Throwback Breakdown: Scooby Doo on Zombie Island- A Dark Masterpiece 

Yes keep producing more content like this please and Thank you.

Savage Books, PLEASE do a throwback breakdown video on Mask of the Phantasm! Another great animated film that's ostensibly aimed at kids, but contains so much emotional depth and nuance that only adults will really get. That would be a sick video!

I'm biased because I love documentaries but this type of analysis I found excellent!

@@TH3F4LC0Nx I second this!! Mask of the Phantasm is the best Batman cartoon by far, and one of the best Batman films in general. It's also the only time I've ever been invested in Batman having a love interest.

@@davidbjacobs3598 Ain't it tho?! Mask of the Phantasm, for me, stands shoulder to shoulder with The Dark Knight. Seriously, I honestly feel that it's THAT good! (The romance is for sure better.) I haven't even seen it in years, but I would LOVE to see an analysis of it on this channel! C'mon bro, let's get the motion started! :)

Jay Barry I’m legit mad this comment is so underrated. That was a brilliant observation!

i would have loved to see a more grown up and experienced group dealing with more credible threats as the movies continued.

Well in zombie island velma turned a voodoo doll into one of either simone or lena and used it against them. So they did use mystics for defeat the cat monsters

@@ItsYaBoi-ATA I really wish the films would've kept the seriousness of Zombie Island and Witch's Ghost. Legend of the Vampire wasn't even a real vampire. If I remember, it was a hologram and wind effects.

@@CassandraPantaristi Legend of the Vampire is the 5th film of the chain of Scooby-Doo movies that Zombie Island kicked off. It's also when the Scooby-Doo movies fully reverted back to the "Classic" Formula: a few greedy people in masks (and/or with tech) trying to scare away people to make money, gain fame, etc. They were already going back to this route in Alien Invaders and Cyber-Chase though. The main villains were people trying to either get rich (Alien Invaders) or drive away competition (Cyber-Chase). You'd occasionally see a true monster in later installments (like the Ghost Samurai in Samurai Sword), but they became much more sparse after Alien Invaders. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the plots were good, but they're largely not. I wish we got more movies like Zombie Island and Witch's Ghost as well.

the goat sacrificed on the alter of cheap sloppy nostalgia cash-in giving us RETURN to Zombie Island.

Reluctant Werwolf: Like, why did I even win that race?

Shame the movie was such a letdown :(

The boo brothers

Was the Ghoul School a Hoax then? The Alien Invaders? The ADDAMS FAMILY?!

Scooby Doo and the reluctant werewolf and Scooby doo at the Ghoul School second that thought

Exactly

Over 50 years of that excuse yet we keep repeating it... that is sad from an species point of view.

Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them? -bender futurama

@@logan9042 Why can't more parents be like Bender?

Yeah, that's the thing. My own childhood had seen a LOT of violent TV and I didn't like other's pain (mostly involved real-life magicians and their violent tricks), but my folks explained things to me and how it was all fake. No one was seriously hurt, and people were actors in a play. While I still don't like certain violence (in horror), I choose not to watch what I don't like; simply changing the channel. However, I grew up on Scooby Doo (60s series) and 'The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest' and LOVED The Trilogy of Scooby Doo movies with real monsters! I was so in awe with everything, is that I wasn't afraid at all! I even watched 'Scooby Doo on Zombie Island and the others on my Aunt's TV set! ^^

Bless up

You a real one ❤

THANK YOU

Not in my country 😭

@@johntshorter x2

I agree, the dichotomy of being tormented souls victimized by pagan werecats while being Confederate soldiers willing to die to keep men enslaved and pirates who raped and pillaged is one I hadn't picked up on as a child, but one I appreciate now looking back. This video was necessary to highlight the excellence achieved in storytelling many of us overlooked or missed.

*"Secondly the pirates may have been in the right to begin with as the real pagan cults that this plot was based on was known for pedophila and male genital mutilation."* Did the pirates know that?

Yes, totally wasn't about slavery. Let's have a look at what the traitor states had to say in their declarations of secession, shall we? Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin." What about the champion of historical revisionism, Texas: "Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated Union to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as *[would probably get blocked on this channel]* slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. Her institutions and geographical position established the strongest ties between her and other slave-holding States of the confederacy. Those ties have been strengthened by association. But what has been the course of the government of the United States, and of the people and authorities of the non-slave-holding States, since our connection with them?" Or how about the main traitor, the inbred, the legend, South Carolina: "The General Government, as the common agent, passed laws to carry into effect these stipulations of the States. For many years these laws were executed. *But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery,* has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution." How strange, I thought the north loved slavery, a RU-vid comment with no sources told me so after all. Read about "fugitive slave laws", the refusal of the northern states to comply with those was one of the main reasons for the South to turn traitor. The constitution of the confederacy also explicitly forbid its member states from abolishing slavery. Those must be those states rights I hear so much about.

@@sherlocksmuuug6692 yeah it's funny as shit when people say that the Civil War wasn't about slavery when most of the states in the declaration of succession explicitly cited slavery for their reasons for leaving.

@Heartless214 Well freakin said 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Damn that was a pleasure to read

The zombies weren't exactly the good guys and the women werent exactly the bad guys and that's what makes this film so good. Lena and simone are only doing what they have to do because they've traded their lives to get revenge against the pirates who killed their entire colony. Theres this nuance of, they're bad so we killed them, now we have to drain people's life energy, all the while the spirits of the island are trapped and want to escape and warn the people.

Homez18 basically, they became the very thing they swore to destroy

Well, the "good guys" sold their souls for retribution and became the very thing they hated. Even worse in some ways. The bad guys became the lesser of two evils by comparison, and only realized their screw up once a couple of magic pagans killed them. Still evil, just second to mass murdering magic cats. They weren't even really being the good guys either when you step back? They were killed and lingered, probably for revenge, warding people away. Eventually the werecats would die without anyone to feed on, so it was kind of a self serving goal with a silver lining? There were no good supernatural in this movie.

@@alexanderchristopher6237 they never swore to destroy anyrhing. All they wanted was revenge against their people. If you really think about it, that was their land and anyone who come on it was trespassing like the pirates. Like the pepper plantation guy was trespassing even if he didn't know. Plus, they were doing what they did to survive. Yeah luring people is bad, but still survival non the less. Nothing about the pirates suggested the same

@@BabyGirlTiny The tourists that were drained weren't bad guys, they were completely innocent. One of them was pregnant. The one with the floral dress, purse, and hat.

It definitely must have been

I have it on VHS too! I just don't know where I put it...