The Reel Rejects - SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED (2004) IS MADCAP FUN! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching

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Starting point is 00:00:48 the alcohol. Thank you to Huell for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Aaron? see the sequel let's go ladies and gentlemen we just watched scooby-do-do monsters unleashed starring a bunch of good-looking

Starting point is 00:01:13 people leave a like on this video please please leave like on this video and uh prepper thanks for me down these highlights you guys had a good job in the last one I'll do a good job this time too or else I'm coming for you I'll unleash some monsters on you guys uh normally we've been having the patron questions but we kind of had to shoot this spontaneously so we don't have any patron cues at the moment that's sad this is sitting sadness for a while we're going to let it sink let it sink in Aaron what did you think about this

Starting point is 00:01:40 sequel I thought I thought it was fun I've had a lot of fun watching this uh you know I I've had vague memories of the the first one growing up I didn't know I knew nothing about this one and this is great this was a very fun time and it was a live action cartoon in the best sense with the up to date, not necessarily. They don't need to be. They don't need to be. That's okay. It's just a good time.

Starting point is 00:02:07 I thought all the cast knew the type of movie that they were in. Scooby and Shaggy were great as usual. Matthew Lillard did a great job. He is hilarious. He's still the standout. And all the monster designs were really cool. Really fun. The set design was great.

Starting point is 00:02:25 Very colorful. The music choices were fun. The gags were hilarious. I couldn't ask for a better movie This was, you know, you had to judge a movie where it's at for what it is And I cannot complain I wanted a Scooby-Doo movie And that's exactly what I got

Starting point is 00:02:41 This was a live-fashioned cartoon And every sense of the word And I thoroughly enjoyed it for that I thought it lacked in drama, horror, and subtlety That's gravitas Yeah Expects something more nuanced Hey, like first things first

Starting point is 00:02:59 I think the production is on on what they did on this. It looks incredible. I was so surprised by how I remember like complimenting the first one, but you can still feel like, okay, yeah, they couldn't go like all out, but a lot of that was, it still looked really cool in the last one, but this was like a whole other level from every,

Starting point is 00:03:16 there was so much versatility in all their sets and like to actually be in the city. This one felt like an actual world that the mystery ink band lives in. In the last movie, they established some of that. but then they're off on an island for most of it and this one they're in the city and they're part of the media they're engaged so you you really get a presence of what the rest of at least the

Starting point is 00:03:39 city of coolsville and america might actually feel like and i like getting that that world built there's like actual world building that they did and uh there's the cool like Gotham gotham a gothic like production actually sometimes it did kind of look like same birds of goth um but there's there's like a cool like gothic aesthetic to the whole thing while having like the corkiness of the of the makeup and the different creatures and stuff. I thought that looks so cool. And, yeah, I agree with you. Matthew Liddler is still, like, the best performer.

Starting point is 00:04:10 He is so funny. He had the funniest lines here. I like that Scooby. He got to actually be a hero this time. Like, I don't really remember much of what Scooby actually did in the last movie, except, like, get into hijinks. This time, Scooby seemed active, involved, and was able to actually pull off, like, the big button push at the end, you know?

Starting point is 00:04:28 Yeah. I feel like kick some serious buttocks this time around, you know? Yeah, I feel like they made a good use of everybody. Yeah. I feel like everybody got a thing to do, you know, Vela. Did she, no, she didn't solve it, but she was active in trying to do her thing, but also going through her arc of, you know, feeling worthy. The mystery is good.

Starting point is 00:04:49 The mystery was good. You saw us, we were guessing the whole time. Cannot pinpoint it down. It just had me going. I kept taking the bait in. And every time I thought, like, no. they're trying to bait me but i'm not going to take the baby so and for for a thing called mystery ink it's kind of fun because didn't figure out the mystery of the last movie and then uh didn't

