Scooby-Doo 2: monsters unleashed - 2004

I thought it was really boring, but I was never a Scooby-doo fan to be honest. I thought the old cartoons were boring too, so I was not at all excited by how close the movie was to the old scenes.
I thought that Shaggy and Scooby were very much like their animated selves, but that wasn’t a big plus for me. The other characters were rather plain, most of the attention was on Scooby, Shabby and the monsters which were as ridiculous as the old ones. They should have made the other characters a little bit more real, with maybe some funny lines or maybe adding some heartwarming friendship interaction.. anything that could make you feel for them.
The details:
it starts with Mystery Inc. being welcomed like heroes at a museum with all the costumes of the enemies they defeated. Velma likes the curator, Patrick (Seth Green) but she’s so scared she says no when he asks her out. A monster attacks, Shabby and Scooby are useless as usual and need Daphne to save them. Journalist Heather (Alicia Silverston) destroys them on tv, and Shaggy feels sad he only caused trouble and tries to be more like them (this is a perfect example of what I was saying, seeing Scooby with Daphne’s boots was not funny to me at all).
They go to the house of their main suspect, old man Wickles (Peter Boyle) and must fight one monster-ghost-in-armor. Shaggy is useless, Freddy is soon knocked out, and the girls have to save the day: Daphne fights like Buffy while Velma figures out a way to defeat it (a kick in the groin was not how I’d expect to defeat a ghost that shouldn’t have anything to hurt down there...).
Velma is so scared of dating she hides when Patrick reappears, so Daphne tries to help her, but in the wrong way, which is to make her more like herself: Velma comes out in a tight red leather suit and heels, she looked like a caricature of Daphne. Pretty yes, but there was nothing to it, it lacked a funny line or something.
There’s a long scene with Shaggy and Scooby at a club for criminals, where Scooby dances with a big wig on his head until it comes off and they’re discovered for who they are and must escape.
Next, they learn that all costumes have been stolen from the museum. During a search, Shaggy activates all the monsters. From now on it appears all they can do is to use the same device that activated them to deactivate them :-/
The gang goes to their old place now abandoned, where Velma does her calculations and Daphne and Fred repair said device. Meanwhile Shaggy stumbles on a ghost so they have to run. 
They go to defeat the ghost and Scooby finally helps, and it is revealed that Heather was the one responsible, but the journalist was only a disguise for Jacobo, a criminal mastermind apparently who likes to create monsters. Jacobo and his/her cameraman who helped her are arrested.
All is cool now, Patrick was not bad after all, and they all dance through the credits. Heather and the cameraman too..
Maybe I’m not the right target for this: I would have liked more focus on the characters, more attention on their friendship.
Fred-Freddie Prinze Jr.
Daphne-Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shaggy-Matthew Lillard
Velma-Linda Cardellini

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