Crossovers are a thing that happen all the time in the world of pro wrestling sometimes there good and sometimes there bad heck just look at the lame "crossover" WWE did with Stranger Things from this past January. Yet not not alot of people remember the fact that they did two crossover films with another beloved franchise with it being the second film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as this film doesn't get that much attention from both Scooby-Doo fans and WWE fans and so then join me as I review the film that really should have been a Wacky Races film with the film in question being called simply just "Scooby-Doo! And WWE Curse Of The Speed Demon" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when the WRESTLING company WWE starts doing extreme races with there stars it's up to Mystery Inc to stop this mystery demon and find out who they are while Shaggy and Scooby are drafted to help The Undertaker win the competition. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. There are things about the plot that don't make sense like why would a wrestling company want to get involved with racing as while yes WWE have put a car themed game in WWE: Crush Hour it was exactly that a game where as here it's a film and therefor there does need to be some reason given as to why they want to get involved with racing in the first place and yet the film doesn't give us any. Yet the films plot can at times be fun as it is fun seeing all of the wrestlers have cars that are uniquely tied to there wrestling characters but at the same time tho the film does nothing with it's plot making the plot seem more like an afterthought when it comes to racing so much so that you do forget what the main plot of the film is even meant to be alot of the time due to the fact that the film doesn't focus on it all that often and yet when it does that's when we see the few brief glimpses of just how much fun that this films plot really could have been with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers. Also starring in this film is Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake , Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley, Mark Calaway as The Undertaker , Paul Levesque as Triple H , Stephanie McMahon as Herself , Dustin Runnels as Goldust , Stephen Farrelly as Sheamus , Cody Runnels as Stardust , Virgil Runnels Jr. as Dusty Rhodes , Mike Mizanin as The Miz , Saraya Bevis as Paige , Edwin Coates as Diego , Mascarita Sagrada as El Torito , Orlando Nieves as Fernando , CJ Perry as Lana , Miroslav Petrov Barnyashev as Rusev . Sean Coulthard as Michael Cole , Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah as Kofi Kingston , Vince McMahon as Himself , Eric Bauza as Big Earl , Steve Blum as Inferno and Phil Morris as Walter Qualls.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. To be frank the acting in this film is alot more better then what it really had any right to be as due to the fact that alot of the actors in this films aren't trained actors it would have been very easy for the acting from them to be really bad and yet alot of them do turn in some really good performances granted there never going to win awards for acting but people like Saraya and Mark Calaway among a few more do turn in some really good performances with the rest of the acting from the WWE people being just flat out bad which is what you would expect from them in the first place. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers as he does manage t get his character down perfectly with this being something that does make sense as he would have bee voicing the character for close to ten years when this film was being made and therefor he would of course know how best to perform the character with him and Frank Welker having some great chemistry together with there scenes together being some of the best acted scenes in the whole entire film with the acting thats in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at Digital eMation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. This films animation much like it's acting and plot are at best lackluster as while there is indeed clear effort and thought put into this films animation with the film even mixing hand drawn 2D animation with 3D CGI really well but where the films animation take a huge step down interms of quality is quite literally in every single other aspects as the backgrounds just look flat and uninteresting and the films character animation whilst it's not that bad does still look really cheap. With that being the best word to describe this films animation as even tho Warner Bros had a huge company in WWE helping them produce this film the whole thing just looks like it was made cheaply with alot of the scenes not having that many people in them and when they do there in backgrounds that don't have that much detail in them both of which are things that do make the film appear to be more cheap to make then what it might have been. However to be fair tho when this film does ant t have some good looking animation like for example in Inferno's car the stinger used on the car does look really good and the designs for all of the characters including the WWE characters do look really good with the WWE stars looking as close to there real life counterparts as is humanly possible however the rest of the films animation is clearly a huge step down interms of quality when compared to the animation in Wrestlemania Mystery.

Look it's clear as day that Stephanie McMahon even in real life does have a huge ego as they even gave her a whopping sixty minuets all to herself at this years Hall Of Fame. Therefor making her one of the villains with the other person that is known for having a huge ego Triple H is something that does make sense as does the fact that there characters on TV at the time were also heels yet at the same time tho it doesn't really help the case that Stephanie McMahon herself is trying to build that she has no ego as if that was the case then she wouldn't have been one of the main villains in this film and while her and her husband being the villains is something that does indeed make sense from a character point of view when you take into account that she never allow herself or her to be arrested due to her last name then it does make you wonder why the makers of this film chose to have them be the villains of the film. Heck much like in the previous team up film Daphne even has a bond with one of the superstars in this case it's Stephanie McMahon herself which unlike the bond she had with John Cena in the previous film where it did somewhat tie into the main plot of the film here it has no impact on the film at all with it's sole purpose for being in the film being to stop the gang from actually trying to solve the mystery when something like this could have been used to explore Daphne's friendship with Velma something which they do hint at in this film but for one reason or another they don't go all the way with it with them only bringing it up near the end of the film when it doesn't feel earned and while it does make sense for Stephanie to try and befriend Daphne as they are close to being the same character it would have worked all the more better if the film went all the way with that idea and not just leave it feeling half baked and underdeveloped.
