BACKGROUND
Similarly to Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, and Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo has been a recognisable icon and longstanding figure of children’s entertainment for decades.
Until the 2000s, we had only ever known Scooby-Doo in an animated form, much like his friends in Mystery Inc., Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred. Computer animation was an evolving animation medium in the late 1990s, and was increasingly used in movies around this time and into the 2000s.
So, the question had to be asked: Was it time we all got to see Scooby in CGI?
That question was answered in 2002, with the first live-action movie to feature Scooby-Doo, creatively titled Scooby-Doo; in some cases, Scooby-Doo: The Movie.
It’s not easy moving a traditionally 2D animated character into the 3D world, and there have been as many successes with this as failures. For example, the Disney Princesses were transformed into computer-animated characters for a couple of scenes in Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), being met with a highly positive response. Sonic the Hedgehog recently got a CGI makeover for his series of animated movies, and no-one will ever forget that infamous first take on the character, before the creators bowed to fan pressure and had a second look at Sonic!
Scooby-Doo was similar to that, in that some liked his new look and others despised it. I personally quite like it and feel like he fit well next to the live-action Mystery Inc. gang. But I was only nine-years-old when Scooby-Doo came out, so it’s not like I had much interest in the world of animation by that point. All I know is that CGI Scooby didn’t freak me out.
I can’t remember if I watched Scooby-Doo at the cinema with my family, only knowing for certain that we watched the second one there. I’d like to think we did but I can’t be certain. I just know I watched this Scooby-Doo film on DVD numerous times.
It’s a bit of a surprise that I like it, even from a young age, because as an easily scared child – and now an easily scared adult, but that’s beside the point – I would’ve thought the story would’ve been too creepy for me, and the monsters too horrifying. Then again, those monsters really don’t look very realistic at all! Or I was just too focused on Daphne, wondering if I would ever look as effortlessly cool or pretty as her when I got older. I never did. What a shock!
PLOT
Scooby-Doo begins on a dark, misty night, at a toy factory – the Wow-O-Toy Factory to be exact. This is where Mystery Inc. are on the case of the Luna Ghost. Daphne has been kidnapped by this ghost, but not to worry, because as usual, Velma has a plan. However, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are waiting for instruction nearby in a barrel and get scared, drawing attention to themselves. The ghost spooks the two of them, causing Velma to begin the plan, by starting the factory’s conveyor belt, even though Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are the ones stuck on this belt, trying to avoid the various mechanisms, all whilst trapped in a barrel and on a skateboard…The Luna Ghost simply flies up, still holding Daphne. Fred attempts to douse it with water, but misses and accidentally hits Velma, who is knocked off a platform and left to dangle by a chain. The net intended for the ghost drops on Fred. As Scooby and Shaggy fear for their lives, Scooby grabs a dangling hook and gets off the conveyor belt. They hit into the Luna Ghost in the process, knocking him and Daphne, and themselves, into a wall of toys.
Now that the Luna Ghost has been stopped and Daphne has been freed, the team work out who is behind the mask. The press arrive for the big reveal, and as the ghost mask is removed, it is revealed that the Luna Ghost was in fact… Old Man Smithers, who did it apparently after being rejected by Pamela Anderson…Weird. The gang also show that the Luna Ghost was able to fly due to helium balloons being inflated underneath his costume.
With that mystery solved, the group head outside, but Fred, Daphne, and Velma soon start arguing. Daphne hates being teased for always being the one who gets captured, and Velma hates Fred taking all the credit for her ideas. The confrontation ends with all three quitting, despite Shaggy’s attempts to keep them together by likening them to a strange banana split. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are disappointed and leave in the Mystery Inc. van.
Two years later, Shaggy and Scooby are living out of the van on the beach, loving life. Suddenly, they hear a knock on the door. Scared that someone might be asking them to solve a mystery, they attempt to leave without being noticed, but it doesn’t work. Sure enough, someone is there to ask them to solve a mystery. This man has come on behalf of Mr. Emile Mondavarious, who wants them to deal with a case on his theme park, Spooky Island. Shaggy says they won’t go anywhere with “spooky” in the name and move away, but after hearing that there is an all-you-can-eat buffet there, they agree to go.
At the airport, it is revealed that Fred and Velma are also on their way to Spooky Island. They briefly catch each other up on their lives, like how Fred has written an autobiography, and how Velma has been working at NASA. At the check-in desk, they are reunited with Daphne, who is not happy to see either of them. It turns out she’s a black belt in karate now, ready to not to be the damsel in distress anymore. Shaggy arrives with Scooby dressed up as a grandma, since big dogs aren’t allowed on the plane. Velma realises that they’ve all been brought to Spooky Island to solve the same mystery. Fred, Velma, and Daphne refuse to work together.
On the plane, Daphne sits apart from the others. Scooby is initially sat with Shaggy but when a pretty girl sits by them and starts sneezing, due to her allergy to dogs, Shaggy asks Scooby to sit with Fred and Velma. As Shaggy talks to this girl, Mary Jane, Scooby starts barking at a cat. Fred and Velma try to get Scooby to calm down, but nothing works. Fred even tries flicking Scooby-Doo on the nose but that only results in Scooby punching Fred in the face. Scooby proceeds to chase the cat all through the plane!
Finally, the gang land at Spooky Island, a well-known party spot for college students. They are greeted by Emile Mondavarious, who shows them that although the students are arriving on the island ready to party, something strange is happening to them by the time they leave. The group observe a line of students, waiting to board the ferry off the island. They are waiting in almost a military fashion, and do not talk to anyone. When one girl is approached by a guy who knows her, she picks him up and violently throws him across the beach. Emile Mondavarious asks Mystery Inc. to hurry and work out what is happening.
