Hoodwinked (Blu-ray + DVD)

We watched this movie for a date night in, and we loved it! Funny, cute, and a great spin on a classic tale.

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My kids loved this movie so much I had to write a review about even though 162 people gave their opinion about it before me! I am not sure why I missed this treasure when it was out in the movie theaters, but I did, and we happened to come across it one night at our local Blockbuster. We brought it home and it was love at first sight for my daughter. After 74 showings and 4 rentals later, we decided to buy our own copy.The story behind Hoodwinked is well chronicled in other reviews. so I will not belabor that point. It is basically a whodunit about Little Red Riding Hood, her ultra hip Grandmother, the investigative reporting wolf, and an out of work actor who moonlights as a truck driver selling Schnitzel-on-a-stick to all the children in the forest! All four characters are implicated in the ruckus that breaks out at Granny's house and each character gets to tell their version of events leading up to the arrival of the police. Needless to say, the stories don't jive, yet each one weaves in and out of the other characters' stories.Patrick Warburton could not have been a better choice as the wolf. His delivery is fantastic, and he plays homage to one of my favorite movies "Fletch" both in attitude and dress. I know that you always recognize his distinct voice when he does a voiceover for an animated character, but you almost lose that sense of it when you see what a terrific jobs he does embodying the character of the wolf. The other pleasant surprise is the voice-over of Glenn Close as Granny. Despite watching this movie over 150 times and counting, you still don't know it's her. Andy Dick voices the maniacal bunny Boingo, and he too embodies the part. Great casting!My kid have watched virtually all of the animated films of the last 8 years, as well as the oldies but goodies from years gone by, and this is by far my daughter's favorite movie. She will forego Blue's' Clues, Dora, Sid the Science Kid, and Little Einsteins if she is able to find where Mommy hid the movie and flip it into the DVD player. As with most of the animated features offered today, there is plenty of grown up humor in the movie as well and I enjoy watching the movie as much as my kids do. I never thought Little Red Riding Hood could be so much fun, but it is! You WILL enjoy this movie. And if you don't--feel free to send your copy to my house--chances are I will need it to replace the one in current use after our 1000th viewing!

Hoodwinked first came across my attention a month ago while channel-surfing. The movie is another take on the Grimm's Fairy Tale, Little Red Riding Hood, and purports to tell "the real story". While stories of "the other point-of-view" are nothing new, many are widely successful (Gregory Maguire's Wicked, for example). Hoodwinked deserves to be in the ranks of such success stories.What sets Hoodwinked apart from others is that rather than settling one viewpoint, the film tells the story of all of the players: the Wolf's, the Woodsman's, and even Granny's. In the fairy tale, Red is seen as an innocent child performing a family errand and accosted by the personification of evil. But in Hoodwinked, Red is a delivery girl for a local business, and the Wolf is fleshed out as an intrepid reporter who mistakenly believes Red is responsible for a rash of thefts in the neighborhood. His foray into cross-dressing is simply an attempt to get to the truth. Even the woodsman, believed by Grimm to be a hero, becomes a clumsy oaf whose role in the adventure is best left unsaid. As for Granny, well, her beehive hairdo is merely a cover for a woman most people would love to have as a grandparent! Glenn Close does a magnificent job voicing this spry, sly, surprising grandmother.The cast is supplemented by several supporting cast members such as Japeth the Goat, Twitchy the Squirrel, and Boingo the Rabbit (superbly voiced by Andy Dick). But rather than relegating such characters to bland, background chorus roles as you would find in a Disney film, Kanbar Entertainment gives each one a separate identity, and an important part to play. Yes, some of them do sing--the music in this film is quite good--but it is music that Walt would never approve of.After seeing only half the film, I promptly ordered the DVD, and it now occupies a place of honor in the rack beside other animation greats such as The Incredibles, and The Simpsons. I plan to get the soundtrack as well.Director Cory Edwards has written a sequel, titled Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs. Evil, which centers on Hansel & Gretel. I look forward to see this next year.

Eyewitnesses are never reliable!

