Scoob! (stylized as SCOOB!) is a 2020 American computer-animated adventure mystery-comedy film featuring characters from the Scooby-Doo franchise, produced by Warner Animation Group. It is a reboot of the Scooby-Doo series and is intended to be the first film in a proposed set up for a Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe.
The film was released on VOD on May 15, 2020 by Warner Bros.
Plot
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In Venice Beach, California, a stray puppy comes across a restaurant and sees a giant piece of meat hanging in the window, to which the puppy then steals. The shop owner calls out as his meat is being stolen and a cop starts chasing the puppy. The puppy eventually escapes the cop by hiding behind two mounds of sand. Shaggy then comes up to the mounds of sand and sets up a picnic, pretending that the mounds of sand were one of his friends. The puppy starts to feel empathetic towards Shaggy and comes out from behind the sand, offering to eat with Shaggy. The cop finally finds Shaggy and the puppy and insists that the puppy go with the cop. Shaggy refuses and claims that the puppy is his dog and that his name is Scooby-Dooby-Doo. The cop then lets them be.
Shaggy then gives Scooby a custom collar made for him in his room, which Scooby swears to never take off. On Halloween night, Shaggy and Scooby go trick-or-treating. They come across the Rigby House, a mansion that Shaggy claims is haunted. Suddenly, two bullies steal their bag of candy as Shaggy and Scooby begin to leave and throw it into the Rigby House. After the bullies run away, Shaggy and Scooby meet Fred, Daphne, and Velma, They offer to go into the house and try to get their candy back. As they walk into the house they are attacked by a ghost. Velma notices that the ghost is attached to a moving wire system in the ceiling. Fred cuts the wire and the ghost falls down, only to be tied up. They soon find out that he isn't a ghost and is actually Mr. Rigby, wearing a mask. Shaggy and Scooby discover a hidden room, filled with expensive, stolen electronics. The police arrive and take away Mr. Rigby. The five friends then decide to pursue mystery solving.
Years later and the gang is eating at a diner. Fred, Velma, and Daphne are all ready to make Mystery Inc. a business. Velma explains that Simon Cowell, is considering investing. Cowell shows up and explains that for him to invest in Mystery Inc, they require to be a better group and that Shaggy and Scooby add nothing to the dynamic of the team. Feeling unwanted, Shaggy and Scooby go to a bowling alley. Suddenly, they are attacked by robots, who begin firing lasers at Shaggy and Scooby. Just when Shaggy and Scooby about to be caught by the robots, all of a sudden a blue light beams them up into the sky. They are sucked into the interior of a futuristic airplane. Shaggy realizes that they are inside the Falcon Fury, Blue Falcon's plane. She explains that the robots were sent by Dick Dastardly who wants to kill Shaggy and Scooby. Dynomutt appears and reveals that actually, he is the original Blue Falcon's son, Brian, and that he has taken over the position, and that his dad is now in a retirement home.
Dynomutt, Blue Falcon, and Dee Dee explain to Shaggy and Scooby that Dastardly is collecting the skulls of Cerberus. They reveal that Dastardly already has one and that he'll get the other two, their mission is to collect them before he can. Dynomutt comes to the conclusion that actually Dastardly wants Shaggy and Scooby alive after a chase. Meanwhile, Fred, Velma, and Daphne are asking questions to a employee at the bowling alley to figure out what happened to Shaggy and Scooby. The employee hands them a cardboard box with the remains of one of Dastardly's robots. They investigate the robot in the Mystery Machine. When they discover a loose hair on the robot and track it back to Dick Dastardly, They decide to go after him and help Shaggy and Scooby.
