Product 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)."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5435 in DVD
• Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
• Released on: 2006-05-02
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 80 minutes

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

From The New Yorker
Cory Edwards's computer-animated film is a "Rashomon"-like take on Little Red Riding Hood, with Red (voiced by Anne Hathaway), Granny (Glenn Close), the woodsman (James Belushi), and the wolf (Patrick Warburton) each telling his or her side of the story to a sly frog detective (David Ogden Stiers). The film is independently and cheaply made, and it shows: if the visuals are a little rough around the edges, the project nonetheless has the homemade and joyful tone of a high-school skit. The story is set in the cell-phone-and-personal-computer-free nineteen-seventies and features bell-bottoms, kung fu, and a clutch of songs that channel the era's hits, from ZZ Top's to Kurtis Blow's. Some of the subplots seem a bit farfetched, but when the music kicks in and the gags score—as with a banjo-bearing ram with interchangeable horns and an antically caffeinated squirrel—the film is an effervescent high for all ages.
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

SHREK meets the INCREDIBLEs meets FLETCH
Was the Wolf framed? Is there more to Red-Riding Hood than her keen deductive ability and her hood? "HOODWINKED" asks these questions in a film more family friendly than SHREK. Sure, comparison to the SHREK films in unavoidable when twisting fairy tales. But Hoodwinked has it's own style, although it is a less slick style than Pixar or Dreamworks. Just with more quirky songs and more awkward charm.

HOODWINKED,is a FRACTURED FAIRY TALE in the spirit of Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. The movieopens like a traditional telling of Red-Riding Hood,with "Red" voiced by Anne Hathaway taking goodies to Granny, voiced by Glenn Close, she finds the wolf, a woodsman (Jim Belushi) leaps in with an ax.....then the police arrive. The best Of these retellings are by the Wolf, voiced by Patrick Warburton, and Granny. The Wolf reveals that he is an undercover reporter who not only dresses like Chevy Chase's Fletch, but he shares Fletch's disguise kit and soundtrack. Warburton plays the Wolf perfectly in every scene. Granny's retaling parodies "XXX" in her taste for extreme sports is revealed. Other notable voices and cameos by Andy Dick, David Ogden Stiers and Xzbit.

The film is loaded with great one-liners, pop references and gags that will appeal to all-ages.

surprisingly funny and refreshingly clever
not the usual tired fare that unfortunately makes up most children's movies (even disney these days)

this is a super clever rewrite of little red riding hood with all sorts of zany characters and twists on the original. it's funny, fast-paced and amazingly no violence, sex or profanity. Good job!

If you like twisted fairy tales...
...you'll love Hoodwinked. If you are looking for sheer cinematic glory in the form of perfect CGI animation, look somewhere else. This movie was made on a shoe-string budget, but that doesn't take away from the great script and fantastic voice work of the cast. Red, Granny, the Wolf, and the Woodsman are questioned by the forest police in connection with the break-in at Granny's and a recent string of goody recipe thefts. Voice talent includes Anne Hathaway, Glenn Glose, Patrick Warbutron, and Jim Belushi. However, my favorite character was Twitchy, the Squirrel, voiced by one of the movie's creators, Cory Edwards.