YMMV / Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Velma only describes Daphne getting hit by shellfish allergies, but was Daphne also drugged? That would have made it possible to do the makeover without her being aware and then so physically numbed that she couldn't even tell she was stuck in a bulky, sweaty suit.
• Awesome Moments: Fred vs. Baron von Dinkenstein. The baron manages to grab a couple of swords off a doorway, and Fred is armed only with some odds and ends he picked up from the castle, but Fred manages to hold his own. After getting a Heroic Second Wind, he pulls out an improvised dart gun and pins the baron to the wall with the various tools he found after his breakdown.
• Awesome Music: The opening is a rather creepy mix of horror-movie motifs, with ominous hints at the end of the movie.
• Broken Base:
  • In the Mystery Incorporated Fans vs Detractors area this film seems to get both in some contention. As the fans see things in this movie as evidence the latest leg of the Direct-to-video series is the Loose Canon to the end of their favored series. While detractors see much of these as WB making use of good old-fashioned Hanna-Barbera continuity flux and using what they want when they want and tossing some Take That, Audience! at the MI crowd.
  • The use of speed-up editing is either annoying or a really fun addition to the movie.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The Running Gag of Fred forgetting that the Mystery Machine has been destroyed and being upset whenever he remembers is so over-the-top that it's hilarious.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Fred's Cargo Ship with the Mystery Machine to the point that he worries excessively about it getting scratched and feels immense guilt over it getting blown up by the villain can be considered this if you remember that he blew up the Mystery Machine to save the others in the final episodes of Mystery Incorporated.
• Hollywood Homely: Beyond having rather unflattering clothes, a rounder face, and messy hair, "cursed" Daphne doesn't look much different that the regular Daphne. Fred seems to agree.
• Franchise Original Sin: This is the movie that cemented Velma's status as a sceptic towards the existence of the supernatural. Most viewers didn't mind given the continuity with the rest of the franchise was vague in the first place, it was justified in the story and had Velma portrayed as her usual self. However The Curse of the 13th Ghost, Return To Zombie Island and to a lesser degree The Sword And The Scoob had Velma still as an a sceptic towards the supernatural despite directly connecting with movies and shows involving supernatural forces. The narrative would commonly have her portrayed as being in the right by giving a rather contrived explanation of why nothing supernatural actually happened (besides the usual Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane implication). This became frustrating for viewers as she started coming up less like a voice of reason and more like an Insufferable Flat-Earth Atheist that's blatantly delusional about the things she has witnessed and refuses to admit she was wrong and a Creator's Pet that creators refuse to let her believe her she could be wrong.
• Informed Flaw: When Daphne is "cursed" to be fat, it is claimed that she is an (American) size 8. In real life, a woman as large as cursed Daphne wouldn't even fit into a size 16 dress, as she looks like she's clocking in at about 300 pounds.
• Misaimed Fandom: That Daphne's "curse" is to be "fat" should be seen with the intention that the villains don't really know her, and only use what they think she cares about most (Her beauty), and they don't know that what Daphne truly cares most about are her friends. Many fans take the "Curse" literally and assume that Daphne is completely shallow and sends a bad message to the girls watching the movie.
• Narm:
  • The whole Shaggy and Scooby not being hungry and having sudden courage due to acupuncture needles in their new outfits is one thing, but Daphne's "curse" becomes this when her sudden fat and weight issues after initial shellfish allergies were actually just an inflatable suit filled with air. So she somehow doesn't realize she doesn't actually feel fat, and her over-dramatized reactions keep her from simply trying to change clothes and finding out the fake curse early. Oh, and she had a spare set of clothes to change into right after finding this out, inside a destroyed hallway.
  • The monster is a suit as would be expected, but in reality it's actually a super suit designed for incredibly short FBI agents for enhanced capabilities, and then somehow gets grabbed off-screen for the ending by Iago - who was actually a short Department of Defense agent inside a smaller super suit. This is hinted at in a blink-and-you-miss-it Chekhov's Gun at the beginning of the film, but otherwise sorta comes right outta nowhere.
• Narm Charm: We have Fred moping over the loss of his Mystery Machine. It may seem like a bit much until you realize how he ties it to his position as a leader and feels like less of a man without it.
• Older Than They Think: Contrary to what the below comment in Win Back The Crowd suggests, this isn't the first time the Scooby franchise pulls the trigger on the idea of criminals seeking revenge. A Birthday Episode of The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries has Red Skull (not the Marvel villain) trying to steal a necklace the gang prevented him from stealing before and getting even with Fred and Scooby by framing the former and ruining the latter's birthday. Although that episode's villain was a one-off within the plot himself this was the second time the gang had met him even if it was the audience's first time meeting him.
  • Meanwhile in the non-animated version, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed features several characters whose past schemes were foiled by the gang, and one of them was seeking revenge. All stories have the villain(s) using new identities to approach the gang.
  • The movie shares a similar plot to the "Family Monster" story featured in issue #127 of the DC Comics Scooby-Doo series. It's unclear if this was intentional on the writers' part or a coincidence.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In a more meta sense, this movie opened up the realization that a lot of the other criminals that the gang busted in the past want revenge. However, so far, aside from maybe Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!, this concept hasn't been brought up in any of the other DTV movies that came after it.
• Unexpected Character: Oh hey you guys remember some of those old criminals? That CL Magnus guy. That Lila chick. Cuthbert Crawls the other attorney. And good ole Mama Mione. Well, they're back now.
• Win Back the Crowd: For some of the audience at least. While some had been enjoying the DTV for a while, this one caught back some people who hadn't regularly been watching Scooby as much for finally pulling the trigger on the idea of "what if the criminals want revenge?" in animation.