Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf
| Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf | |
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| Directed by | Ray Patterson |
| Written by | Jim Ryan |
| Produced by | Berny Wolf |
| Starring | Casey Kasem Don Messick Hamilton Camp B.J. Ward Rob Paulsen Frank Welker |
| Distributed by | Great American Broadcasting |
Release date | 1988 |
Running time | 80 min. |
| Language | English |
Scooby-Doo and the Reclutant Werewolf is a 1988 telefilm produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, directed by Ray Patterson, written by Jim Ryan and starring the voices of Casey Kasem, Don Messick, and Hamilton Camp. The third full-legnth film to feature the Scooby-Doo characters, it was released as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series of telefilms, which included and two other Scooby-Doo films, Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers and Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School.
All three Scooby entires in the Superstars 10 series feature Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo alone involved with stories that feature real ghosts and monsters, similar to the early 1980s version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf also features the only appearance of Googie, Shaggy's blonde girlfriend.
Plot summary
Template:Spoiler Every year, all of the classic Hollywood monsters such as Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, and Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde, gather at Count Dracula's castle in Transilvania for the "Monster Road Rally", an ultimate road race, awarding the winner with the "Monter of the Year" award as well as many other prizes only monsters would enjoy. This year however, Dracula receives a postcard from the Wolfman stating that he has retired and will not be participating. Lacking one of the most well known monsters, Dracula fears they will have to cancel the race. Luckily, Dracula's minion Wolfgang notifies him there is an another option, namely, to create a new werewolf. After searching an old book for information on whom is next in line to become the next werewolf, it is revealed that it is none other than Shaggy (or Shah-Gee, as Dracula pronounces it).
Dracula sends his horrible henchmen (the mushmouthed, incomprehensible Crunch and the English accented, well articulated Brunch, together known as "The Hunch Bunch") to America to transform Shaggy and bring him back to his castle. After a few thwarted attempts, the Hunch Bunch manage to transform Shaggy by exposing him to moonlight while he is at a drive in movie with Scooby, Scrappy, and Googie in his customized race car. The Hunch Bunch then picks up their car using their batcopter and flies the group back to Transilvania. Here, Shaggy is informed that he was chosen to be the next werewolf and that he must participate in the monster race. Shaggy, wanting to return to his normal life, feels very reluctant to the whole situation. Shaggy chooses to make a deal with Dracula, and states that he'll only race under the condition that if he wins, Dracula must return him back to his human state, and allow him and his friends to leave. Dracula agrees but secretly begins planning ways to keep Shaggy from winning.
After being kept up most of the night, driving the severly detuned "wolf-wagon" in the race, being sent on missleading detours, rescuing Scrappy and Googie from traps, and dodging dangerous monsters and magic spells, Shaggy manages to win. Dracula refuses to turn Shaggy back to his human form, claiming he had his fangs crossed when they made the agreement. Infuriated, the heroes steal Dracula's book on transformation and make their getaway. Dracula chases them in his bat-like car and airplane, where the four narrowly escape Dracula's powerful "Drac-Vac" and his "Munchie-Missiles." In the end, Googie uses the book to change Shaggy back to normal and the group lives happily ever after.
That night, they all sit down to watch another horror movie, but nobody sees Dracula, Brunch and Crunch creep up to the window, leaving the film with an open ending.
