- This article is about the film. For the home media releases, look here.
|
This needs a stretch. (Feel free to remove when satisfied of completion.) Needed: * Synopsis is missing details |
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? is the ninth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was given a limited theatrical release in select cities of the United States in November 2005 by Kidtoon Films[2] before being released on DVD on December 13, 2005.
Premise[]
Mystery Inc. fight graverobbers and a curse left behind by Cleopatra while vacationing in Egypt.
Synopsis[]
In 41 B.C.E., the Roman Army invades Ancient Egypt, forcing Cleopatra to flee for her life along the Nile River. After reaching the Great Sphinx of Giza, the queen goes below to a secret tomb where she hides her treasure, sets traps and utters words to cast her curse into the pages of history.
In the present day, Velma is helping Prince Omar Karam with restoring the famous Sphinx. She uncovers Cleopatra's ankh necklace, and shows it to Prince Omar, during which it shines a light out to Cleopatra's hidden tomb beneath the Sphinx, much to their surprise.
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are on their way to meet Velma, who they haven't seen for six months and deeply miss, especially Scooby. Unfortunately, their engine dies due to their radiator running out of water. Scooby and Shaggy see an oasis and try to swim in it, only to find out that it was all a mirage. Suddenly, an Egyptian nomad, Amahl Ali Akbar, (nicknamed "Triple A" by the gang) and his hawk Horus, appears and helps them complete their journey.
Triple A leaves them outside of the work site of the Sphinx, where they meet Fear Facers host, Rock Rivers, who's trying to regain credibility by filming the curse that has been supposedly unleashed from finding the tomb. This scares Scooby and Shaggy, until Scooby catches a whiff of Velma, leading to a reunion between all of them. Velma also introduces Prince Omar to the gang.
Suddenly, the sinister grave robber named Dr. Amelia Von Butch, along with her minions and several other archeologists, arrive to claim the riches within the tomb. While in the tomb, the hieroglyphics on the tomb walls speak of an undead army rising and people entering the tomb turning into stone, which Amelia and her minions just laugh at. The writing also states that the Nile River will fall and the desert will rise. Against the wishes of Velma and Omar, Dr. Von Butch and her team use explosives to open the doors to the tomb, seemingly unleashing a sandstorm, which apparently turns Prince Omar into a stone statue. Dr. Von Butch decides to enter the tomb anyway, and Scooby and the gang, after much trepidation, follow.
Scooby accidentally sets off a trap, which they all survive, but the undead army have now risen, leading to some of the archeologists and Velma to be kidnapped or turned to stone, while Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are swept through water into a Lost City where they are mistaken by the local Ancient Egypt reenactors for the returning Pharaoh Ascoobis and his faithful manservant, Shagenkhamen.
Fred and Daphne are met by Rock Rivers and Dr. Von Butch and her henchmen inside the tomb where they are all set upon by a swarm of locusts.
Meanwhile Scooby and Shaggy are given a great feast to honor the Pharoh's return. Hotep explains to the two that they are people from many many lands who chose to live the ways of ancient and Egypt. As the feast continues, Hotep disappears into the caves who has a secret plan for the two.
After escaping the tomb and entering a small town in the desert, Fred and Daphne search for Shaggy and Scooby when they are attacked by a disguised Dr. Von Butch and her henchmen Campbell and Natasha, who hit them with a sleeping powder and steals the ankh from them.
Later that night, "Triple A" uses a special herb to wake up Fred and Daphne atop one of the pyramids and tells them that Horus the hawk is looking for Shaggy and Scooby. Horus recovers Scooby's lost collar and leads them to where he found it.
Meanwhile, the Lost City's leader Hotep, attempts to feed Shaggy and Scooby to his Spirit of the Sand, a giant scorpion monster. After a long chase across the city, it turns out to be a giant remote controlled robot that he had built (the water of the Nile River shorts it out). Fred and Daphne arrive with "Triple A," who informs Shaggy, Scooby, and the Lost City's citizens that Hotep is really a brilliant civil engineer named Armin Granger, who has been damming the Nile River illegally, which explains why the Nile was completely dry. Outraged by Hotep's crimes, the Lost City's citizens arrest him and drag him away, possibly sending him to jail. Shaggy and Scooby start to wonder if it was just lucky that they fit the prophecy but Triple A tells them it was fate that brought them here.