I love this movie. Its so funny, especially the Wolf. The movie starts at the end of the traditional Little Red Riding Hood, with the police showing up to try and question each one as to what happened. Each one has their own version as to what happened. From Little Red Riding Hood's point of view it looked like the Wolf was trying to kill her. Then you get to the Wolf's story next, he's an reporter investigating the Goody Bandit and thinks Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are the bandits. All of his weird and scary behavior is explained easily, his tail gets caught in the camera causing him to scream in pain, Red doesn't see this only that he lets out a scary roar. The ax man is actually an actor who got a call back, and Granny is into extreme sports. Its a funny movie full of funny moments as each one tells their tales of their journey to Granny's house. The Wolf question other bake shops, and visits his snitch a sheep, a mafia sheep, and while wearing disguises. He has a coffee-addicted squirrel friend, Wolf has tons of funny one-liners and full of sarcasm. Red runs into a goat cursed by witch he can only sing everything he says, except at one point he doesn't and Red points it out to him. The goat also has horns for everything including campfire set, laundry, and with hair. Granny turns out to be completely badass and very into extreme sports. The cops are funny like when Red says Wolf was creepy, Flippers says they don't throw people in jail just for being creepy, cue one of the cops who calls the jailhouse telling them to let the creepy guy go. This is a very, very funny movie.

Pure nostalgia this film, characters dull of charm, a choppy playstation game-esque art style, the twists and turns.I loved it as a kid and i appreciate it far more as an adult.Treat yourself to cinematic excellence.

I watched this movie with my 9 y.o. daughter and we both loved it very much - although obviously for different reasons. My daughter found it good - I think - because of funny looking cartoon characters and some children oriented gags and one liners. I found it irresistible because of more adult oriented dialogs (there is many of them but they are NEVER inappropriate for children to hear) and especially because of a great take on two monuments of cinema which are "Rashomon" and "Usual Suspects" (and also a tiny little bit of Hercules Poirot and James Bond franchises with just a soupçon of "film noir").Most of the movie occurs in a police station where the detective in charge interrogates successively the main suspects in an unprecedented wave of crime happening in the forest. The suspects are Little Red Riding Hood (voice of Anne Hathaway - and a very pleasant voice it is too...), Granny (voice by Glenn Close), Big Bad Wolf (voice of Patrick Warburton) and the Woodsman (voice of Jim Belushi). They will all tell the same story, but obviously it will be showed from their own perspectives (Little Red Riding Hood will be the first), like in "Rashomon". Now, without providing real spoilers, I can promise you, that the more we advance in the stories, the more irresistibly funny this movie becomes - and also the more we discover about the dark secrets in lives of all the four characters...The purpose of all those interrogations are to try to identify who is the mysterious and sinister Bandit behind the recent wave of crime - he is however very elusive and extremely resourceful, exactly like a certain Keyser Soze... And he is also very skillfully assisted by his evil henchmen, not the least of which is a certain gigantic Austrian bodybuilder...)))Concerning the technical aspect of this movie, I must admit that the CGI are not on the same level as in Pixar or Dreamworks movies - but frankly, this is SO MUCH not the point of this film! 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).I absolutely loved "Hoodwinked" and that is one DVD I am going to definitely keep! I am certain that you will like it and your children will like it - however it is probably not very easy to understand for smaller ones. I would say that being 9 years old is probably the minimum required to enjoy it. And finally - I am also soooooo happy that they just finished the sequel, "Hoodwinked Too!". I can not wait to see it!

Not a very well known film,but this film is loved by both me and the kids.Great for kids and hilarious for the adults too.Highly recommend

Slow paced but superb multi-layered humour suitable for all ages including big kids; big kids watch out for squirrel mayhem and Dee-No-Meet-Ay candles. Like Poirot meets Little Red Riding Hood and "Over-the-hedge" with a side salad of "Super-gran" in this silly who dunnit. Be prepared for anything; how about a cursed singing goat with propeller-head horns? .. But of course! Enjoy...

My 5 year loved this film. She found it funny and really enjoyed the telling of the story from each of the viewpoints of the wolf, little red riding hood, granny and the woodcutter. The bunny's song is a bit hit and she will watch this over and over again. A nice change from the usual Disney love story and enjoyable enough for adults to watch. A great buy