You can't have anything to do with Scooby-Doo and not have a mystery with the mystery element in this film not being the weakest the Scooby-Doo franchise has every had the Daphne & Velma film has that covered but its a very close second. As this film barely focuses on it's mystery at all due to the fact that we only get ONE scene in the whole entire film where the gang actively go out looking for clues with the rest of the film having the clues come in around them which isn't as fun to see and it does therefor mean that we the audience are never given the chance to work out who did it for ourselfs with the film having to spell out who did it and when it does that it makes no sense as the only clues that they find don't point to Triple H and Stephanie as they could point to quite literally anyone of the films characters as the only two clues that they find are brimstone from Inferno's explosions and talcum powder and that's it. If the film really wanted to make Triple H and Stephanie the bad guys of the film then there should have been more clues for the gang to find as while there is something to do with electronics found later on in the film that is also something that does come out of left field and yet if the makers of this film did put there time and effort into giving us a genuinely good mystery complete with showing the gang finding lots of clues like they did in Wrestlemania Mystery then it would have been more of a better film as the one thing that you want a Scooby-Doo piece of media to have is a good mystery yet thats something that this film just don't give us, with the thing that would have made it better and be some fun easter eggs for wrestling fans being if some of the clues were ties directly to Triple H's and Stephanie's past as on screen characters as then we the audience would have been able to work out just who the demon is in the first place.

To give this film some form of credit whilst it is a direct sequel to Wrestlemania Mystery you don't have to have seen that film to fully understand what's goin on in this film as apart from one or two references there's nothing that connects the two films. With the film even finding more of a balance between trying to appease the Scooby-Doo fand and the WWE as we do get plenty of action with the WWE stars heck you could even make the case that The Undertaker is the main character of the film as it's him that Inferno attacks first and it's him that does try to fight Inferno at several points in the film with the pair even having a third act fight fight whilst the rest of Mystery Inc are just trying to survive the race. That is something that could be seen as being both a bad thing and a good thing it's a good thing in that it's giving the WWE fans more of a reason to stick around and watch the film but at the same time it's a bad thing as it's Scooby-Doo that's the title character and not The Undertaker therefor wouldn't have made more sense for the Mystery Inc gang to team up with The Undertaker during the fight with The Undertaker using his muscle to keep Inferno distracted while the Mystery Inc gang use there brains to build a trap as that way both sets of fans would go home happy with the film instead of choosing one over the other and while it is cool seeing The Undertaker do both The Last Ride and the Tombstone in this film it would have worked just as fine if we saw him team up with Scooby-Doo and it's something that would have worked as we did see Scooby-Doo team up with several wrestlers in the last team up film to take on that films villain so why not do it again and have both sets of fans go home happy, however having The Undertake be the one to deliver the final blow is also something that does work well for his character in this film.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and thirty two seconds. Which again to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact same bogstandard running time for alot if not all of these direct to DVD Scooby-Doo movies and therefor this film having the running time is something that des make sense and with this film having a very thinly drawn out plot it doesn't need to have that long of a running time in the first place even tho it could have benefitted from it was while the film does indeed have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time. As the film doesn't really use it's running all that wisely due to the fact that it doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot when it had more then enough screen time to do exactly that heck alot of the direct to DVD Scooby-Doo movies that have similar running times to this film do it and yet this film just doesn't as it's alot more focused on giving the WWE wrestlers alot of action scenes instead of giving time to develop both it's plot and mystery both of which are things that would have made the film be alot more better as if the film did devote more time to its mystery then it could have given the film some reply value and it the film devoted some time to its plot then it would made the film alot more stronger. This is also something that does effect the films character development as well as none of the characters get any kind of character development which is fine for the Scooby-Do characters as they have countless films and TV shows to get there character development but for these versions of the WWE stars they should have gotten something in the way of character development and yet all of them are the exact same people coming out of the film then they are coming into the film but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have t actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty OK at best. The film does have some decent jokes with alot of the stuff that Scooby and Shaggy get up to both prior and during the race being a good example but at the same time tho alot more of the film comedy is just weak like for example El Torito rides Scooby like a bull while saying Scooby's name which yes is a cute moment but it's not as funny as the film seems to think it is and the film has a recurring jokes with both Goldust and Stardust disappear at will just annoy Sheamus which is a good idea for a joke but the film does nothing funny with it. Look to be frank it would be hard to say just what the best joke of the film is but at a stretch the best joke of the film is during the third act final race when Inferno lands on a tricked out Mystery Machine to avoid The Undertaker but instead of cowering and doing nothing both Scooby hits the button that controls the windscreen wipers with then hitting Inferno in the face which is a cute little joke and it is something that they would do yet even that joke feels weak with the film not even taking full advantage of the fact that it's guest characters are all these fairly well known wrestlers as they could have got some humor out of playing this whole racing contest as if it was a wrestling storyline complete with both face and heel turns but they don't heck they don't even play it safe with it's jokes they just do nothing with not only the films best joke but none of the rest of the films jokes as the rest of the films jokes are just as bad in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a film that would have been more at home with being a Wacky Races film then being a Scooby-Doo film as that would then explain why the WWE are having it's wrestlers race cars with this film being something that would have made for an entertaining Wacky Races film but makes for a dull Scooby-Doo film in my freaking anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.