Velma, Fred, and Daphne start exploring the area, whilst Shaggy spends time with Mary Jane. Velma starts at the resort’s “Spookapalooza”, which is hosted by N’ Goo Tuana. He tells the guests that this island is sacred, home to strange creatures, who have been antagonised by the building of this resort. On the beach, Daphne meets a voodoo priest living on the island, who tells Daphne this island isn’t safe, and warns her not to go into the abandoned Spooky Island castle. She deduces that he must be warning her not to go actually because he wants her to go in there. Daphne decides to enter the castle. Meanwhile, Scooby-Doo has received a call from a stranger telling him to go into the forest, because there is a bag of hamburgers waiting for him. When Scooby gets there, he finds the bag empty and a monster waiting for him. Scooby manages to run back to the hotel without being caught, and tells Shaggy what he saw. Shaggy isn’t sure what to make of his story.
Daphne wants to go in the castle, and convinces Shaggy and Scooby-Doo to go in with her, coaxing Scooby with Scooby snacks. Inside, Velma comes out of the shadows, scaring Daphne with an animatronic figure, and says the castle is home to an abandoned roller coaster. Fred appears from a different entrance and he gets the group to split up and explore the area. Fred initially plans to go with Daphne, but after a complaint from Velma, him and Velma go one way; Shaggy and Scooby another; and Daphne heads off alone. Shaggy and Scooby find themselves in a medieval banquet hall, but they soon realise they are being watched as the rollercoaster is turned on. The sausages on the banquet table come to life and pin them to the wall. Daphne, after kicking open a door, is struck by a rollercoaster vehicle and has no choice but to ride it out, literally, whilst clinging on to the front of the ride vehicle. Fred and Velma find themselves dodging swinging axes, and get to a room with no exit. They start pulling books off a bookcase, hoping to find a secret door. As an axe almost hits Fred, Velma tosses him a book, which he uses as a shield, although the force pushes him through a window and down onto a switch in a control room. The rollercoaster is turned off, just in time as Daphne was about to be impaled on steel!
Velma checks Fred is alright, and then sees one final book on the bookshelf. She pulls it and a door opens, just like she said. Inside, they see a room set up like a school. A video plays showing a tutorial on proper etiquette. They deduce this could be used for brainwashing as part of some sort of cult. Daphne then finds herself in a room with a strange pyramid relic in the centre of it. She picks it up and is almost trapped in a pyramid-shaped cage, but she jumps out just in time. Daphne finds Shaggy and Scooby who are in some sort of studio having a bumping and farting contest. Nice… They hear an alarm go off and rush to find an exit. The gang meet up again and hide in costumes. They hear the security team saying the Daemon Ritus has gone, and they order a search for the intruders. After they’ve left, the gang run out of the castle and back to the hotel.
In the hotel lobby, Mr. Mondavarious asks for any news. Fred says they have three suspects: N’ Goo Tuana, because of his speech about creatures wanting revenge on this island; the voodoo man that Daphne met because of his weird warning about the castle; and Mr. Mondavarious himself. Velma takes the Daemon Ritus and starts looking at its inscriptions. She sees a guy she met at the Spookapalooza and talks to him about Mystery Inc. and their case. She also tells him about Scrappy-Doo, Scooby’s younger nephew, who was kicked out of the group for peeing on Daphne one day – and for his general attitude of being better than the rest of the them. Scooby then sees a monster like the one from the forest at the hotel window, causing him to freak out in front of all the guests. Fred is about to tell everyone there is no such thing as monsters, when the monsters come into the lobby and start attacking, grabbing people and taking them away. Fred and Velma are both caught, as is Mr. Mondavarious, leaving Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby to figure out what is going on with Mary Jane, retrieving the Daemon Ritus too. They escape the hotel and call the coastguard for help. The coastguard tells them to wait on the beach, but after the call, they laugh maniacally, showing that they have no intention of being helpful.
Sure enough, the four wake up on the beach the next morning, finding no coastguard has come. They see the hotel back to normal, no windows smashed or any damage, and all the students are there, although they seem a bit different. The four split up to look for Fred and Velma. Daphne walks through a beach party, and is hit on by the band’s lead singer. As she looks at him, she sees he has green eyes and gets away from him, although her concern shows suspicion. Shaggy finds Fred, but he doesn’t act like he knows Shaggy or Scooby. Fred and the other students then attack them, saying they need to “get the dog”. Daphne finds herself captured by wrestler Zarkos who works on Spooky Island. He takes the Daemon Ritus, and her, away. Scooby and Shaggy end up trapped in a garage, but drive out on quad bikes, dodging all the monster students on the way. They find Mary Jane and rescue her, except at one point, she hits her head on a branch and Scooby sees she is not herself at all. When they come to a stop, Scooby accuses Mary Jane of being a man in a mask. Shaggy doesn’t believe him and the two fight. Scooby steps on a trapdoor and falls through the ground. Shaggy goes after him, despite Mary Jane telling him not to.
Shaggy jumps through the trapdoor and finds himself in a cavern, with a glowing vat full of floating heads ahead. Going up to the vat, he finds Velma’s head. She tells him she is a protoplasm and needs him to free her so she can find her body. Shaggy does this for Fred and Daphne too, and gets the Daemon Ritus back. Velma’s protoplasm does align with her body, and as it does, a monster jumps out and is quickly burnt by the sun, disintegrating. Velma sees another protoplasm coming towards her and sees Daphne ahead, assuming it’s hers. Velma sees the same process unfold for Daphne – except it turns out, that was actually Fred’s protoplasm, meaning Daphne’s protoplasm ends up in Fred’s body. The four reunite in the forest, but due to their close proximity to the Daemon Ritus, and the fact the protoplasms haven’t aligned correctly, they switch bodies a few times, until everyone is back to normal. They head to the beach after hearing an explosion and talk to the voodoo priest, who is trying to leave the island. He says the demons are about to perform their ritual and he doesn’t want to be there when it happens. Velma looks at the Daemon Ritus again and they discover that a pure soul needs to be absorbed to complete the ritual. They believe that pure soul is Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo has been captured, by none other than Emile Mondavarious. He treats Scooby well, telling him that his friends have abandoned him but he has a task for him: to be a sacrifice. Not knowing what one of those is, Scooby agrees to be the sacrifice, thinking it sounds great.
