Finally, we have Velma’s love interest Patrick, whose personality seems a little unstable and is revealed to have a secret shrine to Jonathon Jacobo. Then we have Jeremiah Wickles ( Peter Boyle), the original Black Knight Ghost’s portrayer and who just so happened to have been Jacobo’s cellmate and is newly released from prison. As Jacobo died years ago while trying to escape prison, he gets removed from the suspect list… well, his body was never found so maybe keep him on the list. The first costume to come to life was that of Pterodactyl Ghost who was originally unmasked by the Scooby gang to be mad scientist Jonathan Jacobo ( Tim Blake Nelson), who was stealing money to further his research into creating real monsters. Now, even though it’s clear to even most five-year-old viewers that Heather is the true villain of this piece, we still have to introduce a few more suspects. Finally we have Velma ( Linda Cardellini) trying to change herself into a more “glamorous, mysterious, adventurous jet-setter hot babe” in an attempt to try and get museum curator Patrick Wisely ( Seth Green) to like her. Then we have Fred ( Freddie Prinze Jr.) who is losing his confidence as a team leader even to the point where he considers himself to be a wimp. Trivia Note: The Black Knight Ghost appeared in the very first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in the episode titled “What a Night for a Knight.”ĭaphne isn’t the only one having a personal crisis as Shaggy and Scooby-Doo come to the startling realization that through their entire career as members of Mystery Incorporated, they’ve been a couple of screw-ups - which means they aren’t only idiots but rather obtuse ones - and this leads them to decide to solve the mystery on their own. It’s as if the film wants us to ignore the evidence before our own eyes to justify character development that had already been established. We have Daphne wondering if she is just a “pretty face” with nothing else to offer, despite the fact that in the last movie she had already shown us she was a badass fighter (and in this one, she even takes on the Ghost of the Black Knight and is able to figure out how to get the gang out of a locked cage by using the contents of her purse). Unfortunately, most of the film’s run-time is spent dealing with each of the gang’s existential crises. In the previous live-action movie, there wasn’t much of an actual mystery for the Scooby gang to solve, it just had the “surprise” reveal that Scrappy-Doo was behind everything, but in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, writer James Gunn at least pretends there is an interest in giving us a good Scooby-Doo mystery. Spoiler Alert: She is totally the villain behind the monsters being unleashed. Local investigative reporter Heather Jasper Howe ( Alicia Silverstone) immediately starts a smear campaign to discredit Mystery Incorporated, stating, “It’s my job to unmask those who pretend to be who they’re not.” Daphne ( Sarah Michelle Gellar) is quick to point out that her agenda seems to align perfectly with what the Evil-Masked-Guy was stating, which moves Heather to the top of the suspect list, but then the Evil-Masked-Guy appears standing on the roof of the Coolsville museum and we all know a villain can’t be in two places at the same time. “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little CGI dog too!” This Doctor Doom knock-off crossed with the Phantom of the Opera announces to the Scooby gang that, “This time you will be the ones unmasked, as the buffoons you truly are,” and with Shaggy ( Matthew Lillard) and Scooby-Doo’s ( Neil Fanning) incompetence leading to much of the museum’s exhibit being trashed, things aren’t looking good for our heroes. The night does not go quite as planned as an evil masked figure appears and uses the reanimated Pterodactyl Ghost costume to steal two more of the exhibit’s costumes. being hailed as local heroes of their hometown of Coolsville with the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, which commemorates their past solved cases with various monster costumes on display. In this movie, we find the members of Mystery Inc. Sadly, our predictions were true and we don’t find much in the way of improvements as this live-action installment still misses the mark more often than not. With the first live-action Scooby-Doo movie pulling in $275 million worldwide, a sequel was never in doubt, and with director Raja Gosnell, screenwriter James Gunn, and the rest of the cast back for more, one could have expected more of the same this time out.
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