YMMV / SCOOB!

• Accidental Innuendo: The scene where Dastardly attempts to correct Scooby on the former’s real name due to the latter’s status as a Speech-Impaired Animal, especially since the name “Dick” didn’t age well.
• Adorkable: Dynomutt has shades of this despite being a snarky Straight Man. There's a scene where he's so overjoyed that he licks Dee Dee and forgets that his tongue is made of metal.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Dynomutt. He doesn't warm up to Blue Falcon until he sees him calling his dad on the phone - was it sincere, or was he just chumming up so that Falcon wouldn't tell on him? And his harshness towards Brian is ambiguous enough because it's a mix of disgust at Brian's rookie ways and missing his previous master.
  • Regarding Simon Cowell, some feel that his scene at the start of the film was Dick Dastardly in disguise, trying to separate Shaggy and Scooby from the others for easier capture, especially given that Dastardly uses a Simon mask at the end of the film.
    • Director Tony Cervon initially jossed this, but then responded to a DM confirming that Simon's scene came late in production and that this is what they intended. The film originally had a mid-credit scene with the real Cowell who never met the gang, which was cut for time and the unmasking's subtle visual and verbal explanation to the twist.
• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Given how the rest of the film downplays Scooby's speech impediment, meaning he has less trouble mixing up Ds and Rs when speaking, some viewers have interpreted his mispronunciation of Dick's name as an intentional attempt to annoy Dick. The fact that Scooby uses Dick's annoyance as a diversion to escape lends some credence to it being intentional.
• Audience-Alienating Premise: When the announcement came of a new theatrical Scooby movie, a lot of people expected a traditional "Scooby-Doo" Hoax movie with just the gang. News that it was primarily a Crossover came early in interviews, but managed to be missed by a lot of people who weren't following the news that closely. In the end, the completed film doesn't really have a traditional Scooby mystery and is centered around something that goes beyond what the franchise usually does. Which turned off plenty of Scooby-Doo fans.
• Awesome Art: It's generally agreed that the animation for the film looks splendid. Scooby's design in particular is seen as a massive improvement over his CGI design from the theatrical live-action films and the TV prequels.
• Awesome Music: The film was accompanied by an album titled SCOOB! The Album that featured original songs by popular artists such as:
  • "Summer Feelings", the credits/main theme sung by Lennon Stella and Charlie Puth, is a great summer song with catchy and boppy synths.
  • The cover of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme by Best Coast is super fun and a solid rearrangement!
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Dick Dastardly gets a lot of love for being a cool and compelling villain despite being based on one of the biggest Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains in the history of animation and having some of the funniest lines in the movie, other fans dislike his inclusion feeling he's more of a superheroe villain rather that a Scooby-Doo villain and think he steals screentime from the members of the gang that aren't Scooby or Shaggy.
  • Fred. Some fans see it as the funniest character in the movie and found Zac Efron's performance surprisingly good, others weren't fond of another take of Fred tooking a level in dumbass and hate that he's for once not voiced by Frank Welker
• Broken Base: Fans are generally divided over whether or not the film's more supernatural-based plot with added characters from other Hanna-Barbera properties was a good thing. Some enjoyed the change of pace from the Strictly Formula tradition that the past movies had fallen into after Cyber Chase; others criticized what they perceived as a poor attempt to copy the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a lackluster supernatural plot in comparison to the franchise's other iterations on it (such as Zombie Island).
• Cargo Ship: Fred is seen having a romantic date... with the Mystery Machine.
• Critic-Proof: In spite of the film's mixed critical reception, it still managed to take the #1 spot in VOD sales for three weeks straight.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Dynomutt's redesign, along with his cool and sarcastic attitude, has made him a fan favorite. Even people who didn't like the movie admitted to having a soft spot for the robot dog thanks to his badass personality and witty one-liners.
  • The policewoman (actually Dick Dastardly in disguise) has also been making waves for pretty obvious reasons.
  • For a character that was ultimately scrapped, Grape Ape gets a lot of attention for his detailed but faithful design and fun concept.
  • Judy Takamoto is this due to how blunt and snarky she is.
• Evil Is Cool: Dick Dastardly really ups his game as the Big Bad of this movie due to his Adaptational Badass upgrade and becoming much more threatening than he ever was before, while still retaining his humorous traits, and having a genuinely deep motivation in wanting to rescue Muttley from the underworld.
• Fandom Rivalry: As was expected, there was some heat raised up by Marvel Cinematic Universe fans over WB's Follow the Leader attempt at a Shared Universe for characters they may not appreciate as much. On the flipside, in the Hanna-Barbera fandom, there had been worry and conversation that if the movie was too much like the MCU, it would turn off many of the older HB fans in the same way the Dark Universe did to their older fans.
