Hey there Scooby fans it's time to review something that isn't related to Christmas in anyway and i think i've found the perfect thing and this special is also the first ever Scooby-Doo! special ever produced here is my review of Scooby Goes hollywood.
The plot of this special is Shaggy and Scooby leave there show in pursuit of fame and fortune and produce pilot films each starring Scooby. This movie is really freaking meta it's hard not to get sucked in and just have fun with it and it's refreshing that there really isn't a mystery to solve it's just Scooby and Shaggy going out on there own but the movie does loose points for Shaggy acting out of character.
Reprising there roles for the special are Don Messick as Scooby-Doo , Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers , Frank Welker as Fred Jones , Heather North Kenney as Daphne Blake and Pat Stevens as Velma Dinkley and they are joined by Rip Taylor. In all honesty the original cast kill it in this special Don and Casey especially since the film focuses on them the rest of the gang turn in good performances as well you can never go wrong with Frank Welker but for me it's Rip Taylor who let the cast down just because whenever he was on screen all i heard was Rip Taylor and not the character.
The animation in this special wasn't the best i've seen Hanna-Barbera do better animation then this but to be fair it wasn't the worst to come from the company either it just felt very bland it just felt like this was ordered by the network and not something that the team wanted to do so to get back at them they put little effort into the animation. This is Scooby-Doo so there has to be some form of effort put into it and there is a true passion for the characters in there but not as much as you'd see in an episode of the show.
Now this special does something that the show and the other movies didn't do and that's give us a look at how the gang met Scooby and it's something that i think is great because it gave an extra layer to the characters and it's something they actually did in the terrible live action prequel movies well the first one at least so it is cannon.
The comedy in this special for me was all over the place things that should have been funny weren't and things that weren't funny had a laugh track over it so people found them funny i will admit however that the parody films that Scooby does for me at least were pretty funny and since i'm a fan of Richard Donner's Superman i loved the parody of that movie the best even if the outfit he's wearing makes him look like Aquaman.
Unlike all other entries in the Scooby franchise this one is a full on musical and i have to say that some of cast can sing others not so much and i'm thankful they didn't give Rip Taylor a musical number but for me the best song was a song called "Scooby-Doo, We're Missing You" it's a great song and it's full on easter eggs like for example the song is done to the tune of the theme song to the new Scooby-Doo Movies and they use actual clips from the franchise.
Overall i;d say if your a Scooby fan then this is might be worth checking out since it was made to celebrate ten years of Scooby-Doo but if your not a fan of the franchise then this film/special won't make you one for me tho it gets a 6.5 out of 10.