Thanks to Velma (who sometimes talks like she should be first officer in the next Star Trek movie), the gang figures out that whomever created the monsters is probably an old enemy who wants to get revenge on them. I'm guessing the writer of the movie thought it would be cool to show some of the major villains from the old cartoon series in one movie – but the problem here is that the gang spends so much time running and fighting from these monsters, that the movie essentially becomes one big video game. Unlike the first Scooby Doo, where the CGI characters seemed to belong in the same world as the human actors – here, even Scooby himself seems to be off in his own little animated world…almost as if the computer effects guys got so carried away with their creations that they forgot they had to incorporate them realistically into a live-action movie.

But I'll refrain from being too hard on the effects people, since the FX is really all that the Scooby Doo sequel has going for it. The only spark of character development at all is for the Velma character, but what could have been a cute romance between Velma and the character played by Seth Green gets overwhelmed by long, dull running and fighting montages. If ever a kid's movie needed to stop and take a deep breath of air, it's Scooby Doo 2.

It's really a shame that this sequel didn't learn from the mistakes it made the first time around. It's almost as if director Raja Gosnell repeated all the bad things about the first film and forgot about all the things that he did right in the original. Heck, this movie is so convoluted with FX sequences, that Shaggy and Scooby don't even get time to sit down and enjoy a meal (even the 30 minute cartoons had time for that!) – instead grabbing a bite to eat during a monster chase (to reveal any more would be to give away one of the few jokes that work in the picture). And that holy grail of all things "Doo" – the Scooby Snack? Nowhere to be found in the movie!