After this, Fred & Daphne sadly tell Scooby & Shaggy that Velma has been turned to stone. At this point, while Scooby and Shaggy are distraught, Fred and Daphne are stumped as to whether the curse is real or not. After seen Scooby's collar shine, Daphne realizes that the necklace is gone and Amelia has it. All hope seems lost, but Fred still has a plan.
Inside the tomb, Fred, Shaggy, and Scooby find Rock as a stone statue, and Von Butch, Natasha, and Campbell being taken prisoner by the mummy Cleopatra's undead army. Natasha and Campbell are seemingly turned to stone, with Von Butch being next, who pleads pathetically for her life.
Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy disguise themselves as mummy soldiers, but Scooby's tail gives him away when the cloth is unravelled from it. They find a secret room of cement before seeing Fred's signal, which begins a battle between the Ancient Ones army led by Daphne (pretending to be Cleopatra) and Cleopatra's undead army. In the choas, the evil Amelia breaks free and sneaks into the chamber of Cleopatra, stealing the crown of Cleopatra and causing the Nile River to burst through the tomb, undamming the river and flushing out all 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 undead mummy is really a disguised Velma, who had planned the whole thing along with Prince Omar and his workers in order to scare away all the treasure looters. They had made cement copies of themselves to pass off as victims of "the curse". Prince Omar also tells Rock Rivers that they used his camera to film inside the tomb, which will guarantee Rock's comeback, much to his delight. Dr. Von Butch and her team (who were never turned to stone, just stone copies like Velma and Omar), are caught in a net set up by Fred and "Triple A", tied up, and possibly taken to jail.
Later that night, the Sphinx is finally restored. "Triple A" thanks Velma for having done a great job. But when Shaggy fires an enormous firecracker, it hits the Sphinx's nose and knocks it clean off. Prince Omar states that the Sphinx looks much better like that, and they all laugh.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Prince Omar Karam (only appearance)
- Amahl Ali Akbar (only appearance)
- Rock Rivers (only appearance)
Villains:
- Ghost of Cleopatra (only appearance)(Velma in disguise; redeemed)
- Army of the undead (only appearance)(no lines)(Omar and his helpers in disguise; redeemed)
- Dr. Amelia von Butch (only appearance)
- Natasha (only appearance)
- Campbell (only appearance)
- Amelia's other associates (only appearance)(no lines)
- Hotep/Armin Granger (only appearance)
- Spirit of the Sand (only appearance; destroyed)(no lines)(robot)
Other characters:
- Cleopatra (only appearance)(flashback only)(deceased)
- Prince Omar's uncle (only time mentioned)
- Horus (only appearance)(no lines)
- Triple A's camels (only appearance)(no lines)
- Ancient Ones (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
- Pharaoh Ascoobis (only appearance)(pictograph)
- Shagenkhamen (only appearance)(pictograph)
- Isis (only appearance)(pictograph)
- Peggy Jones (mentioned)
Locations[]
- Giza, Egypt
- Giza Plateau
- Great Sphinx of Giza
- Cleopatra's tomb
- Great Sphinx of Giza
- Nile
- Lost City of the Ancient Ones
- Unnamed town
- Giza Plateau
- United States (mentioned)
Objects[]
- Cleopatra's ankh
- Prince Omar's cellphone (destroyed)
- Prince Omar's sunglasses
- Scooby's umbrella hat
- Scooby's sunglasses
- Umbrella
- Lemonade
- Ice cubes
- Mystery Machine's engine
- TV Gab
- Scooby Snacks
- Velma's glasses
- Cement molds
- Cement bags
- Cleopatra's mask
- Cleopatra's crown
Vehicles[]
- The Mystery Machine
- Motorcycles
- Jeep
- Helicopter
- Boats
Suspects[]
| Suspect | Motive/Reason |
|---|---|
| Rock Rivers | He wanted the gang to be scared. |
Culprits[]
| Culprit | Motive/Reason |
|---|---|
| Velma as the Ghost of Cleopatra Prince Omar and his workers as the undead army |
To protect the riches of Cleopatra. |
| Dr. Amelia von Butch, Natasha and Campbell | To steal the crown of Cleopatra. |
Cast[]
Songs[]
| Song | Credits | Performed by | Character performance by |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Mummy's Rags and Riches" | Written by Thomas Chase Jones and Joe Sichta Lyrics by Thomas Chase Jones Produced by Thomas Chase Jones |
Joe Pizzulo | N/A |
| "Which Curse is Worse" | Bobette Jamison-Harrison and Molly Pasutti | N/A | |
| "Pharaoh's Rag" | Written and produced by Thomas Chase Jones | N/A | N/A |
Notes/Trivia[]
- This is one of the few cases in which one of the mystery gang is the monster of the movie (although it was to stop the real villain). Velma was also the culprit in the live-action movie Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster.
