Line #1 YMMV/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Were Shaggy and Scooby trying to rescue the girls from Revolta because they were worried about them, or because they were afraid of the fathers' punishment? In other words, were Shaggy and Scooby genuinely looking out for the girl ghouls' well-being, or were their actions motivated by what would happen to them if they didn't? Both at the same time?
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Scrappy's Rap" is rather fun to bob your head to.
3	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Revolta is rather divisive as the main villain. Some viewers think she is a blatant [[CardCarryingVillain mustache-twirling villain]] who feels thrown in for the sake of averting NoAntagonist since she [[PlotIrrelevantVillain has no involvement with the rivalry between Grimwood and Calloway]], 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.
4	* CultClassic: The film lives in the shadow of the first four [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries Direct-to-Video]] movies (i.e. ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland Zombie Island]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost Witch's Ghost]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders Alien Invaders]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase Cyber Chase]]''), but has managed to gather a small but devoted fanbase over the years because of the {{Cute Monster Girl}}s and unique premise in the franchise, and tends to be more fondly remembered than [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers its predecessor]].
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: The three new students who briefly appear at the end of the movie are also pretty popular, to the point where the fans have given them names: Mary (the alien), Goonie (the Creature from the Black Lagoon), and Godzina (Godzilla's daughter).
6	* EvenBetterSequel: Widely acknowledged as the best of the Scooby films of TheEighties, due to the titular {{Cute Monster Girl}}s, the fact that the movie is a break from format from the usual Scooby plot, and its relatively calm tone, though not without its more serious moments. That being said, ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'' enjoys a slightly better critical reception.
7	* FanficFuel: There's a lot of potential with the monster girls' home lives and futures, what else they learn, what other kinds of students would attend the academy, crossovers, etc.
8	* FanNickname: The three unnamed new students at the end are given the names Mary, Goonie, and Godzina by the fandom.
9	* {{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 effect on her powers whatsoever.
10	* 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.
11	* 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 the Hanna-Barbera show) gets a surprise cameo alongside his daughter at the film's end.
12	* {{Moe}}: Tanis, in all of her adorableness.
13	* 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 [[WouldHurtAChild children]], with the oldest being a young teenager and the youngest being about ''six'', if not ''even younger''.
14	* NightmareFuel:
15	** The [[EvilDoppelganger Mirror Monster]], especially from Scooby's perspective where he's being chased by a demonic version of his owner/best friend and desperately calling for the real Shaggy's help, unaware that he's trapped in [[MirrorUniverse the mirror the monster came out of]]. The monster's chilling delivery of the following line during the camera chase is even scarier as he breaks into an evil laugh with the FadeToBlack:
16	--->'''Mirror Monster:''' He can't help you now! ''No one'' can help you now!
17	** Revolta's plan for the girls: use her spider-bat on Shaggy to implement a suggestion to a bog where she and Creeper will lay in wait for the girls and hypnotize them one-by-one. Then once the girls are all rounded up, bring them back to her castle where she attempts to permanently put them under her control. The hypnosis in the bog is especially creepy because the hypnotized girls lure in their own friends to be mind-controlled.
18	** The fathers going PapaWolf and threatening Shaggy and Scooby. They had just spent the party being friendly to their daughters’ teachers and here, they’re establishing that their love for their daughters outranks any friendliness they displayed to the two earlier. It’s worth noting as well that Scooby and Shaggy were initially afraid to meet the girls’ fathers and now they have reason to fear the monsters they befriended.
19	* {{Padding}}: Pretty much the entire scene with the [[FillerVillain Mirror Monster]].
20	* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/ScottMenville voices Tug Roper, the leader of the Calloway Military School cadets. Other recognizable names playing the cadets include Aaron Lohr (the singing voice of [[WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie Max Goof]] and the future Mr. Creator/IdinaMenzel), Creator/RemyAuberjonois, and Creator/BumperRobinson (the original voice of Dwight on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and Principal Bump from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'').
21	* SelfFanservice: Again, the monster girls in the fanart. Especially Sibella.
22	* SpiritualPredecessor:
23	** It was almost certainly one for the short-lived 1990 Hanna-Barbera produced series ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', which also uses the premise of an unwilling human being a teacher for a monster school.
24	** Could be seen as one for ''Toys/MonsterHigh'', another work about the children of famous monsters attending an AllGhoulsSchool.
25	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Phantasma has less screen time and dialogue than the rest of the Ghouls.
26	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: References are made to leg warmers and Walkman radios placing this somewhere in the early to mid '80s.
27	* ValuesDissonance:
28	** Tanis being in the boarding 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.
29	** When Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy are ordered to wear tutus for a lesson, the film portrays this not only as comedic but something that they shouldn't have to do. A later scene has them admitting that they didn't need to wear them as completely acceptable. Nowadays, where it's more acceptable for people of either gender to wear or do things that go against gender norms, it would be very hard to portray such a thing as either something to laugh at or to depict it as uncomfortable.
30	* ValuesResonance: Shaggy and Scooby are afraid of the girls based solely on their appearance, but later on, they actually warm up to them, treating them for who they themselves are [[DarkIsNotEvil rather than them being obvious monsters]]. In the '80s, people who were heroic were pretty much determined [[BeautyEqualsGoodness simply based on physical appearance]]. In the current era, using people's true personalities to determine if they were good or not is now a norm, and the use of physical appearance is now secondary. Similarly, the fact that the children of monsters are depicted as nice friendly people, and that their differences are what makes them special, is now being used much more frequently with much of popular culture using difference as a positive thing, rather than shunning them as not conforming to the norm.
31	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Elsa Frankenteen is easy to mistake for a boy due to her deep voice, androgynous appearance, and tomboyish personality.

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