Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
by Ray Patterson
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Actor: Alan Oppenheimer, Frank Welker, Jim Cummings, Rob PaulsenDirector: Ray Patterson
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product features:
- Actors: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Joan Gerber, Ed Gilbert, Alan Oppenheimer.
- Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC.
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono). Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Not Rated. Run Time: 80 minutes.
DVD Reviews of Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
DVD Review: Hilarious Halloween Comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Description of Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf
SCOOBY DOO AND THE RELUCTANT WEREWOLF - DVD MovieScooby 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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