| Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery | |
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 DVD cover featuringJohn Cena andScooby-Doo on the foreground | |
| Directed by | Brandon Vietti |
| Written by | Michael Ryan |
| Based on | Scooby-Doo byJoe Ruby andKen Spears |
| Produced by | Brandon Vietti |
| Starring | Frank Welker Grey DeLisle Mindy Cohn Matthew Lillard Charles S. Dutton Mary McCormack John Cena Brodus Clay Michael Cole Kane AJ Lee Santino Marella The Miz Triple H Vince McMahon |
| Edited by | Kyle Stafford |
| Music by | Ryan Shore |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
Release dates | |
Running time | 84 minutes[2] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (also released asScooby-Doo! The WWE Mystery[3]) is a 2014direct-to-DVDanimatedcomedymystery film and the twenty-second film in the direct-to-video series ofScooby-Doo films. It is a co-production betweenWarner Bros. Animation andWWE Studios. The film features Scooby and the gang solving a mystery atWrestleMania.[4] It was released on March 24, 2014 in theUnited Kingdom[1] and on March 25, 2014 in theUnited States[2] byWarner Home Video.
Scooby-Doo andShaggy Rogers have beaten the hardest level ofWWE's latest video game and won an all-expenses-paid stay at WWE City to watchWrestleMania, with the rest of Mystery, Inc. agreeing to join them at their insistence. Upon their arrival, the gang meetJohn Cena, who gives the gang VIP tickets for the next event; his trainer Cookie; and the latter's nephew Ruben.
As the show gets underway,Vince McMahon unveils theWWE Championship belt, the title for which was vacated due toKane's previous match being overturned and is now available over the weekend. Later that night,Daphne Blake andVelma Dinkley overhear Ruben and Cookie arguing over the latter not becoming an official wrestler due to a leg injury he suffered. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby are attacked by a "Ghost Bear".Triple H andBrodus Clay intervene, but the monster overpowers them before disappearing. The following morning, Mystery Inc. learn from WWE executive Ms. Richards that the Ghost Bear has been terrorizing WWE City for the past few weeks. After McMahon asks the gang to solve the mystery to protect the championship belt, Cena andSin Cara explain that the Ghost Bear originated over a century prior, when it was defeated by Cara's ancestor, Sin Cara Grande, on the land that WWE City would later be built on. Furious over the loss, the bear went on a rampage until Grande exiled it to a nearby cave, at the cost of his leg and career. Cara fears that its ghost was stirred by WrestleMania and is now seeking revenge.
The next day, Scooby is caught stealing the championship belt, though Velma proves he was in a state of deephypnosis during the act as Ruben deduces the video game contained flashing lights that implanted post-hypnotic suggestions into Scooby's brain. Despite this, McMahon offers to drop the charges if he and Shaggy can defeat Kane during WrestleMania and are given a crash course in wrestling taught by Cookie andAJ Lee. Meanwhile, the rest of Mystery Inc. investigate the cave that the Ghost Bear was originally exiled to. Inside, they discover a hidden room containing books on hypnosis, schematics for an EMP device, and a calendar confirming a plot against WrestleMania. Suddenly, the Ghost Bear attacks the group, forcing them into a storm drain, though Cena fights it off before realizing the drain leads directly underneath WWE City. After the gang inform Richards of their discovery, Cookie advocates for WrestleMania's cancellation, butFred Jones suggests using the event to solve the mystery.
During Scooby, Shaggy, and Kane's fight, Velma deduces the belt recovered from Scooby's possession is a replica and contains the EMP device. Cena tries to take it out of the arena, but it activates, shutting down the underground generator. The Ghost Bear soon arrives and wreaks havoc, but the wrestlers use pyrotechnics to illuminate the arena while Scooby and Kane continue their fight. When the monster attacks the ring, Scooby and Kane join forces with Ruben, Cena, and Cara to defeat it. The Ghost Bear is then revealed to be Cookie. Feeling his career ended too soon, he plotted to use Scooby to steal the belt and tarnish the organization's reputation in retaliation.
As Cena recovers the real belt, Cookie is arrested while McMahon offers Ruben a place on the WWE roster before awarding the belt to Scooby and Shaggy.
Additionally,Sin Cara,Jerry Lawler,Sgt. Slaughter,Jimmy Hart,Big Show,Alberto Del Rio,Cameron,Naomi and theYoung Justice incarnations ofWonder Girl,Artemis,Zatanna andMiss Martian all make non-speaking cameo appearances.[5][6]
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On August 14, 2012,Warner Bros. andWWE Studios announced that they would co-produce aScooby-Doo animated feature that will find Scooby and the gang solving a mystery at WrestleMania.[4]
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The original music score was composed byRyan Shore. The film also features the WWE entrance music themes of The Miz, Mr. McMahon, John Cena, Kane, and AJ Lee.
Matt Fowler ofIGN gave the film a "Mediocre" score of 5.0 out of 10, citing that "Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery will most definitely delight your children, whether they're fans of one, or both, properties. It's well-meaning, snappily animated, and it's fun to hear the [wrestlers] do their own voices."[7]
In its television premiere onCartoon Network on Saturday, July 26, 2014, the film was retitledScooby-Doo! The WWE Mystery[8] and the event the gang are in WWE City to witness was renamed "SuperStar-Mania". This film is the first of the animated films to get a TV-PG rating for "violence" due to the plot of the film involving wrestling. All previousScooby-Doo animated films received a TV-Y7-FV rating.
On September 15, 2014, WWE and Warner Bros. announced a direct sequel toWrestleMania Mystery to be released in 2016 by the name ofScooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon.[9]Hulk Hogan was billed to be prominently featured.[10] However, on July 23, 2015, WWE terminated their contract with Hogan due to racist comments, leaving speculation as to his appearance in the film.
In the UK, the film was released on August 8, 2016.[11]
Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy was released on August 19, 2014.
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