'Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!'
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! DVD Cover
Directed by	Chuck Sheetz
Produced by	Tim Maltby
Written by	Margaret M. Dean Jed Elinoff Scott Thomas
Starring	Frank Welker Casey Kasem Mindy Cohn Grey DeLisle Dan Castellaneta
Music by	Steven Argila
Editing by	Susan Edmunson
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Home Video
Release date(s)	September 19, 2006
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy (2005)
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Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! is the tenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on September 19, 2006, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, though it featured a logo for and copyright to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons at the end. It features the Mystery, Inc. gang travelling to the Bermuda Triangle on a creepy eerie cruise, with ghost, pirates, and monsters. Chuck Sheetz is an animation director on The Simpsons. ... Image:Http://freewebs. ... Franklin Willard Welker (born February 16, 1945) is an American voice actor. ... Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan of Palestinian/Lebanese heritage) is an American radio personality and voice actor. ... Mindy Cohn, as Natalie Green on The Facts of Life. ... Grey DeLisle (born August 24, 1973 in Fort Ord, California) is an American singer, songwriter, and voice actress of Irish, Dutch and Hispanic descent. ... Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American voice actor best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series The Simpsons. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A film that is released direct-to-video (also straight-to-video) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats first rather than first being released in movie theaters. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Scooby-doo is also British naval divers slang for civilian sport scuba diver. Scooby-Doo is an important character in animation up to this day Scooby-Doo is a long-running animated series produced for television by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1969 to 1986, 1988 to 1991, and from 2002... Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the 1990s. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Warner Bros. ... Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... NASA image of the western Atlantic, showing the popular borders of the Bermuda Triangle. ...

Plot

The story begins on a small boat in the Bermuda Triangle. Astrocartographer Rupert Garcia (voiced by Freddy Rodriguez) is in his quarters, trying to make sense of an old, bizarre star map which he recently acquired. The ship sails into a sinister fog, and is soon engulfed. A ghostly pirate Brig appears next to the ship, and zombie pirates swarm the ship. The crew disappears and Garcia hides in his quarters, with the star map. The villainous Captain Skunkbeard (voiced by Ron Perlman) enters the quarters, along with his cockney first mate, the aptly named Woodenleg Wally (voiced by Dan Castellaneta). The pirates cannot find Garcia, who hears from hiding that he is the one they are looking for... and his map. The pirates give up the search and scuttle the ship, and return to their Brig and disappear into the fog. Garcia escapes to a life raft, and is marooned on the open sea. This article is about the American actor; for the American cyclist Freddie Rodriguez, see Fred Rodriguez. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Brigantine. ... Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York), billed as Ron Perlman, is an American television, film and voice over actor. ... Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American voice actor best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series The Simpsons. ...

The next day, we catch up with the Scooby gang. Fred treating the gang to share in his birthday present: a mystery cruise, compliments of his parents Skip (voiced by Tim Conway) and Peggy Jones (voiced by Edie McClurg). While preparing for the ship launch, Scooby and Shaggy have a creepy encounter with a sinister-looking cloaked man, who the duo are sure is up to no good. Conway on the cover of Dorf Goes Fishing Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedic actor. ... Edie McClurg (born July 23, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American actress. ...

The cruise begins promisingly enough. The gang meet the bubbly but a bit ditzy Cruise Director, Sunny St Cloud (voiced by Kathy Najimy), and the genial captain, Captain Crothers (voiced by Arsenio Hall). The Captain says they are bound for the Bermuda Triangle, and St. Cloud promises some creepy intrigue. A montage of sloppy mysteries follows, which the gang solves with ease. This peeves the other guests, who have no mysteries to solve, as they are all wrapped up on the first day. Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress, best known as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica’s Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act ,the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill and her role as witch Mary Sanderson... Arsenio Hall Arsenio Hall (born on February 12, 1955 in Alexander City, Alabama, USA) is an American comedian, talk show host, and actor. ...

Soon, as the ship enters the triangle, they rescue Garcia, who spins his tale of the ghost pirates. The gang naturally assumes that this is a setup to another mystery. St. Cloud and Crothers are obviously puzzled and have no idea who the man is. He is taken below deck as a man in a jetpack appears from the sky and lands on deck. He turns out to be Biff Wellington, an English playboy and billionaire who is known to be fun-loving yet eccentric. He plans to stay on the ship as well.

That night, the gang attends a costume party dinner. The creepy cloaked man appears on stage, who turns out to be Mister Mysterio, a famous hypnotist. Shaggy and Scooby are picked from the audience to demonstrate his powers, but they prove immune to his hypnotism: yet the audience falls under the trance. Mysterio dispels the hypnotism and disappears in a puff of smoke.

At this time, the creepy fog appears and swallows the cruise ship. The ghost pirates return and wreck havoc, chasing the cruise guests about, who all mysteriously disappear. A thunderstorm also begins. Skip and Peggy are also kidnapped, and the pirates retreat back to the brig and leave. At this time, the gang realizes it is not a sham mystery but a real one, and they are the only ones left aboard, with Garcia.

With his help, they follow the glowing trail left by the brig and arrive in a secret harbor. There, they find Garcia's old ship... and then are captured by the ghost pirates, who take them aboard their Brig. The pirates, it turns out, are looking to find a meteor of mystic power, which fell into the triangle ages ago and could be pinpointed by using Garcia's map. They need both the map and Garcia to find it.

The Brig enters the heart of the triangle, and begin to see ghosts from the Triangle: The USS Cyclops (AC-4), a WWII era fighter squadron, even a sea serpent. Admist this, the gang manages to escape and explore belowdecks. They find a lot of modern equipment that was obviously used to project the ghost images just witnessed. The ship enters an odd ring of rocks, and pull up the meteor, which glows yellow. The USS Cyclops (AC-4) was one of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy during World War I. Named for the Cyclops, a primordial race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. ...

The gang then engineer a trap, which predictably fails. The pirates then attempt to re-capture the gang, leading to a trademark Scooby Doo chase sequence, in which the entire pirate crew is improbably captured. Captain Skunkbeard is revealed to be Wellington, and Wally is revealed to be Mysterio. The rest of the pirates are the cruise guests and past conquests of the pirates. Wellington explains that Mysterio convinced him (and likely hypnotized him) that he was the reincarnation of a pirate from years ago, and could use the meteor to teleport back in time. The crew were just hypnosis victims under Mysterio's power. Mysterio's motive was that the meteor itself was pure gold and he was going to steal it to make himself rich.

At this time, a fierce storm hits, and the gang deduces the forces of the Triangle want the meteor back, so they drop it back in the water, and some deft steering by Fred narrowly gets the brig out of the ring as it crumbles into the sea. The story ends as the cruise guests are now using the Brig as a large party boat as they sail back to Miami to drop off Wellington and Mysterio to the authorities.

Cast

• Casey Kasem - Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
• Frank Welker - Fred Jones, Scooby-Doo
• Mindy Cohn - Velma Dinkley
• Grey DeLisle - Daphne Blake
• Ron Perlman - Captain Skunkbeard/Biff Wellington
• Freddy Rodriguez - Rupert Garcia
• Tim Conway - Skip Jones
• Edie McClurg - Peggy Jones/Sea Salt Sally
• Kathy Najimy - Sunny St. Cloud
• Arsenio Hall - Captain Crothers
• Dan Castellaneta - Mr. Mysterio/Woodenleg Wally