• Franchise Original Sin:
  • This film isn't the first time Scooby-Doo has crossed over with other Hanna-Barbera properties, with Laff-A-Lympics and The New Scooby-Doo Movies being some of the major cited examples of Hanna-Barbera crossovers. However, it is an understatement to ignore the divides present here. In this case it has long been commonplace for the studio's legion of crossovers not to take themselves seriously, and generally just having characters bump into each other and roll on with the story. WB Animation's DTV and TV series such as Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? have embraced this same idea as well. Before this Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated had tried to use crossovers to create a bigger sense of worldbuilding in trying to build an Ultimate Universe that could be rebooted into the light hearted original. This was considered fairly divisive among fans in many cases for taking itself too seriously. Just the previous year, Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost and Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island both designed as continuations of previous adventures just plain retconned the events into their current accepted history and rolled on.
  • The back seating of the rest of the gang for Scooby and Shaggy going on adventures is likewise a very long standing tradition that defined a lot of the Scrappy era in which some the rest of the gang weren't even included. WB Animation Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King did this same thing as well in honor of that era where Scooby and Shaggy's adventure plot was the main focus of the movie with the rest of the gang being mostly a b-plot.
  • The modernization of the characters and using modern cultural references is yet another thing that isn't even new to Scooby or Hanna Barbera due to multiple characters living through multiple decades of productions. Scooby and his gang have used new technology as it was invented across his entire run. He's been rebooted with people picking and choosing which parts of his history to reference several times. Nearly every series had dated references of the time it was made.
  • This isn't even the first movie to primarily have Scooby-Doo interacting with Blue Falcon, as shown with Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon. That worked better there due to keeping the focus primarily on the Scooby gang interacting with Blue Falcon, there was still a mystery to solve, and any other Hanna-Barbera characters that appeared were cameos.
  • While not Scooby's original sin, but the movie's adventure plot greatly resembles Yogi's Treasure Hunt just with Scooby and 70s characters subbing in for Yogi and 60s characters. That show featured a team up of good HB characters race around the world to get artifacts before Dick Dastardly could and often times had them run into monsters in the process. Which interestingly makes a stark counterpoint to people who feel the movie not doing a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax didn't understand how Scooby should work given it took several cues on how to make a Hanna Barbera crossover movie right to emulating a previous Hanna Barbera crossover show.
• He Really Can Act: Frank Welker reprises his 18 year role of Scooby-Doo and is still as good as ever, but he really finds his emotional chops at The Climax when Shaggy performs a Heroic Sacrifice by trapping himself in the Underworld so that Cerberus won't escape again then Scooby lets out a heart-wrenching Howl of Sorrow when it appears that his best friend is gone forever. Then when Scooby, the rest of the Mystery Gang, and the Falcon Force find a way to get Shaggy back, he delivers an almost equally tear-jerking exchange:
  Scooby: Raggy, you promised you'd never leave. Come home.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Dick Dastardly. He's your typical Card-Carrying Villain but considering that he wanted to get Muttley back, it's easier to sympathize with him. Although not so easy considering that he was a Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist who didn't care what the consequences were or who gets hurt during the process.
  • Dynomutt is a more subtle Jerk with a Heart of Gold type example. He's extremely sardonic and encourages Shaggy and Scooby to puke on Brian if they get motion sick but considering how much he misses the original Blue Falcon and has to put up with his idiot son, it's understandable that he acts the way he does.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Both fans and detractors really like the opening of the movie focusing on young Mystery Incorporated, feeling it really captures the Scooby-Doo spirit.
  • Some fans just watch the movie for Dynomutt and his one-liners. He's especially starting to gain some traction with the furry community.
  • Jason Isaacs as Dick Dastardly is also a major reason for people to watch, some just for his scenes.
• Magnificent Bastard: Dick Dastardly is far more cunning and intelligent than his original counterpart in this film. After an attempt to steal the Underworld's treasures leads to his sidekick Muttley being trapped there, Dastardly travels the world in search for Cerberus' skulls to unlock the Gates of the Underworld and retrieve his canine companion. Discovering that Scooby-Doo is the other key to opening the gate, Dastardly disguises himself as Simon Cowell to separate him and Shaggy from the Mystery Gang to capture him using an army of shapeshifting robots called the Rottens. Staying one step ahead of the heroes, Dastardly uses his disguises and deceptive skills to capture the Mystery Gang and retrieve the other two skulls along with Scooby-Doo to open the Gates of the Underworld, risking the apocalypse, just to save Muttley. Even when he is betrayed by the Rottens and sent off to prison, Dastardly and Muttley escape to continue their criminal activities once again.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • When Fred's ascot was removed when the official designs of Mystery Inc were revealed, everybody started joking about how the film will be about looking for it. Ironically, in the movie proper, Fred briefly puts on his ascot when he goes to avenge the ruined Mystery Machine.
