A fun start to a fun show.
In the first episode of What's New Scooby Doo, the gang heads to the mountains to watch a snowboarding competition (of which Fred is a big fan). However the snowboarding competition may be off as a giant snow monster has appeared.
What's New Scooby-Doo! was a return to the basics for the franchise. After the past few shows and movies had real monsters, members of the main gang missing, non-spooky adventures and the gang as kids, this show had the gang return to the original formula of all the gang solving mysteries involving monsters that are really bad guys in disguise. This first episode does a wonderful job of setting that up. There is a lot to enjoy here. The mystery is pretty well set up and unlike some earlier Scooby mysteries, there are multiple suspects, all of whom seem very likely to be the monster. Not only this but the main focus of the episode is on trying to solve the mystery, where much of the dialogue involves the gang trying to find out who done it. This gives us the feeling that we are solving the mystery along with the gang. The humor in this episode is also pretty good, with Fred's excitement over the snowboarding competition providing some good laughs. The chases and action scenes are also simply a lot of fun.
The real problem with this episode is that the monster is rather generic and not especially memorable. The gang has faced snow monsters before, and there is little to make this monster stand out from the previous snow monsters. Because of this, the monster here is not one you will remember when you think of Scooby monsters.
This is a really fun episode and a good return to the basics for the franchise.
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