Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (film)

Poster.

Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon is a 2013 superhero comedy direct-to-video (DTV) film based on the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! TV series in 1969. It was released by Warner Home Video through the Warner Premiere label on February 26, 2013. It was written by Michael F. Ryan, based on a story by Marly Halpern-Graser, and directed by Michael Gougen. The film is the eighteenth installment in the Scooby-Doo direct-to-video film series.

When the Mega Mondo Pop Comic Con-A-Palooza comes under attack by Blue Falcon's archenemy, Mr. Hyde, Shaggy and Scooby must summon the courage to be like their favorite superheroes, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, to save the convention.

Memorable quotes

Velma: You wouldn't get powers from a radioactive spider-bite, and wearing glasses wouldn't trick anyone into not recognizing you. See, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to know it was me.
Fred: Daphne, quick, there's something going on at the Blue Falcon booth, and bring you new friend.
Velma: Really? Oy.

Characters

In order of appearance:

Non-speaking characters in italics

• Jimmy (Kevin Micheal Richardson)
• Tommy
• Mr. Hyde (John DiMaggio)
• Shaggy Rogers (Matthew Lillard)
• Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker)
• Fred Jones (Frank Welker)
• Velma Dinkley (Mindy Cohn)
• Daphne Blake (Grey DeLisle)
• Manic Minotaur of Manesly Manor (Dee Bradley Baker)
• Horton McGuggenheim (Dee Bradley Baker)
• Dean of Manesley ManorH
• Blue Falcon (Jeff Bennett)
• Dynomutt (Frank Welker)
• Queen Hornet
• Lowbrow
• Gimmick
• Swamp Rat
• Ironface
• Bud Shelton
• Jennifer Severin (Nika Futterman)
• Hank Prince (Gregg Berger)
• Austin (Tara Strong)
• Teen vampire cosplayer
• Brad Adams (Diedrich Bader)
• Jean
• Joan
• James Becker (Billy West)
• Jack Rabble (Fred Tatasciore)
• Hideous Hyde Hound (Dee Bradley Baker)
• Jesper Poubelle
• Bram
• Wulfric Von Rydingsvard
• Caterer (Mindy Sterling)
• Mayor Ron Starling (Kevin Michael Richardson)
• Male newscaster (Dee Bradley Baker)
• Nora Spinkleton (Tara Strong)
• Female newscaster (Grey DeLisle)

Locations

• Manesly Manor
• San De Pedro, California
  • San De Pedro Convention Center
  • Hotel San De Pedro
  • San De Pedro City Hall
  • Stadium Street
    • San De Pedro Baseball Stadium
  • Sheldorf Hotel
• Falcon's Lair
• Combat Bots studio

Objects

• Scooby Snacks
• Falcon Flash
• Littlest Fuzzies

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Falconcar
• Crab Car

Music

Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis composed the music.

Release

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 26, 2013.

Behind the scenes

• To accomplish its goal of being a true superhero movie, it inherits the majority of the cast and crew of the TV series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
• The 1976 Dynomutt, Dog Wonder TV series has been retconned into a fictional TV show called The Adventures of Blue Falcon. The ending of the episode Shaggy and Scooby watch includes a PSA, which the original did not have. There's also a comic book as well. At the time Dynomutt, Dog Wonder aired it did have its own supplemental comic book published by Marvel Comics.
• Blue Falcon/Radley Crowne/Owen Garrison is an even even bigger parody of the 1960s Batman, played by Adam West, than he was in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder.
• The name Owen Garrison is a play on Gary Owens, who voiced Blue Falcon in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder.
• The dark Blue Falcon film is a parody of reboots such as the Batman films directed by Christopher and Man of Steel.
• The film is set in July.
• The comic con is a parody of the Sand Diego Comic Con International.
• The Adventures of Blue Falcon not being released onto DVD and Green-ray is an in-joke to Warner Home Video not releasing the 1960s Batman onto DVD, due to legal difficulties, which happened to be sorted out by the next year, which included the series being released onto Blu-ray, as well, of which Green-ray is also a parody of. Although The Adventures of Blue Falcon had been pulled off the air, Batman had no problems there, although Warner Bros. was eager to move away from that image in 1989 when Tim Burton directed his Batman.
• The Transmolifier series and Jennifer Severin are parodies of the Transformers films and its director Michael Bay. Severin mentions she directed five movies, which by 2017, Bay had also directed five.
• The past monsters who make cameos in the opening credits:
  • The Creeper from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Jeepers, It's the Creeper".
  • The Zombie from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Which Witch is Which?"
  • The Troll from The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Caped Crusader Caper".
  • The Ghost Clown from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Bedlam in the Big Top".
  • The Ghost of Redbeard from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Go Away Ghost Ship".
  • The Black Knight from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "What a Night for a Knight".
  • The Spooky Space Kook from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Spooky Space Kook".
  • The Miner Forty-Niner from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Mine Your Own Business".
  • The Dyrad from The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Caped Crusader Caper".
• Other Hanna-Barbera characters in the opening credits include Space Ghost, Frankenstein Jr., Mightor, and Zandor, from Space Ghost and Dino Boy, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor, and The Herculoids, respectively.
• Hanna-Barbera's influence is everywhere:
  • The comic con is primarily for Hanna-Barbera characters.
  • The Blue Falcon/Dynomutt comic has a "HB" logo.
  • Reporters work for HB News.
• The comic con also has Warner Bros.' logo in places such as Space Ghost's poster.
• Bud Shelton makes his debut in standard continuity, originally appearing in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Revenge of the Man Crab". In that episode he was a villain dressed as the Man-Crab, although here he is a cosplayer dressed as the Man-Crab from an unknown TV series.

Errors

• This movie presents everything in the Hanna-Barbera franchise outside of Scooby-Doo to be fictional. This greatly contradicts team-ups in the cartoon series, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Laff-A-Lympics, as well as the Scooby-Doo and Laff-A-Lympics comics from Marvel Comics, and crossovers in DC Comics (although DC was prone to go back and forth between either having the HB characters as real or fictional much like in this movie). By the end of the same year, DC had started to publish Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, having the gang help out most of the "fictitious" characters in this film.
• It's odd that the Hideous Hyde Hound did not present any malfunction after almost drowning in the Hotel San De Pedro pool.
• According to Austin, Mr. Hyde's next appearance after episode 3 of the Blue Falcon show, The Adventures of Blue Falcon, is in episode 22, when he creates the Psycho Ooze. But later on, it appears that a giant Mr. Hyde destroys the city in episode 17.
  • The back cover of the episode 17 VHS tape incorrectly reads "Episode Three".
• There are Hanna-Barbera posters on one of the walls of the Combat Bots arena, as well as on Jack Rabble's wall of his booth at the San Pedro Comic Convention at the Sheldorf Hotel.

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