  • The designs' release also led to several people noting how much this version of Fred resembles New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold.
  • Alternatively, saying that Fred's redesign makes him look like a "Chad".
  • This tv-spot, which features Dastardly screaming "DIIIIICK!!" at the top of his lungs has gained exactly as much traction on the internet as you think it has. Many commenters have used it as a reaction for how Batman calls Nightwing when he's angry, or for how most men respond to their girlfriends asking what they got them for their anniversary. The fact that Dick keeps correcting Scooby, whose speech impediment makes him say "Rick" instead, has led to several snarky comments about the much-maligned "Ric Grayson" story that many Nightwing fans felt was suffering from Arc Fatigue at around the same time this movie was released.
  • Shaggy's Memetic Badass status continues to ferment in the film's finale through an imposing silhouette. After Shaggy is seemingly trapped in the Underworld in a Heroic Sacrifice, Velma slowly rationalizes that Shaggy's fate contradicts Alexander the Great's philosophy of a close bond between pet and dog. Cue the tomb's opening return, showing the illuminated figure of Shaggy's stock pose staring back at the viewer.
  • The scene of Fred using one of the hubcaps of the Mystery Machine like it's Captain America's shield has been making the rounds.
  • The scene of Dick Dastardly taking off his disguise as Officer Jaffe has become a gif whenever someone is revealed to be a catfish online.
• Moe:
  • The younger Mystery Inc. gang not only look absolutely adorable, but are possibly even cuter than their A Pup Named Scooby-Doo counterparts.
  • Dynomutt is this to some fans, bizarrely enough. Then again, he's facially one of the most expressive characters in the movie. It's especially evident when he's happy.
• Moral Event Horizon: When Dick kidnaps and takes Scooby hostage using a catchpole and then aggressively using him for his own needs such as forcing him to open the gates of hell with his paw.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This is not the first time Warner Bros. has replaced Scooby-Doo voice actors without informing them. Mindy Cohn, the voice of Velma in What's New, Scooby-Doo? to Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, shared her disappointment with Matthew Lillard over her experience being suddenly replaced. Scott Innes also expressed disappointment in not being called back to reprise his role as Shaggy and Scooby in the 2000s.
  • A criticism of the trailer is that it depicts Scooby without pronouncing a majority of his words with an R. This actually isn't anything new, considering Mystery Incorporated (which the movie's director worked on) had Scooby speaking in proper English most of the time, as well as the fact that a lot of the recent Direct-to-Video movies downplayed this aspect. Admittedly, this was hard for all of the Scooby voice actors, leading to it being downplayed even in the original series as time went on.
  • This isn't the first time Scooby and the gang were flashbacked to childhood/puphood. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo also featured Scooby and the gang as younger kids.
  • For those that needed it pointed out again, Scooby-Doo crossing over with other Hanna-Barbera properties is nothing new with him having done so since the 1970s and his sibling shows having done it before Scooby was even created. Whether this trend should be continued is a Broken Base, however, to some of the Scooby fandom. As some only prefer Scooby and his gang in their "Scooby-Doo" Hoax format. Others welcome his supernatural adventures and crossovers with other HB properties. In Scooby's 50 years of existing he has done plenty of all three.
  • Simon Cowell's relevance in the plot has been criticized for being a shoehorned, out of place reference in the film. That being said, plot-relevant celebrity guest stars within the Scooby-Doo franchise are far more common than the casual audience may realize. Two series ^note The New Scooby-Doo Movies and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? specifically center around the idea, with even the first live-action film parodying it with Pamela Anderson.
  • The character Dee Dee Skyes originated in Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, while Captain Caveman maintained a higher place in the fandom as a recurring character his original show had become a more obscure property, especially being one that didn't appear as much of Cartoon Network as Scooby, Dynomutt or Wacky Races did. Adding that she got a major redesign for this movie and they didn't connect her to Captain Caveman, many initially thought that she was created for it.
  • The inclusion of Cerberus as the big threat bad guy was seen by many as a newly thought add in to a Hanna Barbera production but isn't actually that new either. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn utilized an animated Cerberus who was guarding the gate to the underworld and had glowing green eyes. Huck Finn's Cerberus was just colored blue instead of green. His role in the plot though is pretty much how many a episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt went down with the treasure being guarded by some monster that Dastardly would accidentally make worse for the heroes to deal with.
• One-Scene Wonder: Captain Caveman shows up for a scene testing Scooby and Brian's bravery, and doesn't appear again until the Creative Closing Credits.
• Popular with Furries: Scooby-Doo was already an icon and to a lesser extent Dynomutt, but now Dynomutt seems to have surpassed him in the fandom thanks to his redesign and sassy personality.
