Scooby Doo 50
While by 1998 "Scooby Doo " wasn't in a TV series since the end of "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" ended in 1991 and the television specials and movies kind of dried up there was a new channel to go through: the direct to video market. Though, because of Scooby Doo's rerun popularity on Cartoon Network they did end up airing the DTV movies. The first of the direct to video and certainly not the last was "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island".
This movie was marked as a darker and "the monsters are real" though it is not the first time "Scooby Doo" has has real monsters and ghosts. This isn't even the first Scooby Doo media I've talked about where at least Scooby and Shaggy have
met real ghosts and monsters I will this movie is less comedic than past ones though.
Since Don Messick, the voice of Scooby Doo, died before this movie wasmade they had Scott Innes do the dog's voice, meanwhile, Casey Kasem didn't come back as Shaggy because he wanted Shaggy to be a vegetarian but they said no or something and Billy West took the voice role. The only voice actor to return from the original series was Frank Welker.
The movie begins with the gang running around a spooky house from a monster because that's how Scooby works. Also did you want to hear "Scooby Doo Where are you?" pefromed by Third Eye Blind? Well Merry Christmas! (That's a semi charmed life there) Meanwhile, the monster is a man in a suit. It was actually Daphne talking about a case talking a 90's talk show. Daphne is now the host of a syndicated show called "Coast to Coast with Daphne Blake" because the talk show host told us she is. Daphne says that the job got boring and the gang broke up. She and Fred work together though on her show. (Calm down you!)
I'm more confused if that microphone works or not/ Copyright Warner Bros.
Daphne wants to find real ghosts now for her show and Fred gets an idea to bring the band back together. I know this movie is like 76 minutes long but woah slow down. Shaggy and Scooby work as airport customs (how the heck they get this job? That's right it's before 9/11) Velma works as a mystery book store owner. (A store with one genre of books) Shaggy and Scooby get fired for eating contraband. (How'd they get this job again?)
Whoever hired them for this job should also be fired/ Copyright Warner Bros.
Scooby and Shaggy apparently have lost a few jobs. (Can't imagine why) Plot convenient timing too! Fred surprises Daphne with Shaggy,Scooby,and Velma. Oh it's Daphne's birthday too because of course it is her birthday. (ding) They are going to New Orleans. After a montage of them looking for real ghosts and monsters they keep running into fakes because New Orleans is apparently filled with fake ghosts?
In New Orleans the food cooks you / Copyright Warner Bros.
Since this movie is 76 minutes long, we need to get to that zombie Island but how? How?! Oh hey. There's a woman named Lena Dupree who tells them about MoonScar Island she invites them to check out the Island. Lena works for a woman named Simone Lenoir, there's also a gardener named Beau Neville , and a fisherman named Snakebite Scruggs. Simone tells them that her house is haunted.
It's haunted by my cold hands hahhahah/ Copyright Warner Bros.
Shaggy and Scooby end up meeting a ghost that tells them to "Get Out" (standard ghost talk). Then when the rest of the gang see the word Beware appear. Velma starts to levitate. Anyway they end up seeing the ghost of Morgan Moonscar in film footage. Fred still wants to think that is fake like normal. Simone tells them that there was a treasure from the pirate on the island that's not been found.
He seems nice / Copyright Warner Bros.
Shaggy and Scooby meet the ghost in person this time he's more zombie ish now. Simone says they can stay the night. (They couldn't leave the Island this early in the movie anyway) Later, Shaggy and Scooby see the a ghost of a Confederate solider who also tells them to get out. Also, there's a Freddy ascot joke. A lot of this movie is Shaggy and Scooby eating very hot peppers and Scooby chasing cats.
I feel that they are making the gardener seem more suspicious to the point where it is pretty much the movie telling us that he's not part of anything strange. He does save Velma from dying in quick sand. Also Fred and Daphne should just kiss already I mean really. Also they meet a zombie and it's real one.
Since the Zombie is dead, you really shouldn't try so hard to pull of his head/ Copyright Warner Bros.
More supernatural stuff happens and there are more zombies. They got SkyCycle to perform music for this movie too which Wikipedia says they are best known for doing music in , uh this movie. Also, Scooby and Shaggy find voo doo dolls that they use to end up causing their friends to float and hit each other. Anyway , more zombies. Lena and Simone are nowhere to be seen. Daphne finds the Munster house staircase with Fred fallen in with Lena (oh my). There was a secret passage way in the way and zombies dragged Simone way. Velma is skeptical because yes.
And rightfully so, because Simone and Lena are evil! (What a twist!) Simone and Lena are also cat creature things , that explains why she didn't like dogs. Meanwhile, they want to use the gang minus Shaggy and Scooby, for their continued immorality. Flashback time, Lena and Simone were settlers on the island with their cat god. When the pirates came ashore a do what pirates do and killed off all the settlers that weren't Simone and Lena. They ended up being cat creatures and killed the pirates.
MEEEOWWWW/ Copyright Warner Bros.
The zombies were actually there to help them and telling them to get out from the danger. Velma eventually gets a couple of the voo doo dolls and frees herself, Beau, Daphne, and Freddy and end up using two for Lena and Simone. This stops those two from doing their plans and causing the cat curse to finish thus, disintegrating them. The zombies can rest at peace now. Beau was a detective the whole time. Fred and Daphne seem to have each other again and Velma has a crush on Beau. They leave the island the end.
This movie is great. I've watched it before but haven't in a long time it still quite fun to watch. I like the tone it takes where it is much more serious but not lacking any comedy at all. While it seems the Scooby chasing cats was too much it does fit with hints of why Simone was annoyed by a dog's presence. I also like how the zombie were there trying to help because of Lena and Simone's killing them for their immortality. It really is a dark movie , where the villains were using supernatural abilities and killing off people that is something you normally don't see in Scooby Doo. This is really good movie and it deserves to be checked out.
That does it for us now, tune in next time when we wonder why people where customs to get stuff to work.