Shaggy convinces Fred, Velma, and Daphne to help him save Scooby. They agree and start about setting up their plan, putting a skull disco ball in the cavern, ready to scorch all the monsters that will come out once they tip over the vat of protoplasms and they return to the students’ bodies. However, the plan goes awry early on when Shaggy doesn’t attach the cables correctly to the vat, and Daphne ends up slamming into the cavern wall on her harness, having to crawl out of the cave herself. Fred and Velma are caught in the middle of the students as they begin the ritual. They are discovered after Fred doesn’t stop chanting and dancing when everyone else does. The Daemon Ritus is found in one of their bags as they are detained. Shaggy goes to find Scooby, and tries to get him to run but they are too late; his protoplasm is taken and Mr. Mondavarious begins to absorb all of them.
Shaggy grabs onto the pincer that took Scooby’s protoplasm and swings into Mr. Mondavarious. This allows Scooby’s protoplasm to be released and returns to him, whilst the Daemon Ritus closes up and Mr. Mondavarious collapses. Fred and Velma rush over to see that Mr. Mondavarious is a man in a mask. They pull it off to reveal a robot – with Scrappy-Doo inside. He says he has absorbed enough energy to make him bigger, and the giant Scrappy starts to chase them, needing Scooby-Doo’s spirit to complete his transformation. Shaggy tries to protect Scooby but it doesn’t work and he is soon caught. Meanwhile, Daphne is outside trying to release the disco ball, but she finds herself being attacked by Zarkos. The two engage in a martial arts fight, which Daphne eventually wins, toppling Zarkos onto the air vent over the cavern and pushing him through it. The disco ball is release, just as Shaggy manages to use the pincer to remove the Daemon Ritus from Scrappy’s chest, allowing all previously absorbed protoplasms to be released. The monsters are burnt by the shining of the disco ball and everything returns to normal.
As the team celebrate, and Fred and Daphne kiss, Shaggy hears tapping from underground. He opens a trapdoor and it reveals the real Emile Mondavarious. He said he’s been trapped down there for two years, after Scrappy attended an audition to work on the island! Shaggy and Scooby-Doo properly reunite as well, with Scooby accepting of Mary Jane. The next day, the police arrive to arrest Scrappy, and Zarkos and N’ Goo Tuana, who were his accomplices. The press come to listen to how Mystery Inc. solved the case. Fred is about to take the credit again, but passes it over to Velma to explain. They are told about a new case going on in London and Mystery Inc. say they are ready and waiting to help. The movie ends with Shaggy and Scooby at the all-you-can-eat buffet they were promised, where they find their hot peppers really are hot!
CHARACTERS & CAST
Anyone who has watched Scooby-Doo knows that the Mystery Inc. team consists of Scooby-Doo, the Great Dane, Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Shaggy. In Scooby-Doo, the four human characters are played by actors, and Scooby-Doo is a computer-animated character.
Fred Jones is perhaps more arrogant than usual in this version of Scooby-Doo, caring a lot about how he looks and loving the obsessed fans that he has. He is the unelected leader of the group, choosing who gets paired up for teams when exploring new locations, and taking the credit for solving the mystery, something that really annoys Velma. Fred has an ongoing flirtation with Daphne in this movie, although of course, he believes she is more into him than he is her, but that is most certainly not the case. Fred learns how to be more of a team player by the end of Scooby-Doo, accepting that Velma is the smart one who comes up with all the plans, and that actually he didn’t do all that much in helping to free Scooby-Doo. Shaggy was the one to defeat Scrappy, and Daphne did her part of the plan, as did Velma. All Fred did was get them caught!
Freddie Prinze Jr. was cast as Fred Jones. Since Freddie Prinze Jr. has naturally dark hair, and Fred has always been blond, he was asked to dye his hair blond, and even had his eyebrows tinged. Prior to Scooby-Doo, he was known for his roles as Ray Bronson in the slasher movie I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its 1999 sequel, and as Zack Siler in She’s All That (1999), which won him the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor. Prinze Jr. went on to co-create and star in his own sitcom Freddie (2005-06). He also voiced the character Kanan Jarrus in the Disney XD series Star Wars: Rebels (2014-18), and reprised the role in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). He was the host of WWE Rivals (2022-present) for three seasons.
Daphne Blake is seen to be the pretty one of the group, who perhaps isn’t known for her intellect, getting herself into trouble and generally being the one who gets caught by the bad guy, as we see at the start of the film when she is kidnapped by the Luna Ghost. Because of this, Daphne plans to make herself strong and powerful, learning karate after her departure from Mystery Inc. She shows that she isn’t someone to be messed with and that just because she’s pretty and dresses well doesn’t mean she should be underestimated.
Sarah Michelle Gellar was cast as Daphne, who got her start in dramas like All My Children (1970-2013), where she played Kendall Hart and won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series for her performance. She also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer, as Helen Shivers, this being where she met her husband Freddie Prinze Jr., and went on to star as Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions (1999). Her most well-known role though is arguably as Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), winning numerous Teen Choice Awards for her role. More recently, she was cast as Sydney Roberts in the sitcom The Crazy Ones (2013-14) alongside Robin Williams, and had a guest role as Tanya Martin in Dexter: Original Sin (2024-25) for Paramount+.
Shaggy, full name Norville Rogers, is Scooby-Doo’s best friend, and they bond over how easily scared they are by everything, relying on the others to get them through these cases! They also like to eat together, always feeling hungry. Shaggy is depicted as a hippie, with his “shaggy” appearance and occasionally laid-back attitude. In Scooby-Doo, Shaggy is incredibly brave, wanting to save his best friend more than wanting to hide from his fear. Shaggy actually turns out to be the hero in this story, which is a nice change.
Shaggy was played by Matthew Lillard who has returned to voice the character in some series and direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies since around 2010. He was cast as Stu Macher in Scream (1996) and also appeared alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. in She’s All That (1999) where he played Brock Hudson. Lillard later appeared as Principal Bosch in the Netflix remake He’s All That (2021). Most recently, Lillard has been cast as Principal Grayle in the upcoming miniseries Carrie for Amazon, and is returning to horror movies by returning to reprise his role in the 2025 sequel to Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) where he was cast as William Afton. Lillard is also due to reprise his role from Scream in Scream 7 in 2026.