• Questionable Casting: Many fans voiced annoyance that Matthew Lillard, Frank Welker, Grey Delisle, and Kate Micucci (the respective regular voice actors for Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma) were all replaced by Celebrity Voice Actors, with only Welker reprising his role as Scooby.^note Irony sets in when you realize Lillard himself is also a celebrity as well, as he was well known for his live action roles during The '90s, his casting as the live action Shaggy in the first two Scooby Doo films would eventually lead him to become Shaggy's official voice actor to this day.
• Recurring Fanon Character: Given the Policewoman's Ensemble Dark Horse status, some fans prefer to canonize her as her own separate person instead of just being another of Dick Dastardly's disguises.
• Replacement Scrappy: Many fans of the classic Blue Falcon were disappointed that this version of him is actually his son and not the original, and disliked that Blue Falcon has a less serious, more Manchild-ish personality.
• Rooting for the Empire: Dick Dastardly has always had this effect due to normally being a Harmless Villain but here, it isn't terribly hard to root for him once you know what the motivation for his plan is. Of course, this is also taking into account that he was willing to hurt and kill the Scooby Gang as well as anyone else by forcibly taking Scooby hostage so he could literally unleash hell upon the Earth.
• The Scrappy: Simon Cowell's appearence was universally reviled as a very outdated American Idol reference that only existed to create forced tension between Scooby, Shaggy and the rest of the Gang. On top of having a very creepy and jarring design.
• Signature Scene: The recreation of the original intro, being a nearly shot-for-shot tribute to the original series, and a nod to fans since the original.
• So Okay, It's Average:
  • Folks who don't like or hate the movie tend to regard it as just harmless fun worth watching at least once, even if it's not a great movie.
  • In the HB fandom, there is a sense this isn't exactly how they envisioned the big HB crossover movie, but it's nowhere near as bad as it could have been, and there's room for improvement should they continue it.
• Spiritual Successor: Despite being billed as a Scooby movie, the plot featuring various Hanna Barbera characters joining up to travel around the world to beat Dick Dastardly to finding artifacts was also the plot to Yogi's Treasure Hunt although here the team of heroes are the Scooby Doobies instead of the Yogi Yahooeys.
• Tainted by the Preview: The reveal that this film would be a Crossover between Hanna-Barbera properties, with talks of a Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe, didn't go over well with certain audiences who tire of franchises trying to cash in on the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as fans who were expecting a standard Scooby-Doo story.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • While the redesigns for Scooby, Shaggy, Velma, and Daphne have been widely praised, Fred's has been met with much divisiveness. This is attributed to the fact that he no longer sports his signature ascot. Not the first time, most of the Post-"Zombie Island" movies and "What's New Scooby Doo" were hit by the same criticism on his design. Fans just can't picture the guy without his ascot.
  • Some fans have also criticized how Dick Dastardly's redesign loses the lank, sneaky look and makes him look brutish and bulky.
  • Captain Caveman losing his Hulk Speak was also seen as a downgrade by some who found that one of the character's funniest qualities. Though a clunk to the head might change that.
  • The recasting of all the current voice actors of the Mystery Inc. gang save for Frank Welker as Scooby has not been all too warmly received. Many have expressed particular annoyance towards the fact that Welker isn't reprising Fred and Dynomutt despite reprising Scooby, making this the first time in any official Scooby-Doo media since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo where Welker isn't the voice of Fred^note at least in Pup recasting Fred is justified considering he was younger in that particular series and the first time ever that he isn't the voice of Dynomutt, having voiced him in all prior appearances.
  • The many fans wanting it to be a standard Scooby-Doo story were also displeased with the film going beyond that for something bigger and more personal.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Detractors accused the movie of riding on the coattails of the Marvel Cinematic Universe by trying to be a launchpad for several other movies in a shared Hanna-Barbera universe.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Despite his voice actor getting top billing and being featured on one of the international posters, Captain Caveman doesn't actually get much of anything to do — something that can be boiled down to the fact that he's hardly in the movie at all, only showing up in the third act to serve as a pre-climax obstacle for the heroes.
    • His connection with Dee Dee and the Teen Angels isn't touched upon, though said group hadn't been formed yet in this film's world.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some people were enticed by the Origins Episode set up at the very beginning, only for the plot to quickly abandon that and only use it to explain how the Mystery Gang first met.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Simon Cowell's photorealistic design not only is frightening by itself, but clashes jarringly with the far more stylized and cartoony Mystery Inc. gang.
• The Woobie: This version of Shaggy is shown to be lonely before he meets Scooby and the others. Then in the present day, he feels useless among Mystery Inc. and left out when Falcon Force emphasizes Scooby’s importance, which worries that he'll grow apart from him.

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