gavinwrivera This movie is horrible. It is very bad. First of all, nobody asked for a sequel to Hoodwinked! The animation looked terrible. The animation in the sequel is a lot better, but it's still a bit dull and blocky. It looks like a computer game from the early 2000s. Second, the plot is predictable and lazy. Third, the end was cringy. Hansel and Gretel eat a truffle, which makes them grow into giants. Then they eat a whole batch of truffles, which should make them even taller, but instead they became so obese that they can't move. The cringiest part is when Gretel says, "Does the street make my butt look fat?" Why did she say that? Did she think a big butt is unattractive? What are the beauty standards like in the Hoodwinked! world?

aesgaard41 I watched "Hoodwinked Two;" better known as "The Sequel No One Asked For." I mean, has Hollywood really run out of ideas so much that it has resorted to creating really worthless waste-of-time sequels. (Or course it has, how else do you explain not one but two lame-ass Alvin and the Chipmunks movies not to mention another up-coming Smurfs??) I mean, they didn't even bother to improve the animation. One of the best things about the first movie was bending the story of Little Red Riding Hood into a farce of itself, but once you go there, where can you go? What the movie does is follow the incidents of the first movie into a new adventure, and have as many cameos from Mother Goose and the Grimm Fairy Tales as possible. Hayden Panettiere replaces Ann Hathaway from the first movie, exuding as much girl power as possible, but other than that, all of the original cast members has returned, except for Jim Belushi who felt unable to keep up the German accent for the Woodsman and was replaced by the tireless and wonderful Martin Short, barely given much to do in the movie. Beyond that, the movie suffers from far too much "sequelitis," that is, trying too hard to be too much like the first movie. One of the most favorite characters from the first movie, Japeth the Singing Mountain Goat, is turned into a one-joke device, getting the brunt of all the punishment from a series of Wiley Coyote disasters. Amy Poehler and Bill Hader voice Hansel and Gretel, the background criminal masterminds, who after a while become less evil and just down right annoying. Patrick Warburton is neutered as the wolf; he doesn't get any really funny lines this time around, and Joan Cusack voices the witch. She really excels with that cackling laugh, but the character is paper flat. Brad Garrett has a cameo as the giant, but even he is barely given much to do that prove how deep his voice gets. The plot is okay, but the problem is there are two many characters crowding each other. Heck, even Andy Dick returns to voice the rabbit for a tired "Silence of The Lambs" spoof. Kids may like it, but parents may want to look away.

Matt_Layden Red is away training to become a sister of the hood, so the team consisting of the Wolf, Granny, Twitchy and Nicky Flippers have to rescue Hansel and Gretel from the evil witch themselves. They muck it up and Red has to come out of training to get them back. The thing that made the first Hoodwinked a winner in my books was the witty script, which took a usual suspects route for a child's animated film. There were suspects, mystery and charm. All of this made up for the lackluster animation. The sequel, which has Hayden Panettiere instead of Anne Hathaway as Red, feels more like a studio animated film. Which means it's bigger, with more action and more explosions. The indie feel and charm has left the film and we are given the cookie cutter sequel. It expands on the world created in the first film, introducing giants, castles and more fairytale characters, but as always, bigger isn't better. It says a lot when a voice actor leaves the role for someone else to take over and you don't even notice. That's the case with Red here. It's testament to how bland both actresses are with their voice acting. Patrick Warburton has a distinct enough voice and uses it his advantage. The day where voice actors are needed is far behind us. Robin Williams in Aladdin took care of that. Now we have actors looking for paychecks thinking it's easy money to voice act. So we get a completely basic performance from out lead character here. The cast is impressive, we have Glenn Close returning as Granny, Cheech and Chong as some pigs, Bill Hader and Amy Poehler as Hansel and Gretel and Joan Cusack, Phil LaMarrDavid Alan Grier, Brad Garrett & Andy Dick filling out the rest of the cast. Andy Dick was the villain of the first film and here he has a Silence of the Lambs cameo. Hathaway wasn't the only one not returning to her character, James Belushi who played the Woodsman opted out. Enter Martin Short, which again had no effect on the character. The Woodsman roles has been reduced to cameo essentially. The story is more geared towards the typical animated fare, whereas the original film was more unique, which made it stand out more. This sequel takes cues from other flicks and is everything but unique. It seems that there was little to no effort put into this one. A lot of the jokes fall flat. For example, a returning character is the singing goat. For what reason? So every so often we can cut to him and have something fall on him. It doesn't advance the story whatsoever and the jokes runs it's course the second time it happens. They went for cheap laughs with this one.I would only recommend this one to young kids, they will get a kick out of the squirrel character. Adults? Not so much. Those looking for the same film as the first will be greatly disappointed since the sequel is more akin to every other cookie cutter animated flick. Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs Evil is a misfire and one that should never have been attempted.

gavin6942 Red Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.While the film has a great cast, it is so light on quality, it could have been a television episode -- this is not feature film quality. A few good jokes here or there, but a weak story and just nothing that really grabbed my attention.It seems the game these days is to make terrible sequels. "Shrek 4" was a letdown, "Open Range 3" was just average... this one, though, sets a new low bar in effort. Nobody involved gave a hoot about it (except maybe the voice talent, and they must have been in a very good contract, because I do not know why they would want to be in this after reading the script).