(This is a sister article to Jonathan Yeldhall’s article)  

There are a lot of Scooby-Doo media games, calendar comics, cereal, but most importantly movies, so this new year me and my cohost Jonathan Yeldhall decided to tackle Jim Stentrum’s run, the first four movies and the most critically acclaimed.   

“Scooby-Doo Witch’s Ghost” (1999) 

“Scooby-Doo Witch’s Ghost was released in 1999 and was the second Scooby movie to be directed by Stentrum. I had no memory of this one as a kid, and it is the only one of the Stenstrum movies I have not seen.  

This one truly feels like a companion to “Zombie Island” in that it is, in its own weird way, a love letter to a very specific part of America, this time being Boston. The whole thing just has a New England fall color Pallette. However, around the 35-minute mark, the sun goes down and brilliantly, the whole color turns this cool blue, emphasizing the real peril they are now in. 

One complaint I do have is that the voice actor for Sarah Ravenscroft did not deliver her lines very well; they feel very stilted and awkward. And she speaks in this like fake Shakespearian accent that took me out of the film 

RATING 9/10 (I didn’t spoil much watch it) 

Scooby doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) 

I’ve seen this movie a couple of times now, and I’ve just realized that this monster is a metaphor for the Y2K crisis. It represents the destruction of all data, and I’ve just never realized this before.  

 And though this movie was mid in comparison to the other—and I also noticed that this movie is butt ugly in comparison to Zombie Island and Witches’ Ghost, I loved the cyber world as a set piece.  

 The plot of this one is that Scoob and gang visit Boston, Massachusetts, and get sucked into a game, and the only way to get out is to beat all the levels by retrieving Scooby snacks from each level. I’m all for this because it shows each gang member helping in their own way. The twist for this one was super obvious, and there are like 4 mask-off moments, and it started to lose steam.  I would still recommend it, but it is very much the fourth best out of the four we reviewed.  

P.S Also, in every single one of these movies, where Velma gets a bf, they end up being crazy, and she ends up getting sad about that end That please give my girl a break.