Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
34
(28 sources)
34
(28 sources)
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70
Washington Post
The overall effect is highly entertaining for grownups, and, judging from the squeals of delight from the young audience at a recent screening, for kids, too. Read Full Review » -
63
Baltimore Sun
There's enough here to keep the movie light and avoid the curse of interminableness. Will there be enough to warrant a third Scooby-Doo film? Must we find out? Read Full Review » -
58
Portland Oregonian
If you've got a 10-year-old underfoot who needs entertaining, you could have a worse time. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Sun-Times
What I felt as I watched Scooby-Doo 2 was not the intense dislike I had for the first film, but a kind of benign indifference. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Reader
I'm qualified to report that this piece of junk faithfully re-creates the Hanna-Barbera formula of scary monsters, flimsy mystery, and watery comedy. Read Full Review » -
50
Miami Herald
The first film was tedious in the extreme; Monsters Unleashed, though it feels way too long and padded, it shows at least brief flashes of imagination. Read Full Review » -
50
LA Weekly
Fans of the TV series will again be happy to see some of the old Saturday-morning villains, and Bill Boes' excellent production design outdoes his work in the first film. Read Full Review » -
50
Dallas Observer
Like its predecessor, this cartoon adaptation is a bit too all over the place for its own good, never entirely clear on whether to play as parody or homage. Read Full Review » -
50
Variety
Sequel is louder and more elaborate (and even slightly longer) than predecessor, but the law of diminishing returns has caught up with this franchise. Read Full Review » -
50
New York Daily News
The good news is the script for Scooby-Doo 2 is marginally better and the eternally irritating Scrappy-Doo is nowhere to be seen. Read Full Review » -
42
Entertainment Weekly
There's nothing overtly better or worse about this sequel. But the ''kids'' look to be pushing 30 now -- an awkward age for theme-park performers. Read Full Review » -
40
Empire
Themes of self-acceptance and inner strength seem a little out of place in a movie featuring a hound farting at phantasms. Read Full Review » -
40
The New York Times
Looks like a Saturday morning cartoon (the characters all wear color-coded costumes) and unfortunately feels like one, too, with its thin characterizations, largely arbitrary action and feeble jokes. Read Full Review » -
40
Los Angeles Times
Could be a tough go for those not already Scooby-Doo fans. It has a totally artificial quality, starting with Prinze's blond wig. Read Full Review » -
40
TV Guide
The lame gags keep on coming and the mystery is both blindingly obvious and needlessly complicated. Read Full Review » -
40
Austin Chronicle
This is not a family movie; the kids will be bored by it. This is a guilty pleasure for thirtysomething stoners with ironic dispositions and large nacho platters. Read Full Review » -
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The plot's not so hot -- it feels like it was jotted down by someone on an after-dinner napkin. Read Full Review » -
30
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nothing is more dangerous than a sequel to a wildly successful awful movie, because the artisans involved have to preserve the franchise, which means honoring the original formula as if it were a cure for cancer. Read Full Review » -
30
Film Threat
Little kids should like this film. But the smarter humor and in-jokes from the first are gone, which is going to lose a lot of the older audience. Read Full Review » -
30
Washington Post
As little as there is to recommend in Scooby-Doo 2, it must be noted that the human cast has done an uncanny job of inhabiting their two-dimensional characters. Read Full Review » -
30
The Hollywood Reporter
By the time they're done with all the tinkering, "Scooby-Doo" ends up bearing as much a resemblance to Hanna-Barbera as the recent "Cat in the Hat" did to Dr. Seuss. Read Full Review » -
30
Village Voice
As one five-year-old critic at the press screening astutely observed during a would-be sensitive moment: "Boooorrring!" Read Full Review » -
25
Chicago Tribune
To call this movie a dog would also be an insult to canines, so let's just say Scooby-Doo 2 is a Scooby-Don't. Read Full Review » -
25
Boston Globe
The 6-year-old I went with had the villain pegged in the first 15 minutes. Needless to say, she completely ruined the movie for me. Meddling kid. Read Full Review » -
25
USA Today
A little soon for any movie this millennium to reunite overacting Matthew Lillard, underacting Freddie Prinze Jr., feigning mousy Linda Cardellini and the more obviously lip-glossy Sarah Michelle Gellar. Read Full Review » -
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
I'd be tempted to call the whole thing cartoonish, but that would be insulting to the real thing. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
With almost nothing else going for it, the sequel will likely be a disappointment to everyone except 10-year-old barf joke aficionados and a few stoned adults. Read Full Review » -
0
New York Post
Little more than 91 minutes of cheesy special effects in search of a remotely coherent story. Read Full Review »
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