Variety
A fast-paced, fitfully clever 3-D-animated feature that will entertain tykes but provide scant novelty for auds who've had their fill of revisionist fairy tale gags...
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Hoodwinked
A low budget, independent (the first to be big box-office-wise), digitally animated re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood which claims to show the "real story" behind the children's classic.
A domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage brings some feathered cops investigating what looks at first to be an open-and-shut case of a woodsman assaulting a wolf impersonating a granny. But as detective Nicky Flippers (Stiers) and Police Chief Grizzly (Xzibit) dig deeper they find all is not as it seems: the seemingly innocent Red girl (Hathaway) is worldly wise; the Wolf has been terribly misunderstood; Granny has a secret life no one could have imagined; and the insecure Woodsman has some surprising ambitions of his own.
A domestic disturbance at Granny's cottage brings some feathered cops investigating what looks at first to be an open-and-shut case of a woodsman assaulting a wolf impersonating a granny. But as detective Nicky Flippers (Stiers) and Police Chief Grizzly (Xzibit) dig deeper they find all is not as it seems: the seemingly innocent Red girl (Hathaway) is worldly wise; the Wolf has been terribly misunderstood; Granny has a secret life no one could have imagined; and the insecure Woodsman has some surprising ambitions of his own.
200680 minsUSA
AnimatedComedy
Hoodwinked / Reviews
Sunday Star-Times
On the whole, the gags - which perhaps work better for adults than the kids - are only sporadically entertaining, with signs of desperation kicking in when at least one Matrix nod is thrown in to augment the comedy...
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The animation style seems a bit dated, and the so-so musical numbers feel tacked on...
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New Zealand Herald
Although Hoodwinked is not as flash as Shrek, it's certainly a lot more witty and entertaining that other fairytale-based animations such as Chicken Little...
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Los Angeles Times
A high-energy, imaginative entertainment aimed at younger audiences. Hoodwinked hasn't much time for soul or sentiment, but it is certainly amusingly smart and sassy...
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Entertainment Weekly
The most radical feature is that it's a ride without heroes, unless you count the filmmakers, who could end up doing for independent animation what Soderbergh and Tarantino did for indie film...
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