How did a lonely boy and a stray dog become the best-known pair in cartoon mystery-solving? Scoob!, a 2020 animated feature directed by Tony Cervone, returns to the start of that friendship before sending the whole gang on its largest case.

What is Scoob! about?

Origins come first: the day Shaggy and Scooby meet, and the moment they join three young detectives, Fred, Velma and Daphne, to found Mystery Inc. Years go by and the solved cases pile up into the hundreds. Then a threat appears that is far bigger than the usual haunted-house scare. A villain called Dick Dastardly is scheming to set loose Cerberus, a ghost dog whose arrival would plunge the world into chaos. Stopping him sends the team on a chase across the globe, and somewhere along the route a surprise surfaces about Scooby himself: he carries a secret legacy, and a destiny larger than any of his friends had guessed. With the stakes rising, the bond that started the whole story is put under strain.

About the cast

Frank Welker tops the voice cast, followed by Zac Efron, Amanda Seyfried, Will Forte, Gina Rodriguez, Mark Wahlberg, Ken Jeong and Kiersey Clemons. It is a line-up drawn largely from live-action comedy and drama, here heard rather than seen. Tony Cervone directs.

Context & significance

Scoob! is an American animated film running 93 minutes, and its genre list is unusually long: adventure, animation, comedy, family, horror and mystery. That mix reflects the Scooby-Doo formula itself, which has always paired spooky set-ups with jokes and a puzzle for the gang to crack. What sets this entry apart is its scale and its interest in beginnings. The horror label should be read in a family sense, since the scares come from a ghost dog and a cartoon villain and the tone stays playful. Parents looking for something to watch with children, and adults who grew up with Scooby, Shaggy and their friends, are the natural audience.

Watching Scoob! on Ktime

K-Time offers Scoob! with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, which makes it easy for younger viewers to follow in Farsi while others keep the original voices. The page you are reading is open to everyone; to press play you sign in to a K-Time account. The interface is in Farsi and designed for Iranian families living abroad.