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Hoodwinked
EMAILPRINTThe Weinstein Company LLC
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 45 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Animation | Comedy | Family/Kids
Written by:
Cory Edwards
Todd Edwards
Tony Leech
Directed by:
Cory Edwards
Todd Edwards (co-director)
Tony Leech (co-director)
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 16, 2005
DVD: May 2, 2006
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for some mild action and thematic elements
Starring Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson, David Ogden Stiers, Xzibit, Chazz Palminteri, and Andy Dick
An updated, satirical re-telling of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood."
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The result is a wacked kiddie Rashomon in which the different versions dovetail with a logic as impeccable as it is flat-out buggy. So who do we root for? Everyone and no one. Hoodwinked's most radical feature is that it's a ride without heroes.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Hoodwinked hasn't much time for soul or sentiment, but it is certainly amusingly smart and sassy.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
There's no getting around the fact that it all looks like a cutscene from a kiddie video game. It's a great showreel. Now someone give these folks a real budget so they can make a movie that looks as good as it sounds.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Hoodwinked treats "Red Riding Hood" as a detective story we've never really understood until now, with nuttier motivations, more complex characters and a screwier climax.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Zippily written and directed by the team of Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech, Hoodwinked just wants the audience to have fun - something that's been in sparse supply in theaters of late.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Hoodwinked may be a poor cousin to the Shrek franchise, but this made-on-the-cheap computer-animated feature still has more style and snarky gags than Disney's recent CG hit, "Chicken Little."
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
When compared to today's visual standards for animated films, Hoodwinked is far below the curve.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
It's a moderately enjoyable escapade that isn't quite clever enough for adults and not quite imaginative enough for children.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Mark Olsen
With its chatty, overstuffed patter, Hoodwinked strains at the seams to look with it, like one of those dressed-alike Beverly Hills mother-daughter combos. Having said all that, the songs (yes, there are songs, too), mostly written by Todd Edwards, provide an unexpected bright spot.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
Little Red Riding Hood gets a cheeky CGI makeover in Hoodwinked!, a fast-paced, fitfully clever 3-D-animated feature that will entertain tykes.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
What big ambitions you have, Grandma. And what a disappointingly modest follow-through.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The superior animation we've seen over the last few years has raised the bar for family entertainment like Hoodwinked, which features lackluster character design, so-so animation and only fitful bursts of cleverness.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Peter Debruge
Like an early Woody Allen film or a classic Marx brothers feature, more of Hoodwinked's gags flop than hit, but they come at such a steady rate, you hardly notice.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
Too archly scripted to appeal to kids and too crudely executed to win over older aficionados. The cheap-looking CGI makes the animals creepy rather than engaging, and a plot thread about a series of thefts does little more than spin the tale to feature length.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
The film's voice talent is good, as are the characterizations. However, the film's computer animation leaves much to be desired.
Read Full Review >Empire Olly Richards
The idea is so great that it's a crying shame that the end product is such a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Hoodwinked occupies some considerably shaky turf situated uncomfortably between "Shrek" and dreck.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Matt Singer
Sluggishly paced and stiffly animated, Hoodwinked pulls out all the stops to keep its attention-deficient audience occupied, but the snowboarding, skiing, hang-gliding, and kung fu sequences will still be a lot more fun in the Hoodwinked video game.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
One aches to think what the great "Looney Tunes" directors could have done with this material.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
The "Puppetoonish" characters in Hoodwinked didn't bother me: They're primitive and inexpressive, but their personalities come through. In fact, the problem is that their personalities do come through: They're all wackily sarcastic, unfunny nonentities.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Hoodwinked makes a little sense. Too bad, then, it's so crummy.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Nathan Lee
Less sassy than shrill, more crass than clever, the maiden cartoon from the Weinstein Company turns the Little Red Riding Hood legend into a sub- "Shrek" bummer that appears to have been manufactured for the pleasure of tone-deaf kids with a thing for sarcasm, extreme sports, and Andy Dick.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Why would a distributor suddenly yank an animated family film from its intended wide December opening until mid-January? Could it be that the advance word of mouth wasn't very good-winked?
