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Movie Overview
Cast
• Freddie Prinze
• Sarah Michelle Gellar
• Matthew Lillard
Director
• Raja Gosnell
MPAA Rating
Not Rated - for some rude humor, language and some scary action
Scooby-Doo - The Movie (2002)

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OFCS Rating: 22% Rotten
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2/4
"I'll save you all some time: Mr. Peevely the janitor did it and would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids and their darned dog."  Movie Boeuf  David N. Butterworth

1.5/4
"Is this really the sort of entertainment America wants?"  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

2/4
"Let's hope that the studio pays more attention to quality and creative freedom, and less time worrying about dollar signs, before the sequel goes into production."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

1.5/4
"Chris Columbus protégé Raja Gosnell directs the film as if it were Britney Spears' worst CGI nightmare."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D+
"Only for young children, if them. Their parents would do well to cram earplugs in their ears and put pillowcases over their heads for 87 minutes."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

D
"Both an excruciatingly lousy movie and a crushing betrayal of its charming source material."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

D+
"Unless you're a fanatic, the best advice is: 'Scooby' don't."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1.5/4
"The movie drags, and the occasional bursts of mirth and self-referential humor can't save it from bogging down."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2/4
"the most strained jokes and unfunniest moments are when the movie tries to be hip in a postmodern, self-conscious kind of way"  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

1/5
"Unless you're an AOL Time Warner board member, there's nothing to like about this insipid live-action version of the 1970s cartoon series."  Netflix  James Rocchi

1/4
"Phony, computer-generated images packaged together with bad performances and distributed as joyless summer entertainment."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

1/10
"Not only eviscerates the spirit of the shows, it stomps on it for good measure."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

2/10
"It seems that the filmmakers were so intent on getting the look and sound right that they forgot to put much effort into delivering an entertaining or even okay story."  Screen It!  Jim Judy

5/10
"Give it up to the wardrobe folks, who did a fine job of making the lovely ladies in this film look like high-class hookers."  JoBlo's Movie Emporium  JoBlo

3/10
"...all empty action and mindless motion with no payoff. From an adult standpoint, it's a bigger wasteland than television ever was."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

1/5
"Scooby Don't."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

4/5
"I was nervous ? I did not want to see this film, not at all. Surprise - it was true to its roots and great fun to boot."  Cinerina  Karina Montgomery

0/4
"... represents the very essence of taking a studio-owned property and sucking out its soul ...at the expense of everyone that once cherished it."  MovieCrypt.com  Kevin A. Ranson

B-
"Raja Gosnell directs a perfectly cast group of young actors and brings Hanna Barbera's long-running cartoon to loopy life. James"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

5/10
"Se trata de una realización para los fans del simpático perro glotón y medroso; más allá no hay ABSOLUTAMENTE NADA."  Cinenganos  Luis Martinez

2.5/5
"The cast is appealing, the sets brightly colored and fun to look at, the mystery as lame and goofy as any featured in the many inexplicably beloved Scooby-Doo cartoons."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

1/4
"It’s for the kids, to be sure, but I think they deserve something more than recycled, entirely-for-commercial-purposes entertainment in a poorly wrapped package."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

"When Matthew Lillard -- who has the highest Skeeve Quotient ever recorded -- is the best thing in a movie, you know you’re in deep doo-doo."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

0/4
"Far more dull and just plain dumb than it ever is funny."  Mr. Brown's Movies  Michael Dequina

3/4
"Logic and intellect be damned! I recommended the original Flintstones movie as well as Josie and the Pussycats. I can recommend this one too!"  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

3/5
"Somewhere between a live action cartoon that is much too scary for most children and a Saturday Night Live sketch that goes on too long for most teens."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

C-
"Sometimes, fond memories should stay in the past: a lesson this film teaches all too well."  Flipside Movie Emporium  Rob Vaux

C
"It doesn't have, for instance, the multiple levels of meaning that "Spy Kids" had, so it really isn't that good of a family film. It is fine for kids though."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

B+
"...a true family film that will appeal to the kids watching the series today and their parents, too, who grew up with the lovable, goofy Great Dane and his pals."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

"Like The Brady Bunch Movie, Scooby Doo takes a television icon and its many conventions and creates a fun film that doesn't let up in poking fun at itself."  Movie Views  Ryan Cracknell

1/5
"When a film is created SOLELY because it's a marketable product, soulless and ugly movies like this are the result. Let your silly childhood nostalgia slumber unmolested."  eFilmCritic.com  Scott Weinberg

3/5
"As clever, mysterious, and inventive as an episode of the popular cartoon series, a high compliment indeed."  Filmcritic.com  Sean O'Connell

1/4
"Bad"  sbs.is  Stefan Birgir Stefansson

D+
"Scooby Dooby Doo / And Shaggy too / You both look and sound great. / But Daphne, you're too Buff / Fred thinks he's tough / And Velma - wow, you've lost weight!"  Decent Films Guide  Steven D. Greydanus

2/4
"Pleases that segment of the audience perversely delighted by the subversive corruption of other people's children."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

3/4
"Nostalgia helps bolster a rather ludicrous finale."  Oscar Guy  Wesley Lovell

3/10
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OFCS Rating: 22% Rotten
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