Aliya provides a rundown of 10 enjoyable Scooby-Doo animated movies.
Scrappy isn’t invited…
For a Great Dane, Scooby-Doo has had an impressive innings.
It seems all the big stars want to have a crack at confounding those meddling kids.
I love him, my daughter loves him, even our dog loves him.
Hes still far out, man, as Shaggy would say.
But there are also some nasty undead visitors worthy of George A Romero.
Mark Hamill also provides some voice-work hes a Scooby regular.
Its dedicated to Messick, who died four years earlier.
Scott Innes handled Scooby-duties here until 2001, when Frank Welker took over.
Its also got some great comic moments, and the biggest Thanksgiving turkey youll ever see.
Even Scooby and Shaggy might struggle to eat it.
The gang decide to have a holiday in Australia and catch the Vampire Rock music festival in the outback.
The Hex Girls are one of the bands in the festival, and its good to see them again.
Casey Kasem returns too as Shaggy.
The baddies are mask-wearing miscreants and everything is kept very light.
A very untaxingScoobyfilm with only the mildest element of peril.
A lot of the delight of the modernDoo!movies is in the exotic locations.
Guest voices include Teri Garr, Adam West, and Tia Carrere.
Plus its good to see Velma getting some appreciation for her brilliance for a change.
Which makes sense, when you think about it travelling the world in your Mystery Machine cant be cheap.
Its a real shock when ghost pirates appear and kidnap his parents.
You always wanted to see Scooby Doo do a martial arts movie, right?
But at the opening feast the fearsome Black Samurai appears and theres a new mystery to be solved.
George Takei also does some great voice-work.
The fighting sequences are fun, and the Black Samurai is a pretty scary character.
The voice performances are full of energy and the songs are singalong material.
Plus the whole vegetable flavoured ice-cream subplot is as entertaining as it sounds.
Its a movie-homage of epic proportions as Shaggy gets the limelight.
But maybe this new incarnation ofScooby-Doois as much for the parents as the children.
And he shows no sign of stopping.
There are other adventures coming up set in the worlds of puppetry and Wrestlemania.
Wherever modern life takes us, Scooby follows.
And then gets scared and needs to be persuaded to take part with a Scooby Snack or two.
Scooby really is the Everydog of our times, isnt he?
