Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery

Kane has returned to WWE City. There is a ghost bear monster. Shaggy and Scooby win a trip to WWE City and WrestleMania. The gang arrives to find a mystery to solve.

This is fine Scooby-Doo while incorporating WWE. I would like some more imaginative names for Scooby and Shaggy. I'm not up-to-date with some of the wrestlers but I do know quite a few of them. This is probably more for the WWE fans.

Whereas "Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery" is, of course, a children's cartoon, then it was still fun to watch, having grown up with both the Scooby Doo cartoons and wrestling on TV during the 1980s (I stopped watching (and outgrew) wrestling before it become WWE), then it was fun to watch this 2014 animated feature.

Storywise, well, then it is as any Scooby Doo cartoon goes. Basically, once you have seen a single episode, you have seen them all. Something foul and strange is afoot, and it is up to the gang to get to the root of the mystery that is plaguing the WWE city.

The animation in the movie was smooth and it was just like the cartoons I remembered from back in the 80's, except for some minor updates, such as tablets and smart phones and such. But great to see that the show is progressing and staying in tune with todays day and age.

As for the voice acting, well people were doing good jobs putting themselves, their talent and souls into the characters. Now, I can't really claim to be familiar with the stars of WWE, so I really can't put much comment on their part.

The enjoyment in "Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery" was good, and there is something for the entire movie to watch here when sitting down all together to watch this.

Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

The latest mystery has Shaggy and Scooby winning a wrestling video game, which gives them the grand prize of a week at the WWE headquarters. Once there the gang gets involved with the mystery involving a giant glowing bear who is wrecking havoc on the place and plans to ruin the upcoming WrestleMania. The latest movie from Scooby-Doo isn't the greatest and in fact it's a major set back when compared to BIG TOP SCOOBY-DOO but there's no doubt that fans will still want to check it out. While the film remains entertaining for the most part, there's no question that it lacks a certain amount of charm. I'm not sure why on Earth the filmmakers decided to mix in the wrestling stars but it really didn't make for a good combination. I'm not going to lie, I stopped watching wrestling years ago but I thought they could have done a few interesting things with it. Sadly, that really didn't happen as we get the typical types of jokes that you'd expect and of course Shaggy and Scooby eventually have to face down one of the biggest people in the business. The film does have some good stuff in it including the monster bear, which looked excellent and made for a great villain. It's really too bad he wasn't used more. The animation is top-notch as you'd expect and there's no doubt that Scooby is always at the top of his game. The vocal work is good by all, which is another plus. The story itself is pretty standard and it's not too hard to figure out who's going to be behind the mask. Still, even with the flaws, the film manages to be entertaining.

Hmmmmmm...

I really don't know how to feel about this.

I mean, I can see Scooby and Shaggy as being WWF fans. I can see them being the types of rubes that don't understand that it's all fake. that works.

But the Bear? Really, it doesn't fit for a big bad.

And the show is a bit over-the-top even for Scooby Doo. It is all a little bit too much and builds up to yet another forgettable ending.

It's a negative in oh so many ways. It doesn't work, especially as a Scooby Doo movie.

So there is all of that weighted against it....

BUT, it was funny and it had moments where it moved from funny to hysterical.

So even though it doesn't work as movie, it passes only on the strength of its humor.

Scooby and the gang team up with WWE Stars in their animated counter-parts .. honestly this movie totally sucks, there are only a couple of famous WWE superstars and that burn ape .. puhleeeze .. if you're gonna make a Scooby Doo movie in collaboration with WWE then it should be Live-action mixed with animations like that on Space Jam, that would suite the stage better .. movie-making wise and the story could've been a hundred times better than a burnt ape monster running on the loose.