Scooby-Doo y la espada del samurái

A lot of nods to Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon. Great animation. The usual excellent performances from the regular voice cast (this was Casey Kasem's final performance as Shaggy - Matthew Lillard took over the following year). Guest voices include Kelly Hu, George Takei, and Brian Cox (the awesome actor, not that astronomer). Not the best Scooby movie by a long shot, but better than I expected. 7/10

As people may know already I am a huge fan of Scooby Doo, the original(and best) show Scooby Doo! Where Are You? and The Scooby Doo Show being two of many shows to shape my childhood. The various incarnations after have ranged from surprisingly good(Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated) to terrible(Shaggy and Scooby Doo! Get a Clue).

And I do like the movies a great deal, especially Witch's Ghost, Goblin King and Zombie Island. Alongside Goblin King and Abracadabra Doo, Samurai Sword, even with the flaws, is one of Scooby's better recent efforts.

The movie is too short, the plot rather haphazard and meandering and the music rather uninspired and rushed in places.

Complaints aside, the animation is great. The colours and backgrounds have a colourful and fluid quality to them, and the character designs are thankfully not at all crude. The writing and jokes are amusing, and the samurai fighting is well choreographed and maintains interest. The characters, lead and support, are likable and fun and the voice acting is excellent with nobody really I would consider bad.

In conclusion, an entertaining movie. 7/10 Bethany Cox

ZOINKS! YEAT! JEEPERS! JENKYS! DAME DA NE!!! Yeah. Search up Fred's new catchphrase and you will find it. Also this movie is decent. Typical scoobydoo movie.

I appreciate the fact that Samurai Sword builds up to the traditional Scooby-Doo unmasking reveal only for it to come less than halfway through the movie and it using that to double down on its premise as a "things just got real" moment.

It opens feeling more about Daphne's accomplishments (the movie kicks off with her competing in a karate tournament) that gets completely pushed by the wayside because Shaggy and Scooby are the two you actually came to see.

And, honestly? I never really connected with the "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" meme (hello, I am massively dating this review here) but for those true believers, Samurai Sword ends up having a couple of weirdly relevant plot developments on that front.

Strange movie, otherwise. Casey Kasem's last role, and you can tell for how significantly more haggard he sounds compared to Frank Welker, who as always continues to sound exactly like Frank Welker has since 1969.

Also, just to get it out of the way: for a 2009 animated movie about Japanese culture, you expect it to be a little ignorant about non-Americans as a matter of course, but you truly won't be prepared for the swerves this movie pulls in its stereotyping of foreign peoples.

Overall, the movie is pretty mid, but you could do a lot worse.

I have seen this movie a handful of times and each time I love it. It's got everything you could wish for in a Scooby movie. It's funny, supernatural, and includes a great mystery. There is an iconic scene in this movie that has made me laugh every time. The Japanese idea and the plot are fantastic and interesting. I wouldn't say this is the absolute best Scooby movie but it's definitely close!