10 Things You Didn't Know About Scooby Doo
2. Scooby Doo - "A Very Evil Movie"
Released in 2002, Raja Gosnell’s live-action Scooby Doo movie was given a “Very Offensive” moral rating by the Christian Answers Network, whose readers called the film, “extremely distasteful”, “dark and sadistic” and “a very evil movie.”
This wasn’t the minority opinion, either – other readers found the picture “extremely offensive” and “filled to the brim with vulgar jokes and the occult.” One viewer claimed: “There is a lot of necromancy and demon possession which is nothing more than a doorway for Satan to plague people’s minds….this movie is a tool for the Devil.”
Viewers also objected to the “abundance of skin” as well as “the heavy emphasis on voodoo” while the site’s critic found himself “uncomfortable with the idea of people trading souls and contemplating lustful advances….it exposed women in revealing clothing.”
Alas, these eagle-eyed moral guardians failed to remind us that the writer was James Gunn, who also scripted Tromeo & Juliet (1996), a literary adaptation with all the bondage, lesbians and penis monsters that Shakespeare left out.