- One of the background characters at the bazaar resembles Camel Sam from the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode Mummy Scares Best.
- The mummy's curse of turning people into stone is similar to the one used in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode Scooby Doo and a Mummy, Too.
- This was the first animated film to be filmed in widescreen and high-definition formats, although the Region 1 DVD was in full screen (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan as the camera stays directly in the center of the image. Like other television shows and films filmed in high-definition, 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.
- There's a deleted scene on the DVD where the journey to the Nile River was extended, in the scene, Amahl Ali Akbar was telling Fred, Scooby, Shaggy, and Daphne about Camels. Then, when they arrived in canyon in the middle of the night, a cobra scares Daphne and causes her to fall off her camel. Triple A then saves Daphne by charming it with music then Scorpions come crawling down causing them to flee out of the canyon.
Miscellaneous[]
- Disguises: Shaggy and Scooby as female mummies; Shaggy, Scooby as mummy warriors, and Fred as "Other" Cleopatra's warrior; Daphne as "Other" Cleopatra.
- Traps:
- Clues:
- Scooby Snacks bribe: 0
- "Ruh-roh" count:
- "Zoinks" count: 5
- "Jeepers" count: 9
- "Jinkies" count: 3
- Series running gags: Velma loses her glasses.
Cultural references[]
- Both this film and Dune (1984) open with expository narration by Virginia Madsen playing a royal character.
- Hotep roughly means "to be at peace". One of the most famous Ancient Egyptians to have this as part of his name was Imhotep who is credited with designing the Stepped Pyramid.
- Hotep is modled on the villain Imhotep, played by Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1932) and Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy (1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001).
- Amahl Ali Akbar is similar to the character Ardath Bey in the latter two films, and shares his actor Oded Fehr.
- The piece of music that plays during Shaggy and Scooby's mirage scene is Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers", from his ballet The Nutcracker.
- Dr. Amelia von Butch is based somewhat on the video game character Lara Croft.
- Horus is the name of the Egyptian deity who was the son of Osiris. He was conceived by Isis after she made out with the reassembled corpse of her husband who had been killed by Set.
- There are subtle references to Indiana Jones throughout, including the trick with light that finds the entrance to the royal tomb, the walk across a trick floor, and the rapid underground ride with expulsion into the river.
Adaptations[]
- Scholastic published two versions called Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of Cleopatra: One a standard novel-type adaptation by Suzanne Weyn, and another 8x8 book by Jesse Leon McCann.
Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]
- Cleopatra's ghost's eyes keep changing from glowing white to standard black eyes with white sclera. Also, her gown suddenly becomes tattered (like a zombie's) as soon as the golden mask breaks off.
- When the gang's boat washed up, Daphne's hair was brown.
- When Scooby and Shaggy were being chased by the sand spirit they were wearing baseball clothes, but a close-up of them cowering by a pillar shows Shaggy's shoulder with a green shirt. It changes back to a baseball shirt in the wide shot.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]
- During the opening of the film, Cleopatra said, "In the year 41 B.C.E...". The dating system of that era did not use the terms B.C. or B.C.E.
- However, as this can be considered a "breaking the fourth wall" with her "ghost" speaking to the modern-day audience (and translated to modern English), it can be dismissed.
- The events shown in the flashback are historically out of date. The invasion of Alexandria and the death of Cleopatra happened in 30 B.C.E., not 41 B.C.E.
- Prince Omar and the dig site would have been surrounded by military personnel in real life, not only because Omar was royalty, but also because the tomb was Cleopatra's. Had Amelia von Butch and her crew attempted to take over the dig in the same way they did in the movie, they would have been immediately arrested, if not killed.
- In the film, Cleopatra's tomb was hidden beneath the Sphinx, but this is an unlikely place for her real tomb to be located. By the time Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C.E., the Sphinx and Pyramids had been standing for almost two thousand years. While there is modern evidence of catacomb-like structures beneath the Sphinx, they're nearly impossible to get into. During Cleopatra's time, these catacombs (if they truly existed) would've been forgotten and both the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings would've been already abandoned as sacred burial grounds. None of Cleopatra's family were buried there. Her actual tomb is most likely buried in modern-day Alexandria hidden somewhere in the city or just outside of it. Another possible place was in a temple near her palace on the Island where she lived. If this is the case, she's buried under 30 feet of water as the island has since sunk beneath the waves.
