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I also want to mention the supporting characters. In the original Zombie Island, there were colourful and had depth, which Return to Zombie Island is devoid of, except for Alan Smithee, who I find to be debatably interesting.

There are some actor characters who are supposed to be shallow imitations of the original supporting cast (except for Beau Neville, for some reason, who's completely ignored in every possible way), which is fine, but their own personalities are devoid of life, except for the Jaqcues impersonator who is a middle-aged man flirting with Daphne. Because that's appropriate. Not.

There's also the stunt double for Fred, who's not that interesting. There's also the question of why Fred only got a stunt double, which may be because he is the leader, and therefore the director naturally assumed that Fred would only be the one needing a stunt double. But seems they missed out an actual interesting exchange of differences between a stunt gang and the real gang. (Although two Mystery Inc.'s were already done in Cyber Chase, but this would've provided a different angle.)

Another thing they missed out on was redirecting Velma's attitude. Her denial could've been because of PTSD of returning to the island, but that's too much for a kid-family movie like Scooby-Doo, so loony, ignorant Velma it is.

I was warming up to Kate as Velma in the films, but, and especially Return to Zombie Island, has put me off of her again. And this isn't really her fault, it's down to the way her lines are being written. They are being written for Velma's character, but they're not being written for Kate.