Scooby-Doo and nautical nasties go together like peanut butter and jam; they’re a classic pairing that almost anyone can enjoy — unless you have a peanut allergy or a ghost pirate phobia — and with this tenth Scooby-Doo direct-to-video outing, we have the fourth time that Mystery Incorporated has encountered ghost pirates, but with Scooby-Doo!…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Child’s Play (2019) – Review
In horror films, single moms just can’t catch a break, either their child is being possessed by demonic forces or being menaced by killer toys. It’s not fair, but there you have it. Back in 1988, Dan Mancini gave us one of the best films in this category, and it dealt with a kid’s toy…
Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy? (2005) – Review
Being chased by ancient mummies is nothing new to the Scooby Gang, having encountered such bandaged monstrosities in the original series episode titled “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too,” and more recently in the episode “Mummy Scares Best” from the 2002 to 2006 series What’s New Scooby-Doo? But what Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy? mostly owes its existence…
The Banana Splits (2019) – Review
If you need proof that the 60s were a trippy-weird time, you need only to take a look back at the fantasy shows created by the legendary Sid and Marty Kroft, with such bizarre programs as The Bugaloos, Lidville, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, and H.R. Pufnstuff to their credit — this was the live-action arm…
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) – Review
The Warner Brothers Animation division has been making a lot of money from their direct-to-video movies over the years, a venture that really kicked into gear back in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, a film that took Scooby-Doo and friends into darker territories with an adventure that was genuinely scary, and though this was…