Doctor Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) has turned up dead, and it seems that the most likely suspect is the one being who can’t be a suspect at all. There are two reasons for this.

The first is that the law clearly states that murder has happened when one human kills another human, which leads directly to the second reason. The suspect isn’t human. It’s a robot. And according to the Three Laws, a robot should not be able to kill a human, which means that there shouldn’t be anything to investigate – even if the law were to apply here (which it doesn’t).

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In this movie, Scooby and the gang from Mystery, Incorporated return for another bout with monsters, only this time they are real monsters. It seems that someone has decided to steal some of the costumes donated by the gang and run them through a machine (run by “randamonium”), which turns them into the real thing!

As with the first time around, it’s Matthew Lillard as Norville ‘Shaggy’ Rogers that steals the show. While it’s unlikely that Scooby Doo himself could have been done in any way other than with computer animation, and it demeans Lillard’s performance somewhat.

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