That Sound You Hear
By Glinda
Is the rending of the space-time continuum.
To my great shock and horror, I have discovered that something is greatly amiss in the universe. One of the bedrock principles of existence has been changed, thus triggering a destructive chain of events that will only end in the doom of mankind. Or something really bad like that.
You see, the new Scooby-Doo movies?
Nobody ever gets a mask taken off.
You heard me right, my friends, the familiar refrain of “And I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you pesky kids” no longer exists in the Scooby-Doo canon.
The powers-that-be at Warner Brothers, who now own the franchise, have seen fit to alter a time-honored tradition. Nay, eviscerate it. A tradition that I was raised on, and I expected to raise my son on as well.
But no.
Having entered that childhood epoch henceforth named “The Scooby-Doo Era,” I now find myself renting anything and everything with Scooby-Doo in it. He will bypass Oscar-nominated fare to watch “Raggy” and a Great Dane consume large amounts of food as if it was the highest form of entertainment. And hey, I guess to a five year old, it might just be.
I settled myself in to watch one “Scooby-doo and Zombie Island” or some such flick. Throughout the whole thing, I kept wondering who was the dastardly person behind it all. Who would be the one tied up in some rope at the end, with everyone gathered around and who would utter the famous utterance?
However, Warner Brothers apparently thinks that stuff is lame. It’s too “old school” and now the ghouls and bad guys are real. Real zombies, real worshippers of an Egyptian Cat god who sacrifice people and drink their blood in order to remain immortal. I mean, this crap scared me.
I kept thinking, OK, any minute now they are gonna pull off those disguises! Any second…. Really, any time now would be good…
No. The film leaves your child with the assumption that there are indeed zombies and blood-sucking cat-worshippers walking around. In Louisiana, no less. Zoinks!
It’s wrong, I tell you. Just wrong.
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:57 am
Ruh-roh!
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:59 am
Mind you, I’ve never been to Louisiana.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:19 am
I can’t even deal with the new artwork. I know… I have real issues. 😉
December 26th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Seriously,
there is a rule at my house – we only watch the old Scooby Doos. For exactly this reason. Well, this and the one where they started explaining that the Salem witches were really wiccans, nice people who worshipped non-traditional blah blah blah … too much for my easily freaked out 7 year old and easily bored 9 year old. But the old ones, they love.