Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2004
	Director: Raja Gosnell (Home Alone 3, The Smurfs 1&2)
	Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr. (I know what you did last Summer, Wing Commander), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV-series), Matthew Lillard (Scream), Seth Green (Idle Hands, Austin Powers 1-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 10.11.2014, SD VOD, 32" TV
Synopsis: The team of Mystery Incorporated will loose face in front of the citizens of Coolsville and will have to fight a new enemy that will awake sereval of the monsters they unmasked in the past.
Review: I can't remember if I saw the first Scooby-Doo movie because it didn't leave any impression in my mind, and this one will have the same effect. The movie is actually very faithful to the original cartoon that I loved to watch as a kid: costumes, characters, monsters, mystery, colors, tone and - unfortunately- slapstick humour, but what worked well in a 20-min cartoon fails completely in a 1h30 movie. The digital effects are sometimes original and of OK-quality for the time. The mystery part (10% of the movie) could have been interesting and end up with a traditional unmasking (as it does), but it is drowned in pseudo-romance, self-reflection from all the characters and dumb non-funny jokes by Scooby and Shaggy. No doubt that the actors were perfectly found for the role (Lillard seems to take a great pleasure playing a cartoon character) but this doesn't save the movie.
Rating: 1 /10