The final human character in Mystery Inc. to mention is Velma Dinkley. Velma is the intelligent one, obviously, because she is the only one who wears glasses. Velma makes all the plans, and is given the more difficult tasks to complete, such as examining the Daemon Ritus in this movie. She is annoyed at the fact Fred basically ignores her, favouring Daphne, and thinks she is taken for granted in the group, leading her to be the first one to quit. But although it looks like Velma could solve all these cases on her own, it’s shown that she still needs her friends too, since she does actually get caught by the monsters early on, and Shaggy is the one to save her. I think she understands the importance of everyone in the group, including herself, by the end of Scooby-Doo.
Linda Cardellini was cast as Velma, having appear as Chutney Windham in Legally Blonde (2001) shortly before Scooby-Doo was released. She was also cast as Samantha Taggart in ER (1994-2009) and in the 2000s and starred as Lindsay Weir in the comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000). Cardellini has recently been cast in various high-profile movies, such as the role of Dolores in the Oscar-winning Green Book (2018); as Diana Hyland in the popular A Simple Favor (2018), and as Olivia in the highly-rated Nonnas (2025) for Netflix. She was recently cast as Judy Hale in the Netflix series Dead to Me (2019-22) and is set to play Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th prequel series Crystal Lake.
Scooby-Doo, also known as Scoobert, is a Great Dane and best friend of Shaggy. The two are quite similar, with their love of food, and fear of all things spooky, but together, they are a loyal team, and will do anything for each other. Scooby finds himself in trouble at various points and is easily manipulated by Emile Mondavarious during this film, believing that Shaggy has abandoned him for Mary Jane, leading to him agree to be a sacrifice. In the end, Shaggy and Scooby are reunited and they do what they do best: eat strange combinations of food together! Scooby-Doo was voiced by Neil Fanning, who is an Australian actor and stuntman. He was hired to be the voice of Scooby in rehearsals, but he was so good, Fanning was cast as the official voice of Scooby-Doo for the 2002 movie. He reprised his voice role for Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) but nowhere else.
The actual voice of Scooby-Doo outside of these live-action movies in the 1990s and 2000s was Scott Innes who was tasked with voicing Scrappy-Doo for the movie. Scrappy is loud, annoying, and thinks too much of himself. He doesn’t know when to quit and concocted this revenge scheme after being kicked out of Mystery Inc. Innes has also voiced the role of Shaggy for various video games in the 2000s.
Emile Mondavarious is the owner of Spooky Island, who leads the Mystery Inc. gang to his resort to help solve the mystery of why students are behaving very differently compared to those arriving. This is actually all a ruse because the creepy, buffoon-like Mr. Mondavarious is not him at all; it’s just Scrappy-Doo in a robot. Mr. Mondavarious was captured two years before Mystery Inc. arrived and was replaced by Scrappy. He seems like a nice enough guy when he is released, but we actually don’t know much about him, only seeing him briefly after Shaggy gets him out of his underground cell.
Rowan Atkinson was cast as Emile Mondavarious. Atkinson was well-known for his roles in comedy series, such as the sketch show Not the Nine O’Clock News (1979-82); as Edmund Blackadder in the series Blackadder (1983-89); and as Mr. Bean in the 1990s series and its subsequent spin-off movies, even returning to portray the character in a small segment of the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Atkinson is most notably a comedic actor, also playing the role of Johnny English in the movie franchise; and appearing in smaller roles in the Richard Curtis’ movies Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Love Actually (2003). He also voiced Zazu in Disney Animation’s The Lion King (1994), and more recently was cast as Father Julius in Wonka (2023).
To go alongside Scrappy and his evil ways, he had two key accomplices, Zarkos, the wrestler, and N’ Goo Tuana, who are both arrested alongside him at the end of the film. Zarkos is seemingly the muscle, being tasked with fighting Daphne on a couple of occasions, whilst N’ Goo Tuana, seems to be the mysterious one, who attempts to spook Velma on her arrival at Spooky Island and tries to steal back the Daemon Ritus when the monsters attack the lobby. He is also the controller of the pincer during the ritual scene. Zarkos was played by Sam Greco, a pro wrestler, heavyweight kickboxer and mixed martial artist. Steven Grimes was cast as N’ Goo Tuana. Grimes played King Zad in the Beastmaster series (1999-2002), which was based on the 1982 film The Beastmaster.
Another key character to mention is Mary Jane. She is Shaggy’s love interest who Shaggy meets on the plane to Spooky Island. He is instantly smitten with her. But it turns out Mary Jane is not as sweet as she seems, because at some point during the film, and I can only presume that is after the monsters have attacked and they split up the next morning to find their friends, she is switched out with a monster. Mary Jane then seems to be used to get Shaggy away from Scooby-Doo, leaving him vulnerable and able to tricked into being the sacrifice. She is obviously back to her normal state by the end of the film, but I do question how long Mary Jane is a monster. It could’ve been from her arrival on Spooky Island and she was just always meant to be driving Shaggy away from Scooby. And that might be why Scooby doesn’t like her from the start.
Mary Jane was played by Isla Fisher, who had gotten her start as Shannon Reed in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988-present) from 1994 to 1997. She went on to appear in the rom-coms Wedding Crashers (2005) as Gloria Cleary, winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and Definitely, Maybe (2008), where she played April. She was also cast as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby (2013) and as Rebecca Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009). Fisher later starred as Henley Reeves in Now You See Me (2013) and is set to reprise her role in Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (2025). Fisher was asked to wear a blonde wig for her role in Scooby-Doo as it was felt her natural red hair would be competing with Daphne[1]!
Finally, there is a brief cameo to mention. Pamela Anderson appears after the Luna Ghost is captured as herself. At this time, Anderson was well-known for her role as C.J. Parker in Baywatch (1989-2001) and had been cast as Lisa in the sitcom Home Improvement (1991-99) in its first two series.
