and i liked the first movie, i like the new scooby show but not as awsomeas scooby doo where are u 
UNLEASHED, get it? Heh. FANGORIA spent some time hanging out on the Vancouver set of SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED yesterday (Day 61 of 72)—gawking at the rather incredible and elaborate sets from returning production designer Bill (MONKEYBONE) Boes—and got a sneak peek at the Coolsonian Museum. This new building is opened up at the beginning of the movie by Patrick Wisely (Seth Green) to celebrate the careers of Mystery, Inc., a.k.a. Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Velma (Linda Cardellini), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Scooby-Doo.
To fill out the museum, Wisely has put up the "costumes" of many of the men-in-masks-monsters the Scoobies (original Scoobies - not BUFFY-led Scoobies. Oh, wait—Sarah Michelle, Seth Green...oh, never mind) have captured through the years. We wandered around to the various stand-ups and saw a wide variety of well-researched and realized Scooby villains from the cartoon now in three-dimensional form. On the little bronze placards in front of each of the costumes were drawings of how they looked in the cartoon series as well as a short breakdown of how Mystery, Inc. busted the crook, the set-up that got them there and who the crook ended up being (basically, a three-paragraph breakdown of the episode the monster appeared in).
"Well, the ones in the museum are supposed to be the ones from the original show," explains Boes about the monsters. "That's how we start the movie off—'Hey, remember these guys? Remember the 10,000 Volt Ghost? Remember the Miner 49er?' So, at the beginning, everybody goes, 'Oh, yeah!' "
The plot of the movie has a villainous masked figure stealing these costumes and putting them into something called "the Monster Hive," where they're actually animated with a special "goop" into real monsters, not just men in suits. "When the Monster Hive kicks into gear and starts spewing out monsters, of course we had to do new and improved versions," Boes says. "We basically built costumes—some of them are being enhanced with CGI, and five of them are all CGI. All of the creatures are made out of this stuff called 'Randomonium'—a chemical the writer, James Gunn, came up with—so they're all going to be dripping this oozing green stuff. Some of them have green eyes—the Pterodactyl is going to be glowing green—so it's a theme throughout."
As for the CG ghosts, Boes has just started working on those, as they will be created during the long postproduction schedule that begins after the movie wraps. "We're starting to model the CG creatures, and the 10,000 Volt Ghost looks awesome!" Boes exclaims. "It looks like Monster of the Id from FANTASTIC PLANET. It's unbelievably cool." As for Boes' favorite monster, he says, "I'm into the Pterodactyl—I don't know why!"
Some of the monsters Fango took a gander at were:
The Mortician
The Highlander Ghost
Pterodactyl Ghost
The Headless Horseman
Zen Tuo (one of our favorites – from the Chinatown episode where Daphne gets kidnapped early)
Cotton Candy Glob
Werewolf
Ghost of Doctor Coffin (covered in blood!)
Black Knight
10,000 Volt Ghost
The Warrior
Rambling Ghost
The Phantom
The Warlock of Anthos
The Creeper (wow!)
The Ghost of Merlin
Chickenstein (yes, Chickenstein)
The Mermaid
In the art department, Fangoria also got a look at designs for the Skeleton Men, the Miner 49er and the eerie-looking Ghost of Captain Cutler—the man in the deep sea diver suit that comes out of the water right at Shaggy and Scoob at a point in the movie. So, unlike the original, SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED will have no shortage of classic creatures from the famed TV series.
I was thinking the same thing...indianajdp wrote:Wow..did the first one actually do well enough (box office take) to truly merit a sequel?
But it wasn't true to the spirit. When in the cartoons was Fred a vain, egotistical idiot? And what was with Daphne learning martial arts? If they wanted to do something "different" with Daphne they could have played up her family background more (She's loaded!)Tascar wrote: I think alot of the people who liked the series but didn't like the movie expected the film to somehow revolutionize Scooby Doo when all it was meant to be is a authentic/true-to-the-spirit-of-the-original Scooby Doo movie.
I wanted to like the new movie so much, but scenes of Daphne doing martial arts, Scooby farting and Velma in leather just left me cold. Yes, I agree that Warner does seem to have a habit of running any half decenet framchise into the ground. Even the new Batman movie - "young boy discovers self in the mountains" - looks as though they have changed significant parts of the story (although I partly blame DC for that, not having someone as strong as Marvel's Avi Arad going to 'bat' for them). Even if they aren't trying to change things, as I suspect Batman will still be cool, the whole origin story is uneeded, and the use of two villains seems to be to sell new toys.2099net wrote: Execs at Warners must all be on crack or something. They are greenlighting no end of movies based on existing properties, but do nothing to keep the spirit or charactaristics of the property itself.
Scooby Doo, Catwoman, the new Excorcist film (which has a rating of only 5% on Rotten Tomatoes as a result). They seem determined to destroy characters and concepts that have stood the test of time.
