Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011)

Red Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

Director:

Mike Disa

Writers:

Mike Disa, Cory Edwards,

Stars:

Glenn Close, Hayden Panettiere, Cheech Marin

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Glenn Close	...	Granny Puckett (voice)
Hayden Panettiere	...	Red Riding Hood (voice)
Cheech Marin	...	Mad Hog (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	The Big Bad Wolf (voice)
Joan Cusack	...	Verushka the Witch (voice)
Bill Hader	...	Hansel (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Nicky Flippers (voice)
Amy Poehler	...	Gretel (voice)
Cory Edwards	...	Twitchy (voice)
Martin Short	...	Kirk the Woodsman (voice)
Brad Garrett	...	The Giant (voice)
Andy Dick	...	Boingo the Bunny (voice)
David Alan Grier	...	Moss the Troll (voice)
Tommy Chong	...	Stone (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Wood / Ernesto (voice)

Storyline

Hood vs. Evil will find a teen such as Red Riding Hood who will be training in a distant land with a mysterious, covert group called the Sister Hoods. When Red and the Wolf get called upon by Nick Flippers the head of the Happily Ever After Agency over to investigate the disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.

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Plot Keywords:

wolf | red riding hood | witch | computer animation | punctuation in title | 

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Taglines:

Not All Fairy Tales Go By the Book.

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for some mild rude humor, language and action

Details

Official Sites:

The Weinstein Company [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 April 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Capuchinho Vermelho - A Nova Aventura

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$4,108,630 (USA) (29 April 2011)

Gross:

$10,134,754 (USA) (15 July 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Weinstein Company, The, Kanbar Entertainment, HW Two

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Big City contains elements of New York, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.

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Goofs

When Kirk says, "We need to hurry! We have a 10 o' clock late show!", in the next few scenes, you can see the sun coming up.

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Quotes

Boingo the Bunny: Why are you reading that book? Nobody reads books anymore! Movies are always better, especially sequels.

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Crazy Credits

Stills and storyboards are shown throughout the credits while we hear Wolf and Twitchy arguing about which disc to play next.

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Connections

References Bewitched Bunny (1954)

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Soundtracks

"I Can Do It Alone"
Performed by Hayden Panettiere

User Reviews

The charm and wit are gone from this sequel.

Red is away training to become a sister of the hood, so the team consisting of the Wolf, Granny, Twitchy and Nicky Flippers have to rescue Hansel and Gretel from the evil witch themselves. They muck it up and Red has to come out of training to get them back.

The thing that made the first Hoodwinked a winner in my books was the witty script, which took a usual suspects route for a child's animated film. There were suspects, mystery and charm. All of this made up for the lackluster animation. The sequel, which has Hayden Panettiere instead of Anne Hathaway as Red, feels more like a studio animated film. Which means it's bigger, with more action and more explosions. The indie feel and charm has left the film and we are given the cookie cutter sequel. It expands on the world created in the first film, introducing giants, castles and more fairytale characters, but as always, bigger isn't better.

It says a lot when a voice actor leaves the role for someone else to take over and you don't even notice. That's the case with Red here. It's testament to how bland both actresses are with their voice acting. Patrick Warburton has a distinct enough voice and uses it his advantage. The day where voice actors are needed is far behind us. Robin Williams in Aladdin took care of that. Now we have actors looking for paychecks thinking it's easy money to voice act. So we get a completely basic performance from out lead character here.

The cast is impressive, we have Glenn Close returning as Granny, Cheech and Chong as some pigs, Bill Hader and Amy Poehler as Hansel and Gretel and Joan Cusack, Phil LaMarrDavid Alan Grier, Brad Garrett & Andy Dick filling out the rest of the cast. Andy Dick was the villain of the first film and here he has a Silence of the Lambs cameo. Hathaway wasn't the only one not returning to her character, James Belushi who played the Woodsman opted out. Enter Martin Short, which again had no effect on the character. The Woodsman roles has been reduced to cameo essentially.

The story is more geared towards the typical animated fare, whereas the original film was more unique, which made it stand out more. This sequel takes cues from other flicks and is everything but unique. It seems that there was little to no effort put into this one. A lot of the jokes fall flat. For example, a returning character is the singing goat. For what reason? So every so often we can cut to him and have something fall on him. It doesn't advance the story whatsoever and the jokes runs it's course the second time it happens. They went for cheap laughs with this one.

I would only recommend this one to young kids, they will get a kick out of the squirrel character. Adults? Not so much. Those looking for the same film as the first will be greatly disappointed since the sequel is more akin to every other cookie cutter animated flick. Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs Evil is a misfire and one that should never have been attempted.