How many hours were spent filming the Scooby Doo movie?
It took numerous, uncounted hours to film the Scooby-Doo movie. To add to it, Sarah Michelle Gellar had to film Scooby-Doo around her already hectic “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997) schedule. The producers of both productions arranged it that she would spend two weeks in Los Angeles shooting Buffy, then the next two weeks in Queensland, Australia filming Scooby-Doo. Sources: http://www.imdb.
The tagline for the movie Scooby Doo is truer than perhaps it imagines. ‘Be afraid. Be kind of afraid’ the ads for the film call out and as you enter the theatre. You should be. Based on the classic cartoon, the live action/CGI Scooby Doo adventure strives to reach cartoon peaks while sitting in reality. Instead, though, Scooby Doo, as directed by Raja Gosnell, is an example of not leaving well enough alone. The film is competently built but as you watch it you have to wonder ‘Why’. Why do these characters need the big screen treatment and why do they need to do it in the live action world? You question these things because the film does nothing to forward the characters or even make you remember why you liked them in the first place. The film, as constructed, offers a very forgettable two hours in the dark. A Scooby Doo movie could have been so many things, a dark take on the franchise (ala Batman), a comic caper, a statement about the seventies vs. today but instead what we get is a
