The troops of Mystery, Inc. are given another assignment, this time to a spooky college-aged amusement park, the hot spot for kids on vacation from school. The only problem is the magnificent four and one dog have split up.
Freddie Prinze, Jr. plays Fred, a self-centered pretty boy, Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Daphne the pretty one trying to prove she doesn’t always get caught, and Linda Cardellini plays Velma the smart and nerdy one who wants recognition for solving Mystery, Inc.’s crimes. Shaggy (Mathew Lillard) and Scooby-Doo (computer generated), are left behind when the team breaks up and the two end up living in the teams purple van, cooking sausages on the beach, and deflecting any mystery cases with the word spooky in it.
Everyone’s solo plans work until the owner (Rowan Atkinson) of Spooky Island, a college hot spot for twenty-somethings, causes the members of Mystery, Inc. to reunite to help solve why the students are leaving the island like zombies but come to the island as fun and lively kids.
Immediately, the five of them break in on the scene each with their own plan of attack. Daphne shows up with too many suit cases full of purple clothes to handle. Velma is rearing to go, glasses and all, Fred might as well of shown up with a mirror chained to his hand, and Shaggy and Scoob are just happy to see the team back together again.
As the group begins cracking the case they are all told by local revelers not to go up the hill to the spooky castle. Naturally, they all end up in there, fighting the evil behind every door. One clever part of the film is the innocent spirits of the fab-five are stolen and leave behind a zombie-like Mystery, Inc. When the spirits are returned we watch as they all are given the wrong spirits back in a Ferris wheel fashion of fun.
The film is full of many close calls with crushing machinery and zombie-cult-like behavior, and of course our dream team solves the mystery with style and everyone’s individual personal goals are fulfilled.
Mathew Lillard who plays Shaggy steals the show with his impeccable portrayal of the original squeaky, raspy voiced, hippie spirited, Shaggy. The rest of the gang just hangs in there.
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