Hoodwinked

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Hoodwinked

Director: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards
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Distributor: Weinstein Company
So you think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Don’t be too sure…. One of your favorite fairy tales is turned upside-down and inside-out in what the L.A. Times called “high-energy, imaginative entertainment.” With irreverent storytelling, spunk and wit, Hoodwinked delivers a comedy caper for the young, the young at heart and everyone in between. When the police arrive at Granny’s cottage in the woods to answer a domestic disturbance call, it looks like just another open-and-shut case. But Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Woodsman are not your usual suspects, as they have their own dark secrets, wily deceptions and conflicting accounts of the crime. Together, they must put aside their differences and find their own original twist on Happily Ever After in this “raucous, genre-busting, animated gem (Entertainment Weekly, The Must List).”
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Amazon.com

Hoodwinked fuses the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood with the crisscrossing storylines of film noir—pretty ambitious stuff for a computer-animated cartoon. The police cordon off Grandma’s cottage and an amphibious version of William Powell named Nicky Flippers (voiced by David Ogden Stiers, M*A*S*H) begins interrogating the suspects: A Little Red in bell-bottoms (Anne Hathaway, Ella Enchanted), a Wolf turned investigative journalist (Patrick Warburton, The Woman Chaser), a snow-boarding Granny (Glenn Close, 101 Dalmatians), and a dimwitted would-be Woodsman (Jim Belushi, Curly Sue), each of whom have very different reasons for ending up in that cottage living room. The visual style of Hoodwinked mixes a clunky, video-game look with an homage to the stop-motion puppetry of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and other Rankin-Bass holiday specials. While sometimes awkward, there are also moments of surreal beauty, such as when a depressed Red wanders through a field of blue and red flowers—and moments of lunatic comedy, such as the Schnitzel song, which is irresistibly bizarre. The Shrek-style pop-culture references grow annoying, but the left-field goofiness of a yodeling goat points toward a far more distinct and delightful comic world. Also featuring the voices of Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack), rapper Xzibit, and an especially witty turn by Andy Dick (NewsRadio) as a deceptively cute bunny rabbit. —Bret Fetzer

Barnes and Noble

This animated comedy puts a topical, irreverent spin on the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, turning it into a cartoon version of a TV cop show. Little Red, Granny, the Woodsman, and the Big Bad Wolf take turns getting grilled by police who show up at Granny’s cottage to answer a domestic disturbance call. What the investigation turns up—the conflicting accounts, the contradictory evidence, the hidden motives—is enough to make a CSI investigator look for another line of work. Judged on the quality of its animation, Hoodwinked doesn’t rate consideration with the big-budget Pixar or DreamWorks releases, but it sports a witty, playful script and strong vocal performances from Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Patrick Warburton, Jim Belushi, Andy Dick, Anthony Anderson, and rapper Xzibit (Alvin Nathaniel Joiner). The DVD extras really enhance this release, too: Bonuses include 10 minutes of deleted scenes and a fascinating 13-minute featurette, “How to Make an Animated Film,” which includes concept sketches, storyboards, and insightful revelations from producers David Lovegren and Sue Bea Montgomery and co-writer/director Cory Edwards. Ed Hulse

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