MUSIC
Alongside Scooby-Doo the movie, an official soundtrack of songs was released in June 2002. The soundtrack contains a mixture of genres, like rap, R&B, pop, and hip-hop, although not every song heard in the film is on the soundtrack.“Land of a Million Drums”, used for when the gang first arrive of Spooky Island, as well as in the End Credits, was performed by Outkast, featuring Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown. “Things That Go Bump in the Night” performed by the British pop band allSTARS* is played as the gang escape the Spooky Island castle with clues to solving the mystery. Following that is “Man with the Hex” by The Atomic Fireballs which is used for when the monsters are attacking the hotel and Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, Mary Jane, and Daphne manage to get away. The opening of this song might sound familiar to fans of the movie Labyrinth (1986) since David Bowie’s song “Magic Dance” from that film uses similar lyrics. There is also the beach party scene that takes place the next morning, where Daphne is sung to by the band’s lead singer. This band was actual rock band Sugar Ray, performing the song “Words to Me”. These are my favourite songs in the movie.
This soundtrack also contains two tracks that re-record the original Scooby-Doo series theme song. One of these is “Shaggy, Where Are You?”, performed by none other than Shaggy, obviously, and is used in the opening credits. “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? by MxPx was used as the group try to stop Scrappy-Doo’s evil plan to take over the world. “Thinking About You” by Solange Knowles featuring Murphy Lee, which contains lyrics from the original theme song, seems to have been used in the hotel scene shortly after Scooby-Doo returns from the forest after trying to claim his free hamburgers, scared that a monster is chasing him. “Scooby D” by the Baha Men is another song all about Scooby-Doo, performed by the Baha Men in the End Credits.
Within the rest of the soundtrack, you can hear Uncle Kracker and Busta Rhymes with “Freaks Come Out at Night” in one of the earlier scenes at the Spooky Island Hotel, shortly before Scooby-Doo gets the phone call to go in the forest. “Grow Up” by Simple Plan seems to have been used for the opening shot of Mystery Inc. on the flight to Spooky Island. “Lil Romeo’s B House” by Lil’ Romeo and Master P is used briefly for when Scooby-Doo walks into the airport dressed as Shaggy’s grandma. “It’s a Mystery” by Little-T and One Track Mike is credited in the movie’s credits, but I can’t find any scene where this song was used. The only song to only appear on the soundtrack and not be credited in the movie is “Whenever You Feel Like It” by Kylie Minogue.
For songs not featured on the soundtrack but used and credited in the film, we have “Pass the Dutchie” by Musical Youth, which is heard as we see Scooby-Doo and Shaggy living out of their camper van on the beach in the two years since Mystery Inc. broke up. You can also hear “Take the World” by Evan Olson as the group start about setting up their plan to infiltrate and disrupt the Daemon Ritus ritual that evening. Speaking of the ritual, you’ll probably not be too surprised to find that the “Creatures Chant” of “this is what the creatures sing” was written by James Gunn, the screenwriter of Scooby-Doo. According to the End Credits, it was performed by Danny Saber, featuring Stacie Plunk and Bernard Fowler.
As Pamela Anderson arrives in the Mystery Machine to see the unmasking of the Luna Ghost, the song “Happy Ending” by Fiona Horne is briefly heard. “Rock Da Juice” by The Dude seems to be the music used for Scooby and Shaggy outrunning the students on quad bikes. “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys is playing as we see the flashback of the gang with Scrappy-Doo. “The Name Game” by Lincoln Chase and Shirley Ellison is credited, and doesn’t specifically appear in the movie, but Velma and Fred say some of the lyrics as they attempt to fit in with the ritual chanting, not knowing the words.
The composer of the score within Scooby-Doo was David Newman, part of the Newman family of composers. His older brother is Thomas Newman, and his cousin is Randy Newman, who both composed the scores for Pixar movies amongst numerous other achievements. One excerpt of the score, titled “Mystery Inc.” appears on the official soundtrack. Newman had previously composed music for the animated film Anastasia (1997) receiving an Academy Award nomination. He went on to work on the music for many other family-friendly movies, such as The Mighty Ducks (1992); The Flintstones (1994) and its 2000 sequel; 102 Dalmatians (2000); Ice Age (2002); and Daddy Day Care (2003). Newman also worked on the music for other Eddie Murphy comedy films like The Nutty Professor (1996) and its 2000 sequel, and Norbit (2007). He recently arranged and adapted Leonard Bernstein’s original score for Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story (2021). Newman won a BMI Film Music Award in 2003 for his score in Scooby-Doo.
PRODUCTION
Scooby-Doo began his life on Saturday morning television in an animated series.
In 1968, Saturday morning cartoons were struggling as parents didn’t want their children viewing the violence seen in typical superhero cartoons. The Head of Children’s Programming at CBS, Fred Silverman, started to explore other avenues as a basis for a new children’s series, looking to the old radio series I Love A Mystery and the characters within CBS’s new show The Archie Show (1968-69). He approached Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, who had had previous success with Tom and Jerry and Yogi Bear prior to this, to come up with a new series. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the series. The basic premise of this new show was to follow a group of teenagers solving mysteries across the US, known as Mysteries Five. This group would’ve been members of a band who solve mysteries when not at gigs. Their names were Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, and Linda’s brother W.W., and their dog Too Much. The dog was made to resemble a Great Dane, but to avoid too many similarities to the comic strip dog Marmaduke, also a Great Dane, character artist Iwao Takamoto gave this dog some different characteristics, like a double chin, a sloped back, and bowed legs.
This new show looked like a hit, however, CBS President Frank Stanton decided it was too scary to air, and asked for the show to be reworked to make it more comedic. The band element was dropped, and the characters changed and morphed. Geoff and Mike became Fred; Kelly become Daphne; Linda turned into Velma, and W.W. was Shaggy, and wasn’t Linda or Velma’s brother anymore. The title changed to Who’s S-S-Scared? There is an urban legend that the characters here were meant to represent different East Coast Colleges, the Five College Consortium, but that was not the case. Fred Silverman was a fan of the series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-63) so the characters are actually based on those within that series. The name of Scooby-Doo the Great Dane is said to have come from the doo-wop song, “Denise”, performed by Randy & the Rainbows in 1963, where “scooby-doo” is sung numerous times throughout the song[2].