Starting point is 00:05:09 figure out the mystery of this one either and this was more of like a straightforward who's behind this mask and they they make it like a more it's a more simple one that you have to unpack and so it's actually it was more fun to try to figure out who it was this time around compared to the last one you know um because they don't reveal that um row and Atkinson's a bad guy until like close to the end of the movie and this time they have like an actual physical character in the mask to make you like go like who is going to be under that mask yeah like real me in what's up i kind of realize that it's nothing was really referenced from the last movie into this one so they can you watch them in any order yeah no totally you watch them interchangeably which is fun because even though they they have like the team breaks up and then they get together two years later that could technically leave it the second one if you wanted it to be it's an anthology piece yeah yes it's uh it's a new it's a black mirror for kids is what's this um but what else happened in there and yeah everyone was really fun and uh i i think you know like one of the big surprises we had from the and we were trying to say at the beginning is in the last movie we learned that

Starting point is 00:06:17 james got had a very very different script and this they were going for a completely different movie that it was going to be more pg 13 maybe borderline r from the kind of humor and raunch that it was going to be yeah And then they're like, oh, we have to retool this and re-edit it so that way it could be PG. And it didn't feel like incoherent. It didn't feel disjointed. It actually flowed pretty well. But this time, to bring James Gunn back, it seems like, no, we have a direction more of like how we want to do this.

Starting point is 00:06:46 We wanted to really feel more like the actual cartoon to which I'm not privy to. But they wanted to feel more like the actual cartoon. And this one felt more like an actual cartoon. Yeah, no. And you felt like the love on display. for the Scooby-Doo mythos and the history of that. You know,

Starting point is 00:07:02 you got all the classic monsters that you would see, like I said on a number of occasions. Like, oh my God, I recognize that guy. I recognize that guy because,

Starting point is 00:07:10 you know, this is something that I grew up with watching on, um, on Boomerang and, you know, watching them chase them through the halls and whatnot. Which we did not get the hall.

Starting point is 00:07:21 Not a single one. We should have gotten some hallway. That's the one, one point knocked off. Honestly. For no hallway. Because it's a. classic i feel like even it's like me who doesn't know scooby-doo knows that yeah you know it's like

Starting point is 00:07:34 the thing that they're mostly known for other than you know scoopie and shaggy um getting high and eating dog food together pot heads yeah but i i thoroughly enjoyed it i think that though the monsters that they had were the designs were really well done i think that the the makeup on like the The one with, like, that big hands who had, like, his pants taken down at the end. Oh, yeah. And then the pirate guy, that was, they're both really well designed. And I'm like, were those puppets? Or those guys in makeups?

Starting point is 00:08:07 I don't know. But some of the CGI monsters stuff look cool, like the Electro one. Yeah. It looks. Yeah, it looks kind of tangible yet cartooning. And it's, like, character design as well. I thought that was a great one. I've never seen that one before.

Starting point is 00:08:20 But I think it's a great job for this movie. I think it's a solid way to put it because I believe the character. was there where sometimes you do CGI monsters and even happens in the last movie

Starting point is 00:08:31 you're like there's definitely nothing there yeah like they just animated something in there you know

Starting point is 00:08:35 but I actually believe the character in the moment was happening especially because they're able to actually do a lot more

Starting point is 00:08:42 with like have actual lightning shit going on or like electrical shit going on and Seth Green I thought

Starting point is 00:08:47 was so fun Seth Green was great wonderful addition to the cast and he has he has actually pretty good

Starting point is 00:08:54 chemistry with Belma I thought so I didn't think about that until right now. They played off each other really well. Yeah. Also, even though Tim Blake Nelson wasn't in the movie a ton, you could tell that the scenes he did have, he was having a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:09:06 He was committed. He was very committed with his wig, and then he had, like, his little flight suit. And even at the end, when he was getting arrested in his costume, that was a lot of fun. Even that, that guy's suit was really cool. I don't know if that was like an animatronic they had going on, but I really dug that design, and, you know, he was just after the guys. It doesn't really matter why they're after them

Starting point is 00:09:28 Because at the end of the day We know they're gonna catch them And it's a good old time I get the impression that people sign on to these movies Because they grew up watching Scooby-Doo and love Scooby-Doo Like you get like a Peter Boyle or Tim Blake Nelson Who you probably wouldn't think would want to do a Scooby-Doo movie But I think beyond just a paycheck

