Scooby Doo 2 Has Unleashed Much More Than Monsters Unto Our World

If Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed was made in order to force convicts in Guantanamo Bay to go insane and spill their deepest, darkest secrets to the CIA, then it has accomplished all of its goals and then some. Sadly, this is probably not the case. This movie was lined up for a sequel as soon as the first live-action Scooby Doo movie aired, and the sequel was going to be made regardless of the reception of the first. If the first one wasn't bad enough, the second movie completely ruined everything the first had going for it. The director of these "esteemed" movies, Richard "Dick" Suckle, who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, must have decided that a decent story wasn't necessary in the second one and that the plot should be entirely revolved around ridiculously immature comedy and strangely sexual moments. To be honest, the entire movie has the same exact plot quality as an adult film, without any of the contents that make it X rated.

Let's take a journey through this demented joyride of a disaster. From a red carpet reveal to a monstrosity of a disaster during the opening of their museum, Mystery Inc is flung into the thick of slandering media as they are blamed for the villain that stole their costumes from the museum. Not only does this make no sense, but throughout the entire thing, it feels as if the people standing outside go immediately from adoring fans to hateful critics of Mystery Inc. The rest of the movie is Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, Fred, and Scooby's effort to redeem themselves. However, this is very easily done in the most predictable of ways. The least predictable part of the movie is who the culprit was. Every traditional Scooby Doo episode ended with a villain that every kid could guess because of the clues leading up to the ending. I guess Dick didn't think that was necessary either, because there was no possible way an astrophysicist could have predicted who it was. This was supposed to be for kids, but not only did it leave them confused, it left everyone in the audience disappointed.

One of the most disturbing things about this movie is the atrocious CGI and the female characters. It's hard to describe just how disappointing the CGI is, but in order to grasp how much the animation of Scooby and some of the villains made me want to go skydiving without a parachute, you must imagine a scene conceived entirely to change the main character Shaggy and Scooby into different people, or more precisely, things. Scooby becomes an alien that looks more like what you'd find at the bottom of your toilet, and Shaggy becomes both a woman and an extremely buff man. The only redeeming quality of this movie is the legendary meme born of Shaggy being the strongest man in the universe. It is said that he only used 0.1% of his power to film the movie. The female characters themselves are strangely too objectified in a childrens' movie, from Velma's skintight latex suit to Daphne's entire wardrobe. This movie was meant for children, but it ended up being something that everyone found disappointment in.

Whenever an animated cartoon becomes a movie, it tends to end in disaster. There is a certain glee and whimsy that cartoons can bring into being so much better than any live action movie can. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed was made to make money, and whatever attempt it made at connecting with children and bringing the joy of Scooby Doo across multiple generations failed as soon as the credits started rolling.