Whenever a new Scooby-Doo project launches I always wonder "Who asked for this?"
But they keep making them, so someone out there is watching them I guess.
But they keep making them, so someone out there is watching them I guess.
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SCOOB! - Official Teaser Trailer
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My son was excited to hell when I showed him this, I didn't hate it either. Just got stung with Adams Family though so I'm weary.
I know they gotta introduce it to a new generation of kids, and make it family friendly, but damn I'm sad that the actual canon of Shaggy being super high all the time is being re-written
In this case, they're using this movie as the lynchpin for a Hanna Barbera CU.
Warner Bros. really bungled Hanna-Barbera. When Universal signed with H-B to do that Funtastic ride at the parks, they had a whole bunch of popular franchises that got focus. When Warner bought them out, they pushed nothing but Scooby, and neglected the others so badly that they fell into obscurity and Universal closed the ride.
When I look at the character designs, it's obvious they tried to update Fred to be modern. Velma's look is fairly timeless, so it doesn't really stick out as being antiquated or modern.
Daphne and Shaggy look straight out of the 70s and it is incredibly jarring compared to Fred.
It's an odd mash-up that really doesn't work.
Daphne and Shaggy look straight out of the 70s and it is incredibly jarring compared to Fred.
It's an odd mash-up that really doesn't work.
Art, animation, and humour look great. But god I just can't jive with those voices. Scoobs is okay, but Shag, Fred and Velma ain't right.
Someone on Era was sharing around the spoilers from someone who went to an early screening.
I can recite by memory but you can probably find the actual quote elsewhere if you look.
I thought you were exaggerating, but I hate the Scooby voice work. He's not supposed to be so phonetically sound.
Everything else looks cool.
Totally. Put a generic piano, inspirational pop or something, but not this kind of EDM over an older franchise like this.
But I was expecting way worse from this. The animation looks good enough, I liked most of the designs; the jokes were hit and miss to me, but the last and the first one were good.
Let's see more of it, and I might give it a shot once it comes out, but not a must.
Shaggy's look isn't especially era-specific either, I wouldn't say. Nondescript pants and a t-shirt.
Saw this and was instantly disappointed because it has the same exact artstyle as most other movies trying to be Pixar but whatever at least Scooby still exists in some form and this is a good idea for a movie but the artstyle and animation is just lame to me. Reminds me of those horrible Adam Sandler vampire movies that dont make me laugh once but its for kids so whatever.
Cartoons can't be for me anymore.
It looks alright, but I feel like I'm fatigued by the way characters animate in modern cg movies. I can't explain it, but maybe someone will know what I mean.
Also, I must be old, because that music is terrible and doesn't seem to fit the scooby universe for any reason. It doesn't have to be hippy shit, give it a spooky sound or something. This just sounds like any other pop garbage.
It looks alright, but I feel like I'm fatigued by the way characters animate in modern cg movies. I can't explain it, but maybe someone will know what I mean.
Also, I must be old, because that music is terrible and doesn't seem to fit the scooby universe for any reason. It doesn't have to be hippy shit, give it a spooky sound or something. This just sounds like any other pop garbage.
Do people who keep posting this like... are y'all really young, or just completely unfamiliar with Hanna Barbara cartoons and characters?
Crossovers is like their main schtick and it has been for decades.Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, the Jetsons, Jabber-Jaw, Scooby-Doo in particular, were all constantly crossing over with one another since their inception. They don't have to force or even try to make it happen, it's well known [or it used to be, I guess] that they all take place in the same universe. Then you get shows like Harvey Birdman that capitalize on that fact.
Scooby-Doo has not one, not two, not three, not even four, but more than five talking dogs in the Doo family. It's an accepted fact within the confines of the Hanna Barbara world that animals can talk. They exist in the same world as Jabber Jaw, who is a land walking talking shark. They also exist in the same world as a living car named Speed Buggy. The Flintstones are their wold's past, and the Jetsons are their future, both of which were also inhabited by talking animals (Astro, the many appliance animals in Bedrock). Some of them have crossed paths with Yogi at one point or another. So Jellystone Park is probably an actual place that Mystery Inc could drive to in their world, and if they drove through Texas they'd probably run into Quick Draw McGraw, if they went to Hollywood they could meet Snagglepuss, etc. In fact I just googled to double check and Yogi Bear has appeared in two different Scooby-Doo shows, and there was a Team Up comic featuring Scooby and Shaggy in Jellystone. I think the only one that doesn't fit is Johnny Quest?
For me, it isn't the fact that they are crossing over that's the issue, it's that it feels undeserved. This is meant to be an introduction to the Scooby Doo characters, and for many young children it will be, but the audience isn't just being introduced to the Scooby Doo characters they are being introduced to several franchises in on movie.
Its similar to the DCEU or the Dark Universe. They want to copy the success of the MCU without doing any of the work. In the MCU they teased Iron Man was part of a bigger universe at the end of the first movie, sure, but it didn't really happen fully until five whole movies later. In between Iron Man and the Avengers you had solo movies that stood by themselves that also slowly worked towards a bigger narrative. You weren't introduced to all the Avengers in Iron Man or Incredible Hulk or Thor or Captain America. It didn't happen until the Avengers.
Even within the old cartoons they didn't have crossovers on their first episode, most didn't happen until the second or third season. You have to work towards a crossover. You can't just pull it out of your arse.
I grew up watching the shit out of all of these cartoons. Scooby Doo has plenty of cross-overs yeah, but it was also by far the strongest series on it's own merit, aside from maybe the Flinstones, and the vast majority of what I watched (and what was generally produced) was just Scooby and the gang.
We have not gotten a legit Scooby movie in theaters in....well never (I personally have a strong fondness for the original live action film but I know it's not a good movie). And we haven't even had an attempt in well over a decade. The fact that this one, which looks promising, seems to be immediately focused on launching a HB universe rather than focusing on the gang is stupid.
There is plenty of meat that can be established in Scooby Doo's own personal world and characters. They should have pulled an Iron Man and made this a Scooby Doo movie through and through, and then post credits or what not Scooby gets a call from Dynomutt or some shit saying they need their help. That's fine. Instead it seems that they're more focused on immediately trying to chase combined universe money. And that's been the downfall of a lot of attempted CUs.
Edit : Yeah, a lot of what the poster above me said.
Are we still on this "you have to do several separate movies to do a cinematic universe" shit in the 2019th year of our lord? And why are we listening to a /co/ user's summary?
The way DC worked out would suggest that you do. But this is Hanna-Barbera, and they've been doing crossovers before most of the people on this forum were thought about.
Why isn't Matthew Lillard voicing Shaggy? He's been doing it for years since Casey Kesam passed away, and he's stellar at it.
I meant more in terms of theme. The likes of Yogi, Huck, Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss Augie Doggie etc. are a bit more random in nature than stuff like The Jetsons, Dynomutt, Goober, Hong Kong Phooey etc.
Like, they could get it to work, but I feel like it'd be easier to incorporate the more I guess story based ones into their own films, as opposed to those guys. Obviously they'd show up, but if anything, I'd expect either Yogi or Huckleberry Hound to headline a feature with all of them, like they usually do.
Because the trailer appeared to make it seems real, but the official youtube description informs it has to do with Cerberus and that it is true dick dastartly not generic one
Looks really pretty, voices will take some time to get used to. Shaggy is meh
Will watch it. The cartoon was my childhood I loved it so much
Will watch it. The cartoon was my childhood I loved it so much