Original Soundtrack - Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed / O.S.T. (CD)

All Music Guide

A significant step down from the soundtrack for the first Scooby Doo movie which featured the likes of Kylie Minogue and OutKast's excellent "Land of a Million Drums" the music from Scooby Doo, Vol. 2: Monsters Unleashed is more in keeping with what is expected from the soundtrack to a kid's movie. There is very little that is as hip or interesting as the best moments from the first movie's music, and many of the tracks are strangely dated. That's not to say that decidedly '90s tracks like the New Radicals' "You Get What You Give," B52's' "Love Shack," Fatboy Slim's "Rockafeller Skank," and Harvey Danger's "Flagpole Sitta" are bad songs; it's just that they fall into that not new enough to be fresh and not old enough to be classic territory that makes them somewhat odd inclusions on this soundtrack. Indeed, there are very few new tracks on the album at all, save Puffy AmiYumi's fun "Friends Forever," Ruben Studdard's cover of Earth, Wind Fire's "Shining Star," and "Don't Wanna Think... About You" from Simple Plan, the only band to appear on the soundtracks for both the first and second Scooby Doo movies. Not so much a bad soundtrack as an uninspired one, Scooby Doo, Vol. 2: Monsters Unleashed gets the job done, but with a lot less style than its predecessor. [A version of this album with the video for Simple Plan's "Don't Wanna Think About You" and behindthescenes footage was also released.] - Heather Phares, All Music Guide Read more Less