- All Animation Is Disney: Ironically, while this film is pretty hard to mistake for a Disney production, the "Aliyah-Din" segment was pretty much Hanna-Barbera trying their hardest to be like Disney.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: This movie feels so much like a Warner Bros. Animation production, yet this movie was produced back when Hanna-Barbera was still owned by Turner Entertainment. Two years later, Time Warner bought Turner, and got Hanna-Barbera through it. Then by 2001, Hanna-Barbera was actually folded into Warner Bros. Animation.
- Special Effect Failure:
- When Shaggy and Scooby overreact to learning they were supposed to taste the Caliph's lunch to see if it was poisoned, they go Green Around the Gills. But as they do, they become semi-transparent for half a second.
- The panning shots are incredibly pixelized, and the digital coloring shows its age (done by Wang Film Productions using Hanna-Barbera's old computer system they got a few years before).
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The film has often been criticized for its radically different approach than the traditional Hanna-Barbera fare, largely with the character redesigns and not featuring Shaggy and Scooby-Doo on a spooky mystery. Additionally, Fred, Daphne, and Velma are nowhere to be seen.
- The Scrappy: The Sultan in the Aliyah-Din story. Up until near the end he was an alright character. But after everything is said and done, he insists on sticking to tradition that his son can't marry Aliyah-Din because she's not a princess despite her having saved their kingdom, and only relents when he finds out she was a long lost princess all along. This pretty much flies in the face of everything the story was establishing on the characters' struggles and feels like some vain attempt by the writers to make their story different from Disney's Aladdin (in which Jasmine's father abolished the "Only A Prince Can Marry Her" law near the end of that movie).note
- They Copied It, So It Sucks!: It's also been criticized for copying Disney (largely the movie Aladdin and a bit of Sleeping Beauty), the Looney Tunes cartoons and Animaniacs (complete with similar-sounding music!).
- Values Resonance: Alliyah-Din's prayer for salvation from Allah serves as a positive representation of Islamic belief.
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