited mean-spirited the film's vilification of him is.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious. Also, in spite of the admittedly questionable casting, his overall performance was actually good. The fact that the majority of the movie's funniest scenes involve him in some way earned him some favor.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious. Also, in spite of the admittedly questionable casting, his overall performance was actually good. The fact that the majority of the movie's funniest scenes involve him in some way earned him some favor.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism
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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc. in the end is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is.
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* BrokenBase: The film's depiction and treatment of Scrappy-Doo. If you never liked the character, his portrayal as a villain and being defeated by Mystery, Inc. , in the end end, is a very satisfying TakeThatScrappy scenario. If you're one of the characters' fans ([[AlasPoorScrappy or even some of his haters]]), you'll likely find it off-putting to see his negative qualities ramped up and the way he's treated by Scooby and the others in the flashback scene coming off as blatantly out-of-character, in addition to the dubiousness of Scrappy wanting to kill his uncle when the cartoons clearly showed him as thinking his uncle is the best thing since sliced bread. And if you belong to a third, admittedly smaller group, the entire thing just CrossesTheLineTwice and it's impossible not to laugh at how stupid it is.
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** For a small portion of the fanbase, Scrappy's {{Flanderized}} obnoxiousness [[spoiler:and the revelation he was the villain]] came across as so ridiculously over the top it became hilarious.
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* DesignatedHero: Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby are pretty unlikable in this movie due to getting hit with AdaptationalJerkass. When Fred, Daphne and Velma spend much of the movie bickering, Shaggy suggests letting Fred and Velma get eaten after they're abducted by monsters, and the gang (in a flashback) casually abandons Scrappy in the middle of the desert (yeah, he did pee on Daphne and act annoying, but that was still uncalled for), it's hard to feel anything but contempt for them.
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** The Luna Ghost. He's a StarterVillain who has less than five minutes of screentime, but his cool design and "powers" make him quite memorable, and he'd be right at home among villains from cartoons. He eventually [[CanonImmigrant made an appearance]] in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' as one of the Crystal Cove Spook Museum's costumes.
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** The Luna Ghost. He's a StarterVillain who has less than five minutes of screentime, screen time, but his cool design and "powers" make him quite memorable, and he'd be right at home among villains from cartoons. He eventually [[CanonImmigrant made an appearance]] in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' as one of the Crystal Cove Spook Museum's costumes.
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* FriendlyFandoms: It has one with ''Film/KangarooJack'' and ''Film/OsmosisJones'' for being WB films that were retooled from adult oriented films to family friendly ones.
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* FriendlyFandoms: It has one with ''Film/KangarooJack'' and ''Film/OsmosisJones'' for being WB films that were retooled from adult oriented adult-oriented films to family friendly family-friendly ones.
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* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo being the villain]] is the most well-known aspect of the film since its release.
* JerkassWoobie: Scrappy is an obnoxious twerp who has a big ego, but he's such [[TheScrappy a hated character]] that you just wanna give him a hug at times. And despite him [[spoiler:being the villain]], he was [[FreudianExcuse left to die in the desert]] by [[DesignatedHero Scooby and the rest of the gang,]] and a few viewers did want to see him be a [[spoiler:hero]] again. It doesn't help that he never appeared again after the movie, and some fans of the series really do miss him.
* JerkassWoobie: Scrappy is an obnoxious twerp who has a big ego, but he's such [[TheScrappy a hated character]] that you just wanna give him a hug at times. And despite him [[spoiler:being the villain]], he was [[FreudianExcuse left to die in the desert]] by [[DesignatedHero Scooby and the rest of the gang,]] and a few viewers did want to see him be a [[spoiler:hero]] again. It doesn't help that he never appeared again after the movie, and some fans of the series really do miss him.
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* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo [[spoiler: Scrappy-Doo being the villain]] is the most well-known aspect of the film since its release.
