Out of all Hanna-Barbera's creations during the 1960's on, Scooby-Doo was one of the worst. Repetitive, dumb, and not funny pretty much up this series as a whole. Like Lupercal said, it is a mystery this cartoon has gone on for over thirty years. Who can laugh at Scooby's speach impediment and Shaggy's massive appetite for so long ? And dose anybody find Velma,Daphne, or Freddy funny or interesting at all ? I certaintly don't. And I maybe the only one, but I found " A Pup named Scooby-Doo" funny and far better then the original abortion.

After Tom and Jerry, Hanna and Barbera basically destroyed american animation during the 60's and 70's (exlcuding a gem like "The Flintstones"). Then came the stinking 1980's, with not only with H-B's garbage but thoose half hour toy commercials being passed off as cartoons. So that's basically over 20 years of crap flooding into this country. I look at this and say "no wonder anime took this country by storm, look at what we were making".

Oh yeah, the movie, I didn't need to see it. Honestly, your going to tell me that there is something actually different and maybe even funny in this Scooby-Doo cartoon ?

They began making new animated Scooby Doo movies in the late 90's, so when this one came up in the catalogue of my online rental store, I assumed it was a new DTV movie and thought I'd get it to review. It turned out to be a 50 minute TV movie from 1979. However, since I hired the thing for review purposes, and sat through it, I may as well take the opportunity to warn you not to.

To be honest I have never understood why people like Scooby Doo. I thought the original series was bad, and everything I've ever seen in the following thirty years has varied from bad to fairly bad. This is really the pits, though. For a start it has an excruciating canned laughter track (and as Andy Kaufman is supposed to have observed, those are dead people laughing).

Analysing the film in any depth is a waste of time. It's the pits of 70's TV animation. Nothing in it is funny. Nothing in it works. Everything in it will make you cringe. That we have to watch things like this coming out on DVD (last month Warner released their 15-movie 'best of the New Scooby Doo Movies' boxed set (early 70's), and started their 'Pup Named Scooby Doo' DVDs (mid 80's)) when we still can't get 'Pinky and the Brain' or 'Tail Spin' on DVD... it's enough to make you want to write a review like this.

If they'd called it 'Scooby Doo DOES Hollywood' at least I might have got one laugh out of it.