Universes Collide in "Scooby-Doo and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery"

I've been a KISS fan since '77, seen them live various occasions (all through cosmetics) and I'm a veteran of the KISS Expo/Convention scene.

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A Titanic Team Up Years really taking shape!

In 2015, KISS appeared to be determined to enlist another age of the world into the KISS Army. They pursued the Japanese youth market by collaborating with the hugely famous "J-Pop" bunch Momoiro Clover Z for a fruitful single ("Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina," a.k.a. "Samurai Son"), and when they got back, they acquainted themselves with America's children by collaborating with one of their venerated images - animation legend Scooby Doo! The 24th (!) full length include in the long running arrangement of Scooby-Doo direct-to-video motion pictures, Scooby-Doo! also, KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery, was delivered in July 2015.

My child was 8 years of age at that point and adored everything Scooby-Doo. He was additionally very much aware of my KISS being a fan, so normally when he approached me in Wal-Mart with this DVD in his grasp, arguing, "Ooh Dad, look! Would we be able to get this? Please, we HAVE to get this!" there was no chance that I might can't.

In the event that Scooby is wearing the Catman cosmetics, does that make him... CatDog?

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What took them such a long time?

For what reason did it take such a long time for this collaborate to at last occur? The band and the "Scooby" 'toon were madly well known during the 1970s, so the mix ought to have been screamingly clear even route in those days.

Scooby's makers at the Hanna-Barbera Productions were additionally liable for KISS' surprisingly realistic film debut, the famous 1978 made-for-TV turkey KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. (Pause... I figure I may have addressed my own inquiry!) If you've seen Phantom, at that point you realize that it was basically a Scooby-Doo experience with KISS instead of Shaggy and the pack. The storyline of Rock and Roll Mystery really looks like Phantom a considerable amount. KISS fans have kidded for quite a long time about the chance of a Phantom spin-off, and this vivified group up is most likely as close as we'll actually get.

Actually in the event that you need to get truly nit-particular, this is the subsequent time KISS and Scooby have traversed. The band showed up in a 2003 scene of What's New Scooby-Doo?, yet Paul Stanley was the main musician who loaned his voice. Each of the four of the current KISS individuals give their own voices in Rock and Roll Mystery, yet with regards to their overwhelming persona, they're never alluded to by their "genuine" names - simply their super-gallant "character" names. Thusly Gene Simmons is "The Demon," Paul Stanley is "The Starchild," Tommy Thayer is "The Spaceman" and Eric Singer is "The Catman."

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The Story

The film opens at KISS World, the band's huge, all-KISS, constantly amusement park (which doesn't really exist yet...but I'm certain if Gene Simmons has his direction, it will sometime in the not so distant future!), where two thrill ride repairmen (voiced by Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes) are assaulted by a shrieking, smoke-heaving "Ruby Witch." Park proprietor Manny Goldman (Garry Marshall), bothered that the witch is driving off ticket purchasers and undermining his primary concern, puts out a require the "most blazing riddle solvers on the planet" to help sort out what's happening before KISS' enormous Saturday night show at the recreation center.

Enter the Mystery Machine pack, who are so psyched to meet their number one rockers in the substance that they show up at the recreation center in full KISS cosmetics - aside from the perpetually dorky Fred, who concedes that he's (GASP!) not a KISS fan - he favors a neat and tidy vocal gathering called "The Five Ascots." (KISS even recorded a short tune as the "Ascots" only for this film!) Fred likes the band even less after his long-lasting smash Daphne - who's obviously a remarkable KISS fan-young lady, who knew? - accepts each conceivable open door to cuddle up to the Star-Child. It must be noticed that the animation variant of KISS is significantly more youthful looking (and much cradle) than their genuine partners, the majority of whom are pushing retirement age.

KISS as "The Five Ascots" - "Don't Touch My Ascot"

The Plot Thickens

The principal half of Rock and Roll Mystery follows a similar plot as practically every Scooby-Doo animation ever constructed - the Mystery Machine pack noses about searching for pieces of information and catching different supporting characters/potential suspects en route. Shaggy and Scooby disturb everybody by continually fixating on food, and afterward the lowlife out of nowhere shows up and pursues everyone around for some time. Ultimately KISS uncovers their mystery superhuman forces to the group when they fight the Crimson Witch, whom they learn is scanning the recreation center for "The Rock" - a colossal dark jewel (hah!) whose otherworldly powers are the wellspring of KISS' one of a kind capacities. To sweeten the deal even further, the jewel's energies likewise keep a grandiose miscreant known as "The Destroyer" (haha!) from getting through the dimensional divider among Earth and the band's home planet of "KISSteria" (truly, truly).

The Crimson Witch gets hold of the Black Diamond at last, obviously, and utilizes it to destroy the obstruction and deliver The Destroyer. Hence, KISS and the Scooby posse travel to KISSteria to kick some grandiose butt, rowdy style, on board the band's goliath guitar formed space make. This part of the film acquires vigorously from KISS' 1970s Marvel Super Special comic books, which cast the band as superheroes, so it bodes well that these activity scenes look like the enormous fights found in Jack Kirby's exemplary Fantastic Four funnies of the mid 1960s. The expressive comparability will go over the heads of a large portion of the children who are viewing, yet for an old comic book geek like me, it was a pleasant unforeseen touch. I won't uncover how the story closes obviously, a character really says "I would've pulled off it as well, if not for you interfering KISS!" Shoot, I would've been baffled in the event that they hadn't utilized that gag...

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Summarizing it

I delighted in Scooby-Doo and KISS significantly more than I expected to. Like generally grown up aficionados of the band, I thought the thought was "senseless" when I originally knew about it, yet the cast and group clearly put a great deal of work into making the film engaging for their small objective crowd, yet in addition for their folks, who will have bunches of fun getting the numerous in-jokes and KISS references, similar to minor characters named after exemplary KISS tunes or collection titles ("The Elder," "Chikara," "Shandi Strutter," "Delilah Domino," and so on) My number one running joke made various hits at the band's famous marketing authority - each time a character required an instrument, a spotlight, or some other irregular thing, KISS' administrator would abruptly show up out of the blue and offer them the official KISS-marked adaptation of it...at a horribly over-expanded cost, obviously!

Another decent touch that solitary long-term KISS geeks are probably going to see is that when the KISS individuals "power up" into their super-courageous personas, every one shines with an alternate tone. These tones relate with their "characters'" foundation tones on the fronts of the 1978 independent collections - red for the Demon, purple for the Starchild, green for the Catman, and blue for the Spaceman. (Definitely, I know. I have to escape the house all the more frequently.)

Pleasantly energized, every now and again amusing and stuffed with an amazing soundtrack highlighting one end to the other KISS music, Scooby-Doo and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery was an incredible path for a maturing rocker and his bring forth to while away an hour and a half on a mid year evening. My child summarized the film hence: "Best. Scooby-Doo Movie. EVER!" - and he should know since he's seen the greater part of them. We surrender it two paws in a Scooby Snack development!!