Read more about Spooky Island at: Wikipedia Official Site: Warner Bros. Pictures Scooby-Doo (also known as Scooby-Doo: The Movie) is a 2002 American live action/computer animated fantasy adventure-comedy film based on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated television franchise of the same name. The first installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series, the film was directed by Raja Gosnell from a screenplay by James Gunn, and stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, Isla Fisher and Rowan Atkinson. The plot revolves around Mystery Incorporated, a group of four young adults and a talking dog who solve mysteries, who reunite after a two-year disbandment to investigate a mystery at a popular horror-themed tropical island resort. Filmed in and around Queensland, Australia, on a budget of $84 million, Scooby-Doo was released on June 14, 2002, and grossed $275 million worldwide. Reggae artist Shaggy and rock group MxPx performed different versions of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song. The Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster, a ride based on the film, was built at Warner Bros. Movie World in Gold Coast, Australia in 2002. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized its script and humor; however, it has maintained a cult following over the years. This is the last time William Hanna served as an executive producer before his death on . A sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, was released on March 26, 2004. After Mystery, Inc. solves the mystery of the Luna Ghost, long-brewing friction between Fred, a glory hog, Daphne, who has become sick of being the one who gets captured, and Velma, from whom Fred regularly steals credit for her plans, causes the gang to disband, making Scooby and Shaggy feel abandoned. Two years later, they're invited to solve a mystery on Spooky Island, a horror-themed tropical resort owned by Emile Mondavarious. Mondavarious claims the visiting tourists have been brainwashed. Velma attends a ritualistic performance hosted by actor N'Goo Tuana and his henchman, Zarkos, a famous luchador. N'Goo claims ancient demons once ruled the island but have been plotting revenge ever since they were displaced by the resort. Meanwhile, Shaggy falls for a girl named Mary Jane, distancing himself from Scooby in the process. In the resort's haunted house ride, the gang splits up to look for clues. Fred and Velma encounter a school that educates inhuman creatures about human culture while Daphne discovers a pyramid-shaped artifact called the Daemon Ritus. The island's demons kidnap and possess Fred, Velma, Mondavarious and other tourists. The next day, Daphne is also possessed when Zarkos captures her and steals the Daemon Ritus. In an underground chamber, Shaggy finds a vat of protoplasm containing the souls of those possessed, and frees his friends' souls. Velma discovers that sunlight destroys the demons. A voodoo priest Daphne had met earlier on the island explains that the demons will rule the world for the next ten thousand years if a pure soul is sacrificed. The gang realizes that the pure soul is Scooby, whom Mondavarious brought to Spooky Island for this very reason. Fred, Daphne, and Velma finally decide to put their differences aside and work together with Shaggy to save Scooby.
Spooky Island has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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