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April Rools! Rehehehe - Scooby-Doo (2002)
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No seriously, we did Scooby-Doo. This isn't a bit. April Fools!
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00:00:04
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I am the night rain. You're terrible Muriel. Talk to me. You gonna do that Pogger Pogger? You've been talking the cop. Today is a brand new No, that's it. It's the vibe.
Introduction to Under Southern Screens
00:00:17
Speaker
G'day, fellow Aussie film lovers, and welcome back to another episode of Under Southern Screens, the most scaredy Australian cinema podcast. I'm Mitch. And I'm scared. Oh, wait, I'm Matthew. Sorry. You said the thing and I was like, oh, you hit me on the head there, mate, man. I'm spooked today. I'm
Teasing a Notable Australian Film
00:00:36
Speaker
spooked and duked.
00:00:37
Speaker
And it is because we're talking about a very special movie. Some would say the most Australian movie ever. I would say it's their only good Australian movie. Yeah, i would say it is the only Australian movie ever. The Australian movie? Everything else we watched in the past couple of weeks. Like, just turn that off. Get that out of here. We've been pulling your leg this whole time.
00:00:57
Speaker
We've just been, you know, faking it. We're frauds. We're hucksters for you. Mitch, what are we watching today that is so Australian?
Spoiler Alert for Scooby-Doo 2002
00:01:04
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and Well, today I must issue a spoiler warning for 2002's very own Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo 2002. Do you reckon they like waited to launch it in 2002 so that they could have a rhyming name and year? I don't think it's not a possibility.
00:01:22
Speaker
Well, there you go. That was a double negative, but you see what I'm saying. But it fulfilled me and I just want to say hope this movie fulfilled you, Mitch, because it sure fulfilled my taste buds this week. Well, let me break it down for you. Let me break it down. Break it down, man. Wiki, wiki, whack. I mean, this starts with a rap number, a rap version of the Scooby-Doo theme. So, I mean, it's only on brand. Anyway, jump into that intro for me, Mitch. So this
Impact of Scooby-Doo's Live-Action Film
00:01:48
Speaker
film marks the first time Scooby-Doo was ever brought to the big screen in live action, and I can only be led to assume it's the origin behind the slew of CGI animal movies we saw throughout the 2000s and early the likes of which include Garfield, Hop, Mamadouk, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and Garfield 2, A Tale of Two Kitties. Oh, my gosh. Oh. Bringing
Casting Choices in Scooby-Doo
00:02:10
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to life Mystery Incorporated is Freddie Prinze Jr. playing an absolutely butchered Fred Jones, Sarah Michelle Gellar playing an absolutely assassinated Daphne Blake, Linda Cardellini playing a version of Velma Dinkley that could only be described as visually accurate, and Matthew Lillard playing an accurate, actually pretty good, Norval Shaggy Rogers. Yeah, he was pretty good, yeah. And of course, Australian stuntman and safety supervisor Neil Fanning plays the titular Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. Beyond being a CGI monstrosity, Scooby isn't too bad.
00:02:39
Speaker
Two years after the group of so-called friends operating under the company name Mystery Incorporated went separate ways, all of them are called out of retirement for what can only be described as one last job, to solve the haunting of Wet n Wild, or its pseudonym, Spooky Island. While
Plot Twists and Tone Alterations
00:02:53
Speaker
at first, old Grudges do rear their ugly heads. The gang manages to band together as they come to realize that this time, the haunting may not actually be a capitalist in a mask, but instead actual monsters that intend to steal the souls of all the visitors to the island and then place themselves inside the bodies of their victims, to then go out into the world undetected. In an exceedingly stupid effort by the screenwriter James the second coming of Christ for superhero movies Gunn, the movie was originally meant to be a lot more raunchy and adult, which you can see in Velma and Daphne's wardrobe choices, but instead was kittied up to be at the kind of same level that other Scooby-Doo movies are at.
00:03:28
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Filming took place
Filming Locations in Australia
00:03:29
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in Queensland, Australia, with Spooky Island being filmed on Tangalamoo Island Resort in Morrton Island. which is just east of Morriton Bay, where I assume the Morriton Bay bugs I so love to slope down into my tum-tum come from. It is the 10th feature-length Scooby project and was directed by Raja Gosnell, who would you would know from classics like Big Mama's House, Scooby-Doo 2, Monsters Unleashed, Never Being Kissed, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Huh.
