No one goes broke underestimating them, least of all the quota-conscious product managers at the "Scooby-Doo" franchise. Every generation, of course, will happily gobble up even the blandest, dumbest pop-cultural fare from its collective youth, but the boomers - now accompanied by their requisite 1.86 kids - represent a market rivaled only by China for sheer volume and force. "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" reunites the human and computer-generated cast that made the first one such a hit, slathering self-referential humor over an otherwise flaccid story to create a long, hectic late-boomer nostalgia trip. So it comes as no surprise that the factory specializing in the standardized widgets that sometimes pass for movies would fire up the conveyor belt and extrude another one, pronto. When "Scooby-Doo," the live-action adaptation of the 1970s Saturday morning cartoon, was released in 2002, it became a blockbuster of monstrous proportions.
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