- There was a rational explanation for everything that happened in the film, except for the initial discovery of Cleopatra's tomb. Omar held up the ankh necklace, the sunlight caught it, and this somehow caused stairs to appear beneath the Sphinx.
- The real undead army obviously weren't the ones chasing the gang, Dr. von Butch, and her minions since the colors of their armor didn't match those of the fake army. The real army wore red and/or gold, but the fake army wore a variety of other colors.
- Did Scooby and Shaggy kill one of Omar and Velma's allies by locking him in a sarcophagus with limited air supply?
- The disguised trio who attacked Fred and Daphne in the bazaar were presumably, in order of appearance, Natasha, Campbell, and Dr. von Butch. Campbell was a very bulky man, but he appeared significantly slimmer while in disguise.
- No characters thought it odd that "Cleopatra" spoke modern-day English.
- It is never shown or explained how Velma and Omar pulled off Natasha and Campbell being "turned to stone".
- It is not clear how Shaggy and Scooby were able to fly on the carpet.
- The citizens of the Lost City of the Ancient Ones give up all modern conveniences and live as the ancient ones do. However, one citizen some wear sunglasses, prescription glasses, braces.
- It is possible they made exceptions for medical necessities.
- It is never explained how Mystery Inc. got the citizens of the Lost City down to the heart of the tomb without the Undead Army noticing.
- Velma must have had some inexplicable trust issues if she didn't trust her lifelong friends with the truth about her plan, especially when it would have been mutually advantageous to work together. After Amelia was defeated, there was no reason for Velma to continue wearing the frightening ghost costume during the boat ride out, especially when she saw the grief it caused for Scooby and Shaggy.
- When on top of the pyramid, Fred stated that he is afraid of heights, but he was hang-gliding in the previous film.
In other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | Scooby-Doo Og Kleopatra Forbandelse | Scooby-Doo and the Cleopatra Curse |
| French | Scooby-Doo au pays des pharaons | Scooby-Doo in the land of the Pharaohs |
| Greek | Scooby-Doo! Που Είναι η Μούμια; | Scooby-Doo! Where's the Mummy? |
| Hungarian | Scooby-Doo! A múmia átka | Scooby-Doo! The Curse of the Mummy |
| Italian | Scooby-Doo e la mummia maledetta | Scooby-Doo and the Cursed Mummy |
| Portuguese (Brazilian) | Scooby-Doo em: Cadê Minha Múmia?! | Scooby-Doo in: Where's My Mummy?! |
| Polish | Scooby-Doo na tropie Mumii | Scooby-Doo on the Track of the Mummy |
| Russian | Скуби-Ду, где моя мумия? | Scooby-Doo, where's my mummy? |
|
Spanish (Latin America) |
Scooby Doo! y La Maldición de Cleopatra | Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of Cleopatra |
| Spanish (Spain) | Scooby-Doo! en el Misterio del Faraón | Scooby-Doo! in the Mystery of the Pharaoh |
| Ukrainian | Скубі Ду в пошуках мамумії | Scooby Doo Searches For Mommy/Mummy |
Home media[]
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? VHS released by Warner Home Video on December 13, 2005.- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? DVD released by Warner Home Video on December 13, 2005.
- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? DVD released by Warner Home Video on February 13, 2006.
- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? DVD released by Warner Home Video on September 6, 2006.
- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? DVD re-released by Warner Home Video on July 25, 2016.
Quotes[]
Amahl Ali Akbar: If the fates allow it, it will be. |
Dr. Amelia Von Butch: I'm sorry, but your call has been disconnected...permanently! |
Dr. Amelia Von Butch: Now, out of the sandbox kids...play time's over! |
Shaggy: For once in my life I don't want my mummy! |
Shaggy: Hey, Scoob, do you know who tucks a mummy into bed at night? His mummy. |
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Images[]
References[]
- ↑ (November 11, 2005). "New Scooby-Doo Movie to Premiere on Cartoon Network Thanksgiving Day". The Futon Critic. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ↑ Snyder, Gabriel (August 31, 2005). "Kidtoon adds 2 WB titles". Variety. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
External links[]
- Buy from Amazon Video (US)