00:03:57
Speaker
I'm shocked. Max. No, not Max. Oh my gosh. Freudian slip. Oh, ghosts of the past. Ghosts of the
Mixed Feelings on Scooby-Doo 2002
00:04:05
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past have come back to haunt me. Hey, Max. Matt, ask me, as a film lover, how would I think about this movie? Mitch, as someone who has an active letterbox to count, as someone who has seen countless of films at Hoyt's M****, what do you think of the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film? This movie sucks. Now, Matt, ask me as a fan of Scooby-Doo what I think of this movie. Mitch, as a fan of Scooby-Doo, what do you think of this film? This movie still sucks. I should have seen that coming. I'm being baited. I'm being baited. You got you baited. Can I just be honest, Mitch? No. I
Finding Positives Despite Dislike
00:04:44
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am someone who doesn't like to hate movies. I like to find the positives in any movie I watch because hating on movies is a very like twenty ten s YouTuber coded. It's like, it's, it's not like it's cinema sins. It's um yeah. It's yeah not the end of the world. Like just find something to like about something. you know mean? Art is art, you know, and you can find enjoyment in art. That being said, yeahp I found this movie very funny and and not so good, but like I didn't have a bad time watching it. That's what I will say. And yeah, you know it was I have a longstanding relationship to this movie, honestly. I remember it being like whenever in primary school we would have a like a wet weather day, we must have had a DVD or something just on standby because the first movie would be like Scooby-Doo 2002 and we'd all be satisfied for it even though we'd watched it like five times.
00:05:39
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But I hadn't actually seen it since those primary school days. And given the fact that I am now a grown boy, I'm a grown man.
Nostalgia and Personal Connections
00:05:47
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Could I enjoy this as a 22-year-old jaded adult? And I guess the answer is no, but it's very funny. I don't want to say I hate this movie, but I really don't like it. yeah It's just off. The only good thing about this movie is Matthew Lilly. Yeah. Yeah, I think Matthew Lillard is pretty spot on. And he has some good lines too. There's actually, the writing somehow goes up in quality whenever it's a shaggy moment. Yeah, right. yeah Otherwise, it's dog. It's dog doo doo. It's Scooby doo doo. Yeah, it's Scooby doo doo. Insert prolonged three minute scene of Shaggy and Scooby burping and farting. Can I be honest, Mitch? Remember in like the first ep when you had to take a break in Story of the Kelly Gang to listen to the Pacific Rim soundtrack? Yeah. yes during the middle of that pooping and farting and burping scene between shaggy and scuba do i genuinely had to stop the movie close my laptop take a break come back breather like that never happens with me i could can power through i just had to take a break man it was yeah it was just too much for me but i don't know if you haven't figured it out at this point the most australian thing about scooby-doo and the reason why we're talking about it is because it's from new queensland and Also the guy who plays Scooby-Doo is Australian. That's something I didn't realize, actually. He's more of a stunt guy as well. like
00:07:04
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if you have a look at his filmography, he does more stunt stuff than acting. For some reason, he's Scooby-Doo, though. There's no silly questions in life, but he wasn't actually performing all those stunts as Scooby-Doo, was he? so What they did was they brought in a puppet from the Jim Henson Muppet House, and then they just CGI'd and did like the right... I would have never known that it was CGI.
00:07:25
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LAUGHTER
00:07:29
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I'll take you things Matthew has never said for 100. It was 2002 in terms of CGI quality. So I think some background on me as a Scooby-Doo lover, because I'm a big Scooby-Doo fan. Some might say he's a Scooby-Doo-d.
00:07:43
Speaker
Go on. Sorry about that. Yeah, thank you. um This and its sequel were Scooby-Doo movies I watched Back in the day before I even did this stupid-ass rewatch crap thing marathon that I've been put myself through that i is actually on hiatus right now because a different Scooby-Doo movie did kill the vibe. you spoil which one that is it is? Scooby-Doo, The Curse of the Lake Monster, which is the second movie in the second set of live-action Scooby-Doo films they made so they made. there's five live-action Scooby-Doo movies. There's these this this one in its sequel.
00:08:14
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There's Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo, the mystery begins. That's the prequel. That's the prequel. And then the prequel has a sequel called The Curse of Lake Monster. It's like The Hobbit and The Hobbit 2. And then also the prequel has a spinoff, which is Daphne and Velma, which is just taking Daphne and Velma from that those movies. There you go. And they get their own movie, which I haven't seen yet because that's further on. Anyway. Those two prequel movies, horrendous, disgusting. Puts it in perspective for Scooby-Doo 1. And also...
00:08:43
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worse CGI than Oh my gosh.
Analyzing CGI Quality
00:08:46
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Which yeah is not acceptable because that's like 2010 or something is when it came out. with This is 2002. Some of it looks quite good for the time. It's fine. All of the dogs in it look good. But then all the monsters look absolutely worst thing ever. Spy Kids 3D. The bunny monsters in this are insane. So this is the James Gunn, by the way. This is Superman 2025 written and directed by... Married to Pam from The Office. James Gunn.
00:09:12
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Well, he was, but then he got divorced during the officers' round. But anyway, that's just a little neat fun fact. But it is that James Gunn. He wrote this originally with the intent of it being more adult and more, you know, raunchy and naughty and that kind of thing. And then it did get dulled down. that's something where it's like once you set a tone for a movie, you can't really pedal back on it. Like I think in terms of a spooky island full of college kids as like a framing device, that inherently means like, yeah, animal house parts and stuff. That's an inherent launchy comedy setup. Scooby and Shaggy are heavily, like obviously in the original stuff and in the source material, they are implied to kind be a bit stoner-ish. yeah but in this it's basically almost outright so there's that part they're in the mystery machine and they're like come on scoop pot like pass it over man like you know and the funny weed song is playing as well yeah yeah the bob marley song is it bob marley yeah i have no idea to be fair that scene has my favorite line the whole movie which is materialism isn't like our bag man which is actually something that like pops into my head Yet they eat snacks that have their name on them. Yeah. Scooby snacks. Yeah.
00:10:20
Speaker
And then, oh, he meets Mary Jane. Oh my gosh. Isla Fisher. I'm a hater. That's the third Australian thing in this movie. Yeah. Isla Fisher. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Yeah. How could I forget? Who? Look, man, I think for the material she's given is doing it okay, but not great. I'm gonna agree with you. I don't think a single actor is the issue with this film. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So I did drag on mic Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Catalini, and Freddie Prinze Jr. earlier. I don't actually think it's their fault. Yeah, yeah. And the sequel is 10 times better. Okay, that's positive. Like, Big Bug Bear, and this plays into like what I was just saying about the characterizations and all that. But Big Bug Bear is that the gang seems to hate each other. and the gang should never... but They don't seem to. They just straight up do hate each other, and the gang can never hate each other. that It doesn't work. Scooby-Doo doesn't work when the gang is... like like You can have infighting.
00:11:12
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like The gang can disagree. There can be moments where they're maybe not happy with each other, but they can't hate each other to the extent... Velma looks like she wants to kill... Every single one on of them at every moment. She looks like she doesn't want
Character Portrayal Criticisms
00:11:25
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to be. And that's the thing too. Like, firstly, I just want to say, like, the inciting incident for them breaking up is yeah not there at all. There's, like, no reason. It has to be implied, and it's this is not good, by the way, but it's implied that this is just a buildup of Velma's um irritation to Fred stealing the plan, which is the thing. Fred doesn't do that. This isn't Fred. So...
00:11:49
Speaker
James Gunn, he's a legend now, but he doesn't. Yeah, this was a rough script in my opinion. Fred in both of these movies sucks because Fred in both of these movies is a stupid jock. And you want to know something? Fred is not a stupid jock. He's an idiot, but he's not a jock.
00:12:03
Speaker
I can't deal with this version of Fred because he's he's just narcissistic. He's arrogant. He's a piece of crap. Fred is none of those things. Fred is a sweet young boy who doesn't know what sex is and never will. Yeah.