* JerkassWoobie: Scrappy is an obnoxious twerp who has a big ego, but he's such [[TheScrappy a hated character]] that you just wannagive hug him a hug at times. And despite him [[spoiler:being [[spoiler: being the villain]], he was [[FreudianExcuse left to die in the desert]] by [[DesignatedHero Scooby and the rest of the gang,]] and a few viewers did want to see him be a [[spoiler:hero]] [[spoiler: hero]] again. It doesn't help that he never appeared again after the movie, and some fans of the series really do miss him.
* JerkassWoobie: Scrappy is an obnoxious twerp who has a big ego, but he's such [[TheScrappy a hated character]] that you just wanna
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* NightmareRetardant: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo]] in his giant OneWingedAngel form looks scary enough, but his voice sounds a little less like a giant monster and more like a teenaged bully trying too hard to sound intimidating. And when he's defeated, he lets out a high-pitched scream even before he shrinks down to his normal size.
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* NightmareRetardant: [[spoiler:Scrappy-Doo]] [[spoiler: Scrappy-Doo]] in his giant OneWingedAngel form looks scary enough, but his voice sounds a little less like a giant monster and more like a teenaged teenage bully trying too hard to sound intimidating. And when he's defeated, he lets out a high-pitched scream even before he shrinks down to his normal size.
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** Some reviewers claimed that, given how the villain [[spoiler:Scrappy Doo]] uses an amulet to become a OneWingedAngel, this is the first ''Scooby Doo'' story in which the main villain actually has supernatural powers, even though ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' already featured that five years prior. And even then, it was done previously in the 80s with ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' and some of the TV movies from that time.
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** Some reviewers claimed that, given how the villain [[spoiler:Scrappy [[spoiler: Scrappy Doo]] uses an amulet to become a an OneWingedAngel, this is the first ''Scooby Doo'' ''Scooby-Doo'' story in which the main villain actually has supernatural powers, even though ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' already featured that five years prior. And even then, it was done previously in the 80s with ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' and some of the TV movies from that time.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Even in 2002, computer graphics weren't ''quite'' there in rendering a cartoony character like Scooby in live action, and could only go as far as giving his exaggerated design hyper realistic features. Even for an $80 million feature film, all of the CGI characters look more like something out of a [=PS1=] game. To give one an idea of just how much technology has advanced since, the two ''made-for-TV prequels'', released towards the end of the decade, had better CGI.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Even in 2002, computer graphics weren't ''quite'' there in rendering a cartoony character like Scooby in live action, and could only go as far as giving his exaggerated design hyper realistic hyper-realistic features. Even for an $80 million feature film, all of the CGI characters look more like something out of a [=PS1=] game. To give one an idea of just how much technology has advanced since, the two ''made-for-TV prequels'', released towards the end of the decade, had better CGI.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Despite a few token gestures, Fred and Daphne's romantic relationship really only amounts to just a few...moments. Its clearly based on the fan speculation that they were an item in the original cartoons, but its barely more developed than that mere {{Fanon}}. Aside from Velma's (possibly drunk) recollection of the two sitting next to each other looking romantic-like, Fred openly lusting after Daphne when he switches bodies with her, and them sharing a rather abrupt kiss which ends just as abruptly, Fred and Daphne's romantic chemistry is rather...nonexistant, to put a word on it.
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* StrangledByTheRedString: Despite a few token gestures, Fred and Daphne's romantic relationship really only amounts to just a few...moments. Its It's clearly based on the fan speculation that they were an item in the original cartoons, but its it's barely more developed than that mere {{Fanon}}. Aside from Velma's (possibly drunk) recollection of the two sitting next to each other looking romantic-like, Fred openly lusting after Daphne when he switches bodies with her, and them sharing a rather abrupt kiss which ends just as abruptly, Fred and Daphne's romantic chemistry is rather...nonexistant, nonexistent, to put a word on it.
