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Hoodwinked
Directed by	Cory Edwards Todd Edwards Tony Leech
Produced by	Maurice Kanbar
Written by	Cory Edwards Todd Edwards Tony Leech
Starring	Glenn Close Anne Hathaway James Belushi Patrick Warburton
Music by	John Mark Painter Daniel Rogers Ben Folds
Distributed by	The Weinstein Company
Release date(s)	January 13, 2006 (US) 29 September 2006 (UK)
Running time	86 min.
Language	English
Budget	$20,000,000
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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.

Based on the Little Red Riding Hood folktale, structurally, it borrows from the films Rashomon and The Usual Suspects, as well as frequently intertwining various plots. The film's setting uses the same type of anachronistic and satirical mixing of modern and fantasy culture as the Shrek films. It is 86 minutes long and is rated PG for mild action and thematic elements. A twenty-two minute behind the scenes video podcast is available for free in iTunes.

A sequel to the film, titled Hood vs. Evil is currently in the making and is expected to be released in 2008.

Contents 1 Main cast 2 Soundtrack 3 DVD release 4 References and similarities to other works 5 Trivia 6 Animals featured 7 Goofs 8 References 9 External links

• Anne Hathaway as Red Puckett
• Glenn Close as Granny Puckett
• James Belushi as Kirk
• Patrick Warburton as Wolf W. Wolf
• Steve Farrant as Twitchy
• David Ogden Stiers as Nicky Flippers
• Xzibit as Chief Grizzly
• Anthony Anderson as Detective Bill Stork
• Andy Dick as Boingo
• Chazz Palminteri as Woolworth
• Benjy Gaither as Japeth