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Post by futurerocker on Nov 29, 2018 23:27:36 GMT -5
For me it's one of the worst Scooby Doo movies. Not as bad as Goblin King, Samurai Sword, Pirates Ahoy! or Frankencreepy, but it's horribly bland. The Gang behaves like a bunch of robots with their wooden, overstretched and oversimplified dialogues. The mystery wasn't very original, the Chupacabra's design looks outrageously wrong, and argh, that robot parrot and these stupid scenes in the ancient city. It's especially underwhelming, because it was created just 2 years after the Cyber Chase - the last of the great Mook Animation era movies. Definitely Scooby Don't. I agree with a lot of your points here. This movie isn't very memorable and the character felt very one dimensional and boring. It definitely one of the weaker movies and thankfully this movie seems to go by quick. It also doesn't help this movie came out after some of the best movies in the series so far which I think hurt it more.
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Post by wileyk209 on Sept 6, 2019 20:46:30 GMT -5
Regarding the Chupacabra, while the Wiki says Frank Welker did the voice, I believe the reason he wasn't credited for the role was because they just used those old stock monster roaring and growling sound effects Welker recorded for H-B in the 70s, and they are included on the Hanna-Barbera SoundFX Library CD set, which Hacienda Post obviously made heavy use of on this movie. With that said, Hacienda Post is pretty good at emulating the Hanna-Barbera atmosphere, as they also demonstrated with "The Flintstones on the Rocks" and the 2001-2003 "Dexter's Laboratory" episodes. A shame this was the only direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie they worked on; they're a pretty good sound-editing team and can be quite versatile. A contradiction; it turns out those monster roaring sounds were actually made by Ted Cassidy, a.k.a. Lurch of "The Addams Family," for the 1978 "Godzilla" series Hanna-Barbera produced! So I updated Scoobypedia to mention Ted Cassidy's Godzilla sounds being used for the Chupacabra, especially since Ted Cassidy is already on Scoobypedia for voicing Lurch in "Wednesday is Missing."
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Post by matt on Jan 20, 2021 12:52:48 GMT -5
This one gets some hate from people, but I really like it a lot. Very nostalgic for me. Obviously the Chupacabra was an inaccurate representation, but what do you expect from that Mr. Smiley guy lol. He doesn't seem to understand a lot about other cultures... I will say that Heather North's performance was actually a little rough in this one, even in comparison to the Legend of the Vampire where I thought she did well. It's something that comes with age I suppose, and I am glad she was included in spite of that. Another great one!
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Post by Ark on Aug 21, 2022 23:47:12 GMT -5
I like this movie, and many of the odd things which happen can actually be explained by the fact that the villains are silly people to begin with. There is something that I've always found odd but hit me like a lightning strike of clarity today. The beginning of the film shows dial-up email connecting all the gang together for a mystery. Now, it was kinda cool but also very different and already somewhat outdated of a medium by then. Well, here's the deal. Three years prior, Warner had just merged with... you got it... AOL! They're definitely using AOL to meet up. You've got mail. It's AOL. And the merger proved to be a very bad business move, with the following article discussing the year this movie was released. It's an interesting tidbit that ties this all together for me and frankly helps make sense of the entire beginning of the movie for me. finance.yahoo.com/news/day-market-history-aol-time-173805910.html
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Post by wileyk209 on Aug 22, 2022 19:50:40 GMT -5
I like this movie, and many of the odd things which happen can actually be explained by the fact that the villains are silly people to begin with. There is something that I've always found odd but hit me like a lightning strike of clarity today. The beginning of the film shows dial-up email connecting all the gang together for a mystery. Now, it was kinda cool but also very different and already somewhat outdated of a medium by then. Well, here's the deal. Three years prior, Warner had just merged with... you got it... AOL! They're definitely using AOL to meet up. You've got mail. It's AOL. And the merger proved to be a very bad business move, with the following article discussing the year this movie was released. It's an interesting tidbit that ties this all together for me and frankly helps make sense of the entire beginning of the movie for me. finance.yahoo.com/news/day-market-history-aol-time-173805910.htmlI don't know if it's dial-up, because I know Broadband connections already existed back in 2003 (we had one in my home), but it's likely at least one or two of the gang members still had a dial-up connection. And there was also the way despite starting out as email, it ends up becoming as if they were instant-messaging rather than sending each other emails. "Arthur" tended to do the same thing as well (treat emailing like instant-messaging). Also, by the time that movie was released, the AOL Time Warner merger was already getting into problems, very much like the current Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
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Post by Ark on Aug 22, 2022 23:47:59 GMT -5
I like this movie, and many of the odd things which happen can actually be explained by the fact that the villains are silly people to begin with. There is something that I've always found odd but hit me like a lightning strike of clarity today. The beginning of the film shows dial-up email connecting all the gang together for a mystery. Now, it was kinda cool but also very different and already somewhat outdated of a medium by then. Well, here's the deal. Three years prior, Warner had just merged with... you got it... AOL! They're definitely using AOL to meet up. You've got mail. It's AOL. And the merger proved to be a very bad business move, with the following article discussing the year this movie was released. It's an interesting tidbit that ties this all together for me and frankly helps make sense of the entire beginning of the movie for me. finance.yahoo.com/news/day-market-history-aol-time-173805910.htmlI don't know if it's dial-up, because I know Broadband connections already existed back in 2003 (we had one in my home), but it's likely at least one or two of the gang members still had a dial-up connection. And there was also the way despite starting out as email, it ends up becoming as if they were instant-messaging rather than sending each other emails. "Arthur" tended to do the same thing as well (treat emailing like instant-messaging). Also, by the time that movie was released, the AOL Time Warner merger was already getting into problems, very much like the current Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Yes, AOL was already falling behind. Was there a broadband version of AOL? I'm not aware that there was, but the mail-audio-message thing was very exclusive to AOL from what I recall. Yahoo and Hotmail didn't play a "you got mail", at least not by default.
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Post by wileyk209 on Aug 23, 2022 7:15:51 GMT -5
Yes, AOL was already falling behind. Was there a broadband version of AOL? I'm not aware that there was, but the mail-audio-message thing was very exclusive to AOL from what I recall. Yahoo and Hotmail didn't play a "you got mail", at least not by default. Well, it sounds like the Scooby gang members just recorded their own "you've got mail"/"you have mail" notifications incorporating their catchphrase (save Fred, whose goes "All right! You got mail!") But yeah, the AOL "You got mail" notification has left a big impact on pop culture. The Arthur episode "D.W.'s Library Card" had librarian Ms. Turner's computer make such an announcement (albeit in a robotic voice), the Fairly OddParents episode "Odd, Odd West" had a parody of it come from a 19th-century attempt at a computer "Ya'll got a parcel!", and "The Simpsons" went as far as to have the actual guy who voiced the notifications, Elwood Edwards, voice the titular "Virtual Doctor" in a computer program Lisa uses. "You've got... leprosy!"
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