One of my all time favorites.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I had stopped watching Saturday morning cartoons in 1986, but in 1988, I did sneak a peak at this new Scooby Doo series, which I believe Hanna Barbera wanted to do with the Scooby characters what they already did with the Flintstone Kids in 1986. The only thing consistent that never changed was that the late Don Messick and Casey Kasem voiced over the child versions of Scooby Doo and Shaggy who never changed, even as kids.Now for the good news /bad news. The good news is the original gang is all back together. The bad news is, Velma, Daphne, and Freddy have drastically changed in personality. Velma, now with the IQ of 2000, barely speaks and when she says Jinkees,everybody makes a big deal out of it. Daphne is a spoiled rotten rich snob, who doesn't believe in ghosts and always calls on her butler Jenkins. And last but certainly not least, my favorite character Freddy underwent the most drastic change of all. Freddy has been drastically dumbed down and now has the IQ of -10 and he's a tabloid freak who loves to read the National Exaggerator and he blames everything on the neighborhood bully, Red Herring, plus Freddy has become an idiot conspiracy theorist whose theories are so stupid, some news anchor will interrupt the show now and then just to comment on them. Sadly, Freddy's change of personality seems to have influenced the writers of the current animated versions of Scooby Doo out there with the direct to video movies and even the live action movies where Freddy has been slightly dumbed down.I've watched the show only a few times, but I remember plenty. A Pup Named Scooby Doo is to me a show for kids who are either in preschool and kindergarten or maybe even younger. A stupid show, but a whole lot better than that 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo series back in 1985.

The creators of A Pup named Scooby-Doo seem to be drawing on the fame of the original Scooby-Doo cartoons to do all the work. The show is lacking in every way, shape, and form. For starters, while the animation is not completely terrible, the color is over-done and terribly over-saturated. The creators also seem to be a little "wild take-happy" and never miss the chance to have the characters (kids and adults alike) freak out into weird shapes, have their eyes bulge out, tongues going everywhere, you get the general idea. While many of the takes are creative and interesting, it gets really old really fast. The writing lacks a few points, namely in the villain design and the solving of the mystery. Among the villains include a Totem Pole Monster, the hairy Big Wig, artist Paula P. Casso, comic book creation Dr. Croaker, the Cheese Monster in the Scooby-Snack factory (which, by the way, is played up way like crazy), and a three-headed movie monster called Boogedy Bones. I'll take a hundred Snow Ghosts and Zombies before I watch these bad guys take their turns scaring our favorite sleuths.I also blame this show for ruining the characters of Scooby-Doo that we all love. Shaggy & Scooby both remain true to their original characteristics, but that's it, and it's probably just because they have the original Don Messick and Casey Kasem doing the voices. Freddy, Daphne, and Velma are pulled way out of context: Fred was never the "paranoid conspiracy-theorist", Daphne was not that much of a rich snob, and even though Velma was the brains of the group, she is downplayed as a child-genius with a giant super-computer in her back pocket. They are drier than cardboard and painful to watch.Overall, I really don't recommend this cartoon to anyone, even die-hard Scooby-Doo fans. This show was not created as a separate entity, but purely to live off of the original Scooby fame. Do yourself a favor and watch some original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" episodes before you even think about watch this.

Like many of the reviews of the current full-lenght movie point out, the original Scooby Doo was somehow very camp and contained some light, but funny, drug references, and had likeable characters.In respect to this, this version is an absolute lemon and rip-off: the characters are the sort of 6-year-old neurotic kids you sadly see around these days (product of neurotic parents) but wouldn't want to go near.In one particular episode they had to uncover a drug smuggler, and each time the word "drug" was pronounced, all character went "drugs... bleah!" in disgust, like (stupid) 4-year-olds at chorus practice. So, if the guy who commented that these are the characters "when they were kids", I would like to know what, oh what, took away poor Shaggy's virtue...On top of it all, in the Italian version Scooby-Doo speaks with a very strong Neapolitan accent, sometimes even Neapolitan dialect.How low can you get?

The good:Its still a lot of fun here in this series plus we have the original voices of shag & scoob. (Casey Kasem as shag & the late Don Messick as Scoob.)It did the old series very well altough there are some exceptions. The Beautiful:I dunno what to place here The Bad:Purist fans will be displeased about how velma was made in this show but to folks like me its really no big deal. They really lowered freddy's IQ in this one & daphne was rather annoying in this one. The ugly:Read about Freddy & Daphne in "The Bad" section.