Hoodwinked

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She must avoid enemies and score points as she climbs the different stages of the witch's tower. Red ascends the tower using her belt, which is used like a grappling hook to grab objects and swing her to new heights. Along the way various enemies and obstacles attempt to derail Red, from gun-toting piggies and sharp spikes to a maniacal witch.

Chasing Red all the while is Gretel, a lederhosen-clad, pastry-fueled behemoth who wants nothing more than to crush the life out of her. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Evil Theatrical release poster. Retrieved April 28, Evil Box Office Mojo". Retrieved June 7, Retrieved May 31, Retrieved March 23, A Peek Under the Hood page 2". Archived from the original on January 22, Retrieved April 21, Paul Peszko January 13, Retrieved April 29, Retrieved June 2, A Peek Under the Hood page 6".

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Views Read Edit View history. This page was last edited on 29 August , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. It sweetens the pot. Edwards expressed disappointment with the fact that the original actors would not get any credit for their improvisations in the film, which were copied by the replacement actors. The soundtrack was released in December Owing to legal disputes, the CD was pulled off of the market a month after its release [43] and was not available again until November In its opening four-day weekend, Hoodwinked!

The site's consensus reads, "This fractured fairytale doesn't have the wit or animation quality to compete with the likes of the Shrek franchise. James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film two and a half stars out of four, and claimed that many of the film's ideas for altering its familiar storyline "sound better on paper than they turn out in execution.

One aches to think what the great Looney Tunes directors could have done with this material. Several critics however, were more enthusiastic about the film. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave Hoodwinked! Calling the filmmakers heroes, he compared them to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh due to their potential for bringing independent filmmaking to prominence in animation.

Japeth was praised amongst both positive and negative reviews. Gleiberman and Churnin both felt that the character was one of the best parts of the film, [56] [57] and Westbrook and Wilmington both described him as "a hoot". In a mostly positive review for the Orlando Sentinel , Roger Moore called the character hilarious, [59] while in a mostly negative review for Variety , Justin Chang wrote that the character "steals the show every minute he's onscreen. One of the main criticisms of the film was the poor quality of its animation.

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Berardinelli called it some of the worst CGI animation in memory. He felt that the characters looked plastic, considered the backgrounds dull, and wrote, "On more than one occasion, I thought I was watching something made for TV. When compared to today's visual standards for animated films, Hoodwinked is far below the curve.

That art has come too far to embrace a throwback like Hoodwinked as lovably quaint. In movement, especially, do they lack grace and conviction. It seems like the recent breakthroughs in computerized magic have bypassed the poor Edwards fellows, as it looks stuck somewhere in the s, or maybe even earlier. Many reviews negatively compared the film to the Shrek series. Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail considered the film to be "a sort of discount Shrek", [61] while Burr called it " Shrek with added drek.

He felt that the humor in Shrek worked due to the fairy tale characters remaining in character throughout the film, and wrote, "It's pointless to scold them for behaving the way fairy tales intended, and that's far funnier than turning them into breakdancing anachronisms. Retrospectively, several critics noted that the film was considerably better than the computer-animated fairy tale parody film Happily N'Ever After.

Although Burr had given Hoodwinked! Acknowledging the crudeness of the animation, he nonetheless praised the writing as "bold and funny" and wrote that the direction "displays admirable comic timing. He also commended the vocal performances for having a "zippy, brash energy that doesn't feel condescending". In February , author Timothy Sexton wrote an article titled "Hoodwinked: He argued that the relative nature of truth was shown by revealing deviations from the original fairy tale as the film explored the story from each of the central characters' points of view.

He drew comparisons between the film's villain and the typical American business owner, going so far as to say that the character was "clearly based on people like Bill Gates and Sam Walton ". The film's director and co-writer Cory Edwards was surprised by Sexton's interpretation and denied that the film intentionally carried any political messages. He explained that he and the other filmmakers were simply drawing from the evil schemes common of James Bond films, Bugs Bunny cartoons, and The A-Team , and wrote "If Mr.

Sexton sees my movie as a sermon against mega-corporations monopolizing America, that's fine. But our villain is just as easily the face of every dictator in history, or every schoolyard bully who is compensating for low self-esteem, or any Mafia boss who dominates by either absorbing or wiping out his competition. Hey, if you look at an abstract painting and see the devil in a red splotch, that's your prerogative I guess a movie's message is only partially supplied by the filmmaker. But even if you ultimately reject their messages, old-school fairy tales are part of our cultural vocabulary.

There's something a little sad about kids growing up in a culture where their fairy tales come pre-satirized, the skepticism, critique and revision having been done for them by the mama birds of Hollywood. Even as I was making the film, I asked myself the same question: Are we parodying something that kids should have the chance to experience first, 'un-parodied?

I would hope that Hoodwinked and its sequels will be seen as trying to do something genuine with its characters, rather than look for the next joke at the expense of innocence.

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We ALL need the real folklore of fairytales, whether we admit it or not. Evil , was released on April 29, It was first announced in January [76] and in February, Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech explained that although they would be writing the screenplay, they would not return to direct. He wants to do the sequel justice and he really gets what we're trying to do. Kanbar Entertainment initially intended to finance production of the sequel independently as it had done with the first film, but entered into a co-financing agreement proposed by The Weinstein Company.

In addition to claiming that the postponement of the film's release date breached an agreement between the two companies, the lawsuit accused the Weinstein Company of not contributing to monthly production accounts after February, , neglecting to consult Kanbar Entertainment of a release strategy, and not responding to proposed changes to the film, even though Kanbar Entertainment held "final authority on production decisions". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wolf Anthony Anderson as Det.

I realize that there were other independently-funded projects being done at the same time, but It was made with no studio money, overseas, then picked up by a major distributor. A few other animated films have followed this path, but not to the level of success that Hoodwinked was able to achieve. I know Veggie Tales had a movie come out earlier that year, but that was with a struck deal and brand recognition.

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Hoodwinked was this freak of nature that was made completely outside of the studio system and, thankfully, worked. I know they could be better, but there comes a time at the end of the day where we just had to give up on some things. So to hear critics and people on the internet, like, ranting about it, we all want to yell back and go, "We know!

We know it's bad! But this is what we could do! She did a fantastic voice. When Glenn Close walked in, she said, 'Why do you need me?


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