Scoob! (2020)

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  d_riptide

  3 / 10

  You want a reason to hate the MCU? If you’re a fan of Scooby-Doo, then “SCOOB!” is the film that’s probably gonna do that for you. The fact that a film with THIS much going on in it can be this....this....this uneventful and aggravating at once is absolutely astounding. Outside the voice acting and well-intended message beyond the improved computer animation compared to the hand-drawn origins, sequences worthy of attention are too few and very far between. Most of the jokes once again fall flat, characters don’t do much to stand out, it’s set-up is annoying, tone feels heavily convoluted, the story is both cliched and convoluted at once, meandering and frantically scrambling into a simultaneously twisty yet overly simplistic narrative that wriggles its way out of serious character developmental decisions with some astoundingly lazy writing and while it doesn’t throw away the source material entirely, it reinvents the whole wheel behind Scooby-Doo to the point that it's almost entirely unrecognizable. ⁣
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  Instead of being poetic, it panders to the mainstream. Rather than incorporate something fresh, it aims for a structure similar to every cheap, bland and generic animated film from the past decade. And by shooting itself in the foot trying WAY too hard to be like EVERY OTHER POPULAR MOVIE out there, it bypasses any potential nostalgia trips for force-fed cold corporate synergy. So this film not only proved that even a franchise as sacred as Scooby-Doo isn’t safe from the decade-long animated Hollywood blockbuster formula that’s so predictable it can be literally be created in a meth dealers basements, but I don’t know what kind of world I’m supposed to be excited for. ⁣
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  You can’t grow a garden if you don’t know how to plant your first flower and this garden has the wrong seeds for the wrong flower for the wrong dog.

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