Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-252417-20150217152022/@comment-1633294-20180802004631

Holy shit, the worst Scooby Doo movie EVER! Honestly, Moon Monster Madness soured me on the franchise as a whole, and before you all start on me for speaking in hyperbole, allow me to elaborate.

1. The villain's motivation is sadly the most realistic possible (and this is a series where the pettier the villain, the most outlandish the reasoning). You spend decades of your life training to be an astronaut due to how dangerous a position it truly is, and were immediately rendered obsolete due to the fact that some yahoo with gazillions of dollars could buy his way into space because he has an eccentric sibling. When you feel like you wasted your whole life, I doubt you'd take it with gentle good humor. The other issue is that the retribution Shannon has borders on extreme terrorism, which makes for the biggest mood whiplash in the franchise to date. Oh, and they did a really poor job making it a mystery when she barely appeared most of the time! 2. God, the whole "alien defender" montage where each character thought of a dumber way to fight aliens (and matching hairstyles, to boot!) 3. The plot convenience of every single character getting knocked unconscious by falling debris. Every. Single. Character. Just so Daphne could have her obligatory hero moment. 4. I couldn't stand the other movie characters.

...honestly, the mid 1990s to Cyber Chase era was the best era for the movie-exclusive stories. This was just putrid.