Dee Dee and Dynomutt figure out that the second skull is in the Gobi Desert and they urge Blue Falcon to go there with them. However, Blue Falcon decides to listen to a DM that says that the skull is in Funland, an abandoned amusement park in Romania. Meanwhile, in the Mystery Machine, Velma reveals that Scooby is the last descendant of Peritas, Alexander the Great's dog. The Falcon Fury arrives at Funland, but as soon as they walk inside the park, Dick Dastardly's ship ascends from the sky and reveals that he was the one who sent Blue Falcon the DM and that he has just retrieved the second skull. After a long chase, Dee Dee deploys the tractor beam, which pulls Shaggy, Scooby, and Blue Falcon up into the Falcon Fury. After Scooby says about what Dastardly said about his importance, Blue Falcon makes him a superhero suit. However, in the process of putting on the suit, Blue Falcon notices that Scooby's collar is being on the way, the collar gets taken off, leaving Shaggy jealous and heartbroken.
Cast
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo
- Will Forte as Shaggy Rogers
- Zac Efron as Fred Jones
- Gina Rodriguez as Velma Dinkley
- Amanda Seyfried as Daphne Blake
- Tracy Morgan as Captain Caveman
- Ken Jeong as Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
- Kiersey Clemons as Dee Dee Sykes
- Mark Wahlberg as Blue Falcon
- Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly
Production
On June 17, 2014, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they would reboot the Scooby-Doo film series with an animated film being written by Randall Green. On August 17, 2015, Tony Cervone was hired to direct the animated film on a script by Matt Lieberman, while Charles Roven and Richard Suckle would produce the film along with Allison Abbate. Dan Povenmire would be involved in a creative capacity and would executive produce the film.
At the 2016 CinemaCon, the film's official title was announced to be S.C.O.O.B., about Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Machine gang working for a larger organization. The film was intended to lead into a cinematic universe based on Hanna-Barbera properties. In September 2016, it was reported that Dax Shepard would be directing the film along with Cervone, whilst he would also revise the script. In October 2018, it was announced that Shepard was no longer a part of the project and was replaced by Kelly Fremon Craig as screenwriter.
In March 2019, Frank Welker was revealed to be reprising his role as Scooby-Doo, while Will Forte, Gina Rodriguez, and Tracy Morgan signed on to voice Shaggy, Velma, and Captain Caveman, respectively. Later that month, Zac Efron and Amanda Seyfried joined the voice cast as Fred and Daphne.
Matthew Lillard and Grey Griffin, the longtime voices of Shaggy and Daphne, respectively, voiced their disappointment at not being contacted about the decision to recast their roles. Efron's casting as Fred also marks the first time the character will not be voiced by Welker (excluding the times the character was a child or portrayed in live-action).
In April 2019, Ken Jeong and Kiersey Clemons were announced to be joining the cast. In May 2019, Mark Wahlberg and Jason Isaacs were added to the cast, with Mckenna Grace, Iain Armitage, Ariana Greenblatt and Pierce Gagnon cast as young versions of Daphne, Shaggy, Velma and Fred. In March 2020, Simon Cowell joined the cast voicing a fictionalized version of himself. In May 2020, it was revealed that voice acting veteran Billy West is reprising his role as Dick Dastardly's sidekick, Muttley and that Cowell's son, Eric joined the film.
On January 28, 2020, Tom Holkenborg signed on to compose the film's score. On May 5, 2020, it was announced that Scoob! The Album would be released on May 15, 2020, featuring the song "On Me" by Thomas Rhett and Kane Brown, featuring Ava Max, and "Summer Feelings" by Lennon Stella, featuring Charlie Puth.
Release
The film was set for a September 21, 2018 release, before being pushed back to May 15, 2020. In March 2020, the film's theatrical release was delayed indefinitely due to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic. In April 2020, Warner Bros. announced that the theatrical release for Scoob! had been cancelled, and the film will be released instead on video on demand on May 15, 2020.[1] A virtual watch party (#ScoobMovieNight) was held on the night of release on Twitter.[2]
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 55% based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10. At Metacritic, the film has an average weighted score of 43 out of 100, based on 28 critics.
Trivia
- The film is Mark Wahlberg's first time voicing an animated character.
- Warner Animation Group's first ever animated film to be released on video on demand and theaters.
- This is the first Warner Animation Group film to be animated by Reel FX.
Videos
External links
- Scoob! on IMDb
- Scoob! at Box Office Mojo
- Scoob! at Rotten Tomatoes
- Scoob! at Metacritic