Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
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Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo is the fourteenth of a series of direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based around several animated television series and related works produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969...

Saturday morning cartoon
Saturday morning cartoon
A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming that has typically been scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the present; the genre's peak in popularity mostly ended in the 1990s while the popularity of...

s. It was produced in 2009 by Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation
Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros...

 and it was released on February 16, 2010. It made its television debut on July 10, 2010 on Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (United States)
Cartoon Network is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992 after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991...

. It features the Mystery, Inc. gang.

The movie performed well on iTunes, reaching the Top 10 on the Kids & Family movie charts and the Top 40 on the iTunes movie charts. The DVD sold 61,341 units in its first week and as of September 2011, it has sold approximately 412,000 units. The tone is also more darker, since Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost is the second in a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on October 5, 1999, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation starting in 1998. The Mystery, Inc...

.

Plot

After wrapping up their latest mystery, Velma gets a call from her mother asking her to check on her younger sister Madelyn, who attends a college for stage magicians, where apparently there has been some trouble. The gang agree to help and head off to the Whirlen Merlin Magic Academy, located in an old Irish castle. They meet the owner and namesake of the school, Whirlen Merlin, along with his brother Marlen, who acts as cook and butler in the school, and Crystal, Whirlen's former stage assistant. Fred's mouth drops open when he sees her, to Daphne's extreme irritation. From them, the gang learns how sightings of a giant gryphon
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle...

 have been scaring away all the students and teaching staff. The gang smells trouble and decides to investigate.

They eat with Wherlin, Marlen, and Crystal. After dinner, Velma, Daphne, and Fred are in the hall, where Daphne rudely comments on his attraction to Crystal. Fred explains that she does everything so gracefully, then he and Velma make fun of Daphne's kultziness, causing Daphne to call Fred 'Scarf-Boy' (a name which Fred earlier complained everyone calls him).

Later that evening, Madelyn (who has had a crush on Shaggy since she was younger) decides to take Shaggy on a romantic walk to show where the ancient sun-dial of the magician O'Flannery, who was the original owner of the castle, is located. Madelyn explains that the gryphon was originally meant to protect the school. The gryphon soon appears and a chase ensues. As Shaggy, Madelyn, and Scooby flee to safety, a student takes a picture of the gryphon on her cell-phone, which then appears on the morning newspaper the next day. The rest of the students leave, so in order to better understand the case, the gang starts taking classes. Meanwhile, a man named Calvin Curdles, a rich powerful vegetable ice-cream guru, continually offers to buy Whirlen's castle from him although when the gang promises to investigate after suspecting Curdles is behind the Gryphon, he tells Amos to call if he heard anything about the investigation.

After classes, Velma catches Daphne practicing ballet so as to conquer her danger-prone ways and perhaps be more graceful so as to capture Fred's attention back from Crystal. The two then stumble on a secret passageway leading to the attic of the school, where they discover (through an old scrapbook) that Alma Rumblebuns, the school's head custodian/maid, used to date Calvin Curdles. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby accidentally discover the sepecial effects room of the castle, where they are discovered by Ms. Rumblebuns, knock over some containers of chemicals to the floor, and create fog. The room is revealed as Marlen's private laboratory, where he creates holograms and flashy puppets for Whirlen's show. Madelyn then finds a book about the ancient staff of O'Flannery, which is said to control the gryphon. The Gang finds the staff in O'Flannery's grave, but are soon chased by a Banshee
Banshee
The banshee , from the Irish bean sí is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld....

 and narrowly escape.

