DVD : Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf

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starring: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Joan Gerber, Ed Gilbert, Alan Oppenheimer
directed by: Ray Patterson

: Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781560397397
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 156039739X
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 05, 2002
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 14268
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1988



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After count dracula transforms shaggy into a fuzz-faced werewolf theres only one way hell change him back. Scooby-doo and shaggy must win a creepy cross-country race against the frightfully funny cars driven by a hot-rodding horde or sinister celebrity monsters. Studio: Hanna Barbera Release Date: 09/18/2007 Run time: 80 minutes Rating: Nr

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Scooby scholars of the old-school set will find much in the Reluctant Werewolf to give them pause. For one thing, Scrappy and Googy, Shaggy's girlfriend, are subbed for missing members of the Mystery Machine gang, and for another, instead of making like bananas and splitting from the monster at the center of a mystery, this crew slides, peel-style, into a strange circus of benign spooks, no meddling involved. The reluctant werewolf is Shaggy; he's forced to finish first in a monster road race if he wants to rid himself of his fangs and facial fur (a dirty trick played on him by Dracula). A truckload of shenanigans, mostly screwball car tricks, ensue. Wacky wordplay works up a handful of howls here, but not enough to make this full-length feature worth tuning into twice or, ultimately, rescuing from the Scooby-Don't pile. --Tammy La Gorce



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Hilarious Halloween Comedy
I know a lot of people don't like the departure from the regular Scooby Doo formula. But if we are willing to accept that this is different, but still great, it offers different types of hilarious Halloween comedy. The story starts normal and cheerful enough as Shaggy wins a race. The story then changes to Dracula's castle. Dracula is upset that the werewolf has retired before the monster road race, which means he will have to cancel the race. Suddenly, he realizes that there is a way to get a new werewolf. (He realizes he may be able to turn race car driver Shaggy into a werewolf.) So, he sends the interesting hunch bunch to perform this task. (One of them slobbers and can only say the most simple of words, while the other sounds like he is an English Major and a Shakespearean Actor. Interesting paradox!)

To make a long story short, after some failed attempts, the Hunch bunch finally turns Shaggy into a werewolf and get him to the castle of Dracula. This is an interesting comedy in that rather than the monsters being just scary, they have personalities, they bicker, they bumble. and they do often trip over each other. After some less than friendly negotiating, Shaggy agrees to drive the werewolf car in the monster road race under the condition that Dracula will change him back if he wins. (Of course, that doesn't mean Dracula won't do some cheating to stop Shaggy from winning.)

The race begins. Despite the Hunch Bunch's attempts to stop Shaggy, Shaggy keeps his strong lead in the race well. At times, things get silly. (Like when all of a sudden Shaggy's girlfriend and Scrappy have a new engine ready for them when they need it.) But this is a case where silly and campy tend to make things more hilarious. Another great comedy technique is that while we know Dracula is the villain, he does offer a lot of laughs. ("Wonderful. A million dollar pile up." / "Oh, Dracy, you've never seen a million dollars." / "So what? It looks like something I've never seen before.") And sometimes we are permitted sympathy for him such as when the Hunch Bunch keeps messing up.("Our shower of tacks have taken Shaggy right out of the race! And...unfortunately, sire, everyone else as well." / "That Hunch Bunch would break my heart! If I had one." )

Dracula's girlfriend is great too. She may appear to be an airhead at times. But she is sweet in her own way, and she does provide some crucial knowledge at the end. I think the best way to watch this is to understand that it is different, but still Scooby Doo, and it is hilarious from many angles.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Kids love it, parents will cringe
Ahh the pain of being a parent... you will truly feel it when you child finds this movie. Now I have sat through untold hours of Scooby Doo and can enjoy most of them even on the 800th viewing... now let me tell you the bad news: This movie is Terrible, but your kids are going to love it and want to watch it over and over again.

First, there is no mystery, no gang, and no unmasking. The music is repetitive so even if you are in the next room you will feel the pain. The basic story is - Count Dracula turns Shaggy (wearing a red shirt) into a werewolf and tells him if he wins a car race he can be changed back. So Shaggy, Scooby (with only a minor role), Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend "Googy" go to the race. Shaggy and Scooby race while Scrappy and Googy get them out of problems. The Count keeps trying to make them loose, there's some annoying announcer, and all of the monsters are real.

Your kids will love it... and that would be tolerable if they had kept this at the length of an episode... but it drags on and on and on to the length of a movie. The same things are repeated over and over... Shaggy and Scooby are in the lead, the Count does something bad to their car, Googy and Scrappy fix it... repeat that about 25 times and you have this movie. The animation is poor even in comparison to the TV show and the soundtrack is like nails on a chalkboard.

As a parent I'm warning you to steer your kids in the direction of Scooby and the Loch Ness Monster, or Scooby and the Mummy, or Scooby Doo's Original Mysteries (a very good choice). My 6 year old loves this movie, and we are forced to listen to him watching it at every opportunity. It's almost as bad, if not worse on parents than "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School." There, you have been warned.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - monster race and Shaggy has a girl
I was very happy to watch this again recently. There is such a difference in content between modern cartoons like Shrek and even All Dogs Go to Heaven. The difference between this and the "live" Scooby movies is incredible. This is so much more true to the original series. It would be great social commentary to measure the hows and whys.
Anyway, this is an entertaining, clever story about Shaggy getting chosen to be the werewolf driving in Dracula's monster race. No, there is no mystery caper, and the whole gang is not there. It was nice to see Scooby and Shag have some limelight alone, though, and Scrappy and Googie (girlfriend of Shaggy) filled in the support roles.
For a late night laugh with no shady humor or bathroom jokes, it was great. And I would feel safe letting any age kids watch this, as it is clearly make-believe monsters that spoof other TV personalities. Kids may miss that but adults will love it. Try "Vanna Pira" assisting Drac as an announcer. If only the newer shows were so clean and classy!


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - TERRIBLE - a repackaged movie from the worst in American animation
My family is a big fan of the new Scooby Doo movies - we also love the original series. This movie falls somewhere in-between as a really crummy homage to the Wacky Races. This is a really crummy movie and your kids will be bored to tears. Try the Loch Ness Monster movie or the one about the Mummy - both are awesome.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A 7-year-old's review
This is one of my favorite movies. A race car driver, Shaggy, gets turned into a werewolf by The Hunch Bunch, whom Dracula sends because he needs a werewolf to drive in the road race in Transylvania. I like when Count Dracula does everything he can to stop Shaggy from winning. Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Googy, and Scrappy are stuck in a creepy, haunted castle. How can they win against so many obstacles? Googy and Scrappy help the others in a really cool red car. This movie was the best Scooby-Doo movie I have ever seen. The Hunch Bunch tries to stop Shaggy from winning, too, by order of Count Dracula. Even though Daphne, Fred, and Velma are not in it, it's still an excellent movie. If Shaggy wins the race, he gets to turn back into a human. They do everything they can to stop from losing. If you love Scooby-Doo the way I do, then you will really love this movie. The movie is 93 minutes long, but very fast moving, and very fun. If Shaggy and the others win, they get to go back home, too. I've watched this movie enough times to know that it is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's really interesting, and kids and grown-ups will like it a lot. Buy it!

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