Scoob!

I have been looking forward to this movie for 2 years but I thought it was average. Firstly, why does every film have to be a superhero movie? A classic Scooby Doo plot of unmasking a bad guy would have done the trick here. One of the things that was great about the original films is that the villains were actually scary. I know he is a Hanna Barbera product, but I'm sorry, [spoiler]Dick Dastardly[/spoiler] is not scary. Second, a lot of the jokes just weren't funny. They obviously tried to appeal to both adults and kids as there were some more 'adult' jokes, but for the most part they just landed flat, which made the film start to get boring. The live action movies struck a much better balance here, with adult humor mixed with jokes for kids. I also thought Scooby talked too much (he seemed to have more dialogue than Freddy, Velma and Daphne, and he's a dog). Overall the voice acting and animation was good, but the writing and plot were a huge let down. Both of the live action films were better and they are 15 years old. Too bad.