Afterwards, Shaggy and Madelyn sit down and talk, and Shaggy discovers that he likes Madelyn in the same way that she likes him. Not long after, another chase breaks out with the gryphon. As the gang runs into the castle, Shaggy and Scooby bump into the groundskeeper, Amos, and misplace the staff. When Madelyn runs outside to get the real staff, she is kidnapped by the gryphon and taken to the Gryphon's Roost, an ancient dilapidated tower on the campus. Meanwhile it is learned that Amos has been secretly working for Calvin Curdles to try to get Whirlen to sell the castle to Curdles and throughout the movie he summons Curdles to the castle whenever the gryphon causes damage to the castle. Amos summons Curdles to the castle and while the gang goes after Madelyn, Calvin Curdles returns and tries to convince Whirlen to sign a deal for ownership of the castle. Whirlen almost sells the castle to Curdles but before they leave the gang suggests to Curdles and Whirlen to wait before the deal is signed, still believing that Curdles is behind the entire thing, which makes Curdles dismayed.

Shaggy and Scooby gain entrance to the tower through the spear, which is a key, and rescue Madelyn, and, when trying to escape the gryphon, all three manage to end up in its clutches as it flies around the castle. Shaggy tries to get the gryphon to stop by throwing the staff at it, but the staff misses and goes into the sky. Meanwhile Curdles grows impatient and manages to convince Whirlen to sign the deed. Just before Whirlen could sign his signature on the deed to Curdles, the gang returns and warns them about the gryphon. Everybody rushes outside including Curdles. However, the gryphon soon crashes to the ground, where the rest of the gang discover that the gryphon was a giant puppet, controlled from a giant blimp hidden by a fog machine run by Whirlen's brother Marlin. He had discovered that Lord O'Flannery for the Gryphon's Roost had devices in the tower hoping it would make the people think a monster lived there. Marlin believed that with the devices he could scare the trespassers away. He was also behind the banshee, which was only a hologram.

Being tired of doing all of the work for the shows and getting none of the credit for them, Marlen decided to use his own puppets and illusions to become a magical sensation himself, but needed money to start the act, and the only way was to get Whirlen to agree to sell the castle, which Marlin knew he wouldn't do unless he was forced to. So Marlin had his gryphon puppet scare everyone away. Marlen then apologizes for trying to make Whirlen fail, saying that he now knew just how much the school meant to him and didn't want to take away his dream. Whirlen forgives Marlin, and all is well. Velma reveals that Amos discovered Marlon rebuilding the Gryphon when he got curious about why Marlin was going in the tower day and night with lots of boxes. Amos then told Curdles about it afterward. Curdles then reveals how he wanted to buy the castle to win back Alma's heart after having left her to make something of himself so that he would be worthy of her love but instead got distracted by the money he made with his vegetable and meat ice cream cones, and they become a couple again. They also find the staff hidden in the broken blimp, which reveals that the Blimp crashed because the staff when Shaggy threw it hit the blimp when it was disguised in the fog.

The Merlin brothers decide to make Madelyn their apprentice, and soon after, Calvin Curdles sponsors the reopening of the Merlin Brothers' Academy of Magic, where Madelyn performs with Daphne acting as her assistant - which leaves Fred with his mouth hanging open. She appears in the seat beside him, and gently teases him, calling him Scarf-Boy again but in a tender tone. Scooby 'tames' a lion; in reality, the real Scooby is controlling a puppet Scooby, which tames the lion. The movie ends with him saying 'Scooby Dooby Abracadabra Doo!'

Cast

  • Frank Welker
    Frank Welker
    Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal effects to American television and motion pictures.-Acting career:...

     as Scooby-Doo
    Scooby-Doo (character)
    Scoobert "Scooby" Doo is the eponymous character and the protagonist in the Scooby-Doo animated television series created by the popular American animation company Hanna-Barbera...

     and Fred Jones - Scooby Doo is one of the main protagonists of the movie and Fred is the leader of the gang.
  • Matthew Lillard
    Matthew Lillard
    Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles as Stu Macher in Scream, Stevo in SLC Punk , and Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo film series and the Animated reboot series.-Early life:Lillard was born in Lansing, Michigan, and grew up in Tustin, California...

     as Shaggy Rogers
    Shaggy Rogers
    Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character from the American animated television series Scooby-Doo, about the adventures of four crime-solving teenagers and Shaggy's pet great dane, Scooby-Doo. Shaggy is a cowardly slacker more interested in eating than solving mysteries. He is the only...

