My Re-Analyzing of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

If you'd like to know what I thought of this film before, click on the link below:

https://aka995.wixsite.com/website/post/2020/01/21/my-movie-review-on-scooby-doo-on-zombie-island

Ladies and gentleman, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" is the second film I've done a re-analyzing for since the 2018 "Peter Rabbit" film. The bad news, though...is that unlike "Peter Rabbit", this film's rating is going down instead of up.

It's mainly because of this:

After thinking about this movie more recently, as well as seeing a clip or 2 of the film, I've found myself going from feeling neutral towards the film to disliking it, in large part because there are flaws in the movie that I either hadn't taken note of before or something else.

Here's what they are:

In my review of the film, I openly commended Frank Welker's performance and reprisal as Fred. After I saw some clips from the on YouTube featuring Fred, though, I found myself noting that-just like Mary Kay Bergman, B.J. Ward, and Scott Innes's portrayals of Daphne, Velma, and Scooby-Doo-Welker's performance sounded kinda whiny in some ways. It's something that I blame squarely on the voice direction, really.

Also, as I started to think about the story more and looked back on my time watching the film, I've found its story to be...surprisingly flat. It felt like despite the filmmakers's attempts to make everything interesting, the narrative hardly grappled any intrigue out of me. The way the whole "monsters being real" thing was executed also felt something like "Yay, that's right. In your face". In whatever case, nothing about the incorporation of real monsters felt very genuine, and it was like the filmmakers were throwing darts at a target and constantly aiming for a bullseye but always missing. Everything about the film felt extremely flat, especially when the real monsters started coming into the picture, which was done too much in a “Oh yeah! In your face!” kind of way. In short, it was a FAR from genuine incorporation, and the film lacked completely in the ways of fun. In many ways, the film also felt like it had no idea whether it wanted to be something for children because of being a Scooby-Doo film or one for adults because of the horror elements and how dark it was. In this case, the film was conflicted over what identity to go by.

In the end, I've gone from considering "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" a mostly good film to pretty much one of the worst of the Scooby-Doo installments. It's not as bad as the live-action Scooby-Doo film, but still...it's overrated and mediocre in my opinion.

So, I hereby downgrade this film's rating from 3½ to 2½ out of five stars.