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
It's horrible. It's wretched. It's Limburger pickled in castor oil.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
Hoodwinked is a computer-animated, "Shrek"-style satire of "Little Red Riding Hood" that offers a few laughs but overall is pretty tired.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 45 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jaimy V. gave it an8:
Without pixar's animation quality (mind you this is sort of an indie CG animation!) the only things you can rely on is: good plot, good songs, good voice actors and great jokes. Hoodwinked doesn't succeed summa cum laude, but it doesn''t fail either. Now, every once in a while a joke will misfire, true, but Hoodwinked! has loads an loads of jokes. There are enough funnies to go around with. Like in most cases of CG entertainment, the hero- in this case heroine, Red, is the most boring of all. Anne Hathaway does a great job in voice acting. But she's the girl-scout. That can't be interesting. Unless she's played by Tim Curry (öowilderness guwls, see loaded weapon 1 if you still haven't figured that one out). She finds herself surrounded by great characters. Wolf (a great Fletch parody for which Patrick Warbuten is perfect, perhaps only outclassed by mr. Chevy C himself! Boingo - I won't go into this much. Triple G Granny (a reference to Vin Diesels XXX), Nicky Flippers, The Woodsman (who sells schnitzel on a stick to kids), Japheth, a singing hillbilly goat (Japheth is by far the most brilliant creation for this film). Twitchy a squirrel with ADHD. The incompetent keystone PIGS (get the pun?). The movie plays on the fact that we got Little Red Ridinghood all wrong, and this is her real story. This twist is nice and original, but it can't carry a tune over an odd 80 minutes. The real twist is to play the plot like rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950). All the important Little Red Ridinghood characters are suspects and they are being interrogated. This is by far the most distinguishable thing from the movie. This sets this movie aside and above from all other mediocre tries to CG enterainment. It creates an opportunity to have the stories intertwine and interact. Which the creators have done perfectlty and only during the last interrogation all things fall together (if you have been paying enough attention to every detail -even the minor details -hence the term "detail") The jokes are funny, though I agree some may misfire, and maybe, they rely on too many injokes. A lot of jokes aimed at all-ages or us adults too! I love this movie. If you can see through the mediocre animation, you'll see the great characters and smart plot and storytelling. Although the animation style with the fairy tale style, so I didn;t think it was annoying. Besides, the characters, the rashomon style and the jokes distracted me from the animation. Overall an above average movie that could have been great. Now, it's "only"a whole lotta fun!
William T gave it a4:
The concept has promise but Hoodwinked ultimately fails to deliver any laughs or full fledged entertainment. The characters feel very thrown together at the last minute and the truly humorous jokes are very few and far between. How this movie managed to get reviewers on it's box cover, I'll never know.
Mixmastajb gave it a1:
This movie was crap! It was boring, stupid, and unfunny! The only reason I'm giving it a single point is because the concept is a pretty neat one.
Sheri A gave it a10:
In our house, we have two ratings for kids films: worth buying on DVD, and not worth buying on DVD. Hoodwinked is definitely worth buying on DVD. It's a movie you can watch over and over and still find new things that make you laugh. The wolf and Twitchy the squirrel are a riot. (The DVD extras with them are also great.) We're looking forward to Hoodwinked 2.
Jeff M. gave it an8:
I really expected to hate this movie, since it looked like it desperately wanted to be clever and painfully smart-alecky, but my kids and I both enjoyed very much.
Ben H. gave it a10:
i work at a movie theater and am part time screen writer at UCF. I was originally going to go see tristen and isolde but it was sold out and all the other movies looked horrible, so my friend convinced me to see this one, and i said i was leaving if i didnt like it. i stayed through the entire thing and got a good luagh out of it too. it was a great comical twist and adaptation of all the characters. and as for the guy at the very bottom, i could take a crap in a bag and put a jingle to it and it would be a better movie then the corpses bride.
David M. gave it a9:
Nay sayers say what you want. I dropped $20 to buy the DVD of the movie, something rarely done.
