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Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster is the seventh in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on VHS and DVD on June 24, 2004.
Premise[]
The team visit Scotland to see Daphne's cousin, Shannon, but their holiday turns into a major mystery when the mythological Loch Ness Monster appears and wreaks havoc at Blake Castle. Not only will this affect the lives of the locals but it will destroy the traditional games that are held at Blake Castle every year.
Synopsis[]
In Loch Ness, Scotland, a celebration is on a barge where Shannon Blake, Daphne's cousin is chosen to be the host of the Loch Ness Highland Games. However, Colin Haggart and his brother: Angus jump in the lake to go for a swim until a creature is swimming towards them and rams the barge to land right near Blake Castle. Suddenly, a the dock master: Duncan MacGubbin appears above Shannon and the guest and tells her that she has disturb the "shadows below". The next day, Mystery Inc are driving on the road and Velma tells them about the legend of the Loch Ness Monster. They then go off the road and crash into the water and Daphne spots the Castle.
After getting the Mystery Machine out of the water, they meet with Shannon who is overjoyed to see her cousin: Daphne. Then, Del Chillman shows up and claims the area is filled with evidence of the Loch Ness Monster until Lachlan Haggart: Colin and Angus' father appear and dismisses Del as the only "disturbed creature" here. Shannon later takes the gang into the Castle and tells them about her encounter with the Loch Ness Monster. Suddenly, a woman appears and recognizes her as Fiona Pembrooke who wrote a book about legends in the Loch but also ruin her career. While having dinner, they meet [[Ian Locksley]|Sir Ian Locksley] the head field judge for this year's Highland Games but Velma recognizes him as the author of the book "Monsters My Foot" and denies the Loch Ness Monster's existence. However, when he sees Fiona who is revealed be Sir Ian's research assistant until he fire her, they get into a fight about the Loch Ness Monster being real or not until Shannon breaks up their fight.
That night while everyone is asleep, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo head to the kitchen to get a midnight snack but accidentally went outside and get chased by the Monster until it disappears. Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shannon and Professor Pembrooke appear and spotted a footprint of the Monster until Sir Ian appears and finds the games field ruin. Sir Ian begins accusing Shaggy and Scooby of ruining the games but the duo try telling him it was the Loch Ness Monster who did it. However, Sir Ian doesn't believed them and leaves. The next day, Mystery Inc and Shannon show Mr. Haggart the photos of the monster's footprints but then Del returns and sees the photos and believes them to be prove of the monster's existence.
While Del returns to Blake Castle before the Haggart brothers get there and ruin it. The gang meets MacGubbin and decides to let them used Professor Pembrooke's boat to find the monster. Shaggy and Scooby decided to search on land while Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shannon search the Loch, as Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Shannon search for the monster, they detect something on the radar and believes it could be the monster. Fred throws a net to catch the monster, but something starts pulling them across the Loch, Fred tries to go forward but the engine blows up. Back on land, Shaggy and Scooby are driving in the Mystery Machine until someone changes the sign and sets them on the wrong direction.
The duo run into the monster again and chases them again until they go off road and land on the boat. Mystery Inc and Shannon return to land and saw the monster's footprints and return Professor Pembrooke's boat. Suddenly, Sir Ian returns with a boat of his boat and a crew to make sure nothing happens to the games. They decided to join Sir Ian and his crew to find the monster and then take one of the subs to find it and later arrived in an underwater cave fill with skeletons. Velma finds a screwdriver in the cave but are attack by the monster before they can figure how it got there.
The gang returns to the sub where the monster chases them until Sir Ian's first mate: Mcintyre saves them by using the ship's claw. They return to the castle but Velma still wants to continue their mystery, but before leaving, they find Del in the Mystery Machine sleeping and then wakes up and informs them that someone stole his van. The gang then takes off in the Mystery Machine with Del but run into the monster who chases them and they crash into the swamp where the Mystery Machine comes loose. The monster appears but is actually Del's van but no one's in it, Daphne finds it odd because Del's van didn't attack them in both the underwater tunnels or when they were on the boat or chased Shaggy and Scooby. Velma realizes there is more than one monster and decided to return to the castle and work on a plan to captured the monster.
Back at the castle, the gang are in position to captured the monster, Shaggy and Scooby are on a rowboat, Velma is on one of the castle's post, Fred and Del are on land and Daphne and Shannon are on Sir Ian's boat. However, Mcintyre and his crew decide they want to captured the monster and take Sir Ian, Daphne and Shannon prisoner and planned to used a harpoon to capture the monster. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby row into a fog and the monster appears under their boat, Velma alerts them on their walkie talkies and the two flee. Fred and Del are alerted and Fred sets up the trap but Mcintyre ruin it and take Del get drag along the boat. Daphne alerts Fred of Mcintyre's betrayal and then gets drag along after the boat pulls the pier a part.
