Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979 TV Movie) User Reviews

An Honest Review

[generationofswine · 5/10 · 1 April 2017]

This is sooooooo annoyingly hard to find...so bare with me, I only saw it once a few years back at my sister's house. I am doing this one from pure old memory.

Essentially what we have here is Scooby Doo breaking the fourth wall...only it's not in the cool Deadpool, Saved By the Bell, JFK, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Kuffs sort of breaking the fourth wall.

Instead it's kind of the ENTIRE cartoon is about breaking the fourth wall.

Suddenly everyone knows they aren't real and even odder, they all know they are animated.

And atop of that Scooby kind of has a little bit of a swelled head...and there are really no mysteries or anything really Scooby Related here.

What you have is a Scooby Cartoon about being a cartoon.

It doesn't really sit well. but it's not horrible either, parts of it are still funny.

It just doesn't sit well.

Decent enough if not great

[TheLittleSongbird · 6/10 · 1 August 2011]

As a huge Scooby Doo fan, naturally I wanted to see Scooby Doo Goes Hollywood. I will admit I was a little disappointed by it, but I didn't think it was bad. The music is great and true to the style of the decade it's set in, and I liked the song sung by Fred, Daphne and Velma and the duet between Scooby and Cher(ie).

The voice work is still excellent, particularly from Don Messick, Casey Kasem and Frank Welker, and I enjoyed the spoofs on Happy Days, Charlie's Angels, Sonny and Cher and Superman. My favourite is the one on Sound of Music, which is still very funny.

The characters still have their likability. Scooby and Shaggy still make me smile and laugh, and while underused Fred, Daphne and Velma manage to not be dull.

Scooby Doo Goes Hollywood isn't perfect however. My feelings on the animation were mixed. The colours are lively and plentiful and some of the background art is nice, but the editing could have done with being more fluid and some of the character designs are not as strong as they could have been.

The concept was intriguing and it was very interesting at the start. However, the story is rather thin and predictable, and perhaps rushed too, with too much focus on the jokes and spoofs in alternative to a coherent storyline.

I was also mixed on the writing, most of the jokes and spoofs are very funny, but there are also some lame puns along the way and one or two of the spoofs due to feeling skimmed over don't quite make the grade.

All in all, a decent enough special, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Funny and Enjoyable Animated Movie

[voicemaster71 · 7/10 · 5 January 2007]

I actually remember seeing this animated movie of Scooby Doo as a special on Prime Time. I think ABC aired it on either a Saturday or a Sunday night in 1979 and I can't recall, but I think at the time, they were showing the Scooby Doo episodes of 1978 on Scooby's All Stars or maybe it was right before Scooby and Scrappy Doo aired that fall.

Anyway, it's been so long since I've seen it, but from what I can recall, it was about Shaggy convincing Scooby that he is better than a Saturday morning TV star and should pursue a career as a movie star and being in spoofs of Happy Days, Charlie's Angels, Saturday Night Fever, Superman, and more. Definitely 70's. And I believe that Shaggy and Scooby drove the Hollywood producers crazy trying to market themselves. Fred, Daphne, and Velma are in this special, but their roles are smaller. I guess that was a sign of things to come on future Saturday morning incarnations of Scooby Doo.

I did find this on video and rented it a few years ago. Man did it bring back some lost memories. I recommend giving this movie a try just for kicks.

Scooby-Doo goes down...

[NewBeanz · 18 June 2002]

I have no idea what could have possessed a writer to come up with this intoxicating mixture of Scooby-Doo and Hollywood parody. Well... I guess it was the 70s!... The idea is that Scooby quits his Saturday morning show in pursuit of more challenging roles and box office success helped by Shaggy, his trusty side-kick. This was inspired by those awful cartoons in the 40s in which Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd act like real actors even talking to Mr. Warner - their boss!!! In the same awfully unfunny way, Shaggy and Scooby barge into the Studio Director's office in order to show him samples of their work which parodies westerns and stupid 70s musicals (like Saturday Night Fever).

In the end of all this Scooby(after messing up everything he tried to do) is convinced by hordes of children chanting "Scooby-Doo, we need you!" to go back to his regular show.

After watching this very stupid attempt at a longer animated Scooby-Doo film, the viewer is convinced the awfull jokes in the Scooby-Doo show aren't really that bad and is actually looking forward to a line like "If it hadn't been for you pesky kids..."

Crazy Nice Nostalgia

[boujiroach · 7/10 · 9 April 2022]

This was one of about barely 8 VHS I actually had in the 90s as a kid for some reason, and it was probably my introduction to this whole series oddly. Nothing but great memories and laughs at the absurdity of it all.

The Missing Link

[richard.fuller1 · 2/10 · 17 January 2009]

One, I remember this special. It aired on Sunday. I'm surprised to see it aired so close to Christmas tho.

Two, it was awful.

Three, the only reason I gave it a 2 rating is because I always remembered Scooby doing Sound of Music and he fell off the mountain when he started singing. I thought that was funny even 30 years ago.

So what exactly was this? Clearly this is the missing link between the overhauling of the Scooby Doo format (which Mark Evanier, creator of Scrappy Doo, has said he felt had run its course) from Mystery sleuths to . . . . whatever was deemed better.

Often resembling the old WB Porky Pig and Daffy Duck cartoons where Porky was going to go into movies, it is pretty much the same setup here, with Shaggy and Scooby.

As others have noted, we are given various TV show and movie imitations, among them, Happy Days, Charlie's Angels (how does this one figure into the history of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, which premiered about a year earlier?), Superman, Love Boat and clearly Donny & Marie (renamed Scooby and Cherie. She was obviously a merger of Marie Osmond, Cher and Charo, to an extent, but the female character was straight up Marie Osmond, especially as this was the same network of Donny and Marie).

