Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2004 | USA | PG | cinesia : 10

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DIRECTOR : Raja Gosnell

CAST : Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, Seth Green, Peter Boyle, Tim Blake Nelson ...

WRITER : James Gunn

PRODUCER : Charles Roven, Richard Suckle

COMPOSER : David Newman

STUDIO : Warner Bros.

DISTRIBUTOR : Warner Bros.

RUNTIME : 1 hour 31 minutes

LANGUAGE : English

GENRE : Comedy / Family / Adventure

USA

March 26, 2004

Switzerland

April 7, 2004

They came. They saw. They ran.

In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby and the gang lose their cool – and their stellar reputation – when an anonymous masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that re-creates classic Mystery Inc. foes like The Pterodactyl Ghost, The Black Knight and The 10,000 Volt Ghost. Under pressure from relentless reporter Heather Jasper-Howe (Alicia Silverstone) and the terrified citizens of Coolsville, the gang launches an investigation into the mysterious monster outbreak that leaves Shaggy and Scooby questioning their roles in Mystery Inc. The ever-ravenous duo, determined to prove they’re great detectives, don a series of far-out disguises in their search for clues. Meanwhile, brainy Velma (Linda Cardellini) becomes smitten with a key suspect, Coolsville Museum curator Patrick Wisely (Seth Green), as macho leader Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and image-conscious Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar) attempt to determine the identity of the Evil Masked Figure who is unleashing the monsters in an attempt to take over Coolsville.

After the impressive gross that the first Scooby-Doo earned (153,3 million dollars) it was impossible to imagine the production stop there. Scooby-Doo 2, directed by Raja Gosnell the same director than for the first movie, constitutes the second adaptation to the big screen of the cartoon series of the same name launched in 1969 by the Hanna-Barbera Studios on channel CBS.

The Scooby-Doo CGI replica was enhanced for this sequel. New softwares permitted to refine the eyes, the fur as well as the animation of Scooby-Doo.

Pascal's review

posted on
October 20, 2005

To avoid!

Scooby-Doo 2 should be classified in the category of those movies without purpose, those not funny comedies, those bad superproductions, those stories for kids that even kids dislike, those failed adaptations, those stupid scenarios and of those catastrophical interpretations.
Besides the emotional and visual richness that the 7th art is capable of rendering, these kind of realisations (besides the definition of the word "work" in its largest sense), are improper to consomation, even if you consider it as a dum-thing for decerebrated (lobotomised) people served to the most comprehensive public in need for movies. The one and only advice that there is to give is to "absolutely" avoid this turnip. Otherwise we'll soon see interrogative faces germ on the heads of the public to the simple mention of the word "cinema" in its actual meaning.

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