Scooby-Doo Movie Talkback "Where's My Mummy"

[Aquadementia]

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Scooby-Doo in "Where's My Mummy"

Thursday November 24, 2005

Time: 7:00 PM

Additional Airings
November 25 11:00 AM
November 27 12:00 PM

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Synopsis

When Velma goes to Egypt to work on restoring the Sphinx she tempts the fate of Cleopatra's Curse. Follow Scooby and the gang as they flee from tomb robbers, Egyptian cultist and of course mummies, mummies, mummies, as they solve the ancient riddle of the Sphinx.

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Notes

-Thanksgiving Day Premiere (you missed it)
-Cartoon Network airs a movie that is actually a cartoon
-don't tell anyone, I think it's a secret

[mjg0503]

I gave it a 'c' if those are meant to be letter grades. I just found it to be boring, quite frankly.

[Aquadementia]

I find this current incarnation of Scooby-Doo watchable but it's still a far from being everything I need for Scooby-Doo fulfillment. The stories have a Nacy Drewish charm, and they manage to keep the core characters from being too serious, although that usually ends up making Fred come off as a doofus.
The weakest element is probably that Shaggy and Scooby seem too happy to go along for the ride when they should be reluctant heroes, trying to give a cat a bath reluctant, who get coerced and bribed into putting themselves into danger for some mad cap scheme to catch a ghost.
The humor never gets the kind of acknowledgment it deserves. In the big picture, they destroy countless historical artifacts and send a flood of treasure and corpses down a river lined with smiling children and declare it a victory for Egyptologist everywhere. Come on now, that's some crazy stuff yet they fail to get a laugh out of it.
They did have their share of zanyness, with Scooby and Shaggy dressing up as attractive girl mummies, and latter a classic monster make-over, plus becoming worshiped by a group of modern day Egypt-o-philes.

Over all it was rather cinematic, but unfortunately it was more in the vain of a Brendan Fraser movie then Abbot and Costello