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-78) was decided as the new name of the animated series, and it finally debuted in September 1969, with voice actors like Casey Kasem as Shaggy and Frank Welker, who went on to voice many other animated characters, including Abu in Disney’s Aladdin (1992) and Altivo in DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado (2000), as Fred. The show was an instant success, and led to many new formats over the years, like The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-73); and The Scooby-Doo Show (1976-78).
Plans for a live-action adaptation were first considered in 1994, with Mike Myers and Jim Carrey attached to the project at one time or another. Raja Gosnell was hired as the movie’s director in October 2000. Gosnell had directed Home Alone 3 (1997) and Never Been Kissed (1999) by this point, and was also a movie editor, working on Home Alone (1990) and its 1992 sequel, Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Pretty Woman (1990). James Gunn came on as the screenwriter for the live-action Scooby-Doo film. In recent years, Gunn has become synonymous with superhero movies, being the co-screenwriter, and director, of all three Guardians of the Galaxy movies; and wrote and directed The Suicide Squad (2021). He is currently the writer and showrunner of the HBO Max series Peacemaker (2022-present), which stars John Cena in the title role. The co-creator of the story for Scooby-Doo was Craig Titley, who worked on the story of Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and was the screenwriter on Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). More recently, Titley produced and wrote some episodes of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013-20).
Gunn’s original screenplay was intended to be a PG-13 parody of Scooby-Doo as a series, in a similar way that DreamWorks’ Shrek franchise is a parody on the quintessential fairy tale, and Austin Powers parodies spy films, specifically James Bond movies. However, Warner Bros. wanted the PG-13 elements to be toned down to make the film suitable for children, so some jokes about Shaggy smoking marijuana, and Velma’s sexuality being questioned, including a kiss between Daphne and Velma, were removed. The word “soul” had to be taken out of the film too, due to concerns from more religious viewers, so this became “protoplasm”. Gunn and Gosnell didn’t feel too badly about these changes being made, since they understood the need for Warner Bros. not to taint the brand of Scooby-Doo, however the cast, who had signed on to this PG-13 film were apparently not as happy to go along with this change in tone.
Not all of these story changes or deleted scenes are available to view, obviously, but some have been made available as bonus content on DVD releases. One of these that may play into the need to tone down some jokes about Velma was a scene that took place during the sequence of Velma studying the Daemon Ritus in the hotel lobby, just before the monsters attack that night. She is seen sipping a drink whilst at the bar, and it would seem that that drink was meant to have more of an effect on her than it did in the final movie. This deleted scene saw Velma lie on top of the hotel’s piano and start singing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” as Fred and Daphne walk downstairs into the lobby. It is unclear who, if anyone, she is meant to be singing too. Others watch on, including Emile Mondavarious who asks Shaggy whether Velma knows that drink she had was actually non-alcoholic.
Seemingly unrelated to the toning down of the story, there are a few other interesting deleted scenes. During the sequence at the airport as Fred, Velma, and Daphne briefly recap each other on their lives, flashbacks are shown, showing that the three don’t have their lives as together as they make out. Fred didn’t have a successful book tour for his autobiography; Velma has actually been in therapy; and Daphne isn’t as accomplished at karate as she’d like to think. There was also an alternate opening, with the opening credits, that was an animated sequence, like you’d expect from the series, before morphing into the live-action toy factory Luna Ghost case. It was decided that placing the viewer in the middle of an active case, even if it was live-action, was enough to keep the feel of the original series in the minds of the viewers.
Gunn has said that he made Scrappy-Doo the villain of their 2002 movie because both of him and director Gosnell hated him in the series. Scrappy-Doo first appeared in 1979 in the series Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979-80) as a way of boosting the franchise’s viewing figures. However, apparently there are many Scooby-Doo fans that hated Scrappy, and this was Gunn’s way of finally giving those Scrappy-haters a satisfying ending for the character! I don’t know how I felt about animated Scrappy in the show, but I don’t like him at all in Scooby-Doo so they did their job in making him as unlikeable as possible here[3].
Scooby-Doo was filmed over six weeks in 2001 in Australia. The Spooky Island resort was filmed at the Tangalooma Island Resort, which, although it has been developed and renovated over the years since 2002, is still a popular tourist destination and hotel area, even if no original props from the film remain there. Other areas used in Australia include Bond University in Brisbane, used in deleted scenes; Mt. Tamborine, allegedly used as the location for the Spooky Island castle; and the Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast[4]. Brisbane International Airport was another filming location, and it would seem that the constant announcements, because the airport was not shut down, made filming scenes there quite difficult!
But many of the cast found the most difficult part of filming Scooby-Doo was the fact that in many instances, they were acting to thin air, and had to pretend Scooby-Doo was there in scenes with them. Rowan Atkinson mentioned that his scene “with” Scooby-Doo in the chair in his office was particularly challenging as he had to remember where all the marks were for this character as he walked around the chair and interacted with Scooby. Matthew Lillard had a similar challenge when filming Shaggy’s fight scene with Scooby after he accuses Mary Jane of being a man in a mask. In some instances, there were puppet stand-ins of the character, including a Scooby head on a stick, which would be used with the cast. For Scooby-Doo walking through the airport dressed as Shaggy’s Grandma, someone walked through in the costume with a green screen mask on. Neil Fanning, voice of Scooby, was on set to read his lines out loud. Meanwhile, Scooby-Doo was being computer animated, with the animators having their own difficulties, although they did have some creative license with the character since he has never acted or behaved like a normal dog, so he could be moved in strange ways and do more comedic things. They did struggle with giving Scooby distinct expressions though, finding they had to build in muscle structure to be able to manipulate his face in the correct way.