Starting point is 00:09:47 I imagine they actually grew up on it Because they seem to know that to every actor here knew the tone knew the pitch Like no one was off they all that that helps to make to sell the world that they're in um i will say though i still prefer the first one really because i think that one actually weirdly even though that's the one that's chopped down i prefer the storytelling of that one like this one's chaotic crazy a cartoon madcap exactly what it wants to be i i fully embrace it and i had so much fun and

Starting point is 00:10:25 some big laughs for sure and there's so much to appreciate so but in the end i would say that like that one actually had more sounds weird i was surprised by how much heart and character was weaved into the first movie like the setup of them like disbanding and then coming together and they're each having their own little arcs within and then coming together as a unit like there was it was more than just plot it was actual like character motivating the plot and then choices they're making whereas here it seems only plot with some character stuff they they made sure to include so it was more than just plot yeah whereas the last one seemed to stem from a care from the characters this one it seems more about like an episode of television

Starting point is 00:11:12 and they were like oh we need to have like let's get velma some stuff let's repeat a little bit of with um with daph like that's a repetitive thing with daph me from the last one um like fred they toned down for sure he was like nowhere near like i thought thought he was like hilariously dumb in the first one and they they definitely made him like a little bit more capable leader and they tried this thing with like shaggy and i like i like the arc of them learning to appreciate it but i just felt that there's actually weaved in better in the first one because that i think that's what endeared us so much in that first one was like oh wow this actually surprisingly like them as people you know them as humans and then they're and then

Starting point is 00:11:49 there's the plot i think like the plot the visuals the look the overall the overall The overall tone is more captivating here, but I definitely thought I definitely enjoyed the actual journey we were on with the mystery team more in the first one, I would say. Reject Nation. Life's only gotten busier, filming, working out, getting a new studio, all the moving. But I've learned that when I stay consistent on what I put in my body, I perform better across the board, no joke, mentally, physically, all in all. In case you didn't catch the memo, back in January, I weighed 218 pounds. As of late, I'm down to 173. Here's the latest photo right here. I'm working on body composition right now.

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Starting point is 00:14:07 It got me endeared to the character. Whereas if I, it's like to your point earlier, if I saw this one first, I probably wouldn't be as interested in watching the other one because the other one got me, like, hooked into the characters. Right. And this one, I don't feel like, does it as strong, you know? No, because they really want to play up the cartoon aspect of it. They really want to play on the nostalgia of watching the team altogether do their thing against these classic villains. Which, you know, even I think maybe that's why I enjoyed a little bit more because there was an era of familiarity. But I do respect the first one and still like the first one for what it was trying to do in being different from, you know, what we're custom.

Starting point is 00:14:50 too with with classic Scooby-Doo villains like in the cartoon Scrappy's not a villain he's like one he's like they're the little cousin and he's part of the team sometimes so i thought that was it was fun like a little subversion with that one yeah i think in the last movie we were experiencing was like oh there's like a metadness and a self-awareness whereas this movie was actually being the cartoon you know and uh whereas the other one's kind of like uh kind of poking fun but it's still admiring it you know and but yeah this one is 100% have more of like a live action cartoon uh which i again that it's not me i i did really have a fun time with this i don't want people to like disregard that i just prefer one over the other in terms

Starting point is 00:15:33 of like an actual movie but this i think it was a blast and i imagine for the people who grew up in the cartoons like yourself probably enjoy this one more just because of the fact of how it mirrors it yeah i mean i enjoy them both for for their own reasons but yeah i'm curious to know why they didn't make a third one because I feel like this one did a really good job of capturing the thing that people maybe people love about it maybe it failed at the box office but when I see obviously a lot of these actors are from other shows and movies and whatnot and other things in their careers but when I see them I associate them with Scooby

Starting point is 00:16:07 do maybe it's just because oh really yeah yeah I didn't really grow up with Buffy and I know Freddie Prince Jr. is a lot of stuff but this is my main I don't think I've seen any of the Freddy Fitzger movies. I'm like, I can't tell you, how are you Freddy Fitzger movies? I know he's, isn't he a voice in Clone Wars? Oh, this is not big. This is not well liked on IMDB.

Starting point is 00:16:30 Oh, no. I know people might be surprised by that, but it's definitely not. Okay, here we go. Let's read some facts at least. Aaron, you want to read the first one? All the costumes seen in the criminology museum are fully functional, meaning that they can all indeed be worn.

