Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!

Yes you read that correctly, Scooby and the gang team up with Batman villain The Scarecrow :)That situation alone deserves a five-star rating. But don't get me wrong, realistically without that element this movie is more like a two-star rating and if you don't care about the title of this review that's all you'll see when you watch it. But as a lifelong Scooby Doo and super-hardcore Batman Fan that reason alone got me to five stars. Now my actual un-biased true definition of a five-star rated Scooby Doo movie are Films like "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" and "Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins".When this movie first came out in October of 2020 I bought the DVD on Amazon having not actually seen any trailers for it at all (yes I'm that crazy of a Scooby fan). So literally I had no idea that Jonathan Crane/The Scarecrow was going to be in it. Imagine my surprise when his character was unmasked after the opening credits.Dwight Schultz (Murdoc from the original A-Team) did an amazing job voicing both Jonathan Crane and his criminal alter-ego.This movie is a follow up to “Scooby-Doo: Curse of the 13th Ghost” and “Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island” both of which were unfortunately a huge let down. But all three of these movies introduced a character known as “The Sheriff” (Voiced by David Herman) who in Curse of the 13th Ghost began hassling the Scooby Gang for breaking the law while attempting to solve mysteries. His character then showed up in Return to Zombie Island where at the end of the Film he arrived on the island (virtually out of nowhere) and informed the teens they could once again be mystery solvers insisting that the gang and what they do are important and much needed. The Sheriff returns in this movie where you will see him in a much larger role where you will finally learn exactly where he stands with the gang.This movie also very heavily ties into a previous Scooby Movie titled “Scooby Doo & Batman: The Brave and the Bold” where the Scooby Gang traveled to Gotham City, met Batman along with dozens of other DC Comics characters, and officially joined the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City. Although no direct reference in this Film is ever mentioned to having met Batman in the past it feels very heavily like a sequel to it. Which I personally really loved. Now although “Batman The Brave and the Bold” was never my favorite animated DC universe (that would be the Bruce Timm verse especially Batman: The Animated Series from the 90’s) The Brave and the Bold universe was still really cool with amazing villains such as Equinox and the Jeff Bennet voiced version of The Joker. So having “Happy Halloween Scooby Doo” become a new addition to that universe with this super awesome version of The Scarecrow was an all-inspiring moment in my Fan-Book.Without giving anything away I would recommend this Movie to any and all Batman fans as I think you would truly appreciate this interesting take on The Scarecrow particularly to see this character taken to new depths (teaming briefly with the Scooby Gang/his interesting chemistry with Velma during their back and fourths in dialogue). And SPOILER ALERT: He gets away at the end of the movie!!!!!

Great dvd. Everyone loves scooby

Loved Elvira in this. Solid for a newer film!

Parts of the plot were good, but most of the story and plot were terrible. It seems like 25 to 33% of the movie is a boring car chase cover hundreds of miles but their able to get back to the scene of the crime in much less time. I wish the producer would put more effort into the plot and story

Definitely a little more on the cheesy side and I agree with other reviews that Daphne is kind of obnoxious. But Fred cracks me up with the "traps" scene and overall if you're a scooby doo fan you will accept the minor flaws in this movie and enjoy it for the never changing plot, to catch the bad guys.