It's made for kids and they will absolutely LOVE this! The monsters are as fun as the ones from the original Ghostbusters!
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:23
Rotten:87
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Only the very young will get the most out of this silly trifle.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: Jinkies! In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby and the gang lose their cool - and their stellar reputation - when an anonymous masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a... Jinkies! In Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby and the gang lose their cool - and their stellar reputation - when an anonymous masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that re-creates classic Mystery Inc. foes like The Pterodactyl Ghost, The Black Knight Ghost, Captain Cutler's Ghost and The 10,000 Volt Ghost. Under pressure from relentless reporter Heather Jasper-Howe (ALICIA SILVERSTONE) and the terrified citizens of Coolsville, the gang launches an investigation into the mysterious monster outbreak that leaves Shaggy and Scooby questioning their roles in Mystery Inc. The ever-ravenous duo, determined to prove they're great detectives, don a series of far-out disguises in their search for clues. All signs point to Jeremiah "Old Man" Wickles (PETER BOYLE), the former Black Knight Ghost who was once unmasked by the gang and thrown in jail. Did the creepy wannabe launch the monstrous attack on Coolsville in a diabolical quest for revenge? Meanwhile, brainy Velma (LINDA CARDELLINI) becomes smitten with another key suspect, Coolsonian Criminology Museum curator Patrick Wisely (SETH GREEN), as macho leader Fred (FREDDIE PRINZE JR.) and image-conscious Daphne (SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR) attempt to determine the identity of the Evil Masked Figure whose monster army is wreaking havoc on Coolsville. [More]
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Peter Boyle
Starring: Freddie Prinze, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Peter Boyle, Alicia Silverstone, Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Raja Gosnell
Director: Raja Gosnell
Screenwriter: James Gunn
Producer: Charles Roven, Richard Suckle
Composer: David Newman
Studio: Warner Bros.
Reviews for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
The characters are, well, cartoonish, and any charm in seeing them played by actors on the big screen wore off ten minutes into the first one.
Some pleasantly silly scares but the characters are, well, cartoonish, and any charm in seeing them on the big screen wore off ten minutes into the first one.
Imagine you are given a free pass to go on every ride at Great Adventure, but the fine print stipulates that you have only 90 minutes in which to do them all ... This, more or less, is the Scooby-Doo experience.
The filmmakers are once again able to attract comic talent to languish in underwritten villain roles (Peter Boyle), and Scooby Doo still looks more like a bobble-head doll in the rear window of a Gremlin than a dog or a cartoon.
To call this a movie a dog would also be an insult to canines, so let's just say Scooby-Doo 2 is a Scooby-Don't.
kids will spend more time trying to make sense of the extra detritus than letting loose at the gang’s wild antics.
May be the first film I've ever seen that looks as if it was more humiliating to shoot than it is to watch.
Thankfully, there’s no sign of Scrappy-Doo, which really should count for something, right?
“Scooby-Doo 2,” much to my shock and amazement, is a fun little trifle.
Eventually gets bogged down in simplistic 'be yourself' moralizing destined to fail with its target audience.
If the first movie acted as a babysitter, this one’s a babysitter who doesn’t get as intoxicated.
However well done, it's still nothing more than a live-action version of a mediocre old cartoon; and while affectionate and nicely tooled, it's no more than tolerable.
A loud, obnoxious mess of lame humor, CGI overload and (jinkies!) the Mystery Inc. gang stopping the action dead to confront their own personal demons during extended self-analysis sessions.
Giving the dog an afro and forcing him to do the Electric Slide is not a good substitute for a clever attempt at family entertainment.
. . .a film in which much time, money, and effort was expended so that a computer-generated dog could fart.
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