     - one of the main protagonists of the movie who is more interested in eating than solving mysteries. This is Matthew Lillard
    Matthew Lillard
    Matthew Lyn Lillard is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his roles as Stu Macher in Scream, Stevo in SLC Punk , and Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo film series and the Animated reboot series.-Early life:Lillard was born in Lansing, Michigan, and grew up in Tustin, California...

    's debut as the voice of Shaggy in a direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movie since Casey Kasem
    Casey Kasem
    Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...

    's retirement from voice acting in July 2009. He had previously portrayed Shaggy in the live-action films Scooby-Doo
    Scooby-Doo (film)
    Scooby-Doo is a 2002 American comedy film based on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon series Scooby-Doo about a group of young detectives and their talking dog. It is the first installment in the Scooby-Doo live action film series...

    and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a 2004 film, and sequel to 2002's Scooby-Doo based on the Hanna-Barbera series classic, Scooby-Doo. It is the second installment in the Scooby-Doo Live-Action film series. It was directed by Raja Gosnell, who also directed the first film, and was written by James...

  • Mindy Cohn
    Mindy Cohn
    Mindy Heather Cohn is an American actress, comedian known for her role as Natalie Green, the smart, overweight student of Edna Garrett , on the TV show The Facts of Life, and also being the current voice for Velma Dinkley in the Scooby-Doo franchise, which she has held since 2002.She currently...

     as Velma Dinkley
    Velma Dinkley
    Velma Dace Dinkley is a fictional character in the American television animated series Scooby-Doo. She is prone to losing her glasses. She is usually seen wearing a baggy orange sweater, short pleated skirt , knee socks, and Mary Janes...

     - the smartest of the gang and one of the main protagonists of the movie.
  • Grey DeLisle
    Grey DeLisle
    Grey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...

     as Daphne Blake
    Daphne Blake
    Daphne Anne Blake is a fictional character in the long-running American animated series Scooby-Doo. Daphne, depicted as coming from a wealthy family, is noted for her red hair, her fashion sense, and her knack for getting into danger...

     - one of the secondary protagonists and has a crush on Fred. She mainly refers to Fred as "Scarf-Boy" which annoys Fred.
  • Danica McKellar
    Danica McKellar
    Danica Mae McKellar is an American actress, academic, and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years, and later as author of the three The New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which...

     as Madelyn Dinkley - the enthusiastic love interest of Shaggy and Velma's sister.
  • James Patrick Stuart
    James Patrick Stuart
    James Patrick Stuart is an English-American stage, film and television actor.-Theater:His early career began on stage, where his work received recognition.-Television:...

     as Whirlen Merlin - the current owner of O'Flannery Castle that has a conflict over selling the castle to Calvin Curdles. He retired from show biz to open up his magic school to teach the next generation of magicians.
  • Brian Posehn
    Brian Posehn
    Brian Edmund Posehn is an American actor, voice actor, musician and comedian, known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on NBC's Just Shoot Me!, a cast member and writer on HBO's Mr. Show, and most recently as Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.-Early life:Posehn...

     as Marlon Whirlen - Whirlen's brother and the secondary antagonist of the movie. He recreates the Gryphon by his own means because he is tired of never getting any credit for helping Whirlen with the shows. In the end, he is reformed and performs with Whirlen.
  • Diane Delano
    Diane Delano
    Diane A. Delano is an American character actress, sometimes credited as Diana Delano. Her best known roles might be "Bobbi Glass" as well as her twin sister nurse "Jessi Glass "on the 1999 series Popular and the recurring character "Barbara Semanski" on Northern Exposure...

     as Mrs. Alma Rumblebuns - the grumpy housekeeper of the castle/school long before Whirlen bought it in an auction. She is truly passionate of the castle and the old ways of magic.
  • Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Tambor
    Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show.-Early life:...

