Scooby-Doo
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 14, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The best thing you can say about Scooby-Doo is that Matthew Lillard makes a really, really good Shaggy. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It's unclear why the writers bothered to update the cartoon, unless it was to expand the possibilities for quips and jokey ideas. If so, they failed in their mission, as the movie elicits few laughs. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Captures the essence of its TV inspiration, which is to say that it's not nearly as clever as it thinks it is. It also feels very, very long. Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Mostly, the plot is busy and incomprehensible and the action sequences directed with all the art of a detonation. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobin Rauzi
As reformulated by the aggressively mediocre director Raja Gosnell and screenwriter James Gunn, this Scooby-Doo is entertainment more disposable than Hanna-Barbera's half-hour cartoons ever were. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
This excruciating adaptation of the innocuous '70s cartoon show makes the film version of "Josie and the Pussycats" look sophisticated by comparison. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Not only am I ill-prepared to review the movie, but I venture to guess that anyone who is not literally a member of a Scooby-Doo fan club would be equally incapable. This movie exists in a closed universe, and the rest of us are aliens. The Internet was invented so that you can find someone else's review of Scooby-Doo. Start surfing. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
Scooby-Doo is bad. Let's just get that right out of the way. Filled with unclever quips, tired humor, a lazy silliness and bland execution, the picture is a tedious puff of nothing. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
Director Raja Gosnell apparently doesn't even try to pump life into this wan film version of the beloved Saturday-morning cartoon. Read full review
20
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Get out your pooper-scoopers. Doo happens June 14th, warn the ads for Scooby-Doo. And they say there's no truth in Hollywood. Read full review
10
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A work of Battlefield Earth-level miscalculation. Read full review
10
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
The gratuitous vulgarity is just one more reason that Scooby-Doo should never have left the pound. Read full review
10
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
Warner Bros. is presumably aiming this movie not at children but at full-grown dopers with bad munchies glued to the Cartoon Network. Dude, pass the Scooby snacks. Read full review
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