- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
Infobox Film
name = Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
caption = "Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?" UK DVD cover
director =Joe Sichta
producer =Margaret M. Dean Joe Sichta
writer =Joseph Barbera George Doty IV William Hanna Ed Scharlach Joe Sichta Catherine Trillo Thommy Wojciechowski
starring =Frank Welker Casey Kasem Mindy Cohn Grey DeLisle Christine Baranski Ajay Naidu
music =Thomas Chase
cinematography =
editing =Rob Desales
distributor =Kidtoon Films (theatrical)Warner Home Video (DVD)
released =November 5 ,2005 (limited)November 24 ,2005 (TV premiere)December 13 ,2005 (DVD premiere)
runtime = 75 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by = "Aloha, Scooby-Doo! " (2005)
followed_by = "Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! " (2006)
website =
amg_id = 1:334818
imdb_id = 0480461"Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy?" is the ninth in a series of
direct-to-video animated films based upon the "Scooby-Doo "Saturday morning cartoon s. The gang is in Egypt, where a curse by the last Egyptianpharaoh ,Cleopatra , may be the source of trouble for Egypt. It was released theatrically in select cities of theUnited States onNovember 5 ,2005 byKidtoon Films . [View the theatrical trailer [http://www.kidtoonfilms.com/trailers/scooby_low.html here] .] It was rated G by the MPAA. During its limited theatrical release part ofKidtoon Films , it first aired onCartoon Network in theUnited States onNovember 24 ,2005 . It was released onDVD in theUnited States andCanada onDecember 13 ,2005 . It was produced byWarner Bros. Animation , though it featured a logo and copyright for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. at the end.Plot
The gang is in Egypt driving to surprise Velma, who has been restoring the famous
Sphinx for the past six months with Prince Omar. They also discover thatQueen Cleopatra 's tomb is in the Sphinx. There they meet up with the following: an Egyptian nomad Amahl Ali Akbar(nicknamed "Triple A" by the gang) and his hawk Horus, "Fear Facers" host Rock Rivers, and a nasty grave robbing Lara Croft-twin named Dr. Amelia von Butch and her minions. Against the wishes of Velma and Omar, Dr. von Butch and her team use modern equipment to open the tomb, unleashing acurse made by Cleopatra. The curse says that all who enter will be turned to stone. No one believes this until Omar, some of Dr. von Butch's minions (and later) Velma, and Rock Rivers are found as stone. Dr. von Butch decides to enter the tomb anyway. The Scooby Gang, after much trepidation, follows. After accidentally setting off a trap, the gang is split up. Fred and Daphne try to stop Dr. von Butch, while Scooby-Doo and Shaggy discover a Lost City where they are mistaken for the returning pharaoh Ascoobis and his faithful manservant.In a town, Fred and Daphne are attacked by a disguised Dr. von Butch and her henchmen Campbell and Natasha where Fred and Daphne were hit by a sleeping powder as Dr. von Butch steals an artifact from them. Later that night, "Triple A" uses an herb to wake up Fred and Daphne and tells them that Horus is looking for Shaggy and Scooby. Horus finds Scooby's collar and leads them to where he found it.
Meanwhile, the Lost City's leader Hotep, attempts to feed them to his Spirit of the Sand, a giant scorpion monster that turns out to be a robot he had built. Fred and Daphne arrive with "Triple A," who reveals Hotep to be the brilliant civil engineer named Armin Granger who is illegally damming the
Nile River .After this, the gang leads an army composed of the citizens of the Lost City into Cleopatra's tomb to break the curse and free Velma. In the chaos of the battle between an army led by Daphne (pretending to be Cleopatra) and Cleopatra's undead army, the evil Amelia von Butch - who has now lost all of her team to the curse - sneaks into the chamber of Cleopatra, stealing the crown of Cleopatra and causing the Nile River to burst through the tomb, undamming the Nile and flushing out the riches hidden in the tomb, thus restoring the treasure to the people of Egypt according to Cleopatra's last wish. The mystery is solved when it is revealed that Cleopatra's mummy was really Velma, who had planned the whole thing along with Prince Omar and his workers in order to scare away all the treasure hunters. They had made
cement copies of themselves to pass of as victims of "the curse". Dr. von Butch and her team (who were never turned to stone, just copies like Velma and Omar), are taken to jail.Later that night, the Sphinx is finally restored. When Shaggy fired a firecracker, it ended up hitting the Sphinx's nose. Prince Omar states that the Sphinx is fine the way it is.
Cast
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Frank Welker -Scooby-Doo (character) /Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo)
*Casey Kasem -Shaggy Rogers
*Grey DeLisle -Daphne Blake /Natasha
*Mindy Cohn -Velma Dinkley
*Christine Baranski - Amelia von Butch
*Ajay Naidu - Prince Omar
*Oded Fehr - Amahl Ali Akbar/Ancient One #1
*Virginia Madsen - Cleopatra
*Jeremy Piven - Rock Rivers
*Ron Perlman - Armin Granger/Hotep/Ancient One #2
*Wynton Marsalis - CampbellTrivia
This is the only time where Velma is doing something evil.
Widescreen
This was the first animated
Scooby-Doo film to be filmed inwidescreen and high-definition formats, although theRegion 1 DVD was in full screen (cropping the left and right of the image), though notpan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. Like other television shows filmed in high-definition (such as "American Idol ", "Father of the Pride ", "Curious George", and "Out of Jimmy's Head ") and other films filmed in high-definition (such as "The Proud Family Movie ", ', "High School Musical ", and '), the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). However, the film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network HD.References
External links
*imdb title|id=0480461|title=Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy?
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