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List Price: $12.95 | | Label: Weinstein Company
Salesrank: 4652
Released: May 2, 2006 |
| Our Price: $3.98 |
| Used Price: $1.34 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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)."
Description of Hoodwinked (Widescreen Edition):
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
Hoodwinked (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
A Red Riding Hood Movie You've Never Seen Before 
2009-11-11 - You Know whats so awesome about this movie they took he red ridding Hood story and twisted it into something new and unique. I love this movie. I Recommend it for everyone
great movie for kids and the adult jokes are hilarious, too
2009-11-08 - My children are addicted to this movie, we borrowed it from friend and had to get one of our own. The video was in mint condition and arrived in a few days as advertised. Never orded from Amazon before and now I certainly will again.
Kids love it
2009-09-30 - This is a entertaining movie. My 3 year old boy has watched it 25 times in 2 months, and it has not become annoying (yet). My 12 year old boy also enjoys this movie.
Hoodwinked
2009-09-14 - All our children loved this movie. They have watched it over and over. Lots of fun for the whole family.
Hoodwinded DVD
2009-08-23 - Great movie and price. Good teen, adult humor based on Little red riding hood story...very funny
