billrcooper I got up like a kite here and my bud and I discussed this 12 years old film. Boingo snuck us so hard. What an amazing twist. Really. Who saw that coming? Anyway I digress Everyone should see this beautiful example of early 2000s film making. My Mum took me to see it in cinema. Was great. Love you red. ;)

Python Hyena Hoodwinked (2005): Dir: Cory Edwards / Voices: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Warburton, Jim Belushi, Glenn Close, Cory Edwards: Absolutely hilarious computer animated satire about fairy tales. We have all heard this story at some point in our childhood but chances are that we never heard it told quite like this. Little Red Riding Hood cycles to Granny's house delivering goodies. Once there she is confronted with the big bad wolf and that is where the plot takes an unexpected turn from the traditional story. Red, Granny, the woodsman, and the wolf are all arrested and taken into custody where their versions of the story are revealed. What director Cory Edwards does is double standards all these characters that result in hilarious storytelling that sidelines repetition with surprise. Anne Hathaway voices Red who knows martial arts and is out to solve the case at hand. Patrick Warburton steals scenes as the wolf who claims to be an undercover journalist. Jim Belushi voices the woodsman who dreams of being a stage actor. Glenn Close voices Granny who is a secret daredevil. Their stories parallel but not without surprise. Cory Edwards provides the high sped voice of Twitchy the squirrel, the wolf's photographer sidekick. Colorful and extremely funny reworking of the classic fairy tale that completely overturns our expectations on the roles these characters traditionally played. Score: 9 / 10

Rickting Hoodwinked! is one of quite a few animated movies I really like but few others care about. Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, Granny and the Woodcutter encounter each other at the house, and recount the events of that day Rashomon style. They are trying to solve the mystery of a goody bandit. Hoodwinked, although widely ignored, is in my opinion better than the Shrek movies and is a short, sweet, snappy animated gem. It has its issues though. As many reviewers have pointed out, the animation is awful. It does frequently look like a cheap, laughably bad video game, and as clever as the plot is younger kids may find it confusing. There are some dips, especially when the rather irritating Woodcutter is telling his story. He doesn't add anything to the film, although Glenn Close is a hoot as the extreme sports granny and Anne Hathaway's Red is a predictable but entertaining spin on the character. The Wolf, who amusingly turns out to simply be a reporter trying to catch the bandit, is the standout, but the show is stolen from them all by Japeth the singing goat, who is absolutely hilarious and despite his small screen time is easily cinema's greatest goat.Despite the terrible visuals, most of the other elements are spot on. The script crackles with energy and funny line after funny line is delivered. The action sequences are both funny and thrilling, and the plot is packed with twists and turns and all of the individual story lines link up nicely. The villain, who initially seems to be a cute bunny, is surprisingly menacing and entertaining. Overall, the jokes are very sharp and funny and most, if not all of them hit. The film has a sense of low budget charm, and doesn't feel like a factory product like many other animated movies but is instead far more interesting and inventive than the others. Some may see it as slight, but it should be admired for its great jokes, clever plotting, unexpected sophistication and the diversity of the different story lines. The animation is awful and the film does have a couple of dips but aside from that it breathes life into a never especially compelling fairly tale and provides a razor sharp hoot for the whole family. Worth watching for the singing goat alone.8/10

Jackson Booth-Millard 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!