Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Costumes from Mystery Inc.'s old cases come back as real monsters.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a 2004 American mystery comedy horror film, the second installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series and the sequel to Scooby-Doo (2002). It was directed by Raja Gosnell from a screenplay by James Gunn and stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Linda Cardellini and Matthew Lillard, with Neil Fanning as the voice of Scooby-Doo. Warner Bros. Pictures released it on March 26, 2004, and it grossed $181 million worldwide, less than its predecessor.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Raja Gosnell
- Writer
- James Gunn
- Based on
- Characters, Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Producer
- Charles Roven; Richard Suckle
- Cinematography
- Oliver Wood
- Editing
- Kent Beyda
- Music
- David Newman
- Studio
- Mosaic Media Group; Atlas Entertainment
Lore & Background
Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, which exhibits monster costumes from their past cases. An Evil Masked Figure interrupts the celebration and steals two of the costumes with help from a supernatural Pterodactyl Ghost, and journalist Heather Jasper Howe starts a smear campaign against the gang. The gang finds the Monster Hive, where a machine transforms the stolen costumes into real monsters that go on to terrorize Coolsville. Scooby reactivates the reprogrammed control panel, turning the monsters back into costumes. The masked figure is then exposed as Doctor Jonathan Jacobo, the former Pterodactyl Ghost, disguised as Heather.
Reader's Guide
Filming began on April 14, 2003, in Vancouver, with Seth Green and Alicia Silverstone joining the cast as museum curator Patrick Wisely and Heather Jasper Howe. Peter Boyle plays Jeremiah Wickles and Tim Blake Nelson plays Jacobo. Like the first film it received mostly negative reviews from critics, and it won the Razzie Award for Worst Remake or Sequel, but it eventually amassed a cult following. A third film written and directed by Gunn was planned and later canceled after the second film's lower earnings.
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