Customer Reviews

Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase [VHS]

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Great flick!!! The grandsons adore this movie; watched it four times in one day and laughed and giggled and cheered. Since our boys are into computer games, the theme of the video was perfect and they easily understood the "levels." They especially liked Daphne's display of martial arts - Go, Daphne! The game concept of the video provided an opportunity for a variety of situations which maintained the interest level. Having the ever popular Scooby Snacks in the "game" and seeing some of the monsters of the past pursue the gang provided a good bridge between the past adventures and the present environment. This video was a good investment; hope to see more of this quality.

Cross Neuromancer with In the Mouth of Madness, add a little bit of Tron, Terminator, and set it in the Scooby-Doo universe and you pretty much have the basis for Cyber Chase.

The Mystery Inc. gang go visit a college friend who has made a video game based on their exploits. But instead of enjoying the novelty they are terrorized by an entity born of a computer virus who has entered the real world. The gang are beamed into their own video game (called Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase) and are forced to play through the levels in order to catch the virus (so to speak), eventually encountering their digital selves and digital versions of classic villains from the past. Sharp viewers will recognize Cyber-Shaggy's alternate costume from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo: The Complete Series and Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf.

It's very clever, with loads of potential, most of which is not realized with the brisk run-time. At least you'll never get bored. It's certainly one of the most subversive and mind-bending Scooby adventures. A video game arcade featured towards the end of their titular Cyber Chase even features the Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase video game, thus making it self-referential meta-fiction within self-referential meta-fiction within self-referential fiction. Phew...get your head around that. And if that wasn't enough, it's the only Scooby-Doo animated feature to spawn its own real video game (for the PlayStation and Gameboy Advance), which would make that game self-referential fiction within...oh man, I'm getting dizzy.

Smart and tightly-written, Cyber Chase's lack of scope is the only thing preventing it from being a classic.

The Blu Ray looks great in 1.33:1 1080p, with colors so bright they literally pop off the screen. The sound is in DTS HD-MA, and there are a couple of minimal extras. Stay watching until the end of the credits for an extra scene.

My 2 year old has really gotten into Scooby-Doo. For her Birthday we got her every single Scooby Doo movie made on Vhs or DVD. This is defintley her favorite, we watch it once or twice every day. Very good and Cute movie.

My grandson really loves the movie. He is definitely a scooby doo fan. It is great for all ages. Thanks for getting it out so quickly.

if you love scooby doo then you will love this movie. to see scooby and the gang looking at them selves in a video game is neat. you also forgot who the villian is.

I bought this movie for my son, thinking just another Scooby Doo movie, but, to my surprise, it was actually funny in some areas (especially when Shaggy and Scooby come out from behind the curtain in the Gladiator scene and says, "All Hail Emperor Scooby!" and they all kneel). I liked the best was the fact that they met their earlier versions and fought some of the old monsters they fought in the past. I truly recommend this movie to all Scooby Doo lovers....

My 5-year-old son adores this video! The Mystery Gang chases a computer virus through a video game, during which they meet the incarnations of themselves that I remember watching on TV when I was a child. The additional pieces where characters talk about their favorite parts of the adventure sparked several discussions with my son. Also, the sequence about how the film was made is fascinating. Excellent work!

I would recommend it to others with a five <5> star rating. My son loves it and liked it so much he wanted the Play Station 2 game also. He loves that too! Thank You

I think Shaggy and Scooby our so like, groovy! This movie is like, far-out, outta-site and Rpooky man. I love it! I wish Scrappy-Doo was in it though, I love Shaggy and Scooby they rock! Angela, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo (And don't forget Scrappy-Doo too!)

This movie was excellent! It was so good that I forgot to think about who the villain was.