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Rhune
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Hoodwinked! (A pleasant surprise)
« on: Jan 17^th, 2006, 4:40am »

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Marvelous! Loved it! Worth my money and I'd see it again. The audience applauded when the end credits rolled.

This is a film where they pretty much built it in their basement on a home computer. The graphics are nothing to scream about, and certainly sub-par to Pixar or Shrek graphics, BUT, clearly the money they saved on graphics was spent on writing talent.

I have not laughed this hard at a film in a long time. It was witty and funny, and moved at a fast pace. You see so many movies where it feels like they spent so much money on the special effects that they had $10 left over to pay the script writer, and this film is the opposite of that. I hope these guys make so much profit off this film that they can afford better graphics for their next film, as long as they keep the same writers!

I had not even heard of this film until my son mentioned it, and haven't seen any trailers for it at the theatre. They obviously had no money left over for an advertising budget, so I'm gonna do my part with word of mouth.

GO SEE THIS FILM! (Especially if you have kids or enjoy CSI type shows), good for all ages.

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« Reply #1 on: Jan 17^th, 2006, 10:19am »

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Official website: http://www.hoodwinkedthemovie.com/

I knew I heard of this movie. I looked around the Internet and I was right. It was featured in a news here because the animators were Filipino.

Just reading the premise of the story makes me chuckle.

From IMDB:

"Little Red Riding Hood: A classic story, but there's more to every tale than meets the eye. Before you judge a book by its cover, you've got to flip through the pages. For this story, we begin at the end. Furry and feathered cops from the animal world investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage, involving a girl, a wolf, and an axe. The charges are many: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license. Not to mention, this case might be tied to the elusive "Goody Bandit" who has been stealing the recipes of goody shops everywhere."

I hope they release it here!

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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,1147914_1_0_,00.html

Entertainment Weekly
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman
EW Grade: A-

Hoodwinked, a fast and furious crackpot skewering of Little Red Riding Hood, is reminiscent of a number of other digitally animated fractured fairy tales. Cory and Todd Edwards, the co-writer-directors (with Tony Leech), work with an intricately frenzied slapstick delirium that invites comparison to the Shrek films, the Pixar fables, and (in the nondigital realm) Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The Edwards brothers, however, made their movie independently for $15 million — a miraculously low sum in the world of feature-length animation — and what that relative chump-change budget bought them was the freedom to follow their flakiest corkscrew whims. When they stage a sequence in which Red Riding Hood's grandmother turns out to be a ride-the-devil extreme-sports champion (you heard me), zipping down a mountain on a power ski just inches ahead of a billowy snow avalanche, you don't question the zaniness, because the lickety-split insanity of what you're seeing is so marvelously timed and staged. Bolstered by a score of winkingly catchy pop ditties (I especially liked the annoying billy goat who's forced to sing every line he speaks), Hoodwinked is all jokes, bits, and interlocking narrative gimcrackery; it lacks even a trace of feel-good frosting. Yet the absence of ''heart'' is part of the film's charm — its antic amorality. If popular, it could kick a whole new era of homegrown animated madness into high gear.

In the spirit of a Tarantino time bender, Hoodwinked begins at the end, with the famous climax of Little Red Riding Hood. Except that Red's confrontation with the Wolf in Granny drag is interrupted by a lantern-jawed Scandinavian lumberjack crashing through the window, at which point you know you're not in Grimmville anymore. The movie then flashes back to four different versions of the events that led to the ''crime scene,'' showing us the tale from the point of view of Red herself (voiced by a no-nonsense Anne Hathaway); the Wolf (Patrick Warburton), who turns out to be less predatory than he looks; the wildly stoked Granny (Glenn Close); and that what-in-God's-name-is-he-doing-there lumberjack Woodsman (Jim Belushi). The result is a wacked kiddie Rashomon in which the different versions dovetail with a logic as impeccable as it is flat-out buggy. So who do we root for? Everyone and no one. Hoodwinked's most radical feature is that it's a ride without heroes — unless, that is, you count the filmmakers, who could end up doing for independent animation what Soderbergh and Tarantino did for indie film: planting it on the map as a viable mass-culture form.

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Re: Hoodwinked! (A pleasant surprise)
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one of our local reviewers liked it alot... said it was VERY good for kids, was entertaining, and not an inappropriate thing in it... definitely a movie for any age... may try to catch it this weekend...

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