Scooby-Doo & Batman: The Brave and the Bold

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After (unknowingly) passing an initiation test, Scooby etc are invited by Batman to join the secret 'Mystery Analysts of Gotham' society. Whilst attending their first meeting (with Batman, Black Canary, Plastic Man, Detective Chimp, Martian Manhunter, and The Question) an alarm sounds from Gotham Chemical Storage, and the gang answer the call alongside the heroes. As they arrive they encounter the ghostly 'Crimson Cloak', who swears revenge on Batman for causing his death. This causes Batman to reopen the one case that he was never able to solve... Scooby-Doo/Batman crossovers are nothing new, and with this one taking place in the world of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold TV show, Diedrich Bader naturally returns to voice the caped crusader. Artwork and animation are very good. Dialogue is good, with Batman, Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma having the best lines (Velma fangirling over the Batcave is fun). We also get Batman driving the Mystery Machine, Daphne driving the Batmobile, Fred love-struck over Black Canary, and Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby as (respectively) Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin ('Carrie Kelley'), and Ace the Bat Hound! Btw, in a flashback which Batman says happened in his first year as a crimefighter, he drives a 1940s Batmobile and wears the cow-horn ears Batsuit and short gloves! He looks pretty spry for a guy in his late 90s! Minuses for me are that the movie feels like 'Batman, guest-starring Scooby-Doo', rather than 'Scooby-Doo, guest-starring Batman'; some of the guest heroes really don't need to be there; the prologue/set-up wastes a great monster concept and design that I'd love to have seen featured as a main Scooby villain in its own right; and whilst the general plot is okay (with shades of Joker's Red Hood origin), there are some things along the way that don't really make sense. All in all though, it's a fun movie, and regular voice cast Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, Matthew Lillard, and Kate Micucci are on point (as ever!). 7/10.

The Brave and the Bold isn't the cleanest plot or mystery in the series, but it is exactly the tone you'd hope for in a Scooby Doo and Batman crossover (not the first time they've nailed the pairing, either). They do a very nice job managing a wildly large cast of characters - it would've been easy to focus too much on the heroes and leave the gang with little to do, but they struck a nice balance. I also always love seeing Daphne in a more serious and useful role, her interest in anagrams was a fun little addition. The movie definitely focuses a lot on Batman's psychology and how he feels responsible for all of Gotham's safety and how his past weighs on him. I thought this worked and was a nice centering piece to everything else going on, and it was also cool to see Batman as his early year detective style role. The menagerie of side characters they added in did feel a bit overstuffed, though I like the direction they tried to go with just about all of them, and they all have their moments. Aquaman is great and funny, the chimp has a nice back and forth with Velma, and Bullock was written perfectly. The Martian was a bit silly, and the elastic man felt like a missed opportunity (more on that later, though). The villains also all felt more thrown in as references than seriously relevant, especially Penguin and Joker, but I do like the way they used the Riddler. The comedy is great here, and this may well be the funniest of the direct to DVD movies - no jokes really fall flat and several were really funny, largely courtesy of Scooby or Aquaman. The tone is fun and upbeat, mingling the lightness of Mystery Inc with a bit of brooding darkness in Batman nicely, and the action sequences clearly nod to the comic books. My only small letdowns with the film came in the resolution of the mystery. The opportunity cost of throwing every Gotham character they could into the movie is that we had a bit less substance to the mystery than we usually do. However, I was convinced I had solved the case, and when it was revealed I really thought that my solution would be much more satisfying. Clayface was mentioned as one of the many villains, but we don't know anything about him so the whole needing a cure justification for the crimes can't have any emotional weight, unfortunately. What I was sure would happen was that elastic man was behind it all. We know he's been a criminal in the past, and we know he can morph into pretty much any shape, so he totally could've been the crimson cloak, pretended to be Shaggy, and so on. I also thought it was obvious because we saw how he reacts poorly to cold by expanding oddly, and we saw a somewhat similar expansion in the crimson cloak at the end. I still think this could've worked and you could still have the Riddler as a mastermind behind it all - maybe he planted elastic man into the mystery solvers to cripple them from the inside! Even if they hadn't gone this route, I still would have liked more build and significance to the mystery. It was just a bit too squeezed between all the other plots and character stories the movie was trying to tell. Even so, it's another really solid, fun Scooby entry that I definitely enjoyed.

There was a new sort of like a re-adaptation show of the Batman on Cartoon Network called Batman The Brave and the Bold . Since Batman and Scooby have been together in a previous film called Scooby-Doo meets Batman which was decades ago .. here's to Scooby 🐾and the Bat 🦇 fans . But in my view, the best look Batman and the Gotham Knights have ever had in animation was in The New Batman Adventures which should've been his final look with bits of modifications here and there which suffices, the later changes I didn't like. But in later adaptations they just reinvented him more from the original comics, this Batman is an adaptation of the Batman and Robin show from the eighties so it kinda has a funny and hilarious take on it . So this Batman is the funny Batman rather than the serious action night thrill Batman 😂.

The Martian is worthless! I mean he is so powerful yet worthless in their battles or when they need help. He is usually just standing around smh lol.

The Scooby gang passes Batman's test and gets invited into the Mystery Analysts of Gotham. There's a new case at Gotham Chemical Storage. Batman lets the kids take the lead. It turns out to be connected to Batman's only unsolved case. There are a few too many heroes. Honestly, I'm fine with just Aquaman and the Question. Maybe they're trying to get an ongoing team up situation. Apparently, there was one in the comics. All I know is that the movie needs fewer heroes. With all the heroes and villains coming in and out, this feels more like a best-of-clip-show episode of a long running TV series. I do like Aquaman's pathetic neediness and his relationship with the Question. I don't like Martian Manhunter. I do like this old style Batman and his relationship with the kids. I like the campy silly tone. I'm trying to remember if Scooby ever intentionally drove the Mystery Machine before this. I don't like overwhelming the mystery with so many characters. I like the silly.

5/10 - either these Scooby-Doos are getting worse in recent years or I am just getting sick of them, regardless, this one was a disappointment

Very entertaining and fun movie. The animation was great. Batman and the Scooby gang played well together.