Scooby-Doo-Aloha, Scooby-Doo (2005)

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General		Extras
Category	Comedy	Main Menu Introduction Main Menu Audio & Animation Featurette-The Wiki-Tiki Tale Of Aloha Scooby-Doo! Featurette-An Evening With The Scooby Gang Game-The Case Of The Freaky Wiki Tiki Trailer-Tom And Jerry Blast Off To Mars, Trailer-Justice League Unlimited: Saving The World Trailer-Kangaroo Jack G'day USA! DVD-ROM Extras
Rating
Year Of Production	2005
Running Time	71:25
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	2,4,5	Directed By	Russell Calabrese Scott Jeralds Tim Maltby Tom Mazzocco
Studio Distributor	Warner Home Video	Starring	Casey Kasem Frank Welker
Case	?
RPI	$19.95	Music	Rich Dickerson Gigi Meroni Kim Shattuck

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s) French Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s) Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s) Polish Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English French Spanish Portuguese Czech Arabic Dutch Croatian Slovenian Romanian Bulgarian Polish English for the Hearing Impaired	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

       Aloha Scooby-Doo is one of the newest adventures featuring the gang from Mystery Inc. The gang have gone to Hawaii on an all expenses paid trip so that Daphne can design some swimwear. No sooner have the gang arrived and a gang of wild and mysterious tikis start terrorising the local surf town. The Wiki Tiki is a 10,000 year old spirit that lives in the local volcano.

    Mystery Inc get in on the case and start investigating. Highlights include Shaggy and Scooby trying to escape the Wiki Tiki on surfboards and a visit to a Temple of Doom like chamber within the volcano. The humour hasn't changed much and Scooby and the gang seem to have updated to the 21st century quite well.

    The original voice talent of Frank Welker (Freddy) and Casey Kasem (Shaggy) have returned for this new movie and this is certainly one of the strengths of the movie. Of course the original Scooby-Doo was voiced by the late Don Messick, and the main character is now admirably voiced by Frank Welker in his dual role. Velma and Daphne are voiced by Mindy Cohn (of Facts of Life fame) and Grey Delisle respectively. Teri Garr, Tia Carrere and Adam West also guest star in various roles. All up this really does feel just like an old Scooby episode, albeit with much sharper animation and a good 5.1 soundtrack.

    Overall, it's a lot of fun and should entertain the whole family.

Video

    This Scooby-Doo offering has a very nice looking video transfer. It is bright, colourful, and quite modern looking animation.

    It is presented in the original made-for-TV aspect ratio of 1.78:1 and is 16x9 enhanced.

    The transfer is very sharp throughout with virtually no major blemishes. Grain is non-existent

    Colours look great. Like the other recent Scooby movies, the backgrounds here seem to have had substantially more work than you would expect from an original Scooby episode. The colours of Hawaii look luscious. There are a lot of jungle greens and beautiful ocean blues.

    This is a single sided and single layered disc only so there is no layer change with which to contend.

    There are plenty of subtitle options available; English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Arabic, Dutch, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian, Bulgarian
Polish and English for the Hearing Impaired.

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Audio

    The main soundtrack on the disc is an decent English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s) track.

    This is a nicely engaging and quite wide reaching soundtrack that utilises all front speakers consistently.

    Dialogue is clear and easily understood.

    There is a little surround channel use, but it isn't very active. The subwoofer also doesn't see a significant amount of action.

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Main Menu Audio & Animation

Featurette-The Wiki-Tiki Tale Of Aloha Scooby-Doo! (5:34)

A brief making of featurette that has some interview snippets with some of the cast.

Featurette-An Evening With The Scooby Gang (6:30)

An interview with the gang from Mystery Inc. Not really funny, but it has its moments.

Game-The Case Of The Freaky Wiki Tiki

Trailers

Tom And Jerry Blast Off To Mars, Justice League Unlimited: Saving The World & Kangaroo Jack G'day USA!

DVD-ROM Extras

    Look identical so let's call it a tie.

    Overall, a fun addition to any family's DVD collection

    The video is great.

    The audio is great for a straight to DVD movie.

    Special features are bare, but enough to occupy the kids for a little while.

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