00:12:16
Speaker
i like he's he's like crunk okay he's a he's a hyper fixated asexual man damn well i now I know how last Jedi fans felt What do you mean? You're going on a rampage about character assassination and stuff. This is amazing. Star Wars fans don't understand what it's like to be a Scooby-Doo fan. All right. It's hard. We're fighting for our lives. On the casting, what a late nineties smorgasbord. it's insane. Freaks and geeks. You got Buffy. You got William Afton. No, is it William Afton or Michael Afton from the FNAF movie in all these movies? William. haven't seen either. But he would have been Scream at this point in time. Yeah, Scream. Yeah, yeah. He would have Mr. Scream.
00:13:02
Speaker
And Isla Fisher from Sea Change. it's like, wow, what era. Did you say Rowan Atkinson as well? Yeah, Mr. Bean's in this. Mr. Bean's in this, yeah. Mate, honestly, I think he's probably the best performance in the movie because he just doesn't care. That's like, it's so good. He and Matthew Lillard. Yeah, yeah. That's true. That's true. Yeah. That's a given. I really do think Matthew Lillard is the glue that holds this whole movie together. It's the only thing that makes it slightly watchable is Matthew Lillard. And this is, I think everyone knows this as well, including people who make these movies because they brought Matthew Lillard back to be the voice actor. It's like J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson. He like sets the tone of what a character is for decades to come. Yeah. He's just been shaggy in the cartoon. Well, not not in a lot of the shows, but a lot of the movies they've made since there. He's been shaggy and I honestly dig it. Like he's, he's brilliant. He's a great shaggy. But yeah, Rowan Atkinson, like, yeah he is a robot at the very end of this. And the reveal is that, oh, it's Scrappy-Doo. So a little baby dog is controlling Rowan Atkinson. But there's a little very subtle bit of foreshadowing in the middle of the movie where Rowan Atkinson, he's, like, watching all these monsters and stuff, like, go around. And he, like, scratches his neck in, like, a weird way, like a dog would. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, James Gunn did a film school foreshadowing.
00:14:20
Speaker
And I clapped. I clapped because foreshadowing. I clapped because foreshadowing. I saw a technique from my film school textbook. yeah That's how you make movie, you said, as you pointed to the screen. Yeah, I was so impressed at that. But no, he's funny. And this is from that era of like Johnny English and stuff where his performances are just so casual and funny. And I'm i'm into it. I like He's a star and he knows he's a star.
00:14:45
Speaker
I just, this movie frustrates me on so many levels. As a Scooby-Doo fan, I'm sure it's extra offensive because it is in that era of like retro revivals where they're not trying to pay attention to the source material and they're like, this ain't your grandma's Scooby-Doo. This one has boobies fighting this one has boobies boobies and and buffy being buff and buffy because they they got so michelle gellan to turn daphne into buffy which i wouldn't mind if daphne the character didn't suck daphne is a badass by the way yeah in general she should always be a badass macgyver type character but she shouldn't be spoiled and like whiny the way this daphne is yeah to add on to your point about how everyone in the cast hates each other they're not really seen together for the whole movie they're all like split off into different factions and stuff that's not what scooby-doo thought it was like the dynamics work because they're all in the same place and they have contrasting relationships to each other but here it's like fred and daphne split off at one point fred and velma split off at one point and then shaggy and scooby are doing their thing with mary jane
Impact of Splitting Mystery Inc.
00:15:50
Speaker
it's always just shaggy and scooby and then yeah one of the girls is by herself while Fred tries to rizz the other and it's very frustrating to watch. I thought whole thing was this was a team. None of you are working as a team, Gordon Ramsay referenced. I don't understand the point in splitting the gang up. The movie and the franchise and everything is called Scooby-Doo, but the worst incarnations of this series is when they don't have...
