Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood
Scooby and Shaggy face Lego monsters in Hollywood.
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Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood is a 2016 American animated mystery comedy film and the twenty-sixth direct-to-video entry in the Scooby-Doo series. It is the first film based on the Scooby-Doo brand of Lego. The movie marks the first non-television Scooby-Doo production to feature Kate Micucci as the voice of Velma Dinkley.
Plot
After solving a mystery involving a sea creature at a lighthouse, Shaggy and Scooby decide to stop eating Scooby Snacks. The gang wins a trip to Hollywood through a hamburger eating contest. They visit Brickton Studios, an old horror film studio facing closure. Junior, a horror film fan, gives them a tour joined by developer Atticus Fink, who wants to buy and level the studio.
A Headless Horseman appears and chases them. The gang offers to solve the mystery. The Headless Horseman attacks a romantic comedy set, and Brickton appoints Fred as director, casting Shaggy in the lead and TV host Drella Diabolique as the female lead. A mummy later destroys the set.
While filming a scene with a plane, both the Headless Horseman and a zombie appear. Velma notes that two monsters appearing simultaneously means the ghost cannot be in two places at once. Brickton signs the studio over to Fink, and the gang decides to capture the monsters.
Reception
Renee Longstreet for Common Sense Media rated the film two out of five stars. She commented that the filmmakers had not fully captured the camaraderie and silly tone of the Scooby-Doo clan using Lego bricks.
She found the story generic and predictable but noted it worked well enough. She observed that the monsters, being small molded toys, lacked the larger-than-life feel of traditional Scooby-Doo ghosts, and the characters lost expressiveness in plastic form. She concluded that fans might still enjoy the usual antics, and the film was not very scary.
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- Wikipedia: Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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