Big Top Scooby-Doo!

Plot

The story begins in Atlantic City, where a werewolf triggers an alarm while stealing a ruby necklace from a jewelry store. The creature frightens off a security guard, and two police officers who arrive are unable to catch the fast-moving thief, which escapes into nearby hills and looks down at a circus. Scooby-Doo and the gang are vacationing in Atlantic City when Fred spots the Brancusi Circus and eagerly leads everyone to see it. They find the circus closed until the next day, but notice the front door is unlocked and decide to explore.

Inside, they encounter a man chasing a werewolf that has broken into the circus. The werewolf attacks the group, but Velma scares it away with a spotlight. The man thanks them and introduces himself as Marius Brancusi, the ringleader and owner. He inherited the circus from his uncle the previous year and has been trying to modernize it.

Marius explains that the werewolf has been haunting the circus for months, frightening many performers and stealing jewelry wherever the circus travels. He suspects the werewolf might be one of his own artists. Velma connects the incident to an 18th-century case in Ingolstadt involving a werewolf named Hans, who collected a specific set of jewels that allowed him to transform at will. After learning the gang solves mysteries, Marius hires them to go undercover as circus performers.

Fred becomes a junior-assistant-backup-trapeze artist, Daphne takes on a motorcycle act, Shaggy and Scooby work as animal performers, and Velma is assigned the Human Comet act, which involves being shot from a cannon, much to her dismay.

Did You Know?

• The DVD includes three bonus circus-themed episodes from various Scooby-Doo series.
• A combo pack featuring a Blu-ray, DVD, UltraViolet and digital download was also released on October 9, 2012.
• The film has been released to rent through Amazon Video.