#Scooby doo and the cyber chase movie

Question: The Phantom Virus is shown to be able to not only manipulate electronic devices, but also shoot lightning from his fingers, so why would he not just fry our heroes? I’m not saying riding a T-Rex isn’t cool, because it is, but what is with the stupid spear?Ī major problem I had with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase was not just how lame the Phantom Virus was as a villain, which to be honest he was really lame, but that Eric’s video game wasn’t even a very good representation of a typical Scooby-Doo mystery. being sucked into Eric’s game, after some mysterious individual activates the laser - gee, I wonder who it could be - so our heroes are left with no other choice but to fight their way through the ten levels of “mystery and adventure” to complete the game in order to escape it, with the goal of finding a box of Scooby Snacks to complete each level, all while fighting off the Phantom Virus at every turn. Twenty minutes into this 74-minute movie, we finally get Mystery Inc. The villain has to accidentally step on one of the magnets just so Fred, Daphne, and Velma aren’t killed. Note:Professor Kaufman outfits the gang with large magnets - the one thing that clearly harms the Phantom Virus - and so the only reason the villain is a threat is because our heroes constantly forget they have them. Shaggy: “Like, do we ever do it any other way?” Shaggy and Scooby-Doo start heading off together.įred: “Hey, you guys, I didn’t say how we were going to split up.” The only highlight here, and also the funniest Meta moment in the movie, happens when Fred ( Frank Welker) goes into a take-charge mode and we get this delightful exchange.įred: “I think we stand a better chance of finding it if we split up.”

Unfortunately, before the fun stuff can happen, we waste valuable time with the gang hunting for the Phantom Virus throughout the halls of the college campus.

#Scooby doo and the cyber chase movie

Setting aside the complete science fantasy of such an invention, this plot element is also about the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a Scooby-Doo movie and it’s simply introduced so that we can later have our heroes sucked into a virtual game world. game and not Bill’s baseball video game - I’m a little fuzzy on what kind of science fair awards prizes to video game designers, but what makes no bloody sense is that these bozos have this experimental laser, which is able to transmit objects into and out of cyberspace as well as seemingly creating sentient life, and yet Kaufman is all for entering a stupid video game into the science fair instead of a device that would literally change the world as we know it. We learn that Eric and Bill were both vying for the quarter of a million-dollar prize being awarded at an upcoming science fair, but Professor Kaufman had chosen to enter Eric’s Mystery Inc. Is this thing supposed to be scary? If so it fails miserably. While working in the lab late one night, Eric, along with Professor Robert Kaufman ( Tom Kane) and Eric’s lab partner Bill McLemore ( Mikey Kelley), were attacked by this Phantom Virus when the lab’s experimental laser suddenly activated, bringing this cyber creature into the real world. Unfortunately for Eric, his game has come down with a bit of a virus, or “Phantom Virus,” if you will. gang visiting State University to try out a video game their old friend Eric Staufer ( Bob Bergen) had developed, a game based on the Mystery Inc’s past adventures. This time out, Scooby-Doo and friends find themselves digitized and sucked into a computer game, and if that premise sounds a tad familiar to you, that would be because it was pretty much ripping off Disney’s 1982 sci-fi movie Tron. In the previous animated feature Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders, we saw Mystery Incorporated meet honest-to-goodness aliens, making it the gang’s first real foray into science fiction, but with Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, the franchise ratchets the sci-fi element up to eleven.