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Scooby At His Best
This and "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf" are the two best Scooby movies ever made. They were both made in the late 80s along with "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School" as part of Hanna-Barbera's "Superstar 10" series of animated TV movies that included such productions as "The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones". <
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>This is one of the few mid to late 80s Scooby productions that kept with the old and tired mystery format of years past. This, however is one of the best Scooby mysteries ever. It is sort of a two part mystery. Shaggy inherits a soutern plantation from his uncle. When he finds out Scooby and Scrappy join him and go down to the south to visit it. The lack of the rest of the gang may dissapoint some Scooby fans but as you watch the movie you won't be able to envision Freddy and the Girls being involved in it. Besides, isn't nice to see Shaggy and the dogs solve a mystery themselves for a change? Anyway when Shaggy gets there he meets his creepy old hunch backed butler Farquard, who thinks that Shaggy's uncle should have left the house and the family jewls to him. He then tells Shaggy about the family jewls that his uncle hid somewhere on the estate to hide it from his enemies (he was a colenol). So the gang goes looking for the family jewls, but they are not the only ones after them, as the "ghost" of Shaggy's uncle and a skull ghost want the jewls too and they will make things exceedingly difficult for Shaggy, as he already has wacky hillbilly neighbors to deal with. Enter the Boo Brothers. They are ghost extermintators that are ghosts themselves and they really need to get their act together! They are like the three stooges and their antics provide the majority of the laughs. <
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>I highly reccomend this movie to everyone, especially big Scooby Doo fans.

Above average old school Scooby Adventure
This entry suffers from the presence of Scrappy. It was made in the mid-eighties when Scrappy was at the height (!) of his fame (?). He doesn't do much in this so it's not that bad.

The story is about Shaggy (minus the rest of Mystery Inc.) being left a spooky mansion house in his uncles will. Conveniently said mansion is in the middle of a creepy swampland in the Deep South. The kind of place where there are always eyes watching from the trees.

As soon as he arrives, Shaggy has to deal with an annoying southern stereotype sheriff, a weirdo butler who wants to get his hands on the old uncle's hidden treasure, hickabilly neighbors and the ghost of his uncle telling to leave (then why did he give him the house?). There is also an escaped ape on the loose but even though only Scooby sees him (Shaggy doesn't believe it) he's just a big, cuddly monkey who wants to play.

The Boo Brothers are basically ghost versions of the Three Stooges. They're listed in the phone book as being experts in the busting of ghosts. This isn't a job they do well though, so Shaggy's payment at the end is a bit too generous.

There are some laughs to be had and the plot is mildly interesting but too many running jokes are just plain bad. The hillbilly neighbor joke becomes very boring and could have been done without. The animation is a bit dated, though it has enough modern touches (lens flares in car lights) to distract you from it. And I like the dark, decaying atmosphere of the swampland. The color pallet is mostly made up of dark blues and purples (the story takes place all in one night) and the backgrounds are not as generic as the earlier, cheaper TV shows.

For the average fan this is a worthy effort though I would just catch it on the Cartoon Network instead of forking over the cash, unless you're a Scooby completist.

The DVD is in 1.33:1 full frame, as drawn, with a Dolby Mono soundtrack that is unsophisticated but workable. The Region 2 release comes in a sturdy Keep Case but the Region 1 is still in a cruddy snapper. Extras are minimal childish fluff.