Scooby Doo and The Samurai Sword is an animated family film directed by Christopher Berkeley. The plot sees the gang head to Japan so that Daphne (Grey Griffin), can attend a martial arts competition. Of course once they get there a vicious old samurai spirit wreaks havoc.
A few Scooby Doo reviews ago I was praising the fact that they started having the monsters and the supernatural elements turn out to be true, but now it is getting to a point where than is becoming a crutch; they have gone too far the other way. There are now officially dragons in the Scooby Doo canon.
That aside this is just a very bog-standard affair, there is nothing hugely good or bad about it, it is just what you would expect for slightly over an hour.
I am sad to report that this goes the same way as Monster of Mexico with its over reliance of tired stereotypes. Most of the Japanese characters in this film are caricatures, that you have seen before. This to me reeks of lazy writing. Furthermore, this film goes a step further and as well as Japanese stereotypes brings in other nationalities to also reduce to their most base form.
Overall, the poor/lazy writing brings this one down for me. It could otherwise have got a very middling score, but now gets a lower score.
2/5
Reviewed by Luke
Another Millennial Reviewer 