The creators of A Pup named Scooby-Doo seem to be drawing on the fame of the original Scooby-Doo cartoons to do all the work. The show is lacking in every way, shape, and form. For starters, while the animation is not completely terrible, the color is over-done and terribly over-saturated. The creators also seem to be a little "wild take-happy" and never miss the chance to have the characters (kids and adults alike) freak out into weird shapes, have their eyes bulge out, tongues going everywhere, you get the general idea. While many of the takes are creative and interesting, it gets really old really fast. The writing lacks a few points, namely in the villain design and the solving of the mystery. Among the villains include a Totem Pole Monster, the hairy Big Wig, artist Paula P. Casso, comic book creation Dr. Croaker, the Cheese Monster in the Scooby-Snack factory (which, by the way, is played up way like crazy), and a three-headed movie monster called Boogedy Bones. I'll take a hundred Snow Ghosts and Zombies before I watch these bad guys take their turns scaring our favorite sleuths.
I also blame this show for ruining the characters of Scooby-Doo that we all love. Shaggy & Scooby both remain true to their original characteristics, but that's it, and it's probably just because they have the original Don Messick and Casey Kasem doing the voices. Freddy, Daphne, and Velma are pulled way out of context: Fred was never the "paranoid conspiracy-theorist", Daphne was not that much of a rich snob, and even though Velma was the brains of the group, she is downplayed as a child-genius with a giant super-computer in her back pocket. They are drier than cardboard and painful to watch.
Overall, I really don't recommend this cartoon to anyone, even die-hard Scooby-Doo fans. This show was not created as a separate entity, but purely to live off of the original Scooby fame. Do yourself a favor and watch some original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" episodes before you even think about watch this.
I also blame this show for ruining the characters of Scooby-Doo that we all love. Shaggy & Scooby both remain true to their original characteristics, but that's it, and it's probably just because they have the original Don Messick and Casey Kasem doing the voices. Freddy, Daphne, and Velma are pulled way out of context: Fred was never the "paranoid conspiracy-theorist", Daphne was not that much of a rich snob, and even though Velma was the brains of the group, she is downplayed as a child-genius with a giant super-computer in her back pocket. They are drier than cardboard and painful to watch.
Overall, I really don't recommend this cartoon to anyone, even die-hard Scooby-Doo fans. This show was not created as a separate entity, but purely to live off of the original Scooby fame. Do yourself a favor and watch some original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" episodes before you even think about watch this.