Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

A classic example where the sequel is even better than the first. Such an homage to the Scooby Doo franchise, with comfort and laughs throughout.

The most iconic scene is Scooby and Shaggy at the disco getting groovy.

Nostalgia factor: All of the games on the DVD version of the movie

Velma: He wants to ask me on a date.
Daphne: It’s okay to be scared.
V: am not scared… I’ve fought werewolves and ghosts… but in the end I know we usually unmask them and it’s just a shrively little scared man inside.
D: Well it’s the same with dating… Velma, have you ever considered that werewolves and ghosts are just distractions from what really frightens you?… Intimacy with another person, and by intimacy I mean someone who thinks you’re really hot.


Shaggy: We can’t. We’re screwups. I mean we tried to be heroes like you guys, but we’re not, okay? We’re just not.
Velma: Like me? That’s funny, I always wanted to be like you guys. You guys are so free. You’re never afraid to be who you really are, whether you’re fearful or joyful or hungry, I think you’ve been heroes all along. You just haven’t known it.

Matthew Lillard played Shaggy so well and almost covered up for the lack of chemistry between the rest of the cast

Some say this sequel is superior than the first but it's goofier and forces the Fred and Daphne relationship on us more. When despite being married Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar have no chemistry.
Prinze Jr. tries hard to be cool as Fred but he comes off as dorky as he was in the first. Sarah Michelle Gellar phones it in as well. Matthew Lillard and Linda Cardellini once again prove to be the better casting.
The first was goofy but I at least found it more involving.

As the first Scooby Doo movie, this sequel never got to me and I found it just silly!

First time seeing this since it released when I was a youth and I gotta say. After watching this first movie, it is shocking how much less enjoyable this is than that. Somewhere the ball was dropped and the writing wasn't as good, the plot wasn't as good, the villain wasn't as interesting. It now makes sense in my mind why they only made two of these; this one is a stinker.

Learning no lessons from the first film, _Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed_ recycles the same tripe. However, there is more of an attempt to homage the original cartoon show; including bring back some of the old monsters from the series and returning to the traditionally unmasking of the villain at the end. The cast chews up the scenery, but this kind of works given the level of camp that the film is going for. And the cheap, half-assed animation is masked somewhat by the simple character designs. _Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed_ is a step up from the last film, but it’s still garbage.

Sarah Michelle Gellar basically plays Buffy again.