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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This retelling of the Batman tale isn’t quite as cool as the 1989 version with Jack Nicholson and his “Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light”, but let’s be honest – if you don’t have Jack, how can it be? So keeping that in mind, it’s not bad.

Borrowing a page from the George Lucas playbook with the inclusion of Liam Neeson as a philosophical mentor to a younger hero works here, as Bruce Wayne rises from a Chinese prison to assume a role within Wayne Enterprises, the titanic corporation his father created years before.

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