Scooby-Doo fans usually we only get one Scooby-Doo movie a year however this year we luckily got two Scooby-Doo movies. This is one that I was honestly expecting to be released digitally in at least a few weeks and so you can imagine my surprise when I saw that it was online well now and well since I have a tradition of reviewing each new Scooby-Doo movie the first chance that I get I now present to you my review of "Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo" enjoy.
The plot of the movie is after wrapping up another mystery The Mystery Inc gang along with Elvira Mistress Of The Dark find themselves being chased by giant Pumpkins and so they have to find out who did it before the pumpkins eat them. I'll full on admit the story was alot more fun then what I thought that it was going to be since I honestly thought that the story would be rather simple and dull but no this was actually really fun.
Of course we have our regular Scooby-Doo voice cast that being Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones , Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers , Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake and Kate Micucci and Velma Dinkley. Joining the cast for this film is Cassandra Peterson as Elvira , Bill Nye as Himself Dwight Schultz as Jonathon Crane / Scarecrow , David Herman as The Sheriff and Fred Tatasciore as The Head Jack O Lantern.
The voice acting from everyone I thought was really good and after having an animated Scooby-Doo film without the main cast it was good to hear there voices again. I honestly feel that the regular cast were great in this film just because the script for the film is one of the better Scooby-Doo direct to DVD film scripts and because of that the regular and the guest cast could turn in really fun performances and to me that's a great thing.
The animation for this film was handled by Digital Emation who have worked on alot of Scooby-Doo films and TV shows. Just like with the story I wasn't expecting the animation in this film to be that good but no I was actually pretty blown away by how good the animation was to me this film with this animation deserved a big screen release that's how good the animation was in my opinion but I will admit some of the characters thickly drawn lines were a tad bit distracting in my opinion.
Just going back to when the trailer for the film was first released I had no idea that freaking Elvira Mistress Of The Dark would be making another appearance in this franchise let alone be a main character. As a horror fan I loved that they included her just because having more Elvira is always a good thing in any film but I wish that they would have had her share a scene with Bill Nye just because those two are huge eighties and nineties icons and so it would have been pretty cool to see them share a scene together in this film.
I think that pretty much everyone who saw the trailer had some sort of idea that this film would be fun as hell and well fun is the best to describe this film. Since it is really fun I honestly cannot remember the last time that I had fun while watching a direct to DVD Scooby-Doo not like the others are bad but not all of them are fun which is a shame because that is what makes this film a joy to watch because there are alot of moments in this film that are just fun.
I'm not going to spoil anything since I do feel that this film is worth watching but there is a scene very early on that I didn't expect. To me this scene was quite shocking because of the characters that it involves because we've seen these characters before and not once have we seen one of them act like how they do in this one scene which to me was honestly rather refreshing and it totally makes sense in the context of the film.
Perhaps the best kept secret about the last three films is that they actually form a trilogy which I don't mind spoiling since it doesn't spoil anything regarding the plot. I'm honestly shocked that they chose to make a trilogy of films and not really tell people or give people clues but that's honestly a good thing since it now gives people a chance to go back and re-watch the other two films just incase they missed out on any clues in the other films.
Perhaps the weakest aspect of this film is it's mystery which for a Scooby-Doo piece of media should never be the case. To me the mystery in this film was so hastily put together that they didn't bother to give you any clues which is something that you should always do regardless of if you in the Scooby-Doo franchise or not and that to me lade the mystery less fun to work out because the reveal of who it is comes out of nowhere.
This film is an hour and sixteen minuets long and I have to say that the time just flew by before I even knew it there was twenty minuets of the film left and it felt like I had just pressed play on the film. I honestly feel that this running time was perfect for this film just because it allowed the film to be fun and to have those creative and really funny moments which is something that you wouldn't get in the film was longer then say an hour a half and yes I loved the comedy in this film as well since I found my self laughing alot during the film.
Overall yeah this is a really good and fun movie and it's one that I would highly recommend anyone to watch even if it's just to kill some time. Yes there are some bad things in this film as i've covered in this film but that doesn't stop the film from being enjoyable and being fun to watch and so this film gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me. All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page or from Google Images and I honestly have to say use whichever website you want to use for images from this film but I would say that Google Images does have more images from the film tho even tho they won't always be high quality images and I have to say that I don't recommend using the method that I use to watch the film your much better of waiting until October 6th to watch the film nor do I condone the way that I watched the film either.
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