Utterly Horrified at children’s film

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Picked up a dvd of the 2002 “Scooby Doo” film from a local charity shop as my children seemed interested in watching it and I had never seen it. What was the director THINKING! This is NOT the family friendly Scooby Doo I remember from my childhood! Countless drug references, girls wearing practically nothing and some of the worst humour I have ever seen in a film rated PARENTAL GUIDANCE!! I’m appalled, luckily the kids did not seem to catch any of these themes and were just entertained by the antics of the CGI dog on-screen. Anybody else had a similar experience with this film??

The original cartoons are still really good IMO, the newer cartoons where they have weird goggle eyes I don't like at all. The film just looks absolutely shite - i hate it when they make cartoons with real people - and has 1 1/2 stars on Rotten Tomatoes.

Apparently the original creators were unhappy with the drug references in the film as Shaggy wasn't meant to be a stoner no matter how much people wanted to read into the Scooby snacks.

Weirdly it makes me want to watch it now!

Are you really "utterly horrified"?

Op, have you ever seen Captain Pugwash or the Magic Roundabout?

Much unnecessary pearl clutching !!

’Mary Jane, that’s like my favourite name!’

Just one of the bits that went over my head when I was younger. Love the film though!

Captain Pugwash.
Magic Roundabout.
Hilarious watches now, oblivious as a child.
And so many films I took my DC to watch at the cinema...the parents were all laughing when the kids weren't!

😂 at the shock of countless drug references in scooby doo…!

The references go over the kids heads so what does it matter? 😂

Are you always this dramatic? 🙄

There are no drug references in the original Scooby Doo cartoons. It’s like Puff the Magic Dragon and Captain Pugwash: people just heard rumours and bought the nonsense because they thought it was ‘insight’. It’s all rubbish. (The Scooby Doo film may have drug allusions in it but they will be very obscure and mean nothing to a child.)

I'm still traumatised by Coraline and her having buttons sewn on as eyes 😵

You’re utterly horrified? Bet you’re fun at a party

Apparently the original creators were unhappy with the drug references in the film as Shaggy wasn't meant to be a stoner no matter how much people wanted to read into the Scooby snacks.

Oh my sweet summer child!

It was 1969. They had an endlessly hungry, scruffy, vague bloke eating giant sandwiches at every moment of the day or night and it wasn't a stoner with the munchies?

Honey, even in the early days of Scooby-Doo the parents and babysitters all knew Shaggy was a pothead. And that Fred fancied Daphne and poor Velma got stuck with the idiot twins.

It’s a PG not a U. Therefore considered generally suitable for 8yrs and over subject to parents using their discretion as to content. For a PG, parents are -as the name suggests - meant to guide. This may involve checking the content and advisory info on line first. Or even viewing it first, which I have done in the past.

My kids were junior school age when they watched it and didn’t absorb any of the stuff you highlight. As others have said, family films generally work on 2 levels. One for kids and one for adults. The adult stuff goes over their heads.

It’s rated PG - parental guidance. That means that the onus is on the parents to decide if the film will be suitable, either by watching it ahead of showing your kids or looking up the themes and content online before making a decision. It wasn’t a U rated film, you can’t be horrified that a film rated PG contained things you weren’t expecting if you, as the parent, didn’t bother to look into it before showing it to your kids. If you’re horrified you should be horrified at your own lax parenting.

I'm 28 and Scooby Doo was my everything growing up lol. My mum got me a large cardboard cut out from the cinema for the promo of this film and all my friends hated it🤣. Hung it on my wall for YEARS. This movie is amazing as a kid and even funnier now I'm an adult. Can't imagine getting this offended by Scooby Doo 😭😭. My 7 and 8 year old love the movies too.

What rubbish. It was a hippy character and his dog who both ate a lot. The whole point of Scooby snacks was that they were for the dog.

And Fred and Daphne were meant to be the good-looking, dimmer ones who stuck together, while bookish Velma was independent. There’s nothing scurrilous or ‘knowing’ about that.

Honestly I think it’s a wonderfully cast, excellently paced, well written work of cinema. Almost too good for children. I was a kid when I watched it a few years after I came out and it was one of the few films me and my older siblings could watch together and all enjoy. Now I’m an adult I still enjoy it and it’s funny looking back to how all the jokes went over my head. Same with Shrek.

A lot of things go woosh over our heads as kids. We understand better as adults

I watched the Grinch (the first one, if there are more than one) for the first time at Christmas and found myself having to explain to my DD what car keys in a bowl is about

She's 14 though, so not too horrific

Do you not remember the clouds of smoke and food obsession from the cartoon?

I was a little kid back then (I'm bloody old).

My parents referred to Shaggy as the pothead. He was widely regarded as such. Certainly in Canada anyway.

(And yes, Scooby Snacks were for the dog and not drugs, but became a term for it later)

Don’t for gods sake let them watch Grease or the original Top Gun. Or anything of that era. You will be shocked.

’Utterly horrified’ ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️

Its scooby -doo it has always had innuendo and girls in short skirts!! So have many, many other kids films - how on earth do you think we all stay awake otherwise?!

Check the BBFC website next time - this includes content warning for most films post 2000. For more recent films it's very detailed.

Horrified? Is it really that bad? Your reaction seems extreme I must say!

better not show them Grease then!