Scooby Doobie? Uh-uh....

[Chadzilla]

Seems like Scooby Doo ditched some of its mature wink-wink humor to get a family oriented rating of http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&ncid=762&e=5&u=/ap/20020612/ap_en_mo/wkd_subtextual_scooby_3>PG.  ZOINKS!

[Steven Millan]

       Anthing for the big ole Scooby bucks,just to have extra pocket money be able to afford to load up on a nine month supply of Scooby Snacks.
         No,make that nine years supply.

[Mofo Rising]

Has anybody else looked at the storyboard for the "Scooby Doo" sequence in JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK?  If you thought the deleted scene was bad, wait until you see the entire story idea.  Incredibly crude.

[Flangepart]

I've said it, i'll say it agine. This movie is a sure sign of the brain deficit in Hollywood. A giant sucking sound can be heard, and it is originality going south.

[raj]

What really ticks me is that they aren't even going to put the deleted scenes in the DVD.  I can understand trying to keep it clean for the kids, but give us adults an alternate version.  Heck, I kind of figured out what was going on back in '69-70 when I was five.

BTW, I just saw a photo of Shaggy holding Scooby.  Not sure if the CGI is going to be the greatest, it does look like Scooby was added in later.  Of course it could just be that CGI isn't there yet.

[Chris K.]

Ah, hype. It's been used in movies from SCARY MOVIE to PEARL HARBOR. Fancy trailers with some minor made-up film raves, big name celebrities, product placement, action figures, etc. And so after "voting with your wallet" (a small quote from Chadzilla himself), the outcome to both me and certain audience members is that "Damnit, we have been screwed by Hollywood once again."

Even so, the original SCOOBY DOO cartoon never impressed me. It was a bit stale (the candid laugh track didn't even make it work better in some of the other episodes) and not smooth enough to be tolerated for a feature film. Believe me, their are better TV programs from the Golden Age of the 1960's and SCOOBY DOO is just not one of them. I hope this film at least attempts a better sense of humor than the cartoon did. But then, after seeing the humiliating and even embarassing trailer for SCOOBY DOO when I saw SPIDER-MAN their is virtually NO HOPE for this film.

As for the PG cut, well it was kind of inevitable. After this post 9/11 and censorship now being cracked down on any film involving "rude, crude, or leud" themes, no matter if it involves any implications to terrorism or not, I guess a film based on a 1960's TV cartoon that had some small "mature implications" (if you know what I am talking about) was going to have the MPAA axe slice the film to death. Just as well.

[No Nukes, The Satanic Pikachu]

Thank you for your rant, sir. You can go home now.

The reason they butchered it more than Leatherface in a nursing home is becaue THEY KNEW KIDS WOULD SCRAMBLE TO SEE IT. Sure, anyone who's old enough to remember the show's orginal run is at least middle-aged by now, but KIDS WOULD SCRAMBLE TO SEE IT. And nobody wanted lawsuits being flung around because the parents were too stupid to pre-watch the movie themselves BEFORE they could decide if thier kids could see it, and besides, if it weren't mind-numbingly stupid and corny, it just wouldn't be Scooby-Doo. It'd be like Kool-Aid without the sugar.