History YMMV / ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool

* SpiritualPredecessor: Could be seen as one for ''Toys/MonsterHigh'', another work about the children of famous monsters attending an AllGhoulsSchool.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: References are made to leg warmers and Walkman radios placing this somewhere in the early to mid '80s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: References are made to leg warmers and Walkman cassette tape players placing this somewhere in the early to mid '80s.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/ScottMenville voices Tug Roper, the leader of the Calloway Military School cadets.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] who [[PlotIrrelevantVillain has nothing to do with the rivalry between Grimwood and Calloway]] and feels thrown in for the sake of averting NoAntagonist, her EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus during the second half, and her only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan to the point of [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeding]], with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. As a result, there exists a [[BrokenBase divide within the fanbase]] on whether the first or second half of the film is better.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus during the second half and whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan to the point of [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeding]], with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. As a result, there exists a [[BrokenBase divide within the fanbase]] on whether the first or second half of the film is better.

** Tanis being in the school despite being 6 would be much more difficult to portray as normal today thanks to a large amount of awareness about the damage that boarding schools can inflict on young children if they are separated from their parents for too long. Nothing is made of the issue in-story (she seems perfectly fine), but this would no doubt rub today's viewers the wrong way.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Of the movies based on the "Scrappy Decade" in the Scooby franchise, this is the most fondly remembered, not so much for our heroes than for the {{Cute Monster Girl}}s loved by fans. Even moreso when ''Godzilla'' himself (implied to be the one from ''WesternAnimation/Godzilla'') gets a surprise cameo alongside his daughter.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Of the movies based on the "Scrappy Decade" in the Scooby franchise, this is the most fondly remembered, not so much for our heroes than for the {{Cute Monster Girl}}s loved by fans. Even moreso when [[TheTropeNamer ''Godzilla'' himself gets a cameo]] alongside his daughter.

* JustHereForGodzilla: Of the movies based on the "Scrappy Decade" in the Scooby franchise, this is the most fondly remembered, not so much for our heroes than for the {{Cute Monster Girl}}s loved by fans.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus during the second half and whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan to the point of [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeding]], with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. As a result, there exists a [[BrokenBase divide]] within the fanbase on whether the first or second half of the film is better.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus during the second half and whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan to the point of [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeding]], with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise.

* {{Fanon}}: It's generally believed among fans that Sibella is [[{{Dhampyr}} half-human, half-vampire]] seeing as sunlight neither weakens her nor appears to have any affect on her powers whatsoever.

** Which comes off as kind of inapproproate given that these are ''children'' who are around thirteen or fourteen at best...

** Likewise, part of highlighting the Cadets' {{jerkass}}ery is them regularly mentioning that their opponents are girls and their plans to whoop their butts, which comes off as rather sexist to a modern viewer. Then again they ''are'' young boys and come around to like the girls in the end. So just more an Aesop of not letting gender dictate things which was a pretty frequent one back in the day.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus and whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan to the point of [[NearVillainVictory nearly succeeding]], with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose EvilPlan causes the Grimwood girls to be OutOfFocus and whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her plan, with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a legitimate threat]] once she begins enacting her EvilPlan, with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise.

* HilariousInHindsight: The monster-based HurricaneOfPuns slang the girls use wouldn't be out of place at Toys/MonsterHigh, which came out decades later. For that matter, the girls themselves wouldn't be out of place, either.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] whose only motive beyond "[[EvilFeelsGood I enjoy being evil]]" i.e. loss of respect for the Grimwood girls' fathers and desire to take their place as the most powerful [[TheDreaded and feared]] creature in the monster kingdom, isn't enough to make her interesting. Other viewers praise her for being [[NightmareFuel frightening]] and [[KnightOfCerebus a genuine threat]] once she begins enacting her EvilPlan, with some even considering her to be one of the most underrated villains in the entire ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Given his ultimate fate, Scrappy's first line in the movie being to pop onscreen with a cheery, "Hey, don't forget about me!" comes off as sad. But the writer of this movie didn't forget about him! He is Glenn Leopold, the writer of ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'', the last third of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'', and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders''. All of which [[spoiler: have real monsters, which Scrappy gave the franchise the courage to show in the first place! And Fred and Velma now have characters, a zeal for solving mysteries...Scrappy wasn't forgotten.]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The monster-based HurricaneOfPuns slang the girls use wouldn't be out of place at Toys/MonsterHigh, which came out decades later. For that matter, the girls themselves wouldn't be out of place, either.
** This wouldn't be [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooCampScare the last time]] Creator/ScottMenville would play an athletic blonde boy with a large amount of loyalty towards his institution in a ''Scooby-Doo'' production.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[ObviouslyEvil It's immediately clear that Revolta is evil the moment she first appears]], but she crosses the line when she begins putting her plan to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy enslave the Grimwood girls via dark magic]] into action, which is made all the more heinous by the fact that most of them are still children, with the oldest being a young teenager and the youngest being about ''six'', if not ''even younger''.

* MoralEventHorizon: It's [[ObviouslyEvil immediately clear that Revolta is evil the moment she first appears]], but she crosses the line when she begins putting her plan to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy enslave the Grimwood girls via dark magic]] into action, which is made all the more heinous by the fact that most of them are still children, with the oldest being a young teenager and the youngest being about ''six'', if not ''even younger''.