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…
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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…
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) – Review
In this eighth entry in the series of Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movies, we find the members of Mystery Incorporated venturing to the paradise state of Hawaii where we will see, as sure as shooting, a mass amount of cultural insensitivity around every turn. In 2003’s Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico, we had the misappropriation of…
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) – Review
Cryptozoology is the pseudoscience and subculture that aims to prove the existence of such creatures as Bigfoot, El Chupacabra, and the Loch Ness Monster — a class of scientists that have even less credibility than Mystery Incorporated when it comes to tangling with real monsters — and being that Scooby-Doo and the gang have already…
Swamp Thing (2019) – Review
In 1982, DC comics revived their Swamp Thing character to capitalize on Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing movie, but after a couple years, the book found itself nearing cancelation, with the title’s sales plummeting, so with nothing to lose, DC gave a relatively unknown English writer named Alan Moore free rein to revamp the title as…