Before Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings proved that fantasy films could be legit blockbuster entertainment, a trilogy that not only brought in huge box office but Academy Awards as well, there was very little in the way of “big-budget offerings” in the fantasy genre. The best examples I had while growing…
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Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (2021) – Review
The Scooby gang has encountered all sorts of foes over the years, from men in masks posing as monsters to honest to goodness zombies and witches, but in The Sword and the Scoob, our heroes may be facing a magical menace that even their crime-solving skills can’t solve. Given the Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s…
Scoob! (2020) – Review
With the release of Scoob! we finally see the Scooby-Doo gang making their big move into computer animation, which is about time considering we’ve already had live-action and even puppet versions of Scooby-Doo. But with this particular outing, the writers veered into Scrappy-Doo territory without actually including Scrappy-Doo, and by that I mean Fred, Daphne…
Monster Family (2017) – Review
With the popularity of the Adam Sandler-led animated Hotel Transylvania movie series, it is no surprise that other studios would want to rake in a little of that “monster money” with their own take on the classic monsters. Unfortunately, with director Holger Tappe’s film Monster Family, those favorite monsters don’t quite make an appearance. Instead, we…