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“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays
Mystery · Animation · Adventure · 2012
Scooby-Doo and the gang participate in a toy store's holiday parade where they discover the abandoned haunted clock tower with a troubled past. A sinister snowman haunts the streets and accompanied with a large blizzard, threatens to close down the toy store for good.
Movie details
Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays
2012 Mystery · Animation · Adventure 22m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
8.1 / 10
Community rating
Scooby-Doo and the gang participate in a toy store's holiday parade where they discover the abandoned haunted clock tower with a troubled past. A sinister snowman haunts the streets and accompanied with a large blizzard, threatens to close down the toy store for good.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Victor Cook
Written by
Michael Ryan
Frank Welker
Fred Jones / Scooby-Doo (voice)
Mindy Cohn
Velma Dinkley (voice)
Matthew Lillard
Shaggy Rogers (voice)
Grey DeLisle
Daphne Blake (voice)
Dee Bradley Baker
(voices)
Carlos Alazraqui
Havros Menkle / Clete the Janitor (voice)
Crispin Freeman
Fabian Men (voice)
Court is in session
Put Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.