No, it was not good. It was pathetic. Scooby needs mysteries the same way mysteries will receive Scooby.

When Scooby Doo did stray from its crime-solving on Saturday mornings, it merely ventured into Huckleberry Hound-HOkey Wolf territory (meeting witches and the seven dwarfs and all). Not very original.

Basically, this cartoon then stands as being ahead of its time. Scooby was destined for greater things. The cartoon just couldn't envision what.

The cartoon just couldn't see Scooby Mysteries still being produced 25 years later, and likewise two motion pictures doing extremely well.

Give Scooby and the gang another dozen years, and I imagine they will be engaging in a new venture; probably live action in primetime TV.

Just so long as those meddling kids, 'zoiks', 'jinkies' and the scooby snacks are there, as well as a mystery to solve, it should do just fine.

Need any proof how valuable any of those ingredients might be? Just check out this little cartoon to see.

Meh.

[haw-98949 · 4/10 · 17 August 2021]

I liked the animation and story but I watch scooby doo to see the gang solve mysteries. Not to be a Hollywood star. Also Fred dalphne and Velma are barely in this.

there is no mystery in this one

[kristin_electra · 1/10 · 7 March 2006]

Maybe it was OK in the 70s if there was nothing else on (ut it was the only DVD we saw for Scooby that was bad) The rest of them are great rentals, but this one was a horrific flashback of the duller years for me and a regular bore for the kids.

The entire show is about Scooby trying to play other roles, like on Happy Days, and every one he does ends up with him crashing into something. It is also a wanna be musical, with no real plot and certainly no mystery.

I can't believe they bothered to put this on DVD! If you want to rent a great Scooby movie, get anything else first!!!! Even Harlem globe trotters is Academy material compared to this one.

Very different Scooby-Doo cartoon!

[Movie Nuttball · 10/10 · 15 July 2005]

When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious like the Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!

weird

[jaemiewaters · 2/10 · 26 June 2012]

Scooby Doo goes to Hollywood is one weird movie for sure because it is is in French and Spanish and English it is not the best movie but it is still a good movie for the whole family to enjoy i think you may not enjoy this weird movie it is a OK movie i think you may want to watch this horrible movie if you are looking for a good funny movie than you are not at the right movie because this movie stinks a lot i think it is not that bad but it is not the best movie ever i think you may want to watch this movie just to see how bad this movie is Scooby Doo Goes to Hollywood it bad i think this maybe one of the tiring movies of all times i think this movie should get a award for one of the worse movies ever created i hope you enjoy this movie but in my thinking it is horrible film i never saw anything this bad before in my whole life i think it stinks horribly it is stinky i never saw a movie this bad before in my whole life it is bad i never saw a movie this bad before n my life

Unfathomable Shake-Up of What Scooby Movies Should Be

[Aegelis · 1/10 · 4 October 2020]

I really cannot fathom what the writers were thinking on this one. Few movies reach this level of crossover failure like Star Wars Holiday Special. It's a hodge-podge of rehashed Three Stooges, clips of older episodes, and Snoopy Come Home. I believe they were trying to see if Scooby would ever work without monsters, mystery and for the most part, the rest of the gang. The only audience I can think of that might enjoy this is perhaps a 3-year old who likes the dog but finds regular Doo too scary. Even still, they would get none of the supposed 'jokes' referring to old campy tv shows.

Movie #10

[varbrcesar · 3/10 · 23 April 2024]

Scooby-Doo em Hollywood (PT-BR) (1979) Movie #10

Continuing my journey of watching or rewatching films and series and then making amateur reviews with it.

This is the tenth film I've watched on this profile.

I'm from 1996, I grew up watching Scooby-Doo, but it's been a while since I watched it, this film (or short?) is the first time I've watched it and what a bad film (unfortunately).

The duration is 47 minutes, the shortest duration of the films I watched on this profile, and it seemed much longer, the film Coraline that I watched on this profile, has a duration of 100 minutes and flies by for me.

Maybe I'm not old enough to like Scooby-Doo anymore? I believe I am, even for the reason that I love the first live-action of Hollywood's most beloved dog, but this film is really bad.

I like to highlight cool parts or my favorite parts of films, but in this film in question, I can't highlight any.

The Brazilian dubbing is good, as I remembered from Scooby-Doo with the eternal Orlando Drummond, but even that didn't save it.

Previous Film: O Bicho Vai Pegar (PT-BR) (2006)

Next Movie: Hop (2011)

Film Watched on April 23, 2024.

Rating: 3/10.

Scooby's lone special.

[stephen0684 · 8/10 · 29 October 2005]

The special begins with Scooby and Shaggy fed up with their Saturday morning lineup. As the special continues Scooby gets less and less sure about his new role after all of Shaggy's and Scooby's attempt for Scooby to get more famous fails. All of the Scooby Doo cast members from the Scooby Doo Show are back and are surprised about Scooby's decision. The special also spoofs several 70's films and television series like Happy Days, Sonny and Cher, Charles Angels, and an few more. An song was also sung by Frank (Fred), Pat (Velma), and Heather (Daphine) as they and eventually his fans miss Scooby. It was an team effort as Scooby decided to return to his own show. Overall, it wasn't bad but still, Unless you love Scooby don't watch it. Unless you want to. Oh by the way, In the spoofs, they should have the stars of the series they were spoofing to help out as well.

Final Scooby Score: 8 out of 10 Final animation score: 6 out of 10