Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Okay, so, right off the bat: the animation is not great. It's choppy, badly textured, and doesn't look all that good. But please, do not be fooled! That is the only problem I have with this movie!This film is nothing short of absolutely great. The jokes are consistently hilarious, there was never an awkward pause or poorly executed joke. It's rare to find a comedy aimed at children that hits all the right notes regardless of age.The idea of Hoodwinked is clever, but the execution is perfect. This movie is clever, and very sophisticated for a children's movie. The characters' motives and personalities make sense and are written well, and uniquely. Also, the way every aspect of the story interlinks is amazing. It takes a lot of skill to wrap things that well.The soundtrack is also provides a lot of fun to the movie.If you want a good film, and you can get past the animation, I highly recommend this. It is smart, funny, and interesting. Why would you miss it?

Good - The plot fits (almost) perfectly like a puzzle. The ending is very surprising and some of the casting is good. The animation is better than most. Excellent for family/kid viewers.Bad - The songs are rarely sung, and when they do come to singing the music is very dreadful. The animation, though better than most, is still very lousily made at some parts. One of the best examples for this is in the woodcutters story, when he is selling his goodies, the children are terribly frightening, though probably not meant to. The story line alters the story a lot, even though it may even been meant to, but they change it so much it dizzys you and mocks your mamas version of it. The grandma, very surprisingly and almost impossibly does "extreme" things which people, much less an elderly person is able to do.

I know that I'm not the first (and I certainly won't be the last) to say that Hoodwinked could have been a whole lot better than it was.But, all the same, this zany, fast-paced, and, at times, over-the-top re-telling of the Little Red Riding Hood story contained some very funny moments.Though, at times, the story went a little over-board, it was, for the most part, quite entertaining.I liked the characters - Twitchy, the squirrel (especially after he drank some coffee), and, Kirk, the Woodsman (especially when he played the Schnitzel Man).I found Hoodwinked's story to be way too rough and violent for it to be suitable for young children.

I knew that this computer animated film was based on the fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood, and I had seen the poster and DVD cover quite a few times, and even with its low rating I was willing to sit through it hoping for some fun. Basically everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the young girl in the red hood going to visit to her Granny and being surprised by the Big Bad Wolf, but this is the "true" story of what happened. Told from four perspectives, Red Puckett - Little Red Riding Hood (Anne Hathaway), Wolf W. Wolf - the Big Bad Wolf (Patrick Warburton), Kirk the Woodsman (James Belushi) and Granny (Glenn Close), they are questioned by detective Nicky Flippers (Beauty and the Beast's David Ogden Stiers) about everything that happened and led to the incident in the cottage in the forest. Red explains that she was delivering goods to Granny, but a threat from recipe stealing Goodie Bandit forced her to head a different direction, on her journey she met the Wolf who asked her suspicious questions, and when she arrived at the cottage the Wolf was there dressed in Granny's clothes, the real Granny was tied up in the closet, and the Woodsman burst in through the window. The Wolf explains he is an investigative reporter, he was searching for a lead to identify the Goodie Bandit, believing Red and Granny were culprits, hence questioning Red, but when she escaped him he travelled to the cottage and went undercover as Granny hoping to get the evidence he needed. Kirk the Woodsman reveals he is actually an aspiring actor, being a woodsman was for a part in a commercial, and after having his schnitzel truck robbed by the Goodie Bandit he went to woods to get into character, chopping trees, one falls and he runs in panic from it and avoiding it he smashed through the window of Granny's cottage. Finally Granny explains she is an extreme sports enthusiast, during a ski race she was attacked by the opposing team, they were actually hired by the Goodie Bandit, but Red is unsure whether or not to believe her story. But Nicky Flippers deduces a connection with all four of the stories, they all met the bunny rabbit Boingo (Andy Dick), and that he is the Goodie Bandit, but Boingo has already stolen the recipes of Granny, while the police go the wrong direction Red spots him and follows him to his secret hideout. Boingo plans to put an addictive substance into all recipes he has stolen, and destroy the forest to make way for new real estate to expand his business, but in the end the villain is caught, Kirk found success in a yodelling troupe, and Red, Wolf and Granny become part of Happily, the crime solving organisation. Also starring Anthony Anderson as Detective Bill Stork, Xzibit as Chief Grizzly, Chazz Palminteri as Woolworth, Cory Edwards (also directing) as Twitchy and Benjy Gaither as Japeth the Goat. The voice casting is alright, Hathaway as a karate loving girl, and proving her singing ability long before her Oscar win for Les Misérables, and Close as a feisty old lady, the Pulp Fiction editing is okay, but the songs are naff, the story is underdeveloped and silly, the characters are predictable, and the animation especially looks cheap, the youngest ages probably won't get any excitement from this either, it is a rather rubbish family computer animated comedy. Pretty poor!