Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf |
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Staring:
Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Hamilton Camp, Jim Cummings, Joan Gerber
Director:
Ray Patterson
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $1.75
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Product Description
Gear up for Scooby-Doo's most monstrous adventure ever! After Count Dracula transforms Shaggy into a fuzz-faced werewolf, there's only one way he'll change him back. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must win a creepy cross-country race against the frightfully funny cars driven by a hot-rodding horde of sinister celebrity monsters!
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Scooby scholars of the old-school set will find much in the Reluctant Werewolf to give them pause. For one thing, Scrappy and Googy, Shaggy's girlfriend, are subbed for missing members of the Mystery Machine gang, and for another, instead of making like bananas and splitting from the monster at the center of a mystery, this crew slides, peel-style, into a strange circus of benign spooks, no meddling involved. The reluctant werewolf is Shaggy; he's forced to finish first in a monster road race if he wants to rid himself of his fangs and facial fur (a dirty trick played on him by Dracula). A truckload of shenanigans, mostly screwball car tricks, ensue. Wacky wordplay works up a handful of howls here, but not enough to make this full-length feature worth tuning into twice or, ultimately, rescuing from the Scooby-Don't pile. --Tammy La Gorce
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Hilarious Halloween Comedy, 2008-10-20
I know a lot of people don't like the departure from the regular Scooby Doo formula. But if we are willing to accept that this is different, but still great, it offers different types of hilarious Halloween comedy. The story starts normal and cheerful enough as Shaggy wins a race. The story then changes to Dracula's castle. Dracula is upset that the werewolf has retired before the monster road race, which means he will have to cancel the race. Suddenly, he realizes that there is a way to get a new werewolf. (He realizes he may be able to turn race car driver Shaggy into a werewolf.) So, he sends the interesting hunch bunch to perform this task. (One of them slobbers and can only say the most simple of words, while the other sounds like he is an English Major and a Shakespearean Actor. Interesting paradox!)
To make a long story short, after some failed attempts, the Hunch bunch finally turns Shaggy into a werewolf and get him to the castle of Dracula. This is an interesting comedy in that rather than the monsters being just scary, they have personalities, they bicker, they bumble. and they do often trip over each other. After some less than friendly negotiating, Shaggy agrees to drive the werewolf car in the monster road race under the condition that Dracula will change him back if he wins. (Of course, that doesn't mean Dracula won't do some cheating to stop Shaggy from winning.)
The race begins. Despite the Hunch Bunch's attempts to stop Shaggy, Shaggy keeps his strong lead in the race well. At times, things get silly. (Like when all of a sudden Shaggy's girlfriend and Scrappy have a new engine ready for them when they need it.) But this is a case where silly and campy tend to make things more hilarious. Another great comedy technique is that while we know Dracula is the villain, he does offer a lot of laughs. ("Wonderful. A million dollar pile up." / "Oh, Dracy, you've never seen a million dollars." / "So what? It looks like something I've never seen before.") And sometimes we are permitted sympathy for him such as when the Hunch Bunch keeps messing up.("Our shower of tacks have taken Shaggy right out of the race! And...unfortunately, sire, everyone else as well." / "That Hunch Bunch would break my heart! If I had one." )
Dracula's girlfriend is great too. She may appear to be an airhead at times. But she is sweet in her own way, and she does provide some crucial knowledge at the end. I think the best way to watch this is to understand that it is different, but still Scooby Doo, and it is hilarious from many angles.
scooby-doo and the reluctant werewolf, 2010-01-22
sorry that it has taken so long for me to get back to u. i've been having internet problem. my daughter was very happy when she got this. thank you
Ahh... There's nothing like the great taste of nostalgia in the morning., 2010-01-30
I have loved this movie ever since the first time I saw it. Of course, nostalgia does often improve the memory. This film is incredibly cheesy. But, if you're looking to remind yourself what 8 years old felt like, then you've come to the right place. A great buy for any true Scooby and Shaggy lover (let's not forget Scrappy, too!)
Classic!, 2009-12-29
This has got to be the best Scooby Doo movie ever made. I watched it hundreds of times when I was a kid, and bought it for nostalgia. If you haven't seen it, you may not share my enthusiasm, but I bet you'll still love it!
Kids love it, parents will cringe, 2008-05-16
Ahh the pain of being a parent... you will truly feel it when you child finds this movie. Now I have sat through untold hours of Scooby Doo and can enjoy most of them even on the 800th viewing... now let me tell you the bad news: This movie is Terrible, but your kids are going to love it and want to watch it over and over again.
First, there is no mystery, no gang, and no unmasking. The music is repetitive so even if you are in the next room you will feel the pain. The basic story is - Count Dracula turns Shaggy (wearing a red shirt) into a werewolf and tells him if he wins a car race he can be changed back. So Shaggy, Scooby (with only a minor role), Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend "Googy" go to the race. Shaggy and Scooby race while Scrappy and Googy get them out of problems. The Count keeps trying to make them loose, there's some annoying announcer, and all of the monsters are real.
Your kids will love it... and that would be tolerable if they had kept this at the length of an episode... but it drags on and on and on to the length of a movie. The same things are repeated over and over... Shaggy and Scooby are in the lead, the Count does something bad to their car, Googy and Scrappy fix it... repeat that about 25 times and you have this movie. The animation is poor even in comparison to the TV show and the soundtrack is like nails on a chalkboard.
As a parent I'm warning you to steer your kids in the direction of Scooby and the Loch Ness Monster, or Scooby and the Mummy, or Scooby Doo's Original Mysteries (a very good choice). My 6 year old loves this movie, and we are forced to listen to him watching it at every opportunity. It's almost as bad, if not worse on parents than "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School." There, you have been warned.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: HANNA BARBERA
EAN: 9781560397397
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 156039739X
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-03-05
Running Time: 80
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1988 |
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