On the boat, the harpooner has lock on the monster but Daphne and Shannon break free and stop the harpooner which cause the harpoon to hit the castle instead in Velma's position. The boat is about to crash, Mcintyre, his crew and Sir Ian jump overboard, Fred and Del save Sir Ian but then the monster appears much to Sir Ian's surprise. Daphne uses the magnet to stop the monster but then another monster appears on land chasing Shaggy and Scooby and the two accidentally walk into the trap they set up. Daphne then swings the monster at the second one and knocks it into the hole where Shaggy and Scooby are. The second monster is actually and Colin and Angus Haggart in a puppet and the monster is actually a submarine driven by Professor Pembrooke who wanted to prove that the Loch Ness Monster.
Colin and Angus took part in the scheme to play a prank and didn't want to be part of the games. The next day, as the games get underway, Sir Ian appears and demands everyone to the ship. They see pictures of the Loch Ness Monster and believed them to be fake until they noticed nothing can travel that deep below. Sir Ian then decides to resigned as judge of the Highland Games and sets out to find more evidence and proof of the Loch Ness Monster with Del and Professor Pembrooke joining them. The gang says their goodbyes to Shannon and leave, but while driving Velma is glad they never found the real Loch Ness Monster as she believes some mysteries are just better left unresolved.
While driving, Scooby gets a glimpse of the real Loch Ness Monster swimming by.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Shannon Blake (only appearance)
- Duncan MacGubbin (only appearance)
- Del Chillman (first appearance)
- Lachlan Haggart (only appearance)
- Sir Ian Locksley (only appearance)
Villains:
- Loch Ness Monster (only appearance)(no lines)(disguise)
- Colin Haggart (only appearance)(redeemed)
- Angus Haggart (only appearance)(redeemed)
- Professor Fiona Pembrooke (only appearance)(redeemed)
- Mcintyre (only appearance)
- Mcintyre's henchmen (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
Other characters:
- Volunteers (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
- Sheep (only appearance)(no lines)
- Loch Ness Monster (only appearance)(no lines)
Locations[]
- Scotland
- Scottish Highlands
- Scottish Natural History Museum (mentioned)
- Drumnadrochit
- Loch Ness
- Coolsville (mentioned)
- Bahamas (mentioned)
Objects[]
- Violin
- NATLAS
- Scooby's nail file
- Legend of the Loch
- Monster My Foot
- Haggis
- Umbrella
- Rocky road ice cream
- Scooby Snacks
Vehicles[]
- The Mystery Machine
- Taxicab
- The Loch Ness Monster Machine
- Submarine
- Shannon's boat
- Fiona's boat
- Submarine disguised as the Loch Ness Monster
- Mechanical Loch Ness Monster
- Ship
Suspects[]
| Suspect | Motive/Reason |
|---|---|
| Duncan MacGubbin | He made warnings about the Loch Ness Monster. |
| Del Chillman | He was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster. |
| Prof. Fiona Pembrooke | She wanted to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. |
| Sir Ian Locksley | He didn't believe that the Loch Ness Monster was real. |
| Lachlan Haggart | The more people believe in the Loch Ness Monster, the better the business for his inn. |
Culprits[]
| Culprit | Motive/Reason |
|---|---|
| Prof. Fiona Pembrooke as the Loch Ness Monster | To prove to Ian Locksley that the Loch Ness Monster was real. |
| Colin and Angus Haggart as the land-going version of the Loch Ness Monster | To play a prank. |
Cast[]
| Frank Welker | Scooby-Doo Fred Jones Lachlan Haggart Volunteer 3 |
|---|---|
| Casey Kasem | Shaggy Rogers Volunteer 4 Sheep |
| Grey DeLisle | Daphne Blake Shannon Blake |
| Mindy Cohn | Velma Dinkley |
| Michael Bell | Duncan MacGubbin Mcintyre |
| Jeff Bennett | Del Chillman Sir Ian Locksley Harpoon gunner |
| John DiMaggio | Colin Haggart Volunteer 1 |
| Phil LaMarr | Angus Haggart Volunteer 2 |
| Sheena Easton | Professor Fiona Pembrooke |
Songs[]
| Song | Credits | Performed by |
|---|---|---|
| "Brothers Forever" | Lyrics by Tom Chase and Joe Sichta Produced by Tom Chase |
Chris Thompson |
| "Brown Dog" | Written by Keith Roberts, Brendan Holmes, Chas Waltz, Bob Boulding and Dave Ingraham | The Young Dubliners |
| "Scotland the Brave" | Traditional | Pipe Band, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo (during Highland Games) |
| "Come and Get It" | Lyrics by Tom Chase and Joe Sichta Produced by Tom Chase |
Maureen Davis and Molly Pascetti |
| "Back on the Train" | Written by Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall | Phish |
Continuity[]
- Daphne's surname was revealed as Blake in the The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show episode, No Sharking Zone.