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* UncertainAudience: The film is intended to be an AffectionateParody of the franchise, but it takes a lot of liberties with the personalities of the characters, either making them into something they aren't (Fred is a narcissistic jock, Daphne is a ditzy valley girl) or emphasizing their negative traits (Velma is a slightly smug know-it-all, Shaggy is more cowardly and gluttonous than ever). This odd mix of {{Flanderization}} and TookALevelInJerkass makes it seem like the filmmakers didn't understand the source material, and thus didn't know how to make fun of it well. For younger fans who didn't watch the cartoons, they'll be lost by the film's continuity nods to the cartoons and the characters being jaded and bitter after years of working together, and older fans will recognize the problems with the characterization and story and be turned off by them. And either way, the franchise was almost always about ''fake'' monsters, here the group ends up fighting real monsters.
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* UncertainAudience: The film is intended to be an AffectionateParody of the franchise, but it takes a lot of liberties with the personalities of the characters, either making them into something they aren't (Fred is a narcissistic jock, Daphne is a ditzy valley girl) or emphasizing their negative traits (Velma is a slightly smug know-it-all, Shaggy is more cowardly and gluttonous than ever). This odd mix of {{Flanderization}} and TookALevelInJerkass makes it seem like the filmmakers didn't understand the source material, material and thus didn't know how to make fun of it well. For younger fans who didn't watch the cartoons, they'll be lost by the film's continuity nods to the cartoons and the characters being jaded and bitter after years of working together, and older fans will recognize the problems with the characterization and story and be turned off by them. And either way, the franchise was almost always about ''fake'' monsters, here the group ends up fighting real monsters.
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* ValuesDissonance: Fred's very enthusiastic realization that he can take advantage of the MaleGaze while possessing Daphne's body wouldn't fly today after METOO, and certainly not in a kids movie.
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* ValuesDissonance: Fred's very enthusiastic realization that he can take advantage of the MaleGaze while possessing Daphne's body wouldn't fly today after METOO, and certainly not in a kids kids' movie.
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* CantUnhearIt: For fans of this film and the second one, they tend to hear Creator/SarahMichelleGellar as Daphne, Neil Fanning as Scooby-Doo, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr as Fred and Creator/LindaCardellini as Velma. Shaggy's actor Creator/MatthewLillard is a definitive example because he got to voice Shaggy in the cartoons after Creator/CaseyKasem retired the role.
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* CantUnhearIt: For fans of this film and the second one, they tend to hear Creator/SarahMichelleGellar as Daphne, Neil Fanning as Scooby-Doo, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr as Fred and Creator/LindaCardellini as Velma. Shaggy's actor Creator/MatthewLillard is a definitive example because he got to voice Shaggy in the cartoons after Creator/CaseyKasem retired from the role.
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First Installment Wins now requires at least two sequels.
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* FirstInstallmentWins: For those who didn't like the sequel for being fan-friendly, the film is loved in its own right.
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** The Luna Ghost. He's a StarterVillain who has less than five minutes of screentime, but his cool design and "powers" make him quite memorable, and he'd be right at home among villains from cartoons.
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** The Luna Ghost. He's a StarterVillain who has less than five minutes of screentime, but his cool design and "powers" make him quite memorable, and he'd be right at home among villains from cartoons. He eventually [[CanonImmigrant made an appearance]] in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' as one of the Crystal Cove Spook Museum's costumes.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious. The fact that the majority of the movie's funniest scenes involve him in some way earned him some favor.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious. Also, in spite of the admittedly questionable casting, his overall performance was actually good. The fact that the majority of the movie's funniest scenes involve him in some way earned him some favor.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious. The fact that the majority of the movie's funniest scenes involve him in some way earned him some favor.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. That said, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: Fred. Similar to the other characters, [[AdaptationalJerkass he's made into a much bigger jerk]], with it hard to find his narcissism all that charming when he's the least useful member of the team. Additionally, Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr is typically seen as the most questionable casting choice of this adaptation's Mystery Inc. That said, However, he does have his fans who find his egotism over-the-top to the point of being hilarious.
