Hoodwinked! (2005)

Directors:

Cory Edwards
Todd Edwards (co-director)

Writers:

Cory Edwards (screenplay) &
Todd Edwards (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

13 January 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Crime | Family | Mystery

Tagline:

Trouble In The Hood

Plot:

The recipes of candies of the goody shops have been stolen by the Goody Bandit, and many animals are out of business...

Plot Keywords:

Cable Car | Police | Goat | Bungee Jumping | Falsely Accused

Awards:

1 nomination

US TV Schedule:

Sun. Aug. 3

7:00 PM

TOON

Cast

Anne Hathaway	...	Red (voice)
Glenn Close	...	Granny (voice)
James Belushi	...	The Woodsman (voice) (as Jim Belushi)
Patrick Warburton	...	The Wolf (voice)
Anthony Anderson	...	Detective Bill Stork (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Nicky Flippers (voice)
Xzibit	...	Chief Grizzly (voice)
Chazz Palminteri	...	Woolworth (voice)
Andy Dick	...	Boingo (voice)
Cory Edwards	...	Twitchy (voice)
Benjy Gaither	...	Japeth the Goat (voice)
Ken Marino	...	Raccoon Jerry (voice)
Tom Kenny	...	Tommy (voice)
Preston Stutzman	...	Timmy (voice)
Tony Leech	...	Glen (voice)

Also Known As:

Hoodwinked! The True Story of Red Riding Hood (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild action and thematic elements.

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Czech Republic:U | Australia:G | Singapore:G | France:U | Norway:7 | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:Atp | Iceland:L | USA:PG (certificate #42224) | South Korea:All | Ireland:G | Netherlands:AL | Sweden:7 | Canada:G (Ontario) | UK:U | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6

Company:

Blue Yonder Films

Trivia:

On the Happy Yodelers poster it says Tonite only, Sporthalen - Eskiltuna, Tisdag 29 oktober 19.00, This is Swedish. There is a town namned Eskilstuna and they have a sporthall, tisdag means Tuesday.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the wolf gets in the ski lift his tail isn't trapped any more in the photo camera.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Nicky Flippers: [narrating] Red Riding Hood, you probably know the story.
[girl screaming]
Nicky Flippers: But there's more to every tale than meets the eye. It's just like they always say, you can't judge a book by its cover. If you want to know the truth, you've gotta flip through the pages.

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

Soundtrack:

The Real G

Stop dogging the animation

I'm annoyed at all the "know-it-alls" on these boards who are judging this film solely based on what they think they see in the trailer.

One guy went so far as to say that it was shoddy script-writing.

Let me just say this... I spend most of my time helping to make feature animation look really good... it's my job.

I've been involved with some very slick looking films. However, no matter how good it looks, if it's not a good story, it's still a crappy film.

Like the old saying goes: "you can polish a turd, but in the end all you're gonna have is a shiny turd."

I've seen Hoodwinked. I can say from experience that the animation isn't the greatest, the deformations aren't the greatest and the general tech of the film isn't the greatest. There have been many "prettier" films to hit the silver screen. After all, this movie was made on a shoe-string budget by CG standards.

Having said that, I fell in love with this movie after five minutes. The characters are endearing, the humor was fantastic and there's a level of originality and sophistication in the scriptwriting and storytelling that have not been seen before in the area of animation, not to mention a level of "cleanness" that is rare nowadays.

And, I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who has this opinion... after all, Bob and Harvey Weinstein decided to distribute it.

Go see the film... you won't be disappointed.

-Matt Steele

(edited for misspelling)