{"id":605,"date":"2002-07-06T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2002-07-07T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/06\/scooby-doo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T20:44:22","slug":"scooby-doo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/06\/scooby-doo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scooby-Doo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16046,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006HBUA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314033946\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006HBUA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00006HBUA\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:34:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 10:34:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Lillard,+Matthew&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Lillard,%20Matthew&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16048,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Jackman,+Hugh&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Jackman,%20Hugh&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15259,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CX8J\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313165544\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CX8J\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00003CX8J\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 19:21:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 01:45:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 23:01:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 16:04:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 16:04:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just got back from seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00006HBUA\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Scooby-Doo\">Scooby-Doo<\/a>. It was a mildly entertaining way to waste a couple hours when I had nothing to do, but I can&#8217;t really say much more than that about it.<\/p>\n<p>Plotwise &#8212; well, it&#8217;s Scooby-Doo &#8212; not exactly a subject known for its in-depth plots. The effects were passable, but barely. I was a little surprised at some of the more adult-aimed humor that was tossed in &#8212; enough that I got a giggle (or at least a smirk) from time to time, but not enough that most parents would have problems taking their kids to see it.<\/p>\n<p>I can say that while most of the cast didn&#8217;t really impress me, I was really surprised with <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Lillard,+Matthew\" title=\"IMDB for Matthew Lillard\">Matthew Lillard<\/a> as Shaggy &#8212; he became Shaggy just as much as I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Jackman,+Hugh\" title=\"IMDB for Hugh Jackman\">Hugh Jackman<\/a> did as Wolverine in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00003CX8J\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"X-Men on DVD\">X-Men<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All in all &#8212; well, a rental if you&#8217;re curious, but I can&#8217;t give it much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a mildly entertaining way to waste a couple hours when I had nothing to do, but I can&#8217;t really say much more than that about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}