![]() After the robbery, Velma discovers a secret passage the pterodactyl came out of and also a real reptilian scale. And with that, the Pterodactyl Ghost snatches up two monster costumes from the display, dumps Shaggy and Scooby into the Chickenstein costume and then takes off into the sky with the Evil Masked Figure in tow. Then a mysterious masked villain calling himself the Evil Masked Figure appears and announces this is just the beginning of Mystery, Inc.'s demise. ![]() The gang, believing it is simply a criminal in the costume, attempt to capture the pterodactyl in some curtains, but Shaggy and Scooby mess it up and are sent on a wild ride when their wrists get caught in the rope binding the pterodactyl and fly around the museum causing mayhem. The prehistoric predator somehow became real and breaks free of its cage. ![]() Daphne removes a curtain covering the cabinet and finds herself face to face with a terrifying and alive Pterodactyl Ghost. In this distraction, Daphne notices a strange green mist floating about one of the glass cabinets. Unfortunately, both of them are too afraid and worked up in their jobs to become a couple and both walked away.īut this momentous occasion turns sour when a storm causes a power cut in the museum and then a bolt of lightning shatters a window. Velma reveals to Daphne and Fred that she has fallen in love with the museum's curator, Patrick Wisely. Shaggy and Scooby are frightened by the costumes, despite the fact that they are not alive. Accompanied by the gorgeous news reporter Heather Jasper Howe and other members of the press, the gang enter the museum to open an exhibit which is full of costumes of their former foes from past mysteries. Having become celebrities of their hometown of Coolsville, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred of Mystery Inc., have been invited to the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum as the guests of honor, where their screaming fans watch them walk past. Now Coolsville's "most wanted" for all the wrong reasons, they must prove once and for all they really are heroes, by putting an end to the mysterious fiend that's out to get them. have saved the world from certain doom, but that means nothing to their hometown, when a cloaked figure with a vendetta against the gang, brings to life the would-be monsters they unmasked in the past. There’s also a dose of-get this-character development, as Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Scooby (voiced by Neil Fanning) try to prove to the gang that they’re not screw-ups.The Mystery Inc. They’ve got press issues (Alicia Silverstone as a muckracking TV reporter named Heather Jasper Howe, who always quotes Freddie Prinze Jr.’s Fred out of context) and Velma’s fixation with the museum curator, Patrick Wisely (Seth Green). Since this is a film and not a Saturday-morning cartoon, the gang has more to contend with than a silly ghost or haunted house. ![]() But they barely get a chance to sample the canapes when an caped villain straight out of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers busts the place up, bringing a pterodactyl to life and stealing all the monster costumes in the process. They get the full red-carpet treatment, and even Velma (Linda Cardellini) gets some screaming adulation courtesy of a pack of Sapphic lookalike fans. is invited to an exhibit at the Coolsonian Museum (located in Coolsville, a name which is either sublime, stupid, or sublimely stupid), which celebrates the Scooby gang’s most famous cases by displaying the costumes of the people they unmasked. But with Raja Gosnell’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, the Time Warner military industrial entertainment complex seems to have come up with a proper, summer-style kiddie flick that nostalgia-craving Gen X-ers can enjoy as well. To say that the second Scooby-Doo movie is an improvement over the first isn’t really much of a compliment, as a night of UPN sitcoms would have been more entertaining than that disaster. ![]()
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