Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (Video 2006)

Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!: Directed by Chuck Sheetz. With Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Mindy Cohn, Grey Griffin. Arrgh. It’s horror on the high seas when Scooby-Doo and the gang take a creepy cruise into one of the world’s most mysterious places – the legendary Bermuda Triangle.

“I wasnu0026#39;t so keen on watching this Scooby adventure as it has the shortest running time of all of them so far and I figured that it couldnu0026#39;t possibly have a substantial mystery worth taking an interest in.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd while thatu0026#39;s true for the most part, they do make a huge effort to keep the viewer guessing by throwing in lots of distractions, more so than any other Scooby adventure. And despite itu0026#39;s brief running time it does manage pack in a fair amount of characters and guest voices, so in a sense they give more AND less.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Mystery Inc. gang head off on a tropical cruise for Fredu0026#39;s birthday but things turn sinister when they pick-up a drifter floating in the water. No one believes his tale of ghost pirates (theyu0026#39;re on a u0026quot;mystery cruiseu0026quot; and are becoming quite jaded to the novelty), but only when said pirates show up do they gradually accept that itu0026#39;s real.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s a few more in-jokes than normal in this one too. And while I usually hate in-jokes itu0026#39;s forgivable, and perhaps welcome, in a Scooby-Doo mystery. I am aware that the infamous Bermuda Triangle was the focus of a lower-wattage mystery in the third season of Scooby-Doo back in the early 70s, but this one is considerably better.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt looses points for being short, but itu0026#39;s still a worthy mystery.”