Hoodwinked!

[TheShinje]

[color=crimson] Has anyone here on OB had the chance to see Hoodwinked? I absolutely adore this movie.

I guess it comes down to the twist-an-old tale plot, which cleverly takes the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and turns it into a Usual Suspects type interrogation movie, built on the premise that the tale we all grew up with is only one part of the story.

The traditional tale is spun from 4 angles, with each major character giving their narration of what happpened intertwined with interrogation/questioning scenes breaking the stories up, as each story gets told, the previous story is backed up by certain events from the different perspective. It's all very well done and thought out.

I've seen that this movie was criticised quite a bit for it's animation, but I didn't notice any animation problems, at least ones major enough that they could have yanked me out of the story to go "oh, that CGI, it's so crappy." To be honest, I didn't give it a thought. I went to see a spin on the olde fairytale, I got quite the hilarious take on it, I'm satisfied. [spoiler]The singing goat is a hoot.[/spoiler]

I'd highly reccommend Hoodwinked to anyone up for a good laugh, and to those who have seen this flick, how did you find it?[/color]

[DeadSeraphim]

[size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]I saw it... It was mediocre, but it had it's moments. [spoiler]The ending especially was horrid, though, "Join my secret task force you foursome who have barely known eachother!"[/spoiler]. It's trying to be Shrek but failing, but at least it does so with its tongue firmly planted in-cheek.[/font][/color][/size]

[Solo Tremaine]

[COLOR=#503F86]For me, the best bit about this film was when [spoiler]the wolf and the squirrel were in the mine cart, and the squirrel lights what he calls the 'Dy-na-mi-tay' candles.[/spoiler] That one line was the high point, and considering I'd seen it in the trailer already, I was most disappointed by the rest of the film.

Like Seraphim said, it felt like it was trying too hard. Bits of it were okay, but for the most part it fell pretty flat for me. Much preferred [i]Over the Hedge[/i].[/COLOR]

[BlackTigerGurl]

[FONT=Arial][COLOR=DarkRed][CENTER]I was going to make a thread about Hoodwinked but I would always forget. It's about time someone has.

I've seen this movie about 3 times and everytime I see it, it still makes me laugh. I love the way they did the twist with the story how all three stories entwined with each other. Pretty cool. But I was disappointed though. It was kind of obvious that [spoiler]bongo was the one stealing the recipes all the time.[/spoiler]I figured that out like at the very beginning of the movie. :animeswea

I did like, however, the squirrel in the movie. I don't think the movie would have been a success without Twitchy. Not only Twitchy, but the wolf too. They were the fun characters in the movie. I think that is why I liked the movie so much. That and the music too. I thought some of the music was fun and hip. I guess that's why I got the CD. lol.[/CENTER][/COLOR][/FONT]

[TheShinje]

[quote name='DeadSeraphim][size=1][color=indigo][font=arial]I saw it... It was mediocre, but it had it's moments. [spoiler]The ending especially was horrid, though, "Join my secret task force you foursome who have barely known eachother!"[/spoiler]. It's trying to be Shrek but failing, but at least it does so with its tongue firmly planted in-cheek.[/font][/color'][/size][/quote]
[color=crimson] I know, the ending was a load of tripe. [spoiler] "Join my secret taskforce"[/spoiler] was eerily similar to the plot I thought this movie was going to take, based on the awful TV spot. Initially this movie looked like it was going to completely bastardise the story and just put Granny, Red, The Wolf and the Woodsman in as some [spoiler] secret crime-fighting taskforce!!1[/spoiler]

If it hadn't been for the police mugshot poster advertisments, I would not have given this movie the light of day, lol.

Suffice to say, I'll boycott the planned sequel, because it's so boviously [spoiler] secret crime-fighting taskforce!!1[/spoiler][/color]

[mangamaniack21]

I've seen the first hour of the movie and it was really funy, but I didn't get to see the ending. I like the part where the bear police officer was questoning the wolf and red's grandmother.
]I was really surprised to find out that the grandmother loved adventure at first, but then I realized that in the movie, eveyone seemed to be the opposite of what they were in the fairy tales that they were from.

[Mafia Blk]

The squirrel I have to is the best character in the movie. I laugh every time he speaks.