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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 98 reviews)
Sales Rank: 502
Category: DVD
Author: Hoodwinked
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Studio: Weinstein Company
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
Label: Weinstein Company
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 80 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 796019791090
EAN: 0796019791090
ASIN: B000EQ5UHS
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: January 13, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Description
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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Customer Reviews: Read 93 more reviews...
 Escapist July 25, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was interesting, amusing, original and certainly worth taking but it is not the type of item I would like to make a habit of. I have a very broad sense of humour but that embraces more the subtle type of circumstance rather than this.
In fairness, however, I must admit that one of my greatest pleasures is live onstage lunacy -- but this is because I am then a firm part of the environment.
But to return to the subject, this is not a condemnation but rather a consideration of where it sits, priority-wise, in my own makeup.
 Teachers point of view July 24, 2006
As an eighth grade language arts teacher, Hoodwinked is a "no brainer" for teaching point of view. Although you may need to watch it more than once for the students to "get it" - stopping the DVD and explaining point of view through the characters retelling of the incident was very helpful. What a great way to bring media into the classroom to teach.
Pomo Retelling of Little Red Riding Hood is Under-rated Treat July 11, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I briefly saw print ads for this movie at the theaters earlier in the year but completely missed the theatrical release, and was surprised to see it pop up on DVD already, but was happy to rent it and check it out.
Hoodwinked is a computer animated movie that takes a sort of postmodern look at the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. The movie opens with Red (as in Little Riding Hood) making the fabled entrance into Grandma's house, encountering the wolf, with bound-and-gagged grandma and the ax-wielding woodsman arriving on the scene--then the cops show up. Amphibian investigator Nicky Flippers takes over the case, interviewing all the key players one by one and having them each give, Rashomon-like, their version of the story. The pleasure, as these tales unfold, is in seeing how elements of one character's explanation fits into or explains or even causes things seen in another character's version. This plus the by now expected Shrek-style postmodern/referential humor makes the movie a fun one for adults, but I imagine older kids would enjoy the story too, seeing how it all fits together in the end, and fits into a larger plot involving an evil mastermind out to steal all the goodie recipes in the forest.
The only rather limp subplot for me was Red's desire to see more of the world and not be protected from risk by her doting grandmother (who has secrets of her own). That, and the songs, I could have done without. The rest was sheer pleasure, and frequently laugh-out-loud fun. This movie should have gotten more attention as a theatrical release, and I hope it finds an audience on DVD.
Clever and Diverting July 11, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I didn't finish watching this movie with some great and profound new theory on life. In fact, the theme was about as generic as they come, being something along the lines of learning to accept one's family and find one's inner strengths. However, I did finish this movie with a few silly jokes bouncing around in my head, and a half-sheepish smile on my face.
Why half-sheepish? Well, at sixteen-years-old, I'm hardly supposed to enjoy fairy tales. This one, however, had a certain charm, which, incidentally, was based solely in the show's spunky characters. Red is bold and clever, and yet maintains a girlish innocence. Granny is tough as nails, hardly the usual symbol of elderly weakness. The wolf is that sort of pathetic embodiment of middle-agedness that heads so many bad sit-coms. Other characters, though small, flesh out wonderfully in well-orchestrated moments.
The movie, however, wasn't flawless. I was irrated by the constant use of bad German accents for humour, and I can hardly say that the film changed my life. However, it was a welcome diversion, and it filled my evening with that fleeting sense of happiness and comfort that only children's movies can create. It wasn't an hour and fifteen minutes shamelessly wasted by the filmmaker, but, rather, an hour and fifteen minutes intentionally thrown away by me.
Loved by entire family July 10, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the spirit of the old Warner Brothers cartoons, my wife and I enjoyed it as much as our kids.
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