As a critique of celebrity culture, this first scene in Raja Gosnell’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is obvious and derivative. Right, and they apparently eat up whatever pabulum is handed them, no matter how unimaginative and uninteresting, dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers Fred being number one case in point. Asked for a comment, he grins broadly: “The people of Coolsville are the best in the world!” One reporter, Heather Jasper-Howe (Alicia Silverstone), pushes her way to Fred (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). Lit up like movie stars, stepping onto a red carpet, thronged by Pat O’Brien and fans too (a separate, clearly marked type for each member, like they’re in a boy band), they smile for cameras. At film’s start, the Mystery Inc.-ers are emerging from a limo for a grand exhibit opening at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum. In the sequel no one needs to see, the Scooby Gang grapples with the stress of stardom.
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