"Let's be honest," Elizabeth Weitzman writes in the New York Daily News. "The original Scooby-Doo cartoon series was pretty lousy, the sort of thing you watched not because it was good, but because it was on." Several critics, including Weitzman, suggest that the same thing holds for the movie -- that parents will be taking their kids to see it, because there's no other new family film out there that they haven't already seen. For those parents, the movie is not likely even to stir nostalgia, these reviewers suggest. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post calls it a "stupid kiddie movie whose high -- and low -- point is a farting contest between the titular Great Dane and his stoner pal, Shaggy." But Carrie Rickey in the Philadelphia Inquirer is quick to point out: "My 6-year-old (a Scooby geek) and about 300 other youngsters at the preview last week made for a rapt audience. Seldom was heard a discouraging word -- and the aisles were not rowdy all day." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times admits up-front that he is "not the person to review this movie" since he never watched a Scooby cartoon and didn't laugh once during the movie. "This movie exists in a closed universe, and the rest of us are aliens," he concludes. "The Internet was invented so that you can find someone else's review of Scooby-Doo."