Scooby-Doo em uma Noite nas Arábias

A Hanna-Barbera fan, I rented this movie, but thought it was going to be "lame-o". It can get rather disinteresting, these type of stories where they take a familiar tale, and put characters familiar from another source in the roles. You know, like all those sitcom cast retellings of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Actually, the film turned out to be quite fun. Shaggy (in drag) has to tell stories to a prince, who sounds exactly like Mandark from "Dexter's Laboratory", which amused me. One story is a gender-reversed version of "Aladdin", with a girl named Aliyah-Din as the poor heroine who must win her royal man. Despite the presence of Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo as genies, the story can actually be taken pretty seriously. Then Magilla Gorilla stars as Sinbad, in a hilarious parody which includes a surprising send-up of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride! As a Disney theme park fan, I was howling with laughter!

There are a lot of excellent Scooby movies, but this is a plagiarized Disney Aladdin film blended with Bugs Bunny 1001 Rabbit Tales and Hanna Barbera characters sprinkled in. No mystery machine, no gang, no mystery to be solved. Steaming pile hot mess, I couldn't watch it all because I'd seen it before. Unimaginative waste of a half hour.

I am really sorry guys, but I didn't like this film at all. I love Hanna Barbera and I love Scooby Doo, but this movie was not great at all. In fact a vast majority was awful in my opinion, which is a real shame as I genuinely wanted to like this movie. You see it had so much promise, Shaggy, Scooby, Yogi Bear, these are all great characters, the concept was good, the voice cast is of high calibre and the trailer actually looked as though it was going to be a half-decent movie.

So were there any redeeming qualities? The music score was very energetic and rousing and did have a sense of authenticity, almost like a Carl Stalling score in those great Looney Tunes cartoons. Plus it was a delight to see all those characters.

However, these characters deserved much better. Shaggy and Scooby are both woefully underused and Yogi is saddled with very lacklustre material. And the other characters? The girl who the prince falls in love with is poorly drawn while the villain is little more than a stereotype and a blatant rip-off of Jafar with a bit of Dick Dastardly in his design too.

That's not all that's wrong with this film. The animation is shoddy, with wonkily drawn characters, rushed backgrounds, flat colouring and all-over-the place editing. The dialogue is unfunny and forced, the sight gags are unoriginal, the pacing is both rushed and pedestrian, the sound effects are misplaced and the story is just a gender-reversed tale of Aladdin except one that starts off on the wrong foot and never recovers while the segments about pirates and Shaggy disguising himself as a princess are pretty lacking in originality or entertainment too and the parts telling Caliph telling the stories isn't exactly unfamiliar territory, see 1001 Rabbit Tales, it's not perfect but the links and the stories told are much more amusing(in my opinion that is). Plus I am afraid to say the voice work was poor, even with Casey Kasem and Don Messick who were given little worthwhile to work with.

So overall, hugely disappointing and a failure of what happened to be a good idea. 2/10 Bethany Cox

This is a curious entry into the 'Scooby-Doo' franchise if ever there was one.

Marking the last involvement of Hanna Barbera, this is a multi-verse instalment dreamed up long before Marvel thought they'd cracked the code of it.

This is a 'Scooby-Doo' film largely in name only, with the Great Dane and Shaggy sharing screen time with other studio alum in the form of Yogi Bear of all people.

It's fine, it passes the time if you're a Scooby fan, but there are better straight to DVD films you could watch than this by a long way.

Overall, watchable if nothing else, but the quality isn't really there.

I had never seen nor heard of the 1994 animated movie "Scooby-Doo In Arabian Nights". So as I stumbled upon it by random chance here in 2022, of course I opted to sit down and watch it. And I did so with my 12 year old son, as we both enjoy the "Scooby-Doo!" adventures.

Writers Gordon Kent and Glenn Leopold didn't deliver the archetypical "Scooby-Doo!" adventure here with this 1994 animated movie. Nay, instead we are treated to an animated telling of "Aladdin" and "Sinbad" that stars Yogi Bear and Boo Boo in the "Aladdin" tale and Magilla Gorilla in the "Sinbad" tale. And Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are only parts of the narrative in between the two tales.

So it was a somewhat disappointing movie experience, especially if you expect it to be a full-blown "Scooby-Doo!" adventure. But hey, at least my son seemed to enjoy this.

The art and animation in "Scooby-Doo In Arabian Nights" is good, and of that archetypical and recognizable Hanna-Barbera style that we all know and love from the "Scooby-Doo!" adventures. So there was at least that sense of familiarity and comfort to this.

The voice acting in "Scooby-Doo In Arabian Nights" was good.

My rating of "Scooby-Doo In Arabian Nights" lands on a three out of ten stars, as this was definitely not what I was expecting.