When you see a story saying that casting has been announced for Hoodwinked 2, your first thought is probably, “wait, didn’t the first movie suck and make no money?” Well, I didn’t think it was that bad, but it certainly wasn’t a critical fave. The official CinemaBlend review was pretty harsh. The animated retelling of Little Red Riding Hood made about $50 million, which is enough, I guess, for the Weinstein Company to green light the sequel. Co-writer and co-director of the original and co-writer of the sequel, Cory Edwards, revealed the entire voice cast of the sequel on his blog.
The biggest news is that Anne Hathaway has either gotten too big or too expensive to reprise her role as Red. She will replaced behind the mike by Hayden Panettiere of Heroes fame. The rest of the key players remain in place with Patrick Warburton coming back to channel Chevy Chase’s Fletch as the Wolf. Glen Close will play the never overused character of the extreme sports loving Granny. David Ogden Stires will play Nicky Flippers. I don’t remember that character in the first movie, but I’m sure it was great. Other returning voices are Andy Dick as Boingo (he was the villainous rabbit in the first movie) and Edwards himself as Twitchy.
Some new voices will also be joining the cast as Red takes on an evil witch voiced by Joan Cusack. The role of the Woodsman (Jim Belushi in the first movie) is being taken over by Martin Short. He’s ok in small doses, so hopefully the role will be small. David Allen Grier, Brad Garrett, Wayne Newton, Amy Poehler and Bill Hader have various roles as fairy-tale characters. Mike D’Isa, a longtime Disney animator, is taking over as director. I guess there is nothing to do at this point but hope for the best.
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As co-director and co-writer of Hoodwinked I wanted to make a couple things clear. This movie started in a small apartment in Pasadena and went on to open number 2 at the box office and gross $110 million worldwide. With a final budget of 8 million, this makes it a huge, smashing, unprecedented success. It was made by a group of resourceful filmmakers who after a decade of Hollywood dead ends, finally found a way to rise above their situation and get careers going, even if it meant spending 3 years piecing together a kids movie with scant resources. Critically speaking, yes there were some who didn't care for it, but Entertainment Weekly gave it a glowing review and put it on their "Must List." Making Hoodwinked a success was almost impossible. Writing a snarky article about it was easy.
Perhaps if you spent more time today reading the article instead of formulating a self-congratulatory comment and pithy put down of your own you'd realise that the article writer actually defended Hoodwinked from the general consensus out there.
Congratulations on your success, I just wish it came with some humility or at least some thicker skin.
Stuart, you got me all wrong, man. I am drenched in humility— it's the only way a guy like me can make it through this business. I'm just saying, the first line of the article suggests we can all agree that the general consensus for planet Earth is that Hoodwinked was a sucky failure. That hardly feels like defense. It was an "ouch" moment to read. Believe it or not it wasn't my favorite movie of all time, either. I was just trying to show the other side of the production's story because it's one that hasn't been told much, if at all. This is literally the first online response I've ever posted about Hoodwinked and I've been reading harsh reviews since the movie came out. My sincere apologies to Ed Perkins that he was on the receiving end of my silent two year build-up of frustration. I'm sure he's a nice guy.
Wow, Stuart. You pick a fight fast. Ease back on the throttle there.
We're just tired of people taking shots at us. "Hoodwinked" was hard work and we're proud of it.
And yes, starting an article with "Didn't it suck and make no money?" is the very definition of "snarky." I think Todd was just helping Cinema Blend do the math. It was a successful film by all definitions. Whether you like it or not is entirely up to you. My thick skin is ready. It's kind of soft and doughy, though...
yes, the animation wasnt top notch.. but seeing the movie in context (lowbudget animation) its a little gem.. i loved the concept.. very, VERY original.. look, i like shrek but its slapstick compared to hoodwinked.. loved the minimal reference to popular movies and contemporary stuff.. if i'll watch this movie in 20 years.. its still funny.. whereas shrek 1 will then need to be viewed in context(matrix 1 very popular) with the bullet time and stuff..
i sincerely hope the sequel is as original.. what i liked about the concept was that its a different take on a very well known story.. the different stories hooked into eachother like the puzzle pieces flipper was talking about (see movie).. i loved the details put in..
