Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
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| Directed by | Raja Gosnell |
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| Written by | James Gunn |
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Scooby-Doo created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears |
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| Music by | David Newman |
| Cinematography | Oliver Wood |
| Edited by | Kent Beyda |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $181.5 million |
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a 2004 American comedy horror mystery film, directed by Raja Gosnell, written by James Gunn and released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Based on the animated television series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, it is the second installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series and a sequel to 2002's Scooby-Doo.
The returning cast features Freddie Prinze Jr. as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Linda Cardellini as Velma, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Neil Fanning as the voice of titular protagonist Scooby-Doo.
Series newcomers include Seth Green, Tim Blake Nelson, Peter Boyle and Alicia Silverstone, who appear in supporting roles. The film was released on March 26, 2004, received negative reviews and grossed $181 million worldwide.
Mystery Inc. (Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo) attend the opening of an exhibition at the Coolsonian Criminology Museum commemorating their past solved cases with monster costumes on display. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a masked man known as the Evil Masked Figure who steals two costumes using the reanimated Pterodactyl Ghost. The gang are ridiculed by journalist Heather Jasper Howe, who starts a smear campaign against them. Concluding an old enemy is the mastermind, the gang revisit old cases, dismissing the former Pterodactyl Ghost, Jonathan Jacobo, due to his death during a failed prison escape, they guess that Jeremiah Wickles, the Black Knight Ghost’s portrayer and Jacobo's cell mate in prison, is the culprit.
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