- Starting from this movie up until Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword, all the DTV-movies appear to take place in the same continuity as What's New, Scooby-Doo?. Another reference to WSND is the appearance of NATLAS, which first appeared in There's No Creature Like Snow Creature.
- Coolsville is the hometown of the gang, as established in the A Pup Named Scooby-Doo TV series.
Notes/trivia[]
- The gang is now voiced by the cast of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, including Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn. DeLisle however was in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase and briefly replaced by Heather North Kenney for Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.
- This is the first to feature the Mystery Inc. gang in the same clothes they wear in What's New, Scooby-Doo? after the previous two DTVs had the gang wear their old clothes in the What's New, Scooby Doo? animation style.
- This is the first feature-length Scooby-Doo movie to be set in Scotland, but it is not the first time the gang have been to Scotland, or the first time that the gang have encountered the Loch Ness Monster.
- At the end of the movie, Scooby spots what's implied to be the real Loch Ness Monster just before saying his catchphrase in a bewildered manner.
- It is revealed in this movie that Daphne has Scottish ancestry and that the ancestral home of her Scottish side of the family is an old castle dating all the way back to the Middle Ages called "Blake Castle." Shannon claims that the castle has been in the Blake family for more than eight centuries.
- Also, according to Shannon (and at least for the WNSD-continuity), being "danger prone" is apparently a hereditary thing for the Scottish side of the Daphne's family. In the early series, Daphne was known for being a bit of a klutz, to the point of being called "Danger Prone Daphne."
- This movie features the only appearance of Daphne's cousin, Shannon Blake, who looks identical to Daphne (and shares the same voice actress as her) but with shorter hair, a Scottish accent and a grungier/more tomboyish style of clothing.
- Del Chillman returns in Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!, where he mentions this movie by stating that "Nessie was a no-show".
- Fred made up nicknames for the gang:
- Velma = Mama Bird
- Fred = Baby Bird
- He also recited the first three letters (Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie) of the (International) Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, also known as the NATO phonetic alphabet. This is used to communicate Roman letters without confusion over ones that rhyme with each other.
- In real life, Haggis is not the same as it is presented here. Traditionally, it is a pudding with all of a sheep's vital organs. Although, it can be served as a main course, as is the case with the Burns Supper.
- During the madcap flight from the land-based Nessie, there is an unusual example of Scooby driving the Mystery Machine. He is surprisingly good at it, given the circumstances.
- With the exception of Daphne's cousin, Shannon, practically everyone the gang meets while staying at Blake Castle had some kind of motive for potentially being the mystery's culprit.
Adaptations[]
- On June 1, 2004, Scholastic published a regular novel and a 8x8 book, written by Suzanne Weyn and Jesse Leon McCann, respectively.
Cultural references[]
- The Loch Ness Monster strongly resembles the Palaeosaurus from The Giant Behemoth, a 1959 film which was later acquired by Warner Bros.
- Shaggy says "I don't think we're in Coolsville anymore," paraphrasing a line about Kansas in the 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz.
- A similar tugboat disaster scene happens in the film Jaws, albeit with a shark instead of the Loch Ness Monster.
Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]
- None known.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]
- After everything that happens, nobody of authority shows up. Presumably McIntyre and his men are taken away off-screen.
- The land-based Loch Ness Monster must have been a gigantic robot to have such destructive power but at the end it is shown to be made of logs and canvas, which would be incapable of such movements.
- Shaggy and Scooby encounter a salamander eating a leaf. One, salamanders don't have teeth (except for their mythical cousins), and two, salamanders are carnivorous.
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | سكوبي دو ووحش البحيرة | Scooby-Doo! and the Lake Monster |
| Greek | Scooby-Doo! και το Τέρας του Λοχ Νες | Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster |
| Russian | Скуби Ду и Лох-несское чудовище | Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster |
| Turkish | Scooby Doo: Loch Ness Canavarı | Scooby-Doo: The Loch Ness Monster |
| Polish | Scooby Doo i potwór z Loch Ness | Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster |
Home media[]
Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster VHS released by Warner Home Video on May 31, 2004.- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster DVD released by Warner Home Video on May 31, 2004.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster VHS released by Warner Home Video on June 24, 2004.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster DVD released by Warner Home Video on June 24, 2004.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster Blu-ray Disc by Warner Home Video on March 12, 2013.
Quotes[]
Fred: Well, gang, here we are, welcome to - Drumna... Drummy... Drumno... Dramunoono... |
Shaggy: Like, Scoob, I think we locked our selves outda the castle! |
Fred: What happened guys? |
Fred: Daphne, I can't see your sweater is in the way! |
Fred: Well gang, looks like we've got another mystery on our hands. |
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