7/3/2023 0 Comments Slapdash kid cartoonI’m not talking about not making the Indominus (pffft haha I love how Owen Grady laughed with me) Rex. THIS BREAKOUT COULD HAVE BEEN SO EASILY PREVENTED IT HURTS There were some little nuggets of goodness here and there, but let me first list out my main frustrations with this movie before we talk about that.ġ. Overall, it's a slapdash movie that's an okay choice for a rainy day, but families are better off checking out the classic TV series.WARNING! THERE ARE MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THIS REVIEW! YOU MUST PASS THE FLOCK OF JEFF GOLDBLUMS TO CONTINUE! The explanations at the end for "what really happened" defy even the basic logic of the Scooby-Doo universe, and there's a glibness to it that comes across as insulting to the audience. It's the only stand-out aspect to what's otherwise a stock, paint-by-numbers Scooby mystery. She takes on the Knights of the Round Table in sword fights, bow and arrow contests, and jousting, among other battles she wouldn't have been allowed to fight not that long ago, due to outdated gender roles and all. The best thing that can be said about this is that Daphne is given the chance to be heroic. The creators of this are in on the joke, and they really, really want you to be in on the joke as well, even if the jokes revolving around the many well-known Scooby-Doo tropes aren't especially funny by this point. While this is Scooby, Shaggy, and the others solving a mystery in the days of King Arthur, everything about the story is a little too convenient. The whole thing reeks of laziness, something churned out and thrown together, and it's not hard to pick up on the fact that the creators of this movie seem to know this. One would have to go back to the days when Scooby and the gang were hanging out with the guys in Kiss to find anything as ridiculous as this movie. It's almost impressive to create a Scooby mystery that's more preposterous than the rest, and Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob manages to do just that. As they face off against wizardry, dangerous traps, and fire-breathing dragons, the kids must find a way to restore King Arthur to goodness, stop Morgan LaFay, and get back to the present time. They soon meet the smug King Arthur ( Jason Isaacs), and soon Daphne ( Grey Griffin) must face off against all of the Knights of the Round Table in a variety of medieval challenges in order to determine who is the rightful ruler of Camelot - King Arthur, or Shaggy. Before this issue can be resolved, Merlin and Morgan LaFay appear, and the gang find themselves transported through time to the Dark Ages. Shaggy pulls Excalibur out of the rock to cut cheese, and his surname alarms the villagers, as they believe that Shaggy is, technically, the rightful owner of the village and the surrounding land. However, once they arrive in the village, they soon see that something is amiss. In exchange for solving the mystery, the CEO of the airline offers the gang free tickets to England, a proposal they happily accept. Velma recognizes the name of the village as the place rumored to be where Camelot used to be. While looking his test results over, Shaggy ( Matthew Lillard) sees that his ancestral roots are in a small village in England. In the process of solving the mystery, Velma got a DNA test of the villain, but also obtained DNA results for her fellow sleuths. In SCOOBY-DOO! THE SWORD AND THE SCOOB, Scooby and the gang have just cracked another mystery, this one involving a "monster" attacking a passenger plane. The best thing about this movie is that Daphne is given a chance to be heroic for a change, and takes on the Knights of the Round Table in a variety of contests, and bests them all. Some bodily function humor, such as Merlin burping the alphabet. After offering Shaggy a job in Waste Management, King Arthur makes reference to "a few ripe buckets of." before he's cut off. Scooby and the gang also must venture down a long corridor to rescue Shaggy, a corridor filled with traps that set off swinging axes and arrows. The violence in this one is more of the medieval variety, as characters face off against dragons, wizards who throw exploding orbs, and fight with swords, bows and arrows, spikes, punches, and kicks. Expect some cartoon violence and monster imagery. Parents need to know that Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob is a 2021 animated feature in which Scooby and the gang fly to England and encounter King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Thundarr the Barbarian, another old Hanna-Barbera cartoon, is referenced as well. Characters are from an iconic cartoon series, sold in a variety of merchandise.
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