CURRENT ISSUE 6/18/02 Front Page Weekly Features Movie Corner News from Travistan Ain't That America? To-Do List: Paul McCartney Moth's Diary Info Archives Crap Shop Who's at Fault? Contact Us! Aye, mateys! Get you some Daily Probe booty!	Daily Probe Movie Review by Preston Fillagre   Scooby-Doo Many consider Edgar Allen Poe to be the father of that favoured literary form, the detective story, and as such the number of cinematic realizations of this milieu that tend toward the noir in their tonalities and tropisms is legion. Credit the originators of Scooby-Doo with having the courage and imagination to take the Quest for Justice from that provenance and parse it with feckless -- even puerile -- players for a change. It is surprising to see the usually dark subject matter presented with nary a shadowy overtone borrowed from the German masters such as Lieber or Rheifenstahl, and giddily faced by heroes who seem unable to grasp the gravitas of their predicament. The danger here is that such exaggerated characterisations and meretricious visuals impede one's ability to relate to the flowers of its rhetoric on anything approaching a visceral level. It is, in the final analysis, almost cartoonish. I thought it similar to a recent production of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus set in the Wild West: We are impressed with the bold departure from suffocating norms, but are left to wonder at the choices made.
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