Scooby Dooby Done

[muninnhuginn]

And not so painful after all.

We caved in. We'd refused to take Looby Loo to see Scooby Doo 2 at the cinema, mainly because we thought she'd be terrified (and we didn't fancy another Piglet episode). But yesterday's sorrowful off-colour little sprite needed cheering up, so we booked two tickets (on-line, last night) and went this morning. Despite it being half term and probably because there were multiple screens showing HP3, there were less than two dozen in the cinema. We settled in with our drinks and popcorn (the ravens very firmly holding onto the tub of popcorn to prevent further Piglet incidents) and watched the ads.

We have to confess that we enjoyed it. It was a sequel to a movie that derived from a cartoon series, so we didn't expect greatness. But it repeated the elements that made the first movie work. The soundtrack was tremendous (I'll have to go back and really listen to the first movie's soundtrack now to see if it's as good, tho' the comparison will be marred by one being in the cinema and one on a TV). The effects, apart from the unconvincing dog, were tremendous. The characters worked better than the first movie, partly because they'd somehow been allowed to move on, mature a little even: we even found ourselves warming to Freddy Prinz, Jr. Alicia Silverstone was cute (and crucially out-cuted BuffyDaphne). It's true the mystery wasn't very mysterious (but were they ever in SD-land?): could anyone, ever believe a character played by Seth Green was a villain?

We have a theory that the worlds of Scooby Doo and Buffy are destined to not so much collide as gently slide over one another and merge. It had to be, from the point where the Buffy crew likened themselves to the Scooby Gang. The next sign of this will be the addition of a third actor from the Buffyverse in the third Scooby Doo movie--and we're sure ther will be a third. Just who, and in what role, is not quite so clear.

Oh, and there was no Scrappy.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Giles!!!!

I will have to watch these on DVD some time...

Piglet incident? LL fell head-first into the bucket?

Piglet Incident

[muninnhuginn]

It happened when we went to watch Piglet's Big Adventure. There's a point at which Pooh's hare-brained scheme to catch a swarm of bees and thereby relieve them of their honey results in a monster-shaped cloud of angry bees chasing the various characters. Looby Loo took one look at this--and hid. Hiding, in this case, involved suddenly upending over her head the large, and largely untouched, bucket of popcorn she'd been hugging on her lap. This is something we will never let her forget.

Re: Piglet Incident

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Actually, given her age and not necessarily being able to tell fiction from reality, the hiding in a bucket was actually a very clever survival reflex/decision! But it would have been a very bad idea if it was sweet popcorn (but I don't expect you allow her to have sweet popcorn ...)

Oh, and Seth Green being a baddie ... I take it you haven't seen the end of Austin Powers 3 then? Seth plays Dr.Evil's son, Scott Evil, and has to take over the family business due to a truely Scooby Doo ending!

Re: Piglet Incident

[muninnhuginn]

It was sweet popcorn: treats are permitted. (Annoying tho': I much prefer it with salt.) I spent the remainder of the movie picking up popcorn.

Seth Green doesn't have the nose of a baddie. It's the key to the entire Scooby Doo movie canon. Rown Atkinson can't be the baddie: his nose is the wrong shape and a little too large. Seth Green, who in no other way resembles Atkinson, has a similar schnozzle--and isn't the villain. Gerard Depardieu for SD3?

Re: Piglet Incident

[boxofdelights]

My Matilda loved this story.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

What an image!