and what i really loved where the songs.. "be prepared" is absolutely genius(hoping that Japeth the mountain goat will reprise).. would love to know what really happened to him.. but i loved that song, all though i found it kind of weird that he is calling the mountain shack his "whore" listen good, preferably to the OST cd.. he really says that.. not his home.. very funny though.. the songs are probably what i most enjoyed in the movie..
as for criticism.. yes.. the animations isnt all that great.. but its more noticably cuz the main character (red) kinda has a dead face.. sorry guys but she has.. if that wasnt the case nobody would probably notice cuz most of the supporting cast actually looks pretty expressive.. maybe cuz they aint human.. most of the humans look .. weird.. but im sure that will be rectified with hoodwinked2.. but that is the only criticism i can think of..
so to summarize great characters, great story, great songs.. not so great animation on the human characters..
now as for people from the production team posting about their movie, and keeping in contact with the internet community.. thats absolutely the best thing ever.. thats a very smart thing to do.. as it engages people.. evidence is this longass post i just made..
guys keep up the good work.. and if you need a sound designer/electronic music artist shoot me a mail.. (hey never hurts to try :D) visit my website for contact details.. www.wisefire.net (under construction.)
Hey Daniel... the 90's called. They want that tired old saying back.
I liked Hoodwinked and think beyond the fractured fairytale thing (which was actually done prior to Shrek) it was pretty different. I wonder how many of the critics actually sat and watched it beyond the trailer (which, sorry, wasn't very good). I gotta agree with Wisefire about the animation, although the $8 million price tag is probably the culprit.
Hoodwinked was by far the best kid's movie released in 2006. The original music alone made the movie. The music had a great range from a soft and somewhat sad sound of “Red is Blue” to the hillbilly goat voiced “ Be Prepared”. The creative story "retelling" based each characters perspective was especially fun as details were filled in and the sequence of events revealed. My daughter and son both loved it. I enjoyed it as well. We now have the DVD and sound track. What made this movie special was it was created by people who put everything they had into it. A corporation did not make this movie, people did. Other movies in this genre may have better quality computer animation, but none top the creative storytelling.
The reason this movie did not receive the credit due is simply this: It was not released by a major studio. It did not have a huge marketing budget. It appears that this was Kanbar’s, the producer, first film.
I wish the creators best of luck with Hoodwinked 2.
Ok i work for a well known dvd rental store and i can tell you that Hoodwinked is universally LOVED by our customers in the U.K it had some great reviews.
This movie wore is heart and soul on it's sleeve and love and attention put in to making it is more prominent on the screen than any other big budged animated movie that came out around the same time (and there were a few that year).
Kudos (i like that word) to the makers for getting Hayden on board for the sequel and i wish it every possible success, just to note that the buzz built up over time with the first movie on dvd has turned it into a bit of a cult classic and will probably mean much bigger scale hit this time around.
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When you see a story saying that casting has been announced for Hoodwinked 2, your first thought is probably, “wait, didn’t the first movie suck and make no money?” Well, I didn’t think it was that bad, but it certainly wasn’t a critical fave. The official CinemaBlend review was pretty harsh. The animated retelling of Little Red Riding Hood made about $50 million, which is enough, I guess, for the Weinstein Company to green light the sequel. Co-writer and co-director of the original and co-writer of the sequel, Cory Edwards, revealed the entire voice cast of the sequel on his blog.
February 26th, 2008 at 14:19
As co-director and co-writer of Hoodwinked I wanted to make a couple things clear. This movie started in a small apartment in Pasadena and went on to open number 2 at the box office and gross $110 million worldwide. With a final budget of 8 million, this makes it a huge, smashing, unprecedented success. It was made by a group of resourceful filmmakers who after a decade of Hollywood dead ends, finally found a way to rise above their situation and get careers going, even if it meant spending 3 years piecing together a kids movie with scant resources. Critically speaking, yes there were some who didn't care for it, but Entertainment Weekly gave it a glowing review and put it on their "Must List." Making Hoodwinked a success was almost impossible. Writing a snarky article about it was easy.