The human cast of Fred, Velma, Shaggy, and Daphne also had to contend with making their characters literally and figuratively more three-dimensional than their 2D counterparts, as they needed to have more realistic behaviours and characteristics, making them well-rounded people, with flaws and distinct traits, not just stereotypical copies of the characters they’d seen in the animated series.
Scooby-Doo also saw the cast and crew being involved in various different stunts. For example, harnesses and wires were used for when Fred and Velma are being picked up by the monsters; there was a real rollercoaster track that Sarah Michelle Gellar had to ride on as part of her scene in the castle as Daphne; and Linda Cardellini was sprayed with water and tasked with falling off the platform in the toy factory in the opening sequence[5]. There was also the scene of Daphne, Shaggy, Mary Jane, and Scooby-Doo crashing through a window, and Daphne had a big fight scene with Zarkos the wrestler. Here, a specialist team from Hong Kong came in to help Guy Norris, the movie’s stunt co-ordinator work on choreographing this intense scene. It became a mix of fist and kick fighting with wire work[6].
There were some impressive sets built for Scooby-Doo, 25 in total across 25 locations, ranging from small laundry rooms to huge underground caverns. The rollercoaster set is probably my favourite of all of them, because I just think it’s cool that they built a working rollercoaster for a film. They filled the set with suits of armour and gargoyles, like you’d seen in an actual episode of Scooby-Doo when the gang went into a spooky, abandoned castle. The most detailed and complex set was the underground cavern which took around four months to build[7].
RECEPTION
The premiere for Scooby-Doo was held on 8th June 2002 at the Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, before being released in the US to the general public on 14th June.
Despite, or because of, Scooby-Doo being such a beloved character, the 2002 movie received mixed reviews on its release, as the move to turn the animated series into a live-action film with a computer-animated Scooby irked some viewers.
On the positive side, some enjoyed the fact that the movie was family-friendly, but still had humour that suited both the adults in the audience as well as the kids. It was said to be cheesy, but in a good way, with the story mimicking the series well, but not being afraid to poke fun at aspects of it too, like Daphne always being kidnapped, and the idea that it is always a man in a mask behind these mysteries.
However, there are plenty that disagree that Scooby-Doo is at all clever, or even enjoyable. Those who grew up with the original cartoons were the most annoyed by this strange attempt to reboot the series, finding the effects to be terrible, and the story to be too convoluted. There are quite a few unanswered questions that come up after watching Scooby-Doo, I’ll admit, because many threads of story are dropped but not picked up again. Like the brainwashing facility in the castle: was that meant to be used for the creatures so they knew how to act like humans? If it was, it didn’t work very well because when the humans are taken over by creatures, they don’t act normal – or even like those in the “training” video – at all. We also never find out why these monsters are involved in Scrappy’s plot, or how they came to be involved, or the origins of the Daemon Ritus. The coastguards not wanting to help the gang is another oddity in the story. Some of these questions may have been answered in a different cut of the film, but that doesn’t help when you’re watching the film. Many unsatisfied viewers also commented on the poor-taste humour in the film, including minor references to drugs, some low-key swearing, a few low-cut tops, and the farting and burping scene that failed to amuse some.
Kids must’ve loved this scene though, because it actually won a Kids’ Choice Award, specifically to Matthew Lillard for “Favorite Fart in a Movie”. Wow, I wonder how strong the competition was that year… There were actually three other movies nominated, and one was Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), but as I haven’t seen that or the other nominees I can’t comment if Scooby-Doo deserved the win; it’s not my area of expertise.
That wasn’t the only “stinker” that Scooby-Doo won either. The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, which ran from 1978 until 2007, didn’t let Scooby-Doo go unnoticed. Scooby-Doo was nominated for Worst Film, Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, Most Intrusive Musical Score, and Worst Resurrection of a TV Show. It won awards for Worst Screenplay for a Film Grossing More Than $100M Worldwide and Most Annoying Non-Human Character, specifically for Scrappy-Doo, although computer-generated Scooby was also nominated, alongside Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002), and Dobby the House Elf from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
There were also Golden Raspberry, or Razzie, nominations for Scooby-Doo, from those “celebrating” the worst in cinema. Here, Freddie Prinze Jr. was nominated for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Episode II, and the movie was nominated for Most Flatulent Teen-Targeted Movie, losing out to Jackass: The Movie (2002).
But it wasn’t all bad, because Scooby-Doo was nominated for awards at the Teen Choice Awards. It was nominated for Choice Movie: Comedy, with the winner being American Pie 2 (2001); and both Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr. were up for Choice Movie Actor: Comedy, but neither won. Sarah Michelle Gellar did win for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy though. Both Gellar and Prinze Jr. were nominated for Choice Movie Chemistry, but they lost to Shane West and Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember (2002). Scooby-Doo, the character, was nominated for Best Virtual Performance at the MTV Movie Awards, but the winner was Gollum from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
Despite an interesting reception from critics and audiences alike, Scooby-Doo was successful at the box office. It made $56.4 million in its first three days of release in the US, this being the biggest June debut ever at the time, beating Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), which grossed $52.8 million. Scooby-Doo came out a week before Disney Animation’s Lilo & Stitch (2002) did, so it managed to avoid tough competition initially. Scooby-Doo outperformed DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), which had been released on 24th May 2002 in the US[8]. Scooby-Doo made a total of just under $276 million against a reported budget of $84 million by the end of its run. This was seen as successful, but was not enough to compete with some of the big blockbuster hits of 2002, including Spider-Man, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, missing out on being in the Top 10 in either the worldwide or domestic box office.
LEGACY
Specifically related to this live-action Scooby-Doo movie, there have been a few experiences that came from it. The earliest one was the arrival of the rollercoaster Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast in Australia. This is fitting for two reasons: because Scooby-Doo was filmed at the studio next to the park, and because the ride itself is based on the rollercoaster in the film. It originally opened on 17th June 2002, a few days after the movie was released. It was revamped in 2018 and reopened with some new effects under the name Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster: Next Generation. It has been undergoing another refurbishment since 2023, and is due to reopen in 2025.