00:16:12
Speaker
mystery ink as the full mystery ink in it yeah right at least to me i don't know if everyone else agrees and i know there's maybe some fan favorite like the 13th ghost and stuff like that the scooby-doo fandom's gonna come after you i may be putting ah on our australian cinema podcast i may have just unlocked the wrath froth of the scooby-doo fandom Oh no. It's not even like they hate each other. It's you've actually had to fundamentally change every single character true yeah be hateful and spiteful. because And who does that service? It doesn't service the fans because it's like, oh, the character is different from what I know. it doesn't service an average punter like me who's like, why would these guys be together in the first place if they're just being snarky douchebags to each other? Were they just like business partners who all begrudgingly worked together or something? They literally act like passive aggressive co-workers. Yeah, they do. It's unfortunate how true to life it is. You know some things I'll say that are good. I'm a fan of when the Scooby-Doo monster turns out to be real.
00:17:07
Speaker
i actually quite like that. The only issue is that it's been done better in both Scooby-Doo at Zombie Island and ah Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. Those movies are what grown-up Scooby-Doo looks like. It's more mature without being this TNA type crap, you know? it's Yeah, right. And without having to figure out a way to shoehorn Vanilla Ice in there, which, by the way, why is Vanilla Ice in this movie? Was that Vanilla Ice? That was Vanilla Ice. Oh my gosh.
00:17:36
Speaker
I was going to say, like, this movie is, and I know this is everyone says this about this movie, but it is stuck
Capturing 2002's Essence
00:17:42
Speaker
in 2002. It's so dated. And it is redee fantastic. I love how this movie just captures a moment in time. And, like, as shonky as this movie is, everyone looks like they're having a ball filming it. They get to go to... bloody queensland and live it up on the beach and everyone's wearing dream world hang out a dream world and wet and wild and everyone's wearing like skimpy beach wear and it looks really warm and nice and it reminds me of a january holiday up to the gold coast that's what it reminds me of it grates on me this movie it's great like a piece of cheddar cheese it grates it frustrates it irates damn how poetic mitch i just want to let you know this movie made me insane yes well but how i went on a rabbit hole after watching this movie oh yeah need to share this with you please tell me so i watched the movie and i was like okay this was kind of dookie put it on letterboxd
Nostalgia Critic and Early YouTube
00:18:38
Speaker
didn't think about it again then i was like do you remember the nostalgia critics I do remember Nostalgia Critic. I wish I didn't, but I do. Oh my God. Because I remember one of his big videos that he did was he reviewed the 2002 Scooby-Doo movie. And I rewatched it and it made me feel double nostalgic. Like, so made me feel nostalgic for the 2000s by watching the Scooby-Doo movie. And it made me double nostalgic for watching narrative driven internet movie reviewers where the review has a narrative within it. We're talking like RLM. Yeah, RLM based. Yeah, that type of thing. And so in the nostalgia... Because this is the content you guys signed up for. Us remembering YouTube videos at you.
00:19:17
Speaker
The nostalgia critic, he's about to watch the Scooby-Doo movie 2002 and then an explosion happens and his 2002 self appears and then future nostalgia critic comes in and he's watching the scooby-doo movie and the whole review is three different versions of doug walker as the nostalgia critic reviewing this movie i hate this but it's funny i like the i think five minutes are just doug walker going on like a screaming rampage i'll send it you later it's the most funny thing unironically but my deep dive is not stop there because after that i not only watched the mr sunday movies video on scooby-doo then i decided you what i'm gonna watch two episodes of buffy the vampire slayer because i've never seen buffy before wait which episode did you watch the first two what do you think what do you think i really enjoyed it i think it is yeah the writing's good season one is rough by the way it gets way better after season one everyone over the age of 25 hypes the hell out of buffy but it doesn't stop there mitch the the rabbit hole does not
00:20:18
Speaker
f***ing end because from watching the 2002 scooby-doo movie to watching the two like internet reviews of scooby-doo to watching buffy i then decided to put on how i met your mother for the first time in years because allison hannigan's in buffy and she isn't even scooby-doo but it's just that it's the butterfly effect of life so the scooby-doo to how i met your mother pipeline is real mate it was actually crazy so thank you mitch for for entrusting me with this this journey i'm glad i could join that with you yeah i must say though i think uh the fever nightmare of mine is three dog walkers appearing and talking to me at once so funny look i love that era of youtube it's cringe and delicious at the same time I never really got into the Nostalgia Critic. He was never one I could really get behind. He's not for everyone. I was more of a red-letter media you kind of guy. Yeah, you're into high-caliber film criticism. Oh, yes, yes, red-letter media. Not just three versions of the Nostalgia Critic just yelling at people. i don't know, man. It's hard to go back to him as well after you hear about all the stuff that kind of maybe went behind the scenes. Well, no, it 100% did, but I think, yeah. It's rough. It's rough. Everyone who makes content on the internet and in media sucks. Except us. We're beautiful. know what was genuinely about to say? i was about to say, we're the good ones. We're the good white men who make a podcast.
