Scooby Doo

William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (The Jetsons, Top Cat, The Flintstones) did more to destroy the art of animation than any two men who ever lived, and their Saturday-morning show Scooby Doo, Where Are You? was the nadir of their ignoble careers. Gen-X nostalgia being what it is, it was inevitable that there’d be a Happy-Meal movie, designed to separate five-year-olds from their parents’ money. The best to be said is that it’s less inept than the original series. The animation at least has improved (Scooby himself having gone CGI), and the human actors (Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard) manage to avoid looking too humiliated. Director Raja Gosnell and writers Craig Titley and James Gunn (certain, no doubt, that the title alone would sell) add nothing.