What can the audience expects to this “Scooby Doo The Mystery Begins” film?
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins known as Scooby Doo 3: The Mystery Begins (formerly Scooby-Doo: In the Beginning, Scooby-Doo 3: The Beginning and Scooby-Doo 3: In the Beginning) is an upcoming 2009 television movie produced by Cartoon Network and Warner Premiere, directed by Brian Levant and distributed by Warner Home Video based on the hit Hanna-Barbera cartoon classic, Scooby-Doo. It will be a prequel to the theatrical films Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, in the vein of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Production is taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from August 4, 2008. The telefilm will premiere Sunday September 13, 2009 on Cartoon Network in honor of Scooby-Doo’s 40th Anniversary. Cartoon Network’s content advisor, Rob Sorcher, said “This contemporary take on Scooby-Doo will be an exciting movie event on Cartoon Network. This project is also an anchor component of our new push into movies, our great partnership with Warner Premiere and the over
Scooby-Doo, TV’s comically cowardly Great Dane, is 40 years old this year. In all that time, through succeeding series on different networks, he has rarely been off the air. It is really quite remarkable, when you consider the generally poor animation, wan jokes and endlessly repeated plot line — phony spooks mask criminal enterprise undone by meddling kids and their dog — although perhaps that is also its appeal. You know where you are with “Scooby-Doo.” If Scooby is not quite the cultural powerhouse he was back when a van with flowers painted on its side was a groovy thing and a boy might wear an ascot to high school without fear of harm, he is perhaps something more now: an icon with history, living in the collective mind of the generations who have grown up on him. Hugh Laurie has imitated him on “House”; the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” kids styled themselves a Scooby Gang, a phrase I’ve found handy, professionally, to describe any tight group of diverse characters involved in a d
