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MPAA 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."
| 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: |
DVD: May 2, 2006 Theatrical: December 16, 2005 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 80 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 44 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.
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