Outkast - Land of a Million Drums (2002)
*** (of four)
Now, there's no way in hell I'd pay to watch either of the new-breed, live-action Scooby Doo movies - a computer-animated Scooby? WTF?! - but for four minutes, this cheeky Outkast video makes the franchise seem almost halfway tolerable. Not to mention, the track is bouncy and lovable in a spooky yet perky way, and half the song's lyrics are about getting high in the Mystery Machine with Shaggy.
Andre 3000 rolls around in a vintage convertible while Shaggy rides bitch in the Mystery Machine with Big Boi driving. It's not that Big Boi is worried about Shaggy's judgment abilities or reaction time, he's just sick of the red-eyed bastard consistently driving ten miles under the speed limit. There's also a party in a haunted, cobwebby mansion while Dre plays pot-and-pan drums with wooden spoons.
Matthew "Shaggy" Lillard hams it up here, to decent effect, while Freddie "Fred" Prinze Jr. is nowhere to be seen. He was probably deep into a reading of the script for She's All That 2 when this video was being filmed.
Outkast even builds their closing refrain out of an age-old "Scooby Doo" catchphrase, spouted by every deposed real-estate scammer villain on the show: "I woulda got away with it if it wasn't for them meddlin' kids." Proving even throwaway, phoned-in songs from prime-era Outkast put most of the rest of these clowns to shame.
Now, there's no way in hell I'd pay to watch either of the new-breed, live-action Scooby Doo movies - a computer-animated Scooby? WTF?! - but for four minutes, this cheeky Outkast video makes the franchise seem almost halfway tolerable. Not to mention, the track is bouncy and lovable in a spooky yet perky way, and half the song's lyrics are about getting high in the Mystery Machine with Shaggy.
Andre 3000 rolls around in a vintage convertible while Shaggy rides bitch in the Mystery Machine with Big Boi driving. It's not that Big Boi is worried about Shaggy's judgment abilities or reaction time, he's just sick of the red-eyed bastard consistently driving ten miles under the speed limit. There's also a party in a haunted, cobwebby mansion while Dre plays pot-and-pan drums with wooden spoons.
Matthew "Shaggy" Lillard hams it up here, to decent effect, while Freddie "Fred" Prinze Jr. is nowhere to be seen. He was probably deep into a reading of the script for She's All That 2 when this video was being filmed.
Outkast even builds their closing refrain out of an age-old "Scooby Doo" catchphrase, spouted by every deposed real-estate scammer villain on the show: "I woulda got away with it if it wasn't for them meddlin' kids." Proving even throwaway, phoned-in songs from prime-era Outkast put most of the rest of these clowns to shame.
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