Scooby-Doo! And the Witch's Ghost (1999)

Its Just a movie--Get a grip--Use your imagination!!!!!

People who said this movie was bad---it is just like any other scooby doo...scooby doo over all deals with monsters...so what if it deals with witches..I believe in Jesus too but I teach my kids the difference between reality and fiction..It is the parents job to do so...Its just imagination...get a grip..If you watched scooby doo back in the day...then you shouldn't have a problem with this one...isn't all monsters bad? My 3 kids all do prayer time and all are taught to believe in Jesus but we don't have a problem with movies overall because we know that they are just a movie...Parents do your job---Its not television or movies that teach kids---Parents should...Learn to know that movies with witches or monsters---you have to be smart enough to know that its just a movie...all scooby doo deals with some kind of ghost of monsters--hello that is what scooby doo is about--DUH! I watched scary movies back in the day but I am not going to act like the bad guy in the movie. I guess we who love the classic Wizard of Oz is evil--cause Geeze it has Witches in it! May 28, 2008

Very, Very Unexpected Surprise

This movie is much better than any of the other Scooby movies. It plays closer to the real series than the other ones (Aladdin and Zombie, which are horrible) and adults can enjoy watching this movie right along with their kids. The soundtrack is awesome.
If you like Scooby Doo and the Gang, this is a must see.
March 11, 2008

Too scary for younger kids, odd storyline

This isn't nearly as good as the other Scooby films. It is darker and scarier and our young child who has no trouble with other Scooby shows was frightened in several spots, including the opening scene where the bad guys come after the gang with axes. And, as you know from other reviews, the witch is real and both she and the main human bad guy die in the end when they are entrapped inside a magic book which is then burned.

The Wicca stuff is more distracting than alarming and it's handled so confusingly there's no way anybody is going to be converted by this movie. However, they took so much time pointlessly trying to explain the differences between the good Wiccans, the evil witch, and the girl band members who just pretend to be Wiccan to sell more albums, that it detracts from the story. This is a comedy and exposition is never funny. So why is it crammed into a story that was already bloated? Perhaps the gang can solve that mystery in a future adventure. January 28, 2008

scobby dooooooooooooooooooo!

i love scooby doo movies! funny and sort of scary at times but really a blast. January 24, 2008

Scooby meets - REAL MONSTERS!

My son picked this movie out at Blockbuster... the first time we watched it, he was 3 and absolutely obsessed with Scooby and the gang. He loved the movie but was a bit frightened by it.

We let our children watch Scooby because, no matter how scary the monsters look... they are always just a man in a mask. The show used to point out how if you just use your brain you can figure out mysteries and that there are no real monsters. That whole theory was blown out of the water by this Scooby (and Zombie Island as well).

First off, the artwork is just a little different, the colors are bolder and the creatures are drawn scarier... much scarier than... say... the Miner 49er. Then as a parent who has probably already suffered through both the best and worst of Scooby (the Reluctant Werewolf being among the worst) you will have to suffer through a bunch of Wiccan girls in a rock band called the "Hex Girls" who pontificate on how wonderful the Wiccan religion is. I don't particularly care either way about the religion of the Hex Girls, and although I have nothing against the Wiccan beliefs... I just don't see where ANY religion belongs in Scooby Doo. Just about the point where you as a parent feel your breakfast about to make a reappearance over the constant yapping about religion... the Hex Girls sing... they aren't Bad... they just aren't good.

One of the better points of the movie is that Tim Curry makes a VO appearance... and is fabulous as always... Then we get to the point where the gang unmasks the bad guy... and you think to yourself... Okay FINALLY, this is over and I can get my TV back... but you are wrong. Instead of ending it where they should have, a REAL GHOST OF A WITCH comes back and terrorizes Scooby and the gang. I sat there in a fury after this was over. Who the heck wrote this? I thought... they missed the WHOLE POINT of Scooby... which is that the monsters are never real.

If I had been watching this with an 11 year old I probably wouldn't have had an issue with this... but the 3-6 group, who loves Scooby with all of their hearts, and drags their Scooby Stuffed animal around with them... should be able to count on Scooby and Gang always unmasking the baddie and it being the Gardener or the Butler, or the Old man from scene 1... there should NEVER be a real monster in Scooby.. NEVER.

4 stars on the Artwork
2 stars on the sound track
3 stars on the rest of the film

PS- If you are a religious fanatic of the Christian persuasion you will probably flip your lid at the Wiccan bits. January 18, 2008

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