{"id":1052,"date":"2004-03-30T22:13:42","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1052.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"scooby-doo-2-monsters-unleashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/03\/30\/scooby-doo-2-monsters-unleashed\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex and I saw the first Scooby-Doo film together just a few weeks ago.  It was fun, and I actually found myself looking forward to seeing this sequel.  I&#8217;m very happy to say that my anticipation was justified.  SD2 is a more confident and accomplished film.  The actors are much more comfortable with their characters:  Matthew Lillard just <em>is<\/em> Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini, despite being better-looking than the cartoon Velma, hits the shy, geeky nail right on the head.  Freddy Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Fred and Daphne don&#8217;t do as much showboating this time round, which suits them much better.  It&#8217;s a more coherent <em>ensemble<\/em> film, which is what Scooby Doo is about:  the gang.  The plot is a bit more twisty than the first film, and feels truer to the spirit of the original cartoon.  The fart jokes are still there, and they&#8217;re still funny.  The visual gags are good, too&#8211;including a classic poking-heads-around-corner moment, and some synchronized tip-toeing.  It&#8217;s all just <em>good<\/em>.  There are some scary moments, though, so a ready parental hand in front of a toddler&#8217;s eyes is definitely recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex and I saw the first Scooby-Doo film together just a few weeks ago. It was fun, and I actually found myself looking forward to seeing this sequel. I&#8217;m very happy to say that my anticipation was justified. SD2 is a more confident and accomplished film. The actors are much more comfortable with their characters: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}