Product Details

• Actors: Frank Welker, Alan Oppenheimer, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen
• Directors: Ray Patterson
• Writers: Jim Ryan
• Producers: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Bernard Wolf
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005UF81
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,571 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Scooby scholars of the old-school set will find much in the Reluctant Werewolf to give them pause. For one thing, Scrappy and Googy, Shaggy's girlfriend, are subbed for missing members of the Mystery Machine gang, and for another, instead of making like bananas and splitting from the monster at the center of a mystery, this crew slides, peel-style, into a strange circus of benign spooks, no meddling involved. The reluctant werewolf is Shaggy; he's forced to finish first in a monster road race if he wants to rid himself of his fangs and facial fur (a dirty trick played on him by Dracula). A truckload of shenanigans, mostly screwball car tricks, ensue. Wacky wordplay works up a handful of howls here, but not enough to make this full-length feature worth tuning into twice or, ultimately, rescuing from the Scooby-Don't pile. --Tammy La Gorce

Product Description

Count Dracula wants to enter the Transylvania Monster Car Race, so he zaps a certain unsupecting bystander into a werewolf. Can Scooby rescue Shaggy before it's too late? 1989/color/80 min/NR.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Scooby and Shaggy take a break. February 10, 2004

By Inspector Gadget

Format:DVD

I saw this like a hundred times when I was a kid and I did not think I would laugh at it as much as I did then. Especially considering this is old school Scooby animation and not the sleeker, brighter animation of recent years. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. It's even better than Scooby's most recent adventure (The Monster of Mexico).

There is no Mystery Inc or Mystery Machine in this movie. It's just Shaggy (wearing a red shirt instead of a green one) and Scooby (and unfortunately, Scrappy, tho he doesn't feature prominently) and Shag's girlfriend Googy. Shaggy lives in an alarmingly large, mansion-esque house and is chosen by Count Dracula to become a werewolf so he can take part in a race for monsters.

Despite looking cute and cuddly as a Werewolf, Shaggy obviously doesn't want to do it but Dracula promises to change him back to human if he wins. What follows is a Scooby Doo version of the Wacky Races as insane customized cars battle it out on an anything-goes Transylvanian race-course.

The majority of laughs come from Dracula, ever so desperate to keep his wicked plan from falling apart and always making a complete idiot of himself.

It's also new to see Shaggy not jump into Scooby's arms every time he sees a monster. And this time they're real too , not just some guy in a mask.

I would definitely recommend this to Scooby fans and those who are just total Scooby completists (like me). It's very funny and totally rewatchable.

The DVD is in 1.33:1, as drawn and comes with a Dolby Mono soundtrack.

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Kids love it, parents will cringe May 16, 2008

By Ravenskya VINE™ VOICE

Format:DVD

Ahh the pain of being a parent... you will truly feel it when you child finds this movie. Now I have sat through untold hours of Scooby Doo and can enjoy most of them even on the 800th viewing... now let me tell you the bad news: This movie is Terrible, but your kids are going to love it and want to watch it over and over again.

First, there is no mystery, no gang, and no unmasking. The music is repetitive so even if you are in the next room you will feel the pain. The basic story is - Count Dracula turns Shaggy (wearing a red shirt) into a werewolf and tells him if he wins a car race he can be changed back. So Shaggy, Scooby (with only a minor role), Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend "Googy" go to the race. Shaggy and Scooby race while Scrappy and Googy get them out of problems. The Count keeps trying to make them loose, there's some annoying announcer, and all of the monsters are real.

Your kids will love it... and that would be tolerable if they had kept this at the length of an episode... but it drags on and on and on to the length of a movie. The same things are repeated over and over... Shaggy and Scooby are in the lead, the Count does something bad to their car, Googy and Scrappy fix it... repeat that about 25 times and you have this movie. The animation is poor even in comparison to the TV show and the soundtrack is like nails on a chalkboard.

As a parent I'm warning you to steer your kids in the direction of Scooby and the Loch Ness Monster, or Scooby and the Mummy, or Scooby Doo's Original Mysteries (a very good choice). My 6 year old loves this movie, and we are forced to listen to him watching it at every opportunity. It's almost as bad, if not worse on parents than "Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School." There, you have been warned.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT VIDEO March 14, 2004

A Kid's Review

Format:DVD

THis is arguably the bestScooby doo movie of all time!
I know somepeople don't like scrappy, which I don't understand. I like Scrappy. I think he makes these videos much better, he's a great, funny character if you ask me. Also in this movie, there is no mystery machine, Freddy, Velma, or Daphane. this may disapoint some people, but it doesn't bother me. I find Daphane annoying, same with Fred, and velma doesn't belong in this movie.
Oh, and about the mystery machine, sorry we're not in the 70's anymore. Shaggy has a car in this movie that is a million times cooler than the mystery machine. When you see the movie you'll find out. Fred, Daphane and Velma just don't belong in this movie. They're not neccesarry charactors anyway, beacause they solve mysteries and this movie isn;t a mystery!
In this movie Shaggy, Scooby and Srappy run into trouble when Shaggy is turned into a werewolf by the hunch bunch, who are count dracula'a assistants. In order to be changed back to normal, shaggy must enter and win the annual monster road rally in transylvania, but dracula isn't gonna make it easy! This movie is very comical and funny. It's much better than much of the garbage that's on TV today. I give this movie 2 thumbs up! buy this movie, and you won't regret it!!!!!!!!!