Starting point is 00:16:51 The plaques, is that? Plaques. The plaques, yep, I know words. I'm not 80s. I don't have a disc, whatever, accompanying them. Also included trivia on the specific costumes based on the original cartoon. Oh, that's cool. Oh, fun.

Starting point is 00:17:07 I'm dyserlexic. I'm just like, you know, don't get yourself down. You sit in an out of crowns one word. When Velma is sitting in the backseat of the van or leather outfit makes a farty know is the line this was my outfit i swear was an ad lib great line great line oh here's your answer erin i'm going to give you a big paragraph you can do it buddy i believe in you a third installment was going to be released but due to not being financially successful on the first film it was scrapped according to james gun the mystery team was going to go to scotland

Starting point is 00:17:39 to investigate a series of monster attacks only to discover the monsters were victims and were being controlled by an evil human which would be which would have forced scooby and shaggy to confront their own prejudices about monsters wow that was going to be like a real see like that sounds like rooting in character that sounds fun i would have loved that they should do like uh some legacy sequel where they're all old i'm with it uh they're all still alive in that place streets velmster brady pince junior did his own stunts he did the motorcycle jouse and all the other actors did their own stunts too hey um did they really oh yeah hell yeah let me see here let me see oh whoa according to variety freddie prince junior said he grew furious with scooby do

Starting point is 00:18:30 franchise after he was asked to take a pay cut on the sequel or to boost the salaries of his co-stars wow that's messed up i remember thinking hold up who's giving them the raise me or y'all like we made you guys three quarters of a billion dollars you can't afford to pay them what i'm making on this screw that the studio allegedly leaked his salary to the press order to get him to comply which killed any chance of Prince Jr. returning for a third phone he had him my ego was so angry that's messed up what they did that's really bad that's really messed up and no it shouldn't come out of his pay no no hell no man white boy deserves all the money get that white boy that money Seth Bream was also in Buffy oh I didn't

Starting point is 00:19:05 realize that I have not seen the Buffy show but that's cool pretty Prince Jr did take the pay cut though so he could give his co-stars a raise oh he's a good man he's a good man he's a good man charlie brown okay so apparently scooby two was considered a box office failure that sucks um in the film velma gets a boyfriend this was a studio decision differently from the original plan for the character since she was initially conceived as openly gay we learned that in the last one huh we learned that in the last one uh we learned the last one that james gum wanted her to be the original script she was gay oh yes I think it was a romance in her and Daphne.

Starting point is 00:19:46 Yes, we did read that. That's right. I remember that. Linda Carlini eventually returned in a cartoon. Oh, cool. I hear, I hear. She was great. She did the great vocal voice.

Starting point is 00:19:56 Here Matthew Liddler was in a, does a lot of the cartoons as well. He does. He is great. He is definitively shaggy. And the same year, Matthew Litter and Seth Green starred in a comedy called Without a Paddle, which is a very different kind of comedy. I think that's like a raunchy comedy. yes i do remember that coming out i'm like have i seen that i don't know but i remember coming

Starting point is 00:20:20 up though michael rucker was originally going to be old man wickles can you imagine i've been fun trying to see if there's any of these that are like highly upvoted no do do many of them will go into the marvel cinematic university who the hell hasn't got to the marbles in that universe at this point i got spoilies uh no it's kind of boring i don't know if it did okay yeah they make no reference for that one however at the end of the film and shaggy's asked to wear the helmet you can hear scooby say mary jane is a man in a mass as some fans a line from the first remember that that's my favorite name

Starting point is 00:21:01 i remember that one i guess you could say continuity that uh daffney's good with combat and she learned that after the time jump in the first one all right guys well that'll do it for us today thank you so much for joining us on this live action scooby-do adventures maybe we'll cover some other ones who knows who knows we really we really don't know uh it's not me just being like hey we have something universal we really have no plan uh at at all and we have a plan for like a giant upload schedule and then we'd like squeeze this one in because of uh the response of the last one so like all right cool yeah thank you guys for making this happen thank you guys so much for being here aaron thanks for joining me on this journey i am the tear ericsson in this one

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The Reel Rejects - SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED (2004) IS MADCAP FUN! MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching

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