Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
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| 'Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!' | |
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 Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! DVD Cover |
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| Directed by | Chuck Sheetz |
| Produced by | Tim Maltby |
| Written by | Margaret M. Dean Jed Elinoff Scott Thomas |
| Starring | Frank Welker Casey Kasem Mindy Cohn Grey DeLisle Dan Castellaneta |
| Music by | Steven Argila |
| Editing by | Susan Edmunson |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Video |
| Release date(s) | September 19, 2006 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy (2005) |
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Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! is the tenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on September 19, 2006, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, though it featured a logo for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons at the end. It features the Mystery, Inc. gang travelling to the Bermuda Triangle on a creepy eerie cruise, with ghost, pirates, and monsters.
[edit] Plot
The story begins on a small boat in the Bermuda Triangle. Astrocartographer Rupert Garcia (voiced by Freddy Rodriguez) is in his quarters, trying to make sense of an old, bizarre star map which he recently acquired. The ship sails into a sinister fog, and is soon engulfed. A ghostly pirate Brig appears next to the ship, and zombie pirates swarm the ship. The crew disappears and Garcia hides in his quarters, with the star map. The villainous Captain Skunkbeard (voiced by Ron Perlman) enters the quarters, along with his cockney first mate, the aptly named Woodenleg Wally (voiced by Dan Castellaneta). The pirates cannot find Garcia, who hears from hiding that he is the one they are looking for... and his map. The pirates give up the search and scuttle the ship, and return to their Brig and disappear into the fog. Garcia escapes to a life raft, and is marooned on the open sea.
The next day, we catch up with the Scooby gang. Fred treating the gang to share in his birthday present: a mystery cruise, compliments of his parents Skip (voiced by Tim Conway) and Peggy Jones (voiced by Edie McClurg). While preparing for the ship launch, Scooby and Shaggy have a creepy encounter with a sinister-looking cloaked man, who the duo are sure is up to no good.
The cruise begins promisingly enough. The gang meet the bubbly but a bit ditzy Cruise Director, Sunny St Cloud (voiced by Kathy Najimy), and the genial captain, Captain Crothers (voiced by Arsenio Hall). The Captain says they are bound for the Bermuda Triangle, and St. Cloud promises some creepy intrigue. A montage of sloppy mysteries follows, which the gang solves with ease. This peeves the other guests, who have no mysteries to solve, as they are all wrapped up on the first day.
Soon, as the ship enters the triangle, they rescue Garcia, who spins his tale of the ghost pirates. The gang naturally assumes that this is a setup to another mystery. St. Cloud and Crothers are obviously puzzled and have no idea who the man is. He is taken below deck as a man in a jetpack appears from the sky and lands on deck. He turns out to be Biff Wellington, an English playboy and billionaire who is known to be fun-loving yet eccentric. He plans to stay on the ship as well.
That night, the gang attends a costume party dinner. The creepy cloaked man appears on stage, who turns out to be Mister Mysterio, a famous hypnotist. Shaggy and Scooby are picked from the audience to demonstrate his powers, but they prove immune to his hypnotism: yet the audience falls under the trance. Mysterio dispels the hypnotism and disappears in a puff of smoke.
At this time, the creepy fog appears and swallows the cruise ship. The ghost pirates return and wreck havoc, chasing the cruise guests about, who all mysteriously disappear. A thunderstorm also begins. Skip and Peggy are also kidnapped, and the pirates retreat back to the brig and leave. At this time, the gang realizes it is not a sham mystery but a real one, and they are the only ones left aboard, with Garcia.
With his help, they follow the glowing trail left by the brig and arrive in a secret harbor. There, they find Garcia's old ship... and then are captured by the ghost pirates, who take them aboard their Brig. The pirates, it turns out, are looking to find a meteor of mystic power, which fell into the triangle ages ago and could be pinpointed by using Garcia's map. They need both the map and Garcia to find it.
The Brig enters the heart of the triangle, and begin to see ghosts from the Triangle: The USS Cyclops (AC-4), a WWII era fighter squadron, even a sea serpent. Admist this, the gang manages to escape and explore belowdecks. They find a lot of modern equipment that was obviously used to project the ghost images just witnessed. The ship enters an odd ring of rocks, and pull up the meteor, which glows yellow.
The gang then engineer a trap, which predictably fails. The pirates then attempt to re-capture the gang, leading to a trademark Scooby Doo chase sequence, in which the entire pirate crew is improbably captured. Captain Skunkbeard is revealed to be Wellington, and Wally is revealed to be Mysterio. The rest of the pirates are the cruise guests and past conquests of the pirates. Wellington explains that Mysterio convinced him (and likely hypnotized him) that he was the reincarnation of a pirate from years ago, and could use the meteor to teleport back in time. The crew were just hypnosis victims under Mysterio's power. Mysterio's motive was that the meteor itself was pure gold and he was going to steal it to make himself rich.
At this time, a fierce storm hits, and the gang deduces the forces of the Triangle want the meteor back, so they drop it back in the water, and some deft steering by Fred narrowly gets the brig out of the ring as it crumbles into the sea. The story ends as the cruise guests are now using the Brig as a large party boat as they sail back to Miami to drop off Wellington and Mysterio to the authorities.
[edit] Cast
- Casey Kasem - Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Frank Welker - Fred Jones, Scooby-Doo
- Mindy Cohn - Velma Dinkley
- Grey DeLisle - Daphne Blake
- Ron Perlman - Captain Skunkbeard/Biff Wellington
- Freddy Rodriguez - Rupert Garcia
- Tim Conway - Skip Jones
- Edie McClurg - Peggy Jones/Sea Salt Sally
- Kathy Najimy - Sunny St. Cloud
- Arsenio Hall - Captain Crothers
- Dan Castellaneta - Mr. Mysterio/Woodenleg Wally
