Scooby-Doo fans I think that it's fair to say that we've been having it a bit rough lately with the release of Velma being so bad that it's actually gotten a lower score then Dragonball Evolution on IMDB. However there is one good thing to come out of that show and that's the fact that it's made the film tat i'm about to review for you all today look good by comparison and so then join me as I review the film that is to my knowledge at least the first Scooby-Doo product not to feature Scooby-Doo actually in it with the film in question being called simply just "Daphne & Velma" enjoy.
The plot of the film is new girl Daphne befriends loner Velma and the two have to solve a mystery of why a bunch of their schools smartest kids or disappearing all before it;s far to late. 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 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 decent at best but at the same time this films plot also felt pretty generic and bland as well as being rather uninspired in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Sarah Jeffery as Daphne Blake , Sarah Gilman as Velma Dinkley and Vanessa Marano as Carol. Also starring in this film is Brian Stepanek as Nedley Blake , Nadine Ellis as Elizabeth Blake , Arden Myrin as Principal Piper , Brooks Forester as Tobias Bloom , Lucius Baston as Mr. Nussbaum , Courtney Dietz as Mikayla , Stephen Ruffin as Nathan , Fray Forde as Ryder , Evan Castelloe as Griffin Griffiths , Daniel Salyers as Mike , Adam Faison as Spencer , Jessica Goei as Olivia , Mickie Pollock as Two-Mop Maggie and Tucker Halbrooks as A Skater Guy.
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 thew actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films cast quite clearly trying there best to make this films script work but the issue is that this films script gives the cast absolutely nothing to work with and as such they can't really deliver great performances.
Doing the CGI for this film is a small studio called Entropy Studio who have worked on the show Cable Girls. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad even for a direct to DVD film since this films CGI just looks creepy at best and terrible at it's downright worst.
This film dares to do the impossible and thats make a Scooby-Doo without actually having Scooby-Doo himself appear in the film. Which is weird because it more then meets Warner Bros. Pictures mandate for including the character in that it's a family friendly film that won't hurt the Scooby-Doo brand name and so then there's really no reason as to why Scooby-Doo himself couldn't even be in this film altho given just how bad this films CGI even is maybe its for the best that he didn't appear in this film since he'd just come of looking terrible.
This film does something that the Velma TV series doesn't do and that's keep the characters as we originally know them to be. Since the Velma and Daphne in this film are both alot closer to their original cartoon counterparts then they are any other versions of the characters and that is something that just isn't the case for the new Velma TV show where both characters are so radically different from their original cartoon counterparts that they might as well as be two completely and newly created characters because they act nothing like the Daphne and Velma that we know and like for the original cartoon shows and that is something that just isn't the case for this film.
This films mystery really isn't that much of a mystery since the film gives you no clues as to who to this films main villain actually is. Which for a mystery film is something that you really need to do even more so for a Scooby-Doo film since the Scooby-Doo brand was built upon teaching kids the art of deduction but even so you still need to give us clues so that we at least have something to go of off and when you don;t do that it just makes it look like that your just making it up as you go along which makes everything else just seem lazy and rather unimportant.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running tome of exactly one hour and fifteen minuets and twelve seconds. Which even for a direct to DVD Scooby-Doo movie is a bit on the short side since this film has so much to set up as well tell a great or in this case even passable mystery and tell a good story and it just can't do that and as a result some things do fall through the cracks like the mystery not being that good and as such I really do think that film should have at the very least have been one hour and thirty minuets long.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have t actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not bad. Since while this film does have an awful lot of bad jokes in it this film does also have quite few decent funny moments within it as well which does help to make make this film at the very a least somewhat a really entertaining piece of Scooby-Doo media in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall with Velma now showing the Scooby-Doo what a truly bad piece of Scooby-Doo media looks like I think that alot of the die hard Scooby-Doo fanbase will be more then willing to take another look at this film but with that being said this is still a pretty bad Scooby-Doo film in my freaking opinions 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 means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 4.5 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 as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.