With “Scoob!,” Warner Bros.
Animation launches a new Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe built around the crime-fighting Mystery Inc.
teenage gang and its lovable Great Dane.
The plan was to release the franchise’s first CG-animated feature theatrically on May 15, but, of course, the pandemic intervened, so it’s going straight to VOD instead.Whether or not “Scoob!” taps as large an audience as DreamWorks’ “Trolls World Tour” remains to be seen, but, according to director Tony Cervone, a veteran of the Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes home video franchises, it offers nostalgic comfort food for quarantined families.
“Sure, I would’ve loved a theater experience, but we’re in a weird time,” he said.
“It’s a bummer.
But because of that, there’s families at home looking for stuff to watch, and there’s something reaffirming and warm and fuzzy and bright and colorful [about ‘Scoob!’].”It begins with Scooby and Shaggy
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