What's New, Scooby-Doo? - The Complete First Season
|
List Price: Our Price: $15.99 You Save: $3.99 (20%) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Buy Used: from $10.96 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of What's New, Scooby-Doo? - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: What's New Scooby Doo? The Complete First Season
Summary: 5 Stars
What's New, Scooby-Doo? - The Complete First Season
If you love the original series, you will love this one!
Movie Review: Scooby Doo Fans
Summary: 5 Stars
This has all of a seasons shows (unlike the ones you buy in target). That makes it a better deal if you have Scooby obsessed Fans like we do.Movie Review: Not the old Scooby-Doo, but still funny and fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Having grown up with Scooby Doo, I mistakenly thought this was the "old" TV series put on DVD. Instead, it is the "What's New Scooby Doo" series, which is an updated version of the old. The new version looks a lot like the old series, having the usual mystery to solve in 30 minutes or less. They don't ever let it get too serious, as they play fun music behind the chase scenes. The jokes are funny as the characters poke fun at themselves, and each other. The voices are the same (thankfully). I love watching it with my kids, and they have watched them over and over again.Movie Review: Not as iconic as the original -- just a whole lot better
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine you were a career biologist in your 30s or 40s. A general interest magazine asks you to rewrite a long bio report you cranked out in the middle of seventh grade on a typewriter while doing stuff for your other six or seven classes. How much will you be able to improve on the original report now that you're wittier; know more about the subject and have a good gauge of what the general public knows of the subject; will be working on a laptop; have access to noted, interesting people in and around your field for interviews on the subject?
That's why, just considering it as entertainment, What's New, Scooby Doo? dusts the original Scooby Doo, Where Are You? and The New Scooby Doo Movies from 1972-73.
This isn't some Gen Y kid engaging in presentism. I'm a Gen Xer who was in the first generation to grow up watching the original Scoobies on Saturday mornings. Fine enough entertainment for most of us, though it was a weakly-animated, formulaic product of the Hanna-Barbera made-for-TV assembly line. Our standards were pretty low at the time.
In doing the update, the current creators did the job that some of the Scooby Doo movies from the 1990s began. They fleshed out the characters, giving them backstory, interests, families. Velma (voiced by "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn) is a brilliant scientist with the kind of "smart girl" wit we always suspected she had. We find out where Fred's from and even what he can bench. Daphne was moved from the Danger Prone Daphne of the original toward being a resourceful, style-conscious Buffy the Vampire Slayer-type. (Coincidentlaly, Sarah Michelle Gellar, TV's Buffy, played Daphne in the two live-action Scooby Doo movies, and Buffy's pals called themselves "The Scooby Gang."). Shaggy, still voiced by Casey Kasem, and Scooby still are forever hungry and scared, but even Shaggy gets a few interests we didn't know he had before.
The animation, undoubtedly assisted by better technology, isn't movie studio animation level, but is superior to the stiff stuff of the original.
The plotting is improved. For example, whether the gang is in Egypt or Las Vegas, there's a reason they're there. Most of all, there's a willingness to poke fun at pop culture, each other, themselves and the original Scooby formula while still following it. Like much of the best animation, the humor works on the kid level and on the adult level.
Because of balkanized TV viewing and the varying circumstances of viewing -- some on DVD, some on Boomerang, some at night, some during the day -- it's doubtful future generations will consider this version of Scooby Doo as a piece of bonding, iconic nostalgia that Gen Xers consider the original. It'll just have to settle for being much better.
Movie Review: A.K.A Scooby Doo Back In Action!
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I didn't think this series would be as good as some of the movies
like The Loch Ness Monster & Chill Out, but I then bought Volume 8 and saw it was better than I thought. With the return of the original cast from some of my favorite Scooby Doo movies (Frank Welker as Scooby Doo/Fred, Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Grey Delisle as Daphne, & Mindy Cohn as Velma) and 13 great mysteries, this compilation of Season 1 of What's New Scooby Doo, is probably one of the best 2-disc sets ever! Each mystery is different:
THERE'S NO CREATURE LIKE SNOW CREATURE
The series debut, a snow monster is badly injuring contestants in a snowboarding competition. (co-starring an Olympic Gold Medalist Snowboarder)
SPACE APE AT THE CAPE
Velma wins a science project contest in Cape Canaveral and it will go
into space but it is trying to be stopped by an alien believed to have been hatched from an egg.
3-D STRUCTION
Down in Costa Rica, a dinosaur monster comes out of a sacred tomb, believed to be a ghost, due to the removal of some sacred bones.
BIG SCARE IN THE BIG EASY
The gang heads to New Orleans to solve the mysteries of the ghosts
of Civil War enemies, the Leland Brothers.
IT'S MEAN, IT'S GREEN, IT'S THE MYSTERY MACHINE
Despite having their van fixed, the gang has their van chasing after
them believed to have been driven by the ghost of Flash Flannigan.
RIVA RAS REGAS
When the gang goes to Las Vegas for some vacation, it gets interrupted
by the ghost of the late magician Rufus Rocous, they solve the mystery with the help of real-life teen pop star Lindsay Pagano.
ROLLER GHOSTER RIDE
A sneaky ghost is haunting and ruining the attractions at a theme park, and Shaggy's roller coaster he designed is just being finished building.
SAFARI SO GOODI!
The gang heads to the Amazon jungle, where they face some ghost animals
that have been feared by South Americans.
SHE SEES SEA MONSTERS BY THE SEA SHORE
The gang tackles a mystery of a sea monster attacking a beach on a tropical island, and to save the seas turtles!
TOY SCARY BOO
Some toys come to life in a toy store and wreck things all around, the gang is even in danger!
LIGHTS, CAMERA, MAYHEM!
The ghost of late movie star Rip Bannon, believed to be the faceless phantom, is haunting the set of his movie remake.
POMPEII & CIRCUMSTANCE
The gang visits Italy for some time off solving mysteries. But they spoke
too soon as a mystery of a Zombie Gladiator, believed to have survived Vesuvius, unfolds.
THE UNNATURAL
Luiz Santiago is ready to break the all-time home run record, but a ghost of the currently all-time home run record hitter tries to stop him and the gang. (Special Guest Appearance by Baseball great Mike Piazza)
BONUS EPISODE: A SCOOBY DOO VALENTINE
The gang comes home in time for Valentines Day, but they get accused for the teenager kidnappings at Lovers Lane. And even worse, Shaggy's former girlfriend is dating a celebrity. (Co-starring NSYNC star JC Chasez)
If you love Scooby Doo, then this is the set for you!