Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright (DVD)

I'm not aware of any other Scooby Doo stories set in Chicago. It was fun seeing the Scooby Gang riding by famous landmarks in our city. The plot is set around an Opera House that is not real, but it's fun that the Scooby Gang came to the real city of Chicago and had an adventure. The movie has a lot of twists and turns in the plot so that it was a very difficult mystery to solve. Few kids' movies keep adults guessing like this.It was also a nice commentary on the American Idol phenomenon without it being too instantly-dated. There was nothing in this that would lock the movie into the year 2013, so it should be great viewing in the future for many decades. But at the same time it was fresh and current enough that watching it you get the pop culture references. This is NOT like watching Aladdin and having all the jokes feel stale because Robin Williams made them about life in the early 1990s...the jokes made in this Scooby movie are very timeless.The animation looked great...as good as the recent Scooby TV show Mystery Inc...but it had a more positive vibe to it than Mystery Inc (which, to me, was hard to watch sometimes because of the odd "planetary disk" plot). I liked this Scooby movie better because there was no overarching larger plot and it was just about the gang solving a mystery like the old TV show.

All Scooby-Doo episodes and movies contain promise, but some are better than others; hence, Zombie Island and Witch's Ghost are better remembered than Aloha or Chill Out. Well, when I heard this one looked adventurous and parodied both Phantom of the Opera and American Idol I made the mistake of renting it. By mistake, I mean that I should have bought it to rewatch the multifaceted plot details. Just when you think they solved the mystery, there turns out to be more. Also, the gang shows their talent: Shaggy and Scooby act goofier than ever, Velma coins better one-liners, and Daphne and Fred sing their first duets. The characters are dynamic, especially "Fraphne." They even ponder the self-mimicking question, "Are we the only ones who run into masked crooks?"It includes a sewer slide, a stakeout, several chase scenes, and a perilous driving scene. But the biggest surprise is how it ends. Some shows have one bad guy in a mask, some have two, some have a real one, and some have both a fake and a real monster. (This one follows none of those patterns.) The gang faces danger in a sewer and on a bridge, but the overall tone is light. Fun and friendly for the kids, yet interesting enough for nostalgic adults. This one may just beat Zombie Island.If that's not enough, the DVD and Blu-Ray discs also include two theater episodes from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?

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My kids love this movie. My daughter loves the music. Nothing is better than a decent mystery. I grew up watching Scooby and I really like the newer shows and movies. We purchased the Amazon instant video in November 2014. Started having issues with the video in early January 2015. Not sure if it this is just us, but it states that there is a License_Error on Kindle and Fire Phone and other errors on Wii and computers (only this video, out of the many we have). Amazon is on the case so I hope they can figure it out, but if not we may have to find the dvd. I am not sure if other had this problem, but just thought I would share.

Many of the recent Scooby Doo movies have featured alot of 'in jokes' for an audience who might not get them.This movie left that at the door in favor of spending more time on a decent script.There's enough twist here to be original, i can't say it's a blatant rip off of a classic episode, like how Abracadabra Doo is literally a reversioning of Wednesday Is Missing without the Addams Family.I can not point to an episode that inspires this movie but I can say that it's a great scooby romp.I give it 5 star for quality, though I still feel a few of the movies are 'better', this movie earns it's stars.

Each new animated Scooby movie makes me love it more than the previous. Maybe it is the new ideas, maybe it's the graphics and colors. I thought Phantosaur was great but Blue Falcon was better and this is even better than both. The story keeps you guessing, when you think you have it figured out there's a twist that proves you wrong. Just like with the gang. Without giving away specifics, it's a perspective that I don't think we've seen before.I'm a die hard Scooby fan so there isn't much I don't like (except the new Mystery Inc series is not my thing, I don't like the animation AT ALL). I will admit that some of the jokes are not geared for kids and I think they are more designed for adult viewers. But kids can still enjoy the visual even if they don't understand the punch line. Scooby is still cute no matter what.

Kids loved the movie.

Nothing better then a scooby movie! No issues. Typical movie!

Am so glad this was in the line up from a email I got because this is the last Scooby doo film I needed to complete my collection now am up to date

Es scooby doo, si te gusta ese personaje esta buena

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On retrouve içi scoubi et ses compère pour une nouvelle aventure en long métrage toujours aussi mystérieuse et amusante mais en vo.

Great film if you don't mind a little more romance than usual from the franchise