Scooby Doo! et le Monstre de L'Espace

Can you scream "Jumping the Shark!" at the top of your lungs? It feels like they are jumping the shark on this.

Actually, no, it feels a bit like it's trying to be the Animaniacs. A lot of the jokes, a ,lot of the references, a lot of the parodies seemed like they came out of the Animaniacs.

The only thing is, the Animaniacs could have taken them to the next level and made them funny as where Scooby Doo is too grounded in Scooby Doo humor to make things like the Ellen Ripley spoof anything but annoying.

At least there are a few decent jokes at Fred's expense and those are always worth while.

But the Enter the Dragon Daphne seems retconned away to the vapid arm candy of old...and in the most humorless of possible ways.

All in all, this installment fails miserably. Possibly the worst Scooby Doo movie to date.

I actually found this movie enjoyable. Sure it's not the best but it's not awful. I thought I would hate because they would be stuck in space but they added onto the story well. The voice acting was great and the story was nice. The side characters were alright, nothing special. I knew who the bad guy was right from the start. Overall, it's good but would I watch it again, probably not for a long time.

I sat down here in 2020 with my son, whom is a big fan of the Scooby-Doo animated movies, to watch the 2015 "Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness".

First of all, I do like the movie's cover/poster, as it was interesting and definitely kept within the classic feel of the "Scooby-Doo!" franchise. And the storyline also had some appeal to it.

Well, the storyline told in "Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness", while it was definitely within the realm of your archetypical "Scooby-Doo!" adventure, just failed to stand out and be overly noteworthy in the endless sea of animated "Scooby-Doo!" movies out there. Yeah, the storyline just lacked that spark to make it unique. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it was just a plain, old generic and run-of-the-mill "Scooby-Doo!" animated movie. Nothing outstanding here really.

What does work out for "Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness" is the animation and the art style, because it is very true to the classic rendering of "Scooby-Doo!" and it is that unique style that makes the franchise.

And of course, the voice acting. It is always a blast to have the voices of Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin and Matthew Lillard in these animated movies, because that is just familiarity and they have the voices that personifies Scooby-Doo, Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy.

But it gets better, believe you me, because the voice cast also includes the iconic voices of Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell, and that was just such a treat to have in this 2015 animated movie. It definitely added something great to the overall enjoyment of it.

However, my rating of "Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness", sadly though, settles on a mediocre five out of ten stars. Because that was exactly what this 2015 animated movie was - mediocre. Watchable for the true fans of the franchise, but for us casual viewers it just didn't make the cut.

This movie is definitely better then people give it credit for especially when you compare it to the last 5 movies since then.

Okay Scooby Doo in space is Jumping a Shark but the movie has such good production value in it. The special effects look awesome and I really can't believe how well thought out this movie ACTUALLY is.

When I watch I feel like people got inspiration from Alien (Not Alien Isolation because it came out AFTER this movie), Bioshock, Elon Musk when he declared that he was making Space X.

Honestly how did this movie predict the private millionaire space race.

The movie actually has a pretty great sense of humor and the writing is pretty good. I actually watched this movie 3 times that is more than I can say about 80% of Scooby Doo movies. It has to mean something other than bad taste.

Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015)

** (out of 4)

A billionaire plans to take some experts into space but five "normal" people also get picked for the trip and sure enough it's Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, Fred and Daphnie. Once up in space everything seems to be going as planned but soon they run into an evil alien.

The latest direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie is yet another very disappointing one. Even though it pays homage to ALIEN, THE RIGHT STUFF and even E.T., the overall feel is just downright flat and boring. By the twenty-minute mark things were already moving at a snail's pace and sadly things never really picked up despite some great animation. There's no question that the screenplay is to blame here as we're really not given anything funny, mysterious or even remotely fun.

This includes a very predictable screenplay that opens with Daphnie failing a driver's test and you know this here is just setting up a certain ending. Even worse is that the alien itself really isn't all that entertaining and I'd argue that the design wasn't all that impressive. Another problem with the film is that the jokes are all rather lame and especially the stuff dealing with Fred putting his foot into his mouth when it comes to two elderly men on the spaceship.

All in all, SCOOBY-DOO! MOON MONSTER MADNESS is a real letdown that has very little going for it.