Big Top Scooby-Doo!

"Big Top Scooby-Doo!" from 2012 is one of the most generic and mediocre of all the animated Scooby-Doo movies that I have seen to date. With that being said, don't get me wrong, because it is not a bad or a poor movie. It is just a movie that offers nothing new or really stands out from all the other Scooby-Doo movies.

The storyline was fair enough, although it is as every other Scooby-Doo movie turns out to be, so nothing new there. But the story just failed to fully captivate me and entertain me as much as many of the other Scooby-Doo animated movies did.

The animation and art style in "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" was good, and very much in the spirit of the original Scooby-Doo cartoons that I grew up with on TV.

And as an animated movie then the voice acting is very important. And I will say that the acting talents were doing good jobs with their respective roles in "Big Top Scooby-Doo!". Personally I am always thrilled about having Frank Welker and Matthew Lillard do the voices for Scooby-Doo and Shaggy respectively. There were also some great guest voices in this animated movie, such as Peter Stormare and Jeff Dunham.

However, the storyline just didn't really reach out to me, and the happenings throughout the course of the storyline just didn't really spice it up to my liking. And as such, then I found "Big Top Scooby-Doo!" to be a very mediocre addition to the Scooby-Doo library. As such, then I am rating this animated movie five out of ten stars.

Yet again we have one of the rare endings that serves as an actual pay off to the movie. The ending works very well.

The problem is the rest of the story sort of stinks. The plot is good, but the execution and the humor is "meh." And it gets doubly bad because of the whole premise. The Big Top, it is a classic Scooby Doo setting and yet it fails to deliver the classic Scooby Doo feel nor does it have the matching classic Scooby Doo story.

In the premise they had the making to merge the Scooby of old with the new Scooby--in a far better way than the Goblin King--and it still fell short, painfully short.

The plot worked, the ending worked, but everything else failed to hit the mark and only a few of the jokes really stuck like they should.

The legend that moves the history just don't convinces, luckily the jokes are good and In time. But it's all it is; a wtf thing with good jokes sprayed on it

I thought this would be great since Music of the Vampire was amazing, but I was wrong. This movie was dull. Nothing kept my attention, except for the circus. Even that didn't have much going on. The side characters were forgettable as well as boring. The mystery was just not there and made the movie feel drab. The story just felt out of place and rushed. The voice acting was great and the visuals were beautiful. Those are about the only great things I can say for this film. Honestly, I don't suggest watching this.

Switched it off due to the blatant infiltration of animal rights propaganda into children's films, with the circus owner removing animal acts and the animal trainer saying the public doesn't want to see his acts anymore.

Animals are the essence of circus, so I won't be watching Scooby Doo again.