Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they've been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that not only is it actually an all-girl school of famous monsters' daughters but there's a villainess out to enslave the girls.
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Don't Believe the Hype
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
I LOVE THIS ANIMATED MOVIE. This was one of my favourite Scooby Doo movies growing up and they don't do movies like this anymore well animated movies anyway. I loved all the Scooby Doo movies when I was growing up, they were different and it always represented the TV programme in a good way. The characters are amazing, you can't go wrong with a classic Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo adventure. One of my favourite characters has to be Isabella (Dracula's Daughter) she just amazing especially with some of her one liners and she also wheres my favourite colour Purple. One of my favourite moments has to be when they are playing the volleyball game against the Callway boys. If you like classic animation or classic Scooby Doo then this is for you. it's Fangtastic
I'm not usually one to lay the praise on a television movie, but this movie simply took it to a whole new level. I was always something of a Scooby Doo fan when I was younger, and after several years, just catching this movie on Cartoon Network brought back some memories.I remember when this movie would premiere on television ALL THE TIME!! I would never get tired of it, no matter how many times I sat through it. Some scenes and quotes from this movie are somewhat memorable (take note that I say "somewhat" because I can recognize a lousy pun when it's told.) Some of the music was memorable, and the thing that definitely got this movie up on my list, is the fact that Shaggy and Scooby actually warm up to the girls, even though they ARE ghouls through and through. We get enough of them running like chickens in the television series and other movies, although in this case, it's refreshing to see them gradually get a little more open minded, although the ending is rather sensible when they run away from the "new students". One year at Grimwood is enough.Normally, I thought '80's television movies were unbearably cheesy, but this gave me a merciful break from that. I've always loved this particular '80's movie, because Hanna-Barbera is one of the greatest animation duos in the world.Upon reading other reviews for this film, I recall one reviewer noting that the vampire Sybella was his/her one reason of seeing the movie. While mind-wandering boys share those same kind of sentiments no doubt, I would have to note that I was indeed one of them when it came to the original characters of this movie, although for me, it was for Phantasma, or Phantie the Phantom. There was just something about the obnoxiously 80's hairdo and the fact that I thought she was really cute that just got into my head.Although several reviews have completely panned this film, I seriously recommend this film for children who are into Scooby and the gang, or for die-hard fans of the old cartoon who are willing to see some long lost forgotten ground.
The whole thing's pretty simple: Scooby-Doo, Scrappy and Shaggy go to be gym instructors in a girl's school. What they don't know is that in this particular school, the students are all monsters (don't worry - they're good monsters). There's a werewolf, a vampire, a ghost, a Frankenstein and a mummy. To crown everything, the headmistress (who's also the mummy's mother) has a pet dragon who prefers to breathe fire at Scooby-Doo. Then, while they're all out on an excursion to a swamp, an evil witch kidnaps the girls, and Scooby, Scrappy, Shaggy and the pet dragon have to go save them...if they can.I don't think that I've seen most of the Scooby-Doo cartoons - and I deliberately avoided the 2002 movie - but "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" wasn't bad. It's really something now that I realize that "Mary Poppins" matriarch Glynis Johns did the voice of headmistress Ms. Grimwood.
Most likely inspired by the episode from "New Scobby-Doo Movies" where Tim Conway guest stared and Shag and Scoob were the "worlds greatest athletes." This TV movie released in 1988 is another bad `80s Scobby cartoon. The whole concept is lame and a horrible transition from chasing 13 ghosts to teaching a group of female ghouls.1(*)out of 4(****)stars