What's New Scooby-Doo?
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is probably the biggest animated surprise I've seen in recent years. Before watching it I would have never thought there was a way of recreating these characters in a new, interesting way. The show managed to not only breath new life in to archetypal characters everyone already knows by heart, but also manages to put them in engaging stories and develop them as characters. I cared about the characters in Mystery Incorporated, and wanted to know how they'd get through things. Pretty impressive given this is the Scooby gang we're talking about.
I'm 20 years old now, and I'm not a hardcore Scooby fan. Of course I loved the Hanna-Barbera cartoons when I was a child, but they didn't exactly have incredible lasting power as I got older. Various other attempts to revise the characters likewise didn't impress me much either. 2002's "What's New Scooby-Doo?" tried updating the stories, and character designs for modern viewers but fell flat,...
Why not Blu-Ray?
I was pleasantly surprised with Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated when it debuted on the Cartoon Network. The clever writing paid homage to the original series and much of the cartoon's long history. We even saw glimpses of other vintage Hanna Barbera cartoons pop up now and then. The animation style of the characters is a little too stylistic for my taste, being a bit too angular but it is nice to see them in their original clothes. The backgrounds are bright and a bit impressionistic but they work well and add greatly to the artistic feel of the series.
Unfortunately much of this artistry is greatly diminished on standard definition DVD. These brilliant colors and great animation scream for Blu-Ray presentation. As a long time collector of nearly every Scooby presentation from Warner Brothers, I struggled to put off buying the piecemeal release of this iteration of the franchise but succumbed eventually. Now we have a new release of the first season in a complete package, but...
Overdone and Terrible!
The Scooby Doo franchise has already been overdone with too many direct to video films but THIS?! This is the absolute worst Scooby Doo series or any part of the franchise I have ever seen! I myself am not a huge Scooby Doo fans because I already thought the characters were bone- dry but this show is AWFUL! The monsters are gruesome, the setting is dark, the gang is not traveling and stuck in a dumb town, the characters are mean- spirited, the dialogue is awkward, and when it isn't, it is stupid! The "dad" wants nothing to do with his son, too. Here's my biggest problem with the show; Shaggy having to choose between Velma or Scooby! Not only don't I like the torn between two things story, but when Scooby accuses Shaggy of " cheating" on him--it's just STUPID!!! You can't date a dog! What the heck?! Overall, I really hate this show.
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