00:21:36
Speaker
Yeah. If you haven't realised, the April Fool's episode. The whole purpose of this pod is just to not talk about Australian movies because we wanted to trick you. Do a bit. We love you and we wanted to trick you. do you feel tricked? In this
Australian Elements in Scooby-Doo 2002
00:21:49
Speaker
Australian cinema podcast, we've gone down the Scooby-Doo rabbit hole. We've talked about Buffy. We've talked about the nostalgia critic and we have not talked about anything related to Australian film, except for the fact that it was shot in Queensland, Isla Fisher's in it, and the guy that plays Scooby-Doo is Australian. He's an Aussie, yeah. He's an Aussie. Has he been in anything else? let me Let me pull it up. Let me pull it up. um Oh, he also performed in the highly successful and number one rated attraction, The Police Academy stunt show at Warner Brothers Movie World on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. take back everything I said. What a legend. Australian hero. i am I'm sorry. What's his name? What's his name? Neil Fanning.
00:22:27
Speaker
Any relation to L. Fanning? Oh, perhaps. Neil Fanning, my name is Matthew Robertson. I'm very sorry that I made injustice over you. You are the first in a long line of Australian heroes and um and you should be recognized as such. He's done 30 years performing in live shows and has done over 50 movies, television shows and commercial roles. Oh my gosh, I just realized, sorry to go back to my elongated rabbit hole bit, but it actually doesn't stop there. my god, keep her going, keep her going. Speaking
Cultural Impact of Scooby-Doo Ride
00:22:54
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of movie world, I like watched three or four POV ride videos of the Scooby-Doo ride at Warner Brothers movie world. Why three? Did you not get it from Well, because they changed it They changed the ride. They added like new screens and stuff recently. And so i wanted to see how they changed it But it's like, obviously this whole video has been a big joke. If there's one piece of like ingrained Australian media that stemmed from the Scooby-Doo live action movie from 2002, it seems to be this one movie world ride. It's gained like an adoration by the Australian public. It is pretty huge. I have not seen in like any other theme park attraction. I'm amazed that Defunctland hasn't made a video on it. It's massive. It is kind of huge, honestly. It's it's kind of crazy how just kind of everyone knows about it. Is it down though now? Is it stopped? No, they they reopened it. They reopened it with new screens and stuff. I'm going to hit you with a little secret. Go on, then. I've been to Queensland a couple of times and I've been to a few of the worlds. A few of the worlds? I've never been to WB Movie World, though. It a depressing experience.
00:23:58
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I'll be brutally honest. Oh, that's rough. That's so rough. It's like Batman's suit. Like, it's like Superman flying school or whatever. That's just like, oh okay, sick. yeah This is goingnna definitely going to top Universal. But the Scooby-Doo ride's iconic as Australians. Yeah, he goes backwards. He goes backwards. Everyone knows he goes backwards. And they have a rockin' cover of the Scooby-Doo theme, which is delightful to see.
00:24:21
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And they still show clips from this movie in the pre-show. I'll give this movie that. The redo of the Scooby-Doo theme in a more kind of cinematic format is pretty decent. i think There are three different versions of it. There's a rap version. there's ah There's a punk rock version. The rap version the start is all right. think there's like a reggae version as well when they're on the island or something like that. oh really? Yeah.
