Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) – Video
Running time: 79 minutes (1 hour 19 minutes)
DIRECTOR: Matt Peters
WRITERS: Candie Kelty Langdale and Doug Landale
EDITORS: Steve Donmyer and Craig Paulsen
COMPOSERS: Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis
SONGS: Joshua Funk
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digital eMation, Inc.
ANIMATION/FANTASY/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle, Kate Micucci, Carlos Alazraqui, Max Charles, Gary Cole, Jessica DiCicco, Tania Gunadi, Eric Ladin, Nolan North, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lauren Tom, Melissa Villaseñor, Kari Wahlgren, and Gary Anthony Williams with John Schwab (no screen credit)
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is a 2017 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It is also the 28th animated movie in the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation, which began in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. In Shaggy's Showdown, Mystery Inc. attempts to solve the mystery of a ghost that is rampaging through a small wild west town and a dude ranch.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown finds Mystery Inc.: Fred Jones (Frank Welker), Daphne Blake (Grey DeLisle), Velma Dinkley (Kate Micucci), Norville “Shaggy” Rogers (Matthew Lillard), and the Great Dane, Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker), visiting the wild west town of Sorghum City. They are surprised to find that the people there scream and run away when they encounter Shaggy. The gang's next stop is “Crazy Q Ranch,” a dude ranch owned and operated by Shaggy's “third cousin, twice removed,” Tawny Rogers (Melissa Villaseñor).
A long-lost cousin, Tawny invited Shaggy to her ranch so they the cousins could reconnect, but the reunion is being ruined by the ghost of a notorious outlaw, Dapper Jack Rogers (John Schwab). The ghost bears a striking resemblance to Shaggy, who, like Tawny, is a descendant of Dapper Jack. The ghost has been terrorizing Sorghum City and also the Crazy Q Ranch, and if the ghost continues its haunting, Tawny will be forced to sell the ranch. Now, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne, and Velma have a new ghostly mystery to solve.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is the third consecutive Scooby-Doo animated film I have seen that I really like. I think that one thing that makes this one appealing to me is the dude ranch element. I have been a fan of films set on dude ranches, and I have enjoyed TV series in which the characters visit a dude ranch for a particular episode. Combine a dude ranch with my love of the Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc., and that is entertainment I cannot resist.
So take my recommendation with a grain of salt off the table at a dude ranch when I tell you that Shaggy's Showdown is one of the best recent Scooby-Doo movies. I like the animation, especially the color, and there are some good subplots: Shaggy riding a horse, Scooby's ability to “talk” to farm animals, and a child overcoming his fear of horses all make this particular straight-to-video Scooby-Doo film exceptional.
Seriously, Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is a nice change of pace for the series. A quasi-Western comedy, it means that the Scoody-Doo DVD animated movies can show a bit of freshness now and then.
8 of 10
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
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