Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
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Directed by	Audie Harrison
Produced by	Sam Register Audie Harrison (executive producers)
Screenplay by	Audie Harrison Laura Pollak Daniel McLellan
Story by	Daniel McLellan Audie Harrison
Based on	Characters by Hanna-Barbera Productions
Starring	Frank Welker Grey DeLisle Matthew Lillard Kate Micucci Myrna Velasco Anthony Carrigan
Music by	Ryan Shore
Edited by	John Soares
Production company	Warner Bros. Animation Hanna-Barbera
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Studio Distribution Services)
Release dates	October 4, 2022 (2022-10-04) (Digital) October 18, 2022 (2022-10-18) (DVD)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is a 2022 American animated direct-to-video supernatural comedy mystery film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. It is the thirty-seventh direct-to-video Scooby-Doo film and was released digitally on October 4, 2022, and was released on DVD on October 18, 2022.

Premise

Mystery Incorporated are summoned to a Nepal ski resort under siege by a cat monster. After the gang captures it by triggering an avalanche, it's revealed to be one of the owners of the resort, trying to keep her step-mother out of the business. Mystery Inc. takes and analyzes a whisker from the cat costume, learning that it is made with the same materials as costumes used by villains in their previous mysteries. They determine that the costumes were made by the same person, Coco Diablo, a high-end Halloween costume designer.

We are introduced to both Coco and her assistant, Trevor (who can only make Dracula costumes). Coco berates Trevor for his lack of imagination, feeding his recent outfit design to a pit of alligators.

To capture Coco, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy disguise themselves as a potential buyer, and when Coco agrees to give them a costume in exchange for killing Mystery Inc., they reveal themselves. Velma is instantly attracted to Coco, but it's too late, because Coco is off to the Coolsville Penitentiary.

A year passes with Fred, Daphne and Velma growing more and more depressed by the lack of truly difficult mysteries, while Shaggy and Scooby are having a much better time. After solving a tax scheme, only for the perpetrator to get away with it, Fred makes a wish in a wishing well for more mysteries.

The gang attends a local carnival and are attacked by a ghost that resembles Fred and blows up the Mystery Machine. Desperate for leads, they go to Coolsville Penitentiary (where every criminal they caught is imprisoned) to interview Coco Diablo, and meet the sadistic warden, who calls himself their biggest fan. He allows them to meet Coco, and when they can't give her any details about the costume, the warden agrees to let them take Coco out, as long as one of them wears a bracelet that will monitor Coco's heart rate and alert the police if she gets too far away from it.

After finding a clue at the carnival in the remains of their booth, the gang goes to do research at the local library, joined by Coco and Esteban, her highly intelligent cat. At the library, they are attacked by ghosts that resemble the entire gang, but escape and go to confront Trevor at his new shop when Coco determines that the costumes matched his style of design.

Trevor reveals that he sent four costumes of Victorian-era style to Coolsville Penitentiary, and the gang discoverers that Coco broke her heart monitor and escaped. They follow her to her factory and trap the ghosts with the alligator pit, revealing that the ghosts are robots in costumes.

Coco offers a false confession, but the gang sees through it and determines that the warden is holding Esteban hostage and is behind the whole thing. He confesses and is arrested, but when trying to assure Mystery Inc. that they were never in any real danger, he accidentally releases all the inmates at the penitentiary. They escape, and to round them up, the gang dresses up in costumes of criminals from their past cases. After re-capturing the inmates, Shaggy and Scooby reluctantly return the candy the inmates stole to the trick-or-treaters and Trevor gives them a large bag of candy while reveals himself to be a surfer using a disguise while Coco willingly returns to prison.

Now, it's going to be quiet in Coolsville. Suddenly, Fred threw the euro bills into the wishing well, asking for a bunch of mysteries. Difficult, intrepid, chilling, scary, wild, mysteries of any kind.

Cast

• Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones, Rudy, Count Nefario
• Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake, Daisy, Musketeer #1, Olive
• Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers, Craggly, Captain Cutler
• Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley, Helga
• Myrna Velasco as Coco Diablo
• Dee Bradley Baker as Esteban, Mr. Wickles, Cat Man
• Jeff Bennett as Charlie Humdrum, Hank
• Anthony Carrigan as Trevor Glume
• Erin Fitzgerald as Library Kid, Superhero Girl, Musketeer #2
• David Lodge as Warden Collins, Harry the Hypnotist, Mayor Dudley
• Lara Jill Miller as Prisoner Costume Teen, Superhero Boy, Musketeer #3
• Candi Milo as Alice Dovely, Dinosaur Kid, Monster Kid
• Jenelle Lynn Randall as Librarian, Superboy
• Kevin Michael Richardson as Sheriff, Henry Bascombe, 10,000 Volt Ghost

Music

The film's original score was composed by Ryan Shore.

Release

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! was released digitally on October 4, 2022, and is was released on DVD on October 18, 2022, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (through Studio Distribution Services).

The film made its TV premiere on Cartoon Network on October 14, 2022, at 7pm ET/PT, and then streaming on HBO Max the next day.

Reception

In a review for Autostraddle, Heather Hogan called the film "A very funny movie for people who grew up on Scooby-Doo." Overall, the film has three reviews on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, although it also received a 50% rotten score on the site.

Depiction of Velma Dinkley

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! made headlines for depicting Velma Dinkley "crushing big time" on female character Coco Diablo, in accordance with long-held fan speculation that Velma was a lesbian/bisexual, a concept previously considered for depiction in the first theatrical live-action Scooby-Doo film Scooby-Doo (2002) and the TV series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–2013). Lesbian actress Hayley Kiyoko, who played Velma in the direct-to-video live-action Scooby-Doo films directed by Brian Levant, said she was "happy for her". In response to speculation that Trick or Treat would lead to Velma being depicted as a lesbian in all subsequent Scooby-Doo media, Mindy Kaling clarified on International Lesbian Day that Velma would not be depicted as such in her upcoming adult-oriented metafictional HBO Max series Velma, instead involved in a "love quadrangle" with Fred, Daphne, and Shaggy, specifically with a crush on Fred.

External links

• Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! at IMDb