Not Rated
Starring Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle, John Cena, Triple H, Michael Cole, Kane, The Miz, A.J. Lee, Vince McMahon
Directed by Brandon Vietti
The Story:
Scooby (Welker) ends up winning a contest on a WWE video game and wins a trip to WWE City! Shaggy (Lillard) an Scooby beg for the gang to tag along, bringing much persuasive evidence that they've never asked for anything in return and have always been used as bait to solve mysteries.
Point: Scooby & Shaggy!
So they head to WWE City and meet the superstars. But with a mysterious ghost bear plaguing the town, and Scooby apparently the prime suspect in the theft of the WWE Championship, it's up to Shaggy, Fred (Welker), Daphne (DeLisle) and Velma (Cohn) to clear their canine companion and lay the smackdown on the mysterious bear!
Hanna Barbera teams with WWE Studios to make a movie that's fun for the whole family.
WWE Wrestlers have been compared to cartoons over the years, so it makes sense to go animated.
Hook kids to the fun of WWE, and you might have a fan for life.
Worked on me.
:)
And the WWE offered up some of their best, A-listers John Cena, Triple H and even the Chairman himself, Vince McMahon!
Other wrestlers, like Sin Cara (who is instrumental to the movie) are shown but not given any dialogue.
The wrestlers do quite fine for themselves as voice actors, given the respective size and importance of their roles. I would say The Miz comes out as the wrestler who seemingly has the most fun in the movie, and has the best lines.
But first and foremost, as the title suggests, this is a Scooby Doo cartoon.
Frank Welker leads the team, still as the intrepid Fred but now also pulling double duty as Scooby. He is able to differentiate between the two nicely, and I like when the voices are distinct enough that you don't realize it's the same voice.
Lillard was perfectly cast as a live-action Shaggy when Scooby Doo came to the big screen years ago. He does the memory of Casey Kasem proud as he brings Shaggy to life for a new generation.
While I mentioned in my Scooby Doo review that the main cast did voices for years, eventually they all get replaced.
:(
DeLisle has become the latest Daphne, and I was amused to see that Cohn has taken up the mantle of Velma since the early 2000s. Yes, Natalie from The Facts of Life.
My childhood is converging as I am now an adult!
Overall, I thought it was pretty well done, and I'm looking forward to the next 45 years of Scooby Doo!
Final Grade: Solid B
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Hey, I liked it. I would watch it again. :)
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