Scooby-Doo auf heißer Spur

The first episode of this new show was on today, and it was horrible. Not only did Shaggy have a squeaky new voice that made listening to his lines torture, but it's so far away from the original concept and animation style that it's barely recognizable as a 'Scooby-Doo' show.

Even back in the dark days when Fred and Velma were gone and Scooby's nephew Scrappy was there, the team still solved mysteries. This new show instead features Shaggy and Scooby battling a James Bond type super-villain and his henchmen while living in a mansion. There's not even a van called 'The Mystery Machine' (and the teaser for the next episode which promised a transformers type robot car did NOT put my mind at ease). How can anyone take Scooby Doo and make THIS?

The show earns two point for two scenes featuring the whole Scooby Doo gang, all of whom speak with the correct voices except Shaggy, and even then I'm being far too generous.

This is definitely not your dad's Scooby-Doo. This show tries to give off this slice-of-life vibe. It's... a thing? The theme song itself is harmful to eardrums. (Hipster fun fact: The theme song is loosely based on an Offspring song, One Fine Day) Die-hard fans probably wouldn't like it. I, personally, don't really care. I'm more... 50/50.

The animation for this show is just horrible it makes Velma look like a masterpiece in comparison, the characters are just annoying like in the other show called Be Cool Scooby Doo and this has got to be one of the worst shows from 2006 along with Squirrel Boy which is another worst show ever made by Cartoon Network and one of the worst things from the same year i ever saw along with The Fox And The Hound 2, Re-Animated, Teen Titans Trouble In Tokyo and the Disney movie called The Wild glad this show got cancelled in 2008 with no second chances just like Out Of Jimmy's Head what a piece of rubbish.

I'm not sure how i feel about this new take on the Scooby Doo series, but it's here and i will not be bitching like some of you purists. Yes the old scooby doo was better but bitching about something on IMDb isn't going to change anything. i was reading wile_E2005's comment on the front and that dude/chick seemed like he just bitches about everything. The fact that Casey Kasem isn't voicing Shaggy isn't a reason to not watch a Scooby Doo cartoon, and the fact that Kasem left because Shaggy isn't a vegetarian is dumb. He was never a vegetarian in the 70s & 80s. You constantly saw Scooby & Shaggy pigging out on non vegetarian food. Kasem has been a constant voice for Shaggy through the years anyways. What's New Scooby Doo was a great effort IMO with trying to keep up with the times and trying not to drastically change the characters. You can't have characters rocking bell bottoms and ascots when they went out of style 27 years ago.

My baby sitter was a fan so I saw many of the older episodes while growing up. I'm not a fan of Scooby Doo so I'm not sure why I left the TV on when this show premiered. To my surprise I found it enjoyable. To me Shaggy and Scooby were the only interesting characters *dodges tomatoes from fans of the others* so I like that they only focus on those two. However, this may cause fans of the original shows to hate it. I like the voice acting, especially Dr. Phinius Phibes. I liked listening to him even before I knew he was Jeff Bennett. And Jim Meskimen as Robi sounds to me like he's really enjoying his job as an actor. I also get a kick out of the techies with their slightly autistic personalities and their desires to play Dungeons and Dragons or act out scenes from Star Wars (not called by those names in the show, of course).