- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Animated; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
"The true story of Little Red Riding Hood," Hoodwinked starts out at the end of the story and traces the story back to it's beginning, as cops from the animal world investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny cottage. Hip and funny animated tale in the same vein as "Shrek."
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 Chas! er), 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