The most important thing to come from Scooby-Doo though is arguably its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, released in 2004. In this sequel, which was meant to be simply called Scooby-Doo Unleashed originally, the Mystery Inc. gang find themselves chasing down the Evil Masked Figure, who wants to bring about their downfall. The cast from Scooby-Doo returned to reprise their roles. New additions to the cast included Seth Green as Patrick Wisely, a love interest for Welma; and Alicia Silverstone as Heather Jasper Howe, a news reporter. Raja Gosnell and James Gunn returned to direct and write the movie respectively. There had been a deal to write and direct a third film, however, the second movie was not deemed profitable enough for another sequel, as it brought in just over $180 million at the box office. Apparently, the plot of a third film could’ve seen the gang in Scotland, with the monsters revealed to be the victims[9]. I know I watched Scooby-Doo 2 at the cinema with my family, but I haven’t watched it in years because I didn’t like it.
For the 20th anniversary of the film in 2022, Airbnb partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Productions to host three one-night stays in a recreation of the Mystery Machine. The camper van was located along the South California Coast, and each stay in June of that year was complete with a virtual greeting from Matthew Lillard; all-you-can-eat snacks, like Shaggy and Scooby-Doo would want you to have; and a late-night re-watch of the film[10].
Outside of that, Scooby-Doo has continued to exist in the entertainment industry in ways not directly related to the 2002 live-action movie. For example, the show has continued to be regenerated for new generations, like the Kids’ WB show What’s New, Scooby-Doo? (2002-06), which was the first new iteration of Scooby-Doo on television since 1991. There were also further live-action movies made, like Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) and Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010), which were television movies, with Hayley Kiyoko, who went on to be cast in Disney Channel’s Lemonade Mouth (2011), playing Velma, and Robbie Amell, who was playing Jimmy Madigan in Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP (2008-11) at the time being cast as Fred. Frank Welker voiced Scooby-Doo. Cartoon Network began airing a new animated series called Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated in 2010, which ran until 2013, and there were spin-offs like the direct-to-video films Daphne & Velma (2018), starring Sarah Jeffery from Disney Channel’s Descendants franchise as Daphne, and Sarah Gilman from Disney’s I Didn’t Do It (2014-15) as Velma.
More recently, we’ve had newer animated series, such as the Cartoon Network and HBO Max series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? running from 2019 until 2021, and Velma (2023-24), an HBO Max spin-off series focusing on Velma, with Mindy Kaling voicing the title role. A new animated film titled Scoob! (2020) was released in May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, having a limited theatrical release because of this. This film featured big names in the voice cast, including Zac Efron as Fred, Amanda Seyfried as Daphne, Will Forte as Shaggy, and Gina Rodriguez as Velma. Other Hanna-Barbera characters also featured in this film, such as Mark Wahlberg voicing The Blue Falcon, and Jason Isaacs voicing Dick Dastardly. Frank Welker once again voiced Scooby-Doo. Scoob! received mixed reviews, and a prequel called Scoob! Holiday Haunt was later cancelled.
Scooby-Doo as a franchise has also appeared at other theme parks across the world. For example, the characters used to appear in the simulator ride The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera at Universal Orlando from 1990 until 2002. The attraction still remains, but has been rethemed a couple of times since. It currently houses Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. An interactive dark ride called Scooby-Doo’s Haunted Mansion existed at seven amusement parks, including Canada’s Wonderland and Six Flags in St. Louis. It was later replaced in all parks, except for Parque Warner Madrid where it remains as La Aventura de Scooby-Doo. You can also currently ride the trackless dark ride Scooby-Doo: The Museum of Mysteries at Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi, which opened in 2018.
There are numerous comic books and items of merchandise that feature characters from Scooby-Doo, like t-shirts, mugs, and DVDs and books of the films and series, showing that Scooby-Doo is still holding strong, decades after the character first came to screens.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Scooby-Doo as a live-action movie went some way in modernising the character and the franchise as a whole.
The casting in the 2002 film was pretty perfect, and we could easily believe that those actors were the Mystery Inc. gang. Even if Scooby-Doo perhaps didn’t work so well as a CGI character, computer animation was all the rage in the early 2000s, with many studios using those years to experiment with this medium, which has now become commonplace.
It would seem that particularly millennials have revisited Scooby-Doo in recent years and found they love it, partly due to the casting, and in part due to the production team that was involved in it. Maybe it will only be the children who grew up with this film who continue to be its biggest fans.
Some might call Scooby-Doo unwatchable. Others might proclaim that it was a “genius” piece of movie-making. For me, although I like this film, I wouldn’t go quite that far!
REFERENCES
[1] Credit: Tierney Bricker, ‘Zoinks! We’re Revealing 22 Secrets About Scooby-Doo’, EOnline.com, 14th June 2022.
[2] Credit: Jim Korkis, ‘The Origin of Scooby-Doo’, CartoonResearch.com, 1st May 2020.
[3] Credit: Tierney Bricker, ‘Zoinks! We’re Revealing 22 Secrets About Scooby-Doo’, EOnline.com, 14th June 2022.
[4] Credit: Tangalooma Island Resort, ‘Spooky Island – The Scooby Doo Movie’, Tangalooma.com, 5th May 2017.
[5] Credit: Warner Bros., “Scooby Doo: Unmasking the Mystery”, from Scooby-Doo (2002) UK DVD (2002).
[6] Credit: Warner Bros., “Daphne Fight Scene”, from Scooby-Doo (2002) UK DVD (2002).
[7] Credit: Warner Bros., “Scary Places”, from Scooby-Doo (2002) UK DVD (2002).
[8] Credit: Richard Natale, ‘‘Scooby-Doo’ Fetches Biggest June Debut’, LATimes.com, 17th June 2002.
[9] Credit: Shane Romanchick, ‘James Gunn Reveals ‘Scooby-Doo 2’s’, Original Title For 20th Anniversary’, Collider.com, 28th March 2024.
[10] Credit: Airbnb, ‘Jump back to 2002 and join Matthew Lillard in Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine’, News.Airbnb.com, 8th June 2022.
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