I sat down to watch the 2009 movie "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" with my 9 year old son, as he wanted to watch it. And since we usually watch the animated movies together, I sat down to watch this live-action movie with him.
Right, well whereas he enjoyed the movie, I found it to be, well less interesting. The storyline was adequate, for sure, because it definitely had the spirit of the classic formula used in the Scooby-Doo! animated movies. But there was just something that didn't appeal to me. Oh wait, it was the live-action part. Scooby-Doo! does not translate well as a live-action movie, especially not with such horrible CGI animation.
Scooby-Doo looked like something from an early 2000s computer game and he stuck out like a sore thumb. It was just impossible to take a liking to that aspect of the movie. But at least my 9 year old son enjoyed it.
I quickly lost interest in this abysmal foray into the Scooby-Doo! universe, but my son endured it to the end and he was genuinely entertained.
This 2009 movie is without a doubt aimed for a young audience, whereas the animated movies are more easily adaptable to a mature audience as well.
I wasn't entertained, and my rating of "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" is a mere four out of ten stars.
