When I first came across this movie I was admittedly intrigued. I assumed that Scooby Doo was dead in the 90's because of Scrappy Doo, seeing a movie that premiered in 1994 made me curious. Being a huge Scooby Doo fan I decided to check it out, it has a promising start with Shaggy and Scooby going to Arabia to apply for jobs as royal food tasters, but after they eat a prince's royal feast not knowing the point of their jobs was to make sure nothing was poisoned they get in trouble. You would probably think this is what the movie's about, Shag and Scoob getting into whacky antics in Arabia and trying to make everything better at the end, but no, instead after disguising himself as a woman whom the prince without his glasses assumes is supposed to be his bride Shaggy decides to tell him a story to make him fall asleep so him and Scooby can escape. The rest of the movie is 2 different cartoons that might as well be their own specials, the first being a gender-bent parody of Aladdin with Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo as the genie and the second being the story of Sinbad with Magilla Gorilla as the title character, you see the problem yet? Shaggy and Scooby are barely in the movie outside of the opening and the ending even though they're both on the cover of the VHS case and the title is "Scooby Doo in Arabia Nights." The movie is just a big fat lie, it should've been called "Hannah-Barbera in Arabian Nights" which is probably why when the title appears in the movie it just says "Arabian Nights", perhaps it wasn't supposed to be a Scooby Doo movie. But as is it's a scam, I would've really liked this movie if the focus was primarily on Shaggy and Scooby instead of an hour of filler with 2 pointless cartoons that should've been their own specials which is the only solution to fixing the movie that I can think of at this rate.
Review of Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights
