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4.1/10
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The hyperactive red-headed bird enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.The hyperactive red-headed bird enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.The hyperactive red-headed bird enters a turf war with a big city lawyer wanting to tear down his home in an effort to build a house to flip.
Eric Bauza
- Woody Woodpecker
- (voice)
Eric Keenleyside
- Roscoe
- (as Roscoe Eric Keenleyside)
Keith Dallas
- Sergie
- (as Keith Blackman Dallas)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough shot in Squamish, British Columbia and spoken entirely in English, the main market for this film is Brazilian. Woody Woodpecker is a well-known character in the country and reruns of the original cartoon can still be seen on TV to this day.
- GoofsOn Sam Bartlett's name tag, her last name is misspelled as "Barlett."
- Quotes
Lance Walters: [after the grill tips over] Don't you dare post that.
Tommy Walters: Too late. Hashtag, EPICDADGRILLFAIL.
- Crazy creditsNiagara Fools (1956) (an old short starring Woody Woodpecker) is shown after the end credits.
- Alternate versionsThe UK version is cut by 58s to obtain a PG rating, by removing a scene of "dangerous imitable behaviour" where a character plays with gas.
- SoundtracksTroublemaker
Written by Alex Geringas, Alex Zamm and William J. Fuller
Performed by Blaze n Vill
Produced by Alex Geringas
Featured review
Not exactly the worst but sadly very mediocre
I'm not a fan of Woody the Woodpecker, although I do remember watching a couple of cartoons revolving around the character when I was a kid. But I do understand how certain people are fond of that lovable woodpecker. So, wouldn't you know it, Hollywood decided to make a live action/cgi adaptation of said character and so far it falls I the same category of movie adaptations of classic cartoon characters not being very good. But that's not why I decided to watch it on Netflix a few days ago. The only reason is because I was expecting something that would at least have some effort. Unfortunately, it turned out to be very mediocre. It's marginally better than the terrible live action Death Note film back in 2017, but its still not very good.
The story is juvenile and above all predictable with several cliches we've seen before which I'm not going to spoil, the writing is complete garbage with only one or two moments that are funny but the rest of the film is flat out mediocre so that doesn't matter, the characters are really generic despite the actors themselves trying hard, and the pacing is really uneven despite being only an hour and a half longer.
It's a shame because there are some good things that came out of it. The CGI is ok and is accurately detailed on the design of Woody and the voice actor Eric Bauza did a good job imitating the actual character. Also the music score is pleasant and the scenery is very pretty.
Is Woody Woodpecker as terrible as the critics and audiences made it out to be? Nope, I wouldn't go too far to say I hated it, it sadly, its still not a good film. My recommendation: just watch the cartoon and give this one a skip unless you have kids. Otherwise, I'd stick to Speed Racer (2008).
The story is juvenile and above all predictable with several cliches we've seen before which I'm not going to spoil, the writing is complete garbage with only one or two moments that are funny but the rest of the film is flat out mediocre so that doesn't matter, the characters are really generic despite the actors themselves trying hard, and the pacing is really uneven despite being only an hour and a half longer.
It's a shame because there are some good things that came out of it. The CGI is ok and is accurately detailed on the design of Woody and the voice actor Eric Bauza did a good job imitating the actual character. Also the music score is pleasant and the scenery is very pretty.
Is Woody Woodpecker as terrible as the critics and audiences made it out to be? Nope, I wouldn't go too far to say I hated it, it sadly, its still not a good film. My recommendation: just watch the cartoon and give this one a skip unless you have kids. Otherwise, I'd stick to Speed Racer (2008).
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- gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297
- Feb 21, 2018
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- Also known as
- El Pájaro Loco: La película
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $15,316,635
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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