     as Mr. Calvin Curdles - the main antagonist of the movie who wants to buy the castle from Whirlen Merlin. He tries to convenience everyone that it's for his business franchise but truthfully it is to give the castle to his old true love, Mrs. Alma Rumblebuns back when he used to sell ice cream at the castle. In the end, he is reformed and respected the Brothers Merlin
  • Crystal Scales
    Crystal Scales
    Crystal Scales is an Actress, Singer, and Rapper. She voices the character Liberty "Libby" Danielle Folfax on the television show The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and lent her voice to the André 3000 Cartoon Network series Class of 3000 as Tamika Jones.-Filmography:*Scooby-Doo!...

     as Crystal - the assistant of Whirlen. Now currently a teacher for the magic school.
  • John DiMaggio
    John DiMaggio
    John William DiMaggio is an American voice actor. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, he is known for his gruff, deep voice and New Jersey accent, which he uses to voice mainly villains and anti-heroes.-Filmography:...

     as Amos The Groundskeeper - the grumpy janitor of the castle that secretly works with Calvin Curdles regarding the Gryphon Mystery.
  • Dave Attell
    Dave Attell
    Dave Attell is an American stand-up comedian and the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell and The Gong Show with Dave Attell.-Stand-up beginning:...

     as The G.P.S. - The Mystery Machine's GPS that calls Fred "Scarf-Boy" like Daphne and insults the gang about their ability to drive.
  • Olivia Hack
    Olivia Hack
    Olivia Hack is an American actress and voice actress, best known for providing the voice of Rhonda Wellington Lloyd in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, and for playing Cindy Brady in the 90's theatrical Brady Bunch films. She has also done voices for Fillmore!, Bratz as Cloe, Family Guy, Blood+ and...

     as Treena
  • Dee Bradley Baker
    Dee Bradley Baker
    Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor. He is noted as his long-running-role as Klaus Heissler in American Dad! and other various characters including Squilliam Fancyson in the hit TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, Nightcrawler in X-Men: Legends and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance...

     as Sherman - a minor character.
  • Melique Berger as The Angry Mom - a minor character that after the Gryphon attacks the school refuses to allow her children to be at the school anymore.

Production

  • The animation is now in a different format, with a darker, more realistic look similar to Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
    Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
    Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 American animated comedy film based on the animated television series Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon franchise...

    , and the characters are now in their original outfits and designs from the 1969 series
    Scooby-Doo, Where are You!
    Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced...

    .
  • This DTV is the first to not feature a Hanna-Barbera Productions logo at the end, which seemed appropriate as Warner Bros. Animation
    Warner Bros. Animation
    Warner Bros. Animation is the animation division of Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner. The studio is closely associated with the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, among others. The studio is the successor to Warner Bros...

     had produced all the DTV Scooby-Doo movies.
  • This is the last animated Scooby-Doo film to be presented in the full screen format on the DVD (despite it being produced in widescreen), as Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
    Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
    Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare is the fifteenth direct-to-DVD movie based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons, released on September 14, 2010, seven months after the release of the Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo...

    was presented in the widescreen format for the first time on DVD.

Allusions

  • When they first meet the banshee, they briefly parody Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas, and starring Harrison Ford. It is the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise...

    .
  • When Shaggy has the staff and is on the bridge in the Gryphon's Tower challenging the gryphon there is a brief parody of the Lord of the Rings.
  • In the opening sequence the gang are solving the mystery in a chemical company named "Karloff", based on the popular horror actor Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

    .
  • When Shaggy, Scooby, and Madelyn are hanging from the rope that the griffin is holding, Shaggy tries to use the staff by the power of "Houdini
    Harry Houdini
    Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...

    , the Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

    , and the English kid with the glasses". The "English kid with the glasses" is referring to Harry Potter
    Harry Potter
    Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

    .

Follow-Up Films

  • The next animated direct-to-DVD film, Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
    Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
    Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare is the fifteenth direct-to-DVD movie based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons, released on September 14, 2010, seven months after the release of the Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo...

    , was released on September 14, 2010 on DVD.
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