Eesh! What is this supposed to be? Shaggy and Scooby's solo outings usually make for good movies. But Ghoul School comes nowhere near the surprisingly good Boo Brothers or Reluctant Werewolf and is so far behind modern Scooby Doo animation. It really is the cheapest, shoddiest Scooby effort I've ever seen.There isn't even a mystery, thus explaining the lack of the Mystery Machine (an ugly red van is the replacement). So why on earth they bothered to make this a Scooby Doo movie is puzzling if they weren't deliberately exploiting a popular character. It's just all wrong! Shaggy gets a job in an all-girl (actually Ghoul) school teaching Phys. Ed. I'm sorry but when did Shaggy become a qualified Gym Teacher? There's some pointless story involving a volleyball competition with a Military School next door that isn't good enough to distract from the bore and then after that some old hag called Revolta turns up and turns them all into zombies. Uh...yeah. Shaggy obviously saves the day but by this point I had dozed off. It bored me to sleep!The 1.33:1 full frame picture shows how cruddy the animation is and the sound is plain old mono. Aside from the usual 'how to draw' extras this DVD also features a trailer that cheekily uses lots of footage of modern Scooby animation and mixes it with Ghoul School to make it look new. I wasn't fooled.Don't buy this. Rent it for the kids if there is really nothing else.

My older sister and I grew up with this movie I love it. I've seen it now and I admit it's bit lame but I love it. I also love the Scooby Doo movie where Shaggy turns into a wolf. If you grew up watching these movies you just have to love them.

Most likely inspired by the episode from "New Scobby-Doo Movies" where Tim Conway guest stared and Shag and Scoob were the "worlds greatest athletes." This TV movie released in 1988 is another bad `80s Scobby cartoon. The whole concept is lame and a horrible transition from chasing 13 ghosts to teaching a group of female ghouls.1(*)out of 4(****)stars

You know what this movie needs? MORE bad puns!! Yes, more!Seriously, the depth of every character is simply that they say one word that somehow relates to who or what they are. Now, I don't expect much in the way of characters for a kids cartoon, but come on. Seriously, I think a group of eight year old children could have produced a better script.We have one character who is a young vampire and, as such, can turn into a bat. So, all her lines revolve around her making a pun with bat. Such as "that is a BAT idea!" And yes, even "I shall do my bat." Which, to me, doesn't even work. Bat and best don't even begin to rhyme.And there is the young mummy who only ever talks of her "mummy" (GET IT? LIKE HER MOM! OH THE COMEDY! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ugh). However, later on when we get to meet all the children (the students in said "Ghoul School") we do not meet her "mummy," but rather her father. What?And in the meantime, we see Shaggy and Scooby occasionally chipping in a line here or there and the obligatory eating and getting scared/running away sequences. There is one such sequence where they decide to run away from the fathers of the children and, all of a sudden, the all-too annoying Scrappy Doo makes an appearance. You don't see him for like fifteen minutes, without explanation, and suddenly he literally just jumps into the running away scene for no particular reason.And don't even get me started on the volleyball scene and the lack of rules (okay, okay, little kids, whom this cartoon was intended, won't understand anyway, but it was SO bad that the producers HAD to know they were destroying any semblance of the game's rules). And yes, we also have a character that is a combination of a bat and a spider. And his name? Spiderbat, of course.Yes, this will probably appeal to some children, but even I didn't enjoy it when it was out. Even at the tender age of nine I could tell this was garbage and having just watched it again on television, I can plainly see why. Avoid this at all costs. It will make you "batty!"