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In honor of Daphne's birthday, Fred invites her, Scooby, Shaggy, and Velma to a long-awaited Mystery Inc. reunion. The five of them travel to [[New Orleans]] in order to find real monsters to discuss on Daphne's talk show. After effortlessly exposing several creature impostors, the gang accepts an offer to visit Moonscar Island. The island is home to a French chili pepper plantation owner named Simone Lenoir, and has become the site of several disappearances over the years. While there, our heroes grapple with zombies and voodoo, death becomes a real threat, and the adventure grows legitimately dark and scary for a kid's film.
With a warmly received journey into relatively mature writing, ''Zombie Island'' marked a, or ''the'', high-point in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. The film, as mentioned before, is beautifully animated -- moreso than any incarnation before and still unmatched today -- with a literally dark and realistic feel to it. On top of that, it featured a somewhat cynical/mature look at what happened to Mystery Inc. after their adventures were done (which would be touched on again the [[The Movie]], but with less success). Characters were more fleshed out and three-dimensional, especially the newly empowered Daphne. The irrelevant pop songs of past cartoons gave way to Alternative and Metal music. The story appealed to older viewers with honest-to-goodness death as part of the backstory, and the end result for the gang if they didn't win. <ref>Although the back cover mentioned that they ''do'' make it out alive.</ref> And the best part of it all? No contrived story with a guy in a mask... just like the ads promised, [[
The success of ''Zombie Island'' lead to the creation of three more videos covering mysteries Scooby and the gang would solve as adults. However, while they took many of the same conventions as ''Zombie Island'', they also brought back several of the old ones. For example, in ''Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost'', Daphne returned to being [[The Chick]], the animation wasn't as dark, and there was even an old-fashioned [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]] in addition to the Witch's Ghost. The success of the new movies caused a complete revival in the franchise, bringing ''[[What's New, Scooby-Doo?]]'', and a series of newer increasingly cheaper animated videos to the TV screen.
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