00:24:42
Speaker
Did you ever see... Probably not because you weren't born. I could watched it after. Those trailers... for Scooby-Doo because WB owns the rights to Batman and DC and all that too. Yes. um And so there was those trailers where it was, the world needs a new hero. And it has a silhouette and you think it's the Batman silhouette, but then it's Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo turns around. And i can you imagine them doing that nowadays and everyone thinking that James Gunn's about to announce the next Batman? gosh. Infiltration. But it's actually just him saying, I'm coming back to Scooby-Doo. Oh my gosh, yeah. What I'm saying is bring James Gunn back to Scooby-Doo. He's got a 50% success rate on writing Scooby-Doo films. As much as I hate this movie, I'd love to see like a third of rebootquel of this, but it just keeps the 2002 tone. It's like the Brady Bunch movie where they haven't left like 2002. But everyone's older. But ever the world has changed, yeah, the world has changed around them or whatever. That would be funny. They're all stuck. You know what? I think that's the kind of scooby-doo that James Gunn would be good at writing. Yeah, 100%. But yeah, this movie sucks and I hate it. um yeah i know we don't rate movies, but 0 out of 10. Yeah.
00:25:53
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I think it's funny. I think it's really funny. No, it's not a zero out ten. There is redeeming qualities to Unless you're a little child or you like funny things, you know. Or you're a huge fan of time capsules. Yeah, or if you're a fan of young Isla Fisher. I mean, who isn't? She's so charming. She's a sweetheart. I love her. Yeah. But she's better in Hot Rod. She's better in Confessions of a Shopaholic, which I also watched during a school. I haven't seen Confessions of Shopaholic. Yeah, it's not good at all. But anyway...
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but but Listeners of our Under Southern Screens pod, we're sorry. Yeah. But I can make it up to you all by saying what I think the most Australian thing in this film is. Yes. Pile it on, mate. Let's go. It's really simple. It's just teenagers getting drunk and going to theme parks.
00:26:34
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Yes. That's so Australian. In Queensland, schoolies time. On your Queensland. Yeah, mate. Or maybe it's um our coast guard just ignoring any calls for help. One Day Rescue, like that that's not accurate at all. No, definitely not.
On-Set Romance of Gellar and Prinze Jr.
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Nice thing I forgot to mention about this movie before we close off. Sure, sure, sure. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. got married. They're still married to this day.
00:26:57
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Love that. Oh, and they also have that amazing um quote where Sarah Michelle Gellar goes, she's she's going into the depth of Scooby Doo's so good. It wasn't a boy's show or girl's show. It was just these kids solving mysteries. And it cuts to... It was a talking dog. Yeah.
00:27:14
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Genuinely funnier than any joke that James Gunn wrote in this movie. i Yeah. Obviously, they deserve each other. the least problematic Hollywood couple. Yeah, what sweethearts. i'm Good for them. I hope it's fine. I hope we haven't just had things kept from us. But then again, keep it from me. I don't want to know. We don't know them.
00:27:32
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We aren't on their hotline. I don't know them. I don't need to know them. I hope them i wish them all the best. Anyway. yeah Thanks for listening to this this very manipulative, subversive episode. Stupid episode of the pod. um We'll be back to like reviewing normal Australian movies next week. What are we reviewing next week, Matthew? We are watching the 1966 film They're a Weird Mob. hu Mitch has never heard of this movie or seen this movie and it's it's interesting. so Let's do it to it. Yeah, let's do it to it and let's try and get through it. Guys, thank you so much for watching this episode. You can email us at undersouthernscreenspod at gmail.com and you can follow us on xinstagramthreads at undersouthernscreenspod. Links are in the bio for all that as well as our letterbox if you want to check out what we say and do. We're funny sometimes, not really. Yeah.
00:28:26
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Do want find out what we really think of Scooby-Doo? I gave it five stars, actually. love this movie. I gave it one and a half. Okay. And you can also see when I go insane and go and watch five movies in cinema during a weekend. I did almost that, and I lost my headphones in the cinema, which was not ideal.
00:28:42
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No! Yeah. No! I'm so sorry to hear. That's horrible. But the the person who helped me look for them was really nice, but we were unsuccessful. But anyway... See you later. This is the worst and I hope, yeah. And keep looking at those southern screens.
00:28:56
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Ruby, Ruby, Roo. Thanks for listening to another episode of Under Southern Screens. We'll be back next week to talk more films down under. we just want to attribute that our opening title is Heavy Duty by Zoo and our closing title is Heavy Weight by Fell Creek. Thanks so much for listening and Mitch and I will see you in the next episode.
00:29:15
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See you next time.
00:29:19
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