If you want to know the truth, youve gotta flip through the pages. When the weather is bad, or you want or need to stay home this time, these are wonderful family friendly movies that will keep everyone entertained. Hoodwinked, a fast and furious crackpot skewering of little red riding hood, is reminiscent of a number of other digitally animated fractured fairy. Why hoodwinked is a fairy tale for our times world news. Made more for the independent movie loving family, and nice for a lazy sunday. In the first film, boingo is introduced as a friendly, innocent, sweet, companionable, well meaning, and honest rabbit who seems to be one of reds woodland friends. The story started with the familiar event, in which little red riding. A few other animated films have followed this path, but not to the level of success that hoodwinked was able to achieve. The suspects are questioned by detective frog nicky flippers david ogden stiers. Together, they defeated the evil plans of a vey bad little bunny, and came to work for me.
Its just like they always say, you cant judge a book by its cover. And for once, i even enjoyed the musical numbers, catchy and well performed. The closest comparison would be shrek and while the green ogres film was concerned with putting a fresh spin on fairy tales, hoodwinked. Full of manic momentum and nattering, witless word play, the movie has all the charm of a mudslide. Hoodwinked is a movie produced by weinstein company in 2005. Hoodwinked is an entertaining, but ultimately forgettable, postmodern spin on the classic childrens story little red riding hood. She must avoid enemies and score points as she climbs. An adventure game called reds escape which includes some of the characters from the movie was made for the iphone and ipad and is centered on the heroine of the movie, red. Dialogues are well written and full of treats that makes this one a movie to see more than once.
I found it light and funny and loved the squrriel who seemed to always be on a sugar high. Red puckett also known as little red riding hood, red riding hood, and the girl in the hood is the main protagonist of the hoodwinked series. The film puts a new spin on the childrens tale of little red riding hood as each of the characters is shown with a spin of their own. He is probably best known for codirecting, cowriting, and voice acting in hoodwinked 2005, and for cowriting and voice acting in the 2011 sequel hoodwinked too. Cory edwards born august 21, 1968 is an american film director, screenwriter, and standup comedian. He is reds archnemesis and the evil ski teams leader and boss. There are no overlaps, story twists, or the quick wit that made the first movie fun. This movie was so hard to come back to after the heartbreaking original. He is a tall, suave, debonair, obsequious, and pleasant private detective frog. If youre a fan of the first, dont let this movie ruin your day. Granny glenn close is worried that her secret goody recipe book is missing, one of a series of similar thefts in the forest. In addition, the movie offers a twist on standard fairy tales ala shrek.
A team of editors takes feedback from our visitors to keep trivia as up to date and as accurate as possible. Lovegren, sue bea montgomery, and preston stutzman. As computers get more sophisticated and highend animation programs improve, cgi is becoming the animation equivalent of digital video. Hoodwinked is quite literally the best movie ever made. Film blog why hoodwinked is a fairy tale for our times the guardian. Movies hk this category is for questions and answers related to hoodwinked, as asked by users of. Hoodwink is a 1981 australian thriller film directed by claude whatham and written by ken quinnell.
The weird animation suits this strange story of a movie that can be too intense for some. Granny is an old elderly woman, she is almost the same height as red, she has very large grey hair and blue eyes, in the hoodwinked. Aug 31, 2011 a higher quality version of this clip than is currently on youtube. It twists the red riding hood story into an animated mystery involving stolen baked goods. Feb 04, 2015 the movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. At the center of hoodwinked is a mystery wherein police investigate a breakin at grandmas house by the goody bandit. The classic little red riding hood tale told as never before. The candy recipes of the goody shops have been stolen by the goody bandit, and many animals are out of business. Evil is easily one of the worst animated movies ever made to date. Flippers is in charge of the happily ever after agency, as well as being another member of the woods police force. If you want a fairer comparison in terms of animation quality, youd have to look at something like jimmy neutron 30 million budget. Evil was released on dvd, bluray, and a 3d bluray combo pack on august 16, 2011. Evil is a sequel that nobody was asking for, feels. And while muscling into the market, producer maurice kanbar and creative team have clearly enjoyed themselves in the production of this movie.
Hoodwink 1981 film hoodwink is a 1981 australian thriller film directed by claude whatham and written by ken quinnell. For the most part, none of those movies made a good impression. Original motion picture soundtrack by various artists on amazon music. The movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. The movie was ordered with the highest resolution and on a newer tv. They are all arrested by the impatient chief grizzly. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Hoodwinked quizzes there are 20 questions on this topic. She is the 4 foot 6 granddaughter of granny puckett and wolf w. I thought all of them were dull and just made the movie drag. It starts off well, but then drifts into a straightforward, predictable story of hansel and gretel trying to obtain a secret recipe which gives them unlimited power. Evil is a 2011 american computeranimated 3d comedy film and the sequel to 2005s hoodwinked. Evil, if only because kids are never too young to learn the important and liberating skill of walking out of a movie and demanding. Hoodwinked makes citizen kane looks like attack of the clones.
There have been many prettier films to hit the silver screen. It started with a high quality picture and then got worse very quickly and did not improve. The animation, while a little bit of an improvement on the first was still kinda lifeless and some parts laughable. With hollywood eager to sell more tickets by pronouncing everything short of quentin tarantino films fun for the whole family, its refreshing to find a movie that really lives up to that label. I absolutely loved hoodwinked and that is one dvd i.
What themes and subjects are present in hoodwinked. The movie is only 80 minutes long, but it seems longer. Timing played a big part in the films success and in the epic failure of this years sequel, hoodwinked. Its a movie you can watch over and over and still find new things that make you laugh. Moss is a giant green troll who kills anyone who tries to cross his bridge. Hoodwinked a narratively smart, but visually ugly movie. The sequel catches up with our heroine, little red, training with a covert group called the sisters of the hood. I know veggie tales had a movie come out earlier that year, but that was with a struck deal and brand recognition. Limping into cinemas almost six years after its predecessor, hoodwinked too. The only way i think this movies animation quality wouldve been acceptable is if it were a student film. Detective nicholas nicky flippers is a character in the hoodwinked franchise.
Parents should take their children to hoodwinked too. We get to see little red riding hood with a black belt, the wolf who isnt trying to pull the wool over anyones eyes, granny with. Jan, 2006 hoodwinked is an ultra low budget affair compared to the average 3d cgianimated film it was shot for a reported 15 million vs 70 to 90 million for films like finding nemo or shrek 2. After all, this movie was made on a shoestring budget by cg standards. Boingo is the main antagonist of the hoodwinked franchise and the tertiary antagonist of hoodwinked too. Hoodwinked s success was not lost on the brothers weinstein who, after having left disneys miramax and seen from the inside how much money could be made from a big hit animated movie, were intent on making a name for themselves in the medium by serving up more of what was popular at the time.
Replace woods with suburbia and cory edwards weinsteinbacked retelling of the tale of little red riding hood becomes a contemporary. Forget everything you know about little red riding hood. The film was written by cory edwards, todd edwards and tony leech, who wrote and directed the. I have been pushing myself to watch this after a was torn apart by the original beloved hoodwinked. Hoodwinked also features the voice talents of andy dick, david ogden stiers, and chazz palminteri.
While the police are chasing the criminal, there is a mess at grannys house involving little red hiding hood, the wolf, the woodsman and granny, disturbing the peace in the forest. The film is based on the true story of a wellpublicised australian con artist. The script felt super lazy and was basically made out of puns. Red riding hood, her granny, the not so big bad wolf, and an overcaffeinated squirrel called twitchy. Evil was released on dvd, bluray, and bluray 3d combo pack on august 16, 2011. Paul peszko takes a look at blue yonder films independent production of hoodwinked, from its creation to its distribution by the weinstein co. After i used all of my tissues for my tears i made it through the first scene. Near the beginning of the movie, the chief of police quickly accused the main charactors of crimes that they di.
Where chicken little and valiant fail, this one really excels. Todd edwards, john mark painter and a few others have delivered a marvelous soundtrack to the movie hoodwinked. More pertinently, who genuinely wanted to see a sequel. Lots of people bitch about the animation being pretty stone age in this film, and for a reason. We start at grannys house as little red riding hood enters, but this time the story has a little twist. Now in the dead of january comes the new film hoodwinked. Technically, hoodwinked is far behind finding nemo or. Fades into the cover of a little red riding hood book with an illustration of the titular character screaming at the sight of a monstrous depiction of the big bad wolf as dramatic brass music plays. Evil once upon a time, there were four unlikely heroes.
Its the animation debut of a man who made a fortune selling vodka. Usually sequels to animated films go directly in video, but this was shown in the theater. Shouldnt have been made, since its one of the worst meantforkids movies ive ever seen. Hoodwinker too seems like it was created by a new batch of film makers that completely missed the point. Jan, 2006 when comparing hoodwinked to other recent releases in the genre, it comes out with flying colors. When shrek came out in 2001, a lot of animation studios decided to hop on the bandwagon to try to copy the fractured fairy tale genre that was popular at the time. However, in one scene in the sequel, when moss tried to kill red in a fight, red was able to defeat the massive troll with her kung fu moves and then crossed the bridge. Ten myths moms believe and why we all need to knock it off. The central theme of this movie is that you must never judge a book by its cover. Abigail puckett is the one of the main characters in the hoodwinked franchise. I feel kind of bad for having to criticize hoodwinked.
Evil is a sequel that nobody was asking for, feels cheaply made, and slaps on unnecessary 3d. Hoodwink definition is to deceive by false appearance. Possibly inspired by shrek, the movie is an urban fantasy retelling, using a rashomonstyle interrogation setup to tell the story, while reinterpreting all of the tales characters. I can say from experience that the animation isnt the greatest, the deformations arent the greatest and the general tech of the film isnt the greatest. Edwards, one of the movies codirectors and cowriters, also wrote most of the songs in the movie.
The in our house, we have two ratings for kids films. Hoodwinked contains a lot of music, most of which is an unmemorable as the visuals. I decided to watch it anyway and oh boy this was garbage. I thought the first movie hoodwinked was fantastic. The story started with the familiar event, in which little red riding hood went to grannys house with a basket of goodies. There were a lot of unfinished parts in the movie that made some studios nervous. For the time being, hoodwinked will fill that familyfriendly niche desired by filmgoers, but its not likely to have the undying appeal of a film like. The animation is an improvement to the original hoodwinked with only some of the original voice cast coming back. They couldnt see what it was going to be like at the end. Structurally, it borrows from the films rashomon and the usual suspects, as well as frequently intertwining various plots, a method popularized by quentin tarantinos cult film pulp fiction. Hoodwinked 2 seems to have forgotten what made the first movie enjoyable. It was made with no studio money, overseas, then picked up by a major distributor. It was produced independently by blue yonder films with kanbar entertainment, directed and written by cory edwards, todd edwards, and tony leech, and produced by katie hooten, maurice kanbar, david k. I absolutely loved hoodwinked and that is one dvd i am going to definitely keep.
The great quality of hoodwinked is the scenario and the dialogs and a great deal of new ideas at least one of which was in fact shamelessly stolen from this movie by dreamworks in over the hedge i let you discover by yourself what it was. When comparing hoodwinked to other recent releases in the genre, it comes out with flying colors. Apr 29, 2011 the first hoodwinked had poor animation, but was made on a budget and had a fantastic script. The film was written by cory edwards, todd edwards, and tony leech, who also wrote the first film.
Hoodwinked is a cg animated movie released in 2006 that parodies the little red riding hood fairy tale. It retells the folktale little red riding hood as a police investigation, using backstories to show multiple characters points of view. The first hoodwinked had poor animation, but was made on a budget and had a fantastic script. And some of the ideas having the wolf be a lupine mike wallace and granny be an xsports champion sound better on paper than they turn out in execution.