Hoodwinked!
(film)
Hoodwinked! is an American computer-animated
family comedy produced by Blue Yonder Films with Kanbar Entertainment. It was
released by The Weinstein Company in selected markets on December 16, 2005, before
expanding nation-wide on January 13, 2006. It was written and directed by Cory
Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech, and stars the voices of Anne Hathaway,
Glenn Close, James Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Andy Dick, David Ogden Stiers,
Xzibit, Anthony Anderson, Chazz Palminteri, and Benjy Gaither. An alternate title
of the film was Hoodwinked! The True Story of Red Riding Hood.
Tagline : Trouble In The Hood
An early cut of the film featured
the voices of Tara Strong as Red and Sally Struthers as Granny before the voices
were recast with Anne Hathaway and Glenn Close. Jim Belushi, who voiced the Woodsman,
also did so with a far heavier Austrian accent.
When red looks at the map
with the mine tunnels, at the top, you can see a location called "Kanbar
Kanyon" another reference to Kanbar Entertainment. Other locations include
Puckett Grove, No Man's Land, Boulder Dash, Yer X Here, Sam Hill and Murphy's
Low.
The book flipping by at the beginning of each sequence tells the actual
story of the movie. (Depending on the page, the original fairy tale is in there
as well.)
Todd Edwards, brother of Cory, appears as the voice of the costume-wearing
Sandwich Man.
Some of the text within the film's pop-up book is that of Charles
Perrault's version of Little Red Riding Hood.
When Boingo's ears emerge from
Red's hood when he arrives to meet Dolph at the Air Tram, Boingo's actions mimic
a specific plot-point in the 1981 novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Animals
featured
Human (Red Puckett, Granny Puckett, Kirk, Sandwich Guy, Evil Ski Team)
Gray Wolf (Wolf W. Wolf)
Squirrel (Twitchy)
Grizzly Bear (Chief Grizzly)
White Stork (Bill Stork)
Frog (Nicky Flippers)
Rabbit (Boingo)
Sheep
(Woolworth)
Mountain Goat (Japeth)
Gecko (Director)
Raccoon (Raccoon
Jerry)
Pig (Timmy, Tommy and Glenn. Voices: Tom Kenny, Preston Stutzman)
Woodpecker
(Quill, seen talking to Red. Voice: Kathryn J. Lovegren)
Hummingbird (Flock
seen carrying Red away)
Antelope (Seen on police force)
Deer (Seen on
police force)
Striped Skunk (Drummer, Creatures of Habit)
Beaver (Owners
of Snack Shack)
Turtle (Seen "running" from falling tree branch)
Wire fox terrier (Nicky Flipper's dog, unnamed, same breed as the film Asta;
also Nicky Flippers' stenographer)
Mole (Seen singing Great Big World, dressed
as The Village People)
Duck (Seen recklessly driving, when magazine falls
on windshield)
Woodchuck (Vocalist, Creatures of Habit; voice of Cory Edwards)
(Note: Identified by species only in the commentary, and in the song "Critters
Have Feelings")
Polar Bear (P. Biggie, member of Granny's team. Voice:
Kevin Michael Richardson)
Red Fox (Zorra, member of Granny's team. Voice:
Tara Strong)
Penguin (2-Tone, member of Granny's team. Voice: Michael Primiano)
Rattlesnake (Tambourine player, Creatures of Habit)
Porcupine (Seen with
car being crushed under falling tree - three times)
Caterpillar (Seen conversing
with another caterpillar)
Cast
Glenn Close - Granny
James Belushi - The Woodsman (as Jim Belushi)
Patrick Warburton - The Wolf
Anthony Anderson - Detective Bill Stork
David Ogden Stiers - Nicky Flippers
Anne Hathaway - Red
Xzibit - Chief Grizzly
Chazz Palminteri - Woolworth
Andy Dick - Boingo
Cory Edwards - Twitchy
Benjy Gaither - Japeth the Goat
Ken Marino
- Raccoon Jerry
Tom Kenny - Tommy
Preston Stutzman - Timmy
Tony
Leech - Glen
Plot
The
story begins in medias res, with Red , the Wolf (Patrick Warburton), Granny (Glenn
Close), and the Woodsman (James Belushi) in their confrontation at Granny's house.
Mid-scene, the story jumps ahead to the police cordoning off Granny’s house
following the opening events. The lead investigator, frog-form Nicky Flippers
(David Ogden Stiers), interrogates each of the four participants, with each character
giving their own version of how and why they arrived at the house. Because the
film uses a police interrogation as a framing sequence, it is evocative of the
1995 crime thriller The Usual Suspects, and because the four participants’
stories converge at points prior to the meeting at Granny’s, and are at times
self-serving, the format is evocative of Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon.
Red, the first interview subject, tells Flippers that she is merely a delivery person for her Granny’s "goodies", and that when she came across the ransacked home of another goody-maker, the latest in a recent string of such attacks by a thief known only as the Goody Bandit, whose crimes have resulted in the closure of many goody makers in the forest, Red decided to take the hidden recipe book in the house for safekeeping. This admission appears self-ruinous, as it casts Red in a suspicious light, but Red asserts her innocence, adding that on her way to Granny’s house, she fell from an air trolley she was riding with the rabbit Boingo (Andy Dick), and when she landed in the forest, she ran into the Wolf, who, after questioning her, appeared to become hostile. After using a “Wolf Away” spray (much like pepper spray) on Wolf, Red beats up the wolf with karate moves, finishing with a powerful kick, then fled, using a mountain railway system manned by Japeth, a singing goat with detachable horns with different uses. The two soon find themselves in the middle of an anvalanche which they barely escaped using the tunnel, but as the railway cart they were riding emerged from the mountain, Red saw that the tracks far ahead of them were apparently destroyed, and an image of her Granny appeared in the sky above her instructing her to use her hood as a parachute, which Red successfully did (the goat used a pair of helicopter-horns to land safely also). When she gets to Granny’s she sees through the Wolf’s transparently obvious Granny disguise, and just as he reveals himself and the two confront one another again, a bound and gagged Granny jumps out of her closet, followed by a crazed-looking axe-wielding Woodsman, who bursts into the living room through the window, screaming, to the horror of the other three.
Flippers then interrogates Wolf W. Wolf, who it appears certain is the culprit. But Wolf reveals that he is an investigative reporter whose prior stories Flippers is familiar with, and tells him that he and his hyperactive photographer, a squirrel named Twitchy, were investigating the recent thefts of various recipes by the Goody Bandit, and became suspicious of Red when he saw her traipsing through the forest with goodies in a basket. He explains that he was merely questioning Red because it was his job, and that when his tail got caught in the film chamber of Twitchy’s camera, he roared in pain, which Red took as an attack, and beat him up far more extensively than in her version of the tale. After using a shortcut provided by Boingo the rabbit, the Wolf and Twitchy used the mountain railway system, which was destroyed when Twitchy lit a candle in the cart that turned out to be a stick of dynamite. The duo arrive at Granny’s house, and Wolf throws Twitchy in the closet to hide, but Granny is already there, and already tied up, which complicates the authorities’ view of the Wolf as the culprit. Wolf puts on a Granny disguise, and the confrontation is again seen.
The Woodsman is then interrogated. He reveals that he is an aspiring actor, and that for money, he drives a goody truck, selling schnitzel on a stick to children. He tells Flippers that after a disastrous audition for a bunion cream commercial, where his thick Bavarian accent hurt his chances, he then discovers that his goody truck has been robbed in another attack by the Goody Bandit, as Boingo pops in on the scene. The Woodsman is distraught, but receives a callback for the commercial, and decides to prepare for the role of a woodsman by chopping down trees. After chopping away most of a giant tree, he finds himself atop it as it rolls down the hill towards Granny’s house, and he is thrown through the living room window, hollering the entire way. This makes him the only person there completely by accident.
Granny is the last to be interviewed. She reveals that she is an extreme athlete known as Triple G (a homage to the Vin Diesel character Triple X in xXx) who prefers activities like snowboarding to being the stereotypical goody-making grandmother. She explains that she enjoys such activities, and that at the Extreme Dream Snow Sports competition between her teammates and an imposing European ski-team, Boingo the rabbit even asked for her autograph. She tells Flippers that during the race down the mountain, the opposing team physically attacked her and her team, and she narrowly escaped a mountain avalanche via a parachute (winning the race in the process). As she approached her home, she saw Red below her in the railway cart, and advised her to use her hood as her own parachute. Shortly after, Granny arrived in her bedroom. Her parachute became caught in the ceiling fan, and she ended up wrapped up in it and thrown into her own closet. The familiar confrontation with Red, Wolf and the Woodsman then ensued. The revelation of Granny’s other life is a shock to Red, who is hurt that Granny kept her other life a secret from her.
The police are back to square one, as none of the four appears to be culprits, but then the basket of Granny’s goodies and the recipe book is found to be missing, as is Red. But we then see Red following the real thief, the one who was present during all four accounts: Boingo. Red follows him on the air tram up to the mountain, where he and his henchmen, the aforementioned opposing snowboarding team, plan to corner the market on goodies, and make them highly addictive to kids. Red is discovered, and placed in the air tram filled with dynamite. The Wolf, Granny and the Woodsman follow, and foil Boingo’s evil plans. Red is freed from the air tram before it explodes, and Boingo and his henchmen are captured by the police. The next day, Flippers tells Red, Granny, the Wolf, and Twitchy (the Woodsman became a world-famous yodeler) that he is a member of the "Happily Ever After Agency", and offers to enlist the four to work for him.
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