"Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island"

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Happy October to all you movie lovers out there. It is now officially the season to be scary and I could think of no better film to do a review on than the latest installment to the Scooby-Doo franchise as a way to kick things off. Scooby is turning 50 this year and just over 20 years ago we got our first full length film "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island" that restarted their adventures after many years and for the first time in their history made the mystery where the monsters were real. Now in honor of these epic anniversaries, the gang is going back for another mystery.

Since the sheriff (David Herman) shut down the gang's mystery solving (events that took place in the last film "Scooby Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost") the gang has been going through some emotional changes. Fred (Frank Welker) is depressed about selling The Mystery Machine, Velma (Kate Micucci) is dealing with a growing frustration not digging into the next mystery for her blog and Daphne (Grey Griffin) is finding the gang doesn't have much to talk about without a mystery in the works. Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Scooby (also voiced by Frank Welker) on the other hand couldn't be happier and even make the gang promise not to go looking for any other mysteries. Yet just as they've taken the vow, Shaggy finds out watching his favorite show starring Elvira (Cassandra Peterson; yes, that Elvira) that he's won a trip to a tropical paradise for him and the gang.

With a mystery-free trip to look forward to, Shaggy and Scooby waste no time enjoying themselves, but the gang is becoming increasingly repressed with trying to keep their promise when they find their island trip is a place that they're very familiar with, Moonscar Island, now called Moonstar Island, but still found to have plenty of cats, and zombies. Despite their best efforts to keep the trip mystery-free, the gang has no choice but to face the zombies head on and face a whole new group of cat people that seem to be looking for more than just people to terrorize and just may bring more questions than answers.

As someone who remembers when the original came out, I have to say this sequel while it doesn't quite live up to the original, it does give an interesting continuation of this unique mystery. The twist and turns the story takes tying into the original while creating a whole new enigma makes it a story you have want to keep up with. Just when you think things are wrapped up, it throws a curveball at you with something else popping up to terrorize the gang and deepens the mystery all coming to a head in an unlikely way. While this can't live up to the hype of their first visit, the gang won't leave the island without a few parting gifts including four G.M.Stars to take home, provided Scooby and Shaggy don't eat them first.

⭐⭐⭐⭐
Green Mountain Stars

 "Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island" is available at Redbox and where movies are sold/streamed.

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