Hanna-Barbera's much-loved teen sleuths make their live-action debut in this colourful but woefully misjudged rendition of the popular cartoon series. It attempts to please knowing adults who remember the TV series from their youth with coded drug references and post-modernism, while delivering gags along the lines of a flatulence duel to satisfy otherwise baffled kids. James Gunn's screenplay stays true to the cartoon - in that our heroes investigate a haunted island - but any hope of narrative momentum is undermined by self-referential clever-cleverness. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Matthew Lillard make game attempts at putting flesh on Daphne and Shaggy, but the CGI Scooby is so charmless he sucks the life out of the film. Suddenly The Flintstones movie doesn't look so bad.

When the Mystery Inc. gang is invited to Spooky Island, a popular amusement park, they soon discover that the attractions aren't the only things that are spooky. Strange things are happening, and it's up to Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma to uncover the truth behind the mysterious happenings.