Hoodwinked (Full Screen Version)
by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech
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Actor: Anne Hathaway, Anthony Anderson, Glenn Close, James Belushi, Patrick WarburtonDirector: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech
Brand: Wellspring Media INC
Writer: Cory Edwards
Writer: Todd Edwards
Writer: Tony Leech
Producer: David Lovegren
Producer: Katie Hooten
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
Published: 2006-05-01
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of Hoodwinked (Full Screen Version)
Movie Review: Wasn't expecting this...
Summary: 5 Stars
Hoodwinked
After the success of Shrek and many Pixar films, it seemed like everyone was just throwing out any computer-animated movie they could make. None of them could capture the feeling Pixar and Shrek give to us. Oddly enough, Hoodwinked delivered on nearly every single level.
Hoodwinked is the retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. The movie starts off with the scene of Red going home to visit her grandmother only to find that the wolf has disguised himself as her grandmother. Then we see a tied up Grandma fall out of closet and a Woodsman break through the window. Next thing you know the cops show up and cool the situation down. The movie then enters an interrogation type mode in which they question Red, Wolf, Grandma, and the Woodsman. You soon learn that a goody thief is on the loose. The story revolves around trying to figure out who he or she is.
This story is extremely well done and enjoyable to watch. Hearing four different perspectives of what happened is very entertaining and gives a special feel to the story. It's obvious to anyone over ten to realize who the goody thief is by about the third story but that doesn't damper the story any.
The animation isn't the best out there, but it is pretty well done. I'm glad they focused more on the story instead of realism. Still, the animation isn't ugly by any means. You can still see every hair in Wolf. Other characters have good designs that make them different than every other character in this movie.
Extra are your standard deleted scenes, commentary track, and making of features. The deleted scenes are mostly just extended versions of musical parts of the movie. Other deleted scenes are drawn out pictures. This is pretty cool, but doesn't qualify as a great deleted scene to me. The commentary is pretty good and so is the making of.
Don't worry about this movie being too childish for you. My 50-year-old father was even laughing at it while we watched it. It has a very funny story with not too many musical scenes to slow you down. I would recommend that anyone of any age pick up this wonderful movie.
Summary of Hoodwinked (Full Screen Version)
So you think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Don?t be too sure. . . . One of your favorite fairy tales is turned upside-down and inside-out in what the L.A. Times called "high-energy, imaginative entertainment." With irreverent storytelling, spunk and wit, Hoodwinked delivers a comedy caper for the young, the young at heart and everyone in between. When the police arrive at Granny?s cottage in the woods to answer a domestic disturbance call, it looks like just another open-and-shut case. But Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Woodsman are not your usual suspects, as they have their own dark secrets, wily deceptions and conflicting accounts of the crime. Together, they must put aside their differences and find their own original twist on Happily Ever After in this "raucous, genre-busting, animated gem (Entertainment Weekly, The Must List)."Hoodwinked fuses the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood with the crisscrossing storylines of film noir--pretty ambitious stuff for a computer-animated cartoon. The police cordon off Grandma's cottage and an amphibious version of William Powell named Nicky Flippers (voiced by David Ogden Stiers, M*A*S*H) begins interrogating the suspects: A Little Red in bell-bottoms (Anne Hathaway, Ella Enchanted), a Wolf turned investigative journalist (Patrick Warburton, The Woman Chaser), a snow-boarding Granny (Glenn Close, 101 Dalmatians), and a dimwitted would-be Woodsman (Jim Belushi, Curly Sue), each of whom have very different reasons for ending up in that cottage living room. The visual style of Hoodwinked mixes a clunky, video-game look with an homage to the stop-motion puppetry of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and other Rankin-Bass holiday specials. While sometimes awkward, there are also moments of surreal beauty, such as when a depressed Red wanders through a field of blue and red flowers--and moments of lunatic comedy, such as the Schnitzel song, which is irresistibly bizarre. The Shrek-style pop-culture references grow annoying, but the left-field goofiness of a yodeling goat points toward a far more distinct and delightful comic world. Also featuring the voices of Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack), rapper Xzibit, and an especially witty turn by Andy Dick (NewsRadio) as a deceptively cute bunny rabbit. --Bret Fetzer
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