Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
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| Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders | |
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 Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Jim Stenstrum |
| Produced by | Davis Doi Joseph Barbara William Hanna |
| Written by | Davis Doi Glenn Leopold Lance Falk |
| Starring | Scott Innes Frank Welker Mary Kay Bergman B. J. Ward |
| Music by | Louis Febre |
| Editing by | Rob Desales |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Video |
| Release date(s) | October 3, 2000 |
| Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999) |
| Followed by | Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) |
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Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders is the third of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on October 3, 2000, and it was produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons.
[edit] Plot
The story starts off when the Mystery Machine driving through a desert town. A sand storm kicks in, and Shaggy makes an accidental turn into government property. The sight of a UFO causes Shaggy to lose control of the vehicle, and find themselves on the outskirts of a small town. While Scooby and Shaggy stay with the van, the rest of the gang walks into a local diner to ask for directions. Shaggy and Scooby run in the diner in panic, claming to have seen aliens. An old man named Lester claims to have been abducted once before, and believes the two. He also says that he has pictures, so the gang goes to his house to see them. They turn out to be nothing more that paintings by Lester, who offers to let the gang stay for the night. Scooby and Shaggy sleep on the roof, and become abducted. After some struggle on the ship, the two find themselves in the middle of nowhere the next morning. They are awaken by a hippie-chick photographer, Crystal, and her golden retriever, Amber. Scooby and Shagy find themselves in love. Velma, Fred, and Daphne meet the crew of SALF: the Search for Alien Life Forms, and Velma becomes suspicious when she sees dried mud on their boots, since they are in the desert. Later, she decides to take the gang to a canyon where she presumes a river might run. The canyon proves to be dry, but they find mining equipment, and in the caves, gold. The SALF crew capture them and hold them hostage as they explain that they stumbled upon this cave when searching for ground to place another SALF dish. Since it was on government land, they decided not to report it, and plan to keep it that way. They are also revealed to be the aliens Scoob and Shag were abducted by: the UFO was nothing more that a dressed-up helicopter. At the end of the film, Crystal and Amber prove to be aliens from 20 light years away, and are dressed like they are because their interpretations of the way humans are dressed were derived from 1960s television broadcasts. The UFO that ran Shaggy off the road was actually Crystal's.
[edit] Cast
- Scott Innes as Scooby Doo, Shaggy Rogers,
- Frank Welker as Fred Jones
- Mary Kay Bergman as Daphne Blake
- B.J. Ward as Velma Dinkley
- Jeff Bennett as Lester
- Candi Milo as Crystal
- Mark Hamill as Steve
- Audrey Wasilewski as Laura
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Max
- Jennifer Hale as Dottie
- Neil Ross as Sergio
[edit] Trivia
- In a part of the movie when Shaggy and Crystal are far away talking, you can hear him telling her about his and Scooby's first encounter with the Witch's Ghost from the previous animated movie. This is not the first time continuity was shown in the movies, as a scene from the Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost also shows evidence of continuity from some events in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, also, Shaggy and Scooby meet the Hex Girls again after their previous meeting (Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost) in Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire, a future movie.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt sang one of the main songs in the movie entitled "Scooby Doo, where are you?". The track was played when Shaggy and Scooby were being chased by the "fake aliens".
- "Groovy", another main movie track, performed by Scot Innes as Shaggy (and in part, Scooby Doo) saw Shaggy in one of the most rare scenes where he kisses a girl in the lips (Crystal), but it was all just a dream sequence.
