Of course, there are certain limitations to this franchise, whether or not you remember the original version or “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” version or the “Scooby-Doo’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics” version or “The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo” version or the Sarah Michelle Gellar/Matthew Lillard/Linda Cardellini/Freddie Prinze Jr. In other words, “Scoob!” is determined to have its cake and eat it, too – to give the kids an animated mystery complete with slapstick comedy, frenetic action, talking animals and costumed superheroes, but also to keep up a steady stream of inside jokes, many of them aimed at parents who are old enough to remember the origins of the Hannah-Barbara multiverse way back when. That’s the world in which this latest iteration of the Scooby-Doo franchise exists – a world that’s very aware of its own silliness and its time-honored tropes, a world where apprehended bad guys not only say, “I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids,” but say it in a way that makes fun of the fact that they’re saying it.Īnd it’s a world that knows it was started by some middle-aged TV executives making a show about teenage hippies back in 1969.Īlso Read: 'Scoob!' Trailer Reveals Scooby Doo and Shaggy's Origin Story (Video) There’s a moment early in “Scoob!” when a bowling alley attendant tells a group of crime-solving teens that some robots have just attacked “a talking dog and this gangly dude who had the habit of using the word like at the start of every sentence, almost as if he was some middle-aged man’s idea of how a teenage hippie talks.”
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