As the Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movies continued to be pumped
out every year, it was hard not to notice from a casual glance that
there was at one point more of a reliance on crossovers, including
Hanna-Barbera’s own Blue Falcon, DC’s Batman (the Brave and
the Bold version) and two movies with the WWE of all things. To be fair
on the last one, crossing over WWE with other Hanna-Barbera properties such as The
Flintstones and The Jetsons was in style at the time. One that stood
out to me, however, was a crossover with the band Kiss, named Scooby-Doo! and
Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery. While I wouldn’t consider myself a member of
the Kiss Army, I do enjoy some Kiss songs and I was curious to see how such a
crossover would work, which I got the chance to do after recording a Boomerang
airing of the movie. Though I wasn’t sure what to expect, I ended up enjoying
to a degree, though it seemed more like a Kiss movie than it did a Scooby-Doo
movie.
