Product Details

• Actors: Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle, Steve Blum
• Directors: Jeffrey Gatrall, Joe Sichta, Russell Calabrese, Swinton O. Scott III, Tim Maltby
• Writers: Dwayne McDuffie, Ed Scharlach
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: WB Television Network, The
• DVD Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Run Time: 294 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000K2UH0G
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,149 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Mystery, suspense, and crazy chases abound as Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo renew their commitment to solving mysteries in this 2002 sequel to the original 1969 Scooby Doo television series. Marking a return to the mystery gang's initial five members after several seasons that included additional characters like Scooby-Dum and Scrappy, the What's New, Scooby-Doo series plays much like the original series despite being animated by Warner Brothers Television Animation rather than Hanna-Barbera. Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo show some signs of maturation and growth since their inception, but the mystery gang is essentially still the same quirky, tight-knit group that stumbles inadvertently into one mystery after another and plunges in to investigate and unmask the villain(s) behind each strange happening. What's new in this 2002 series is the gang's utilization of high-tech gadgets like global positioning devices and laptop computers (though they still drive the same old mystery van) and their foes' crafty use of technological innovations like wireless remote controls and virtual reality gear. Add in updated popular music and guest stars like baseball great Mike Piazza and teen pop singer Lindsay Pagano and What's New, Scooby-Doo becomes attractive to a whole new generation of fans. The thirteen episodes in season one span the globe from icy snowboarding slopes to the jungles of Costa Rica, glitzy hotels of Las Vegas, and a game preserve in Africa. Bonus features include bloopers and a bonus 2005 episode "A Scooby-Doo Valentine" that stars NSYNC's J.C. Chasez. (Ages 5 and older) --Tami Horiuchi

Product Description
Clever sleuthing has led you to treasure: the very first season of What's New Scooby-Doo? Enjoy all 13 episodes of spoofy hilarity and mystery with the crime-busting gang --from scary snowboarding in There's No Creature Like Snow Creature to the season finale The Unnatural, with the voices of real-life baseball greats Mike Piazza and Luis Santiago. As Scooby-Doo fans know, popular stars often lend their vocal talents in such takeoffs as Riva Ras Regas (co-starring teen pop singer Lindsay Pagano) and American pop idol JC Chasez from super group *NSYNC. But everyone knows who the biggest heartthrob of the show is really...who else? Scooby-Doo!

Customer Reviews

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good price if you haven't bought the individual discs., March 3, 2007

By	Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

What's New Scooby Doo is the first Scooby Doo sequal that equals the quality of the original "Scooby Doo Where Are You?" series. The animation style may be updated somewhat (the original was not great animation anyway), but the stories are just as good. If you only liked the first series and hated Scrappy & the others, I suggest you give this new series a try. The original gang is all here on their original rolls.

This set contains 13 episodes from the first season (all have been previously released with bonus material NOT included here) plus one special from 2005.

SEASON 1:
2002 episodes:
Sep.14 There's No Creature Like Snow Creature (previously released on "Volume 1').
Sep.21 3-D Struction (previously released on "Volume 1').
Sep.28 Space Ape at the Cape (previously released on "Volume 1').
Oct.05 Big Scare at the Big Easy (previously released on "Volume 1').
Oct.26 It's Mean, It's Grean, It's the Mystery Machine (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.02 Riva Ras Vegas (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.09 Roller Goaster Ride (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.23 Safari, So Goodie (previously released on "Volume 2').
Nov.30 She Sees Sea Monster at the Sea Shore (previously released on "Volume 3').

2003 episodes:
Feb.01 Toy Scary Boo (previously released on "Volume 4').
Feb.15 Lights! Camera! Mayhem! (previously released on "Volume 8').
Feb.22 Pompeii and Circumstances (previously released on "Volume 7').
Mar.22 The Unnatural. (previously released on "Volume 5').

Bonus 2005 Special:
Feb.11 A Scooby Doo Valentine (previously released on "Volume 8').

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's New, Scooby-Doo The Complete First Season, March 29, 2007

By	D. Wilder (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An exceptional update to one of the greatest cartoon series ever created. Scooby-Doo is timeless. My daughter and son will sit and watch them together over and over again. What a value!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not as iconic as the original -- just a whole lot better, February 18, 2008

By	David J. Neal (Miami Beach, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Imagine you were a career biologist in your 30s or 40s. A general interest magazine asks you to rewrite a long bio report you cranked out in the middle of seventh grade on a typewriter while doing stuff for your other six or seven classes. How much will you be able to improve on the original report now that you're wittier; know more about the subject and have a good gauge of what the general public knows of the subject; will be working on a laptop; have access to noted, interesting people in and around your field for interviews on the subject?

That's why, just considering it as entertainment, What's New, Scooby Doo? dusts the original Scooby Doo, Where Are You? and The New Scooby Doo Movies from 1972-73.

This isn't some Gen Y kid engaging in presentism. I'm a Gen Xer who was in the first generation to grow up watching the original Scoobies on Saturday mornings. Fine enough entertainment for most of us, though it was a weakly-animated, formulaic product of the Hanna-Barbera made-for-TV assembly line. Our standards were pretty low at the time.

In doing the update, the current creators did the job that some of the Scooby Doo movies from the 1990s began. They fleshed out the characters, giving them backstory, interests, families. Velma (voiced by "Facts of Life" star Mindy Cohn) is a brilliant scientist with the kind of "smart girl" wit we always suspected she had. We find out where Fred's from and even what he can bench. Daphne was moved from the Danger Prone Daphne of the original toward being a resourceful, style-conscious Buffy the Vampire Slayer-type. (Coincidentlaly, Sarah Michelle Gellar, TV's Buffy, played Daphne in the two live-action Scooby Doo movies, and Buffy's pals called themselves "The Scooby Gang."). Shaggy, still voiced by Casey Kasem, and Scooby still are forever hungry and scared, but even Shaggy gets a few interests we didn't know he had before.

The animation, undoubtedly assisted by better technology, isn't movie studio animation level, but is superior to the stiff stuff of the original.

The plotting is improved. For example, whether the gang is in Egypt or Las Vegas, there's a reason they're there. Most of all, there's a willingness to poke fun at pop culture, each other, themselves and the original Scooby formula while still following it. Like much of the best animation, the humor works on the kid level and on the adult level.

Because of balkanized TV viewing and the varying circumstances of viewing -- some on DVD, some on Boomerang, some at night, some during the day -- it's doubtful future generations will consider this version of Scooby Doo as a piece of bonding, iconic nostalgia that Gen Xers consider the original. It'll just have to settle for being much better.