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NUMBERS
Box Office: $153,243,965
VHS Rentals: $15,720,000
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CONSENSUS
Though Lillard is uncannily spot-on as Shaggy, Scooby Doo is a tired live-action update, filled with lame jokes.
CAST & CREW
Freddie Prinze, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard
Directed by Raja Gosnell
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SYNOPSIS
In this live action rethink of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series, director Raja Gosnell puts Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (Linda Cardellini), and Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) back into the Mystery Machine with a CGI version of the canine title character. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, for some rude humor, language and some scary action
RUNTIME
86 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 14, 2002
Video: Oct 11, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies, Friends, Detectives, Computer Animation, Mystery/Suspense, Live Action
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Scooby-Doo Site
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 "Compared to The Flintstones, it is a work of imagination, artless as anything, but crammed with special effects."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "A punch line without a premise, a joke built entirely from musty memories of half-dimensional characters."
-- Robert Wilonsky, NEW TIMES
"Lillard and Cardellini earn their Scooby Snacks, but not anyone else."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"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."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Not good enough to pass for a litmus test of the generation gap and not bad enough to repulse any generation of its fans."
-- Mark Washburn, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"You'll trudge out of the theater feeling as though you rode the Zipper after eating a corn dog and an extra-large cotton candy."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Sometimes, fond memories should stay in the past: a lesson this film teaches all too well."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"The big-screen Scooby makes the silly original cartoon seem smart and well-crafted in comparison."
-- Michael Tunison, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A dreadful live-action movie."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Worth its weight in Scooby snacks."
-- Gemma Tarlach, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Unless you're a fanatic, the best advice is: 'Scooby' don't."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Scooby Doo is surely everything its fans are hoping it will be, and in that sense is a movie that deserves recommendation."
-- Steven Snyder, ZERTINET MOVIES
"This big screen caper has a good bark, far from being a bow-wow."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
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"It might not be 1970s animation, but everything else about it is straight from the Saturday morning cartoons – a retread story, bad writing, and the same old silliness."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"There's no way to sort out the mess in our heads and deconstruct where it all went wrong. This is an hour and a half of daydreaming."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"As dumb and cheesy as they may be, the cartoons look almost Shakespearean -- both in depth and breadth -- after watching this digital-effects-heavy, supposed family-friendly comedy."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Scooby-Doo doesn’t know if it wants to be a retro-refitting exercise in campy recall for older fans or a silly, Nickelodeon-esque kiddie flick."
-- Joshua Vasquez, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"An enjoyable above average summer diversion."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Complete lack of originality, cleverness or even visible effort"
-- Rob Thomas, CAPITAL TIMES (MADISON, WI)
"If you grew up on Scooby -- you'll love this movie. Matthew Lillard is born to play Shaggy!"
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"The most horrific movie experience I've had since "Can't Stop The Music." It may as well be called “Jar-Jar Binks: The Movie.” It’s that painful."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"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."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"'...the cast portrays their cartoon counterparts well...but quite frankly, Scoob and Shag don’t eat enough during the film.'"
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
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ROTTEN 42%
Avg. Rating: 4.5/10 |
"Get out your pooper-scoopers."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"Although Scooby-Doo falls far short of becoming the Blazing Saddles of Generations X, Y and Z, it is hard to resist in its moronic charms."
-- Hank Stuever, WASHINGTON POST
"It may ... work as a jaunt down memory lane for teens and young adults who grew up on televised Scooby-Doo shows or reruns."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"By embracing the original series' tacky elements and inserting just enough self-mockery to avoid smugness, the movie manages to fulfill basic expectations."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"The obnoxious special effects, the obligatory outbursts of flatulence and the incessant, so-five-minutes-ago pop music on the soundtrack overwhelm what is left of the scruffy, dopey old Hanna-Barbera charm."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"Ruh-roh! Romething's really wrong with this ricture!"
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"The acting is stiff, the story lacks all trace of wit, the sets look like they were borrowed from Gilligan's Island -- and the CGI Scooby might well be the worst special-effects creation of the year."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The film equivalent of a toy chest whose contents get scattered over the course of 80 minutes."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"It's absolutely spooky how Lillard channels the Shagster right down to the original Casey Kasem-furnished voice."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Entertainment more disposable than Hanna-Barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were."
-- Robin Rauzi, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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"As with so many merchandised-to-the-max movies of this type, more time appears to have gone into recruiting the right bands for the playlist and the costuming of the stars than into the script, which has a handful of smart jokes and not much else."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Scooby-Doo" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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