Product Description

Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy's new students are a funny phantom, a mummy and a wacky werewolf - and it's our terrified heroes to the rescue when the wicked Revolta sets out to brainwash the little ghouls.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12980 in DVD
• Brand: Turner
• Released on: 2002-06-04
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Amazon.com
Inspired by Hanna-Barbera's popular cartoon series, which premiered in 1969, Scooby-Doo stars in his second full-length film (made in 1988). Shaggy has accepted a job as a gym teacher at Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls, a gothic girls' school that instructs the daughters of frightfully famous monsters such as Dracula, Werewolf, Mummy, and Frankenstein. Once Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy get over their spooky welcome, they settle into academic and athletic routines (like scarobic exercises) and enjoy an other-worldly relationship with the delightful Miss Grimwood and her gals. Shaggy prepares his students for a big volleyball tournament against the boys' military academy next door, a setup for all sorts of ghoulish gimmicks. And, of course, there's Back to School Night, where the girls' parents attend an enjoyable Who's Who event of monstrous proportions. Meanwhile, amid all the happy hauntings, Revolta, the Witch of the Web, is scheming to be "the most feared name in the monster world" and to make the girls' school "part of her evil team forever." In a final showdown, it takes a joint effort of the boys and girls to defeat the evil Revolta and her spider-bat flunkies. This predictable modern-day cartoon is a disappointing departure from Scooby's classic 1970s episodes, those campy detective romps full of lunacy and quirky humor and sprinkled with slapstick suspense. Scooby-Doo fans will also miss his wacky cohorts Freddy, Daphne, and Velma, as well as their invincible Mystery Machine. At least the original voices remain the same, namely Don Messick as Scooby and Casey Kasem as Shaggy. (Ages 5 to 10) --Lynn Gibson

Customer Reviews

Worst Scooby Doo ever.
Eesh! What is this supposed to be? Shaggy and Scooby's solo outings usually make for good movies. But Ghoul School comes nowhere near the surprisingly good Boo Brothers or Reluctant Werewolf and is so far behind modern Scooby Doo animation. It really is the cheapest, shoddiest Scooby effort I've ever seen.

There isn't even a mystery, thus explaining the lack of the Mystery Machine (an ugly red van is the replacement). So why on earth they bothered to make this a Scooby Doo movie is puzzling if they weren't deliberately exploiting a popular character.

It's just all wrong! Shaggy gets a job in an all-girl (actually Ghoul) school teaching Phys. Ed. I'm sorry but when did Shaggy become a qualified Gym Teacher? There's some pointless story involving a volleyball competition with a Military School next door that isn't good enough to distract from the bore and then after that some old hag called Revolta turns up and turns them all into zombies. Uh...yeah.

Shaggy obviously saves the day but by this point I had dozed off. It bored me to sleep!

The 1.33:1 full frame picture shows how cruddy the animation is and the sound is plain old mono. Aside from the usual 'how to draw' extras this DVD also features a trailer that cheekily uses lots of footage of modern Scooby animation and mixes it with Ghoul School to make it look new. I wasn't fooled.

Don't buy this. Rent it for the kids if there is really nothing else.

Scooby Dooby Doo!
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy-Doo find themselves mixed up in a mess of monsters when they accept jobs as gym teachers at a girls finishing school.

When Scoobyand the gang arrive at Miss Grimwood's Finishing School For Girls they meet the students, they're all daughters of famous monsters.

The evil Revolta watns to kidnap the girls and use them as an evil army to help her rule the world. She sends out her hordes of spider bats and her henchman, the Grim Creeper to brainwash the girls and bring them back to her castle.

Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy must rescue the girls and return them safely to Miss Grimwood!

the Best Scooby Doo movie
I first saw this movie when I was 5 and luckily taped it so that I have been able to watch it since. I disagree with many of the other reviewers who think that this movie is the worst Scooby Doo movie ever. While I agree in that I hate Scrappy Doo, I don't think that his involvement in the film ruins it. Though this movie is a departure from previous Scooby Doo story lines in that there isn't a true mystery to solve, there is still a definite plot that involves more than just the upcoming volleyball game between the two schools. Also, the new characters in this film are rather endearing and the film has many funny moments. Now, almost 15 years after first seeing this movie, it is still one of my favorite animated movies of all time. If you don't mind a Scooby Doo movie that doesn't revolve around solving a mystery but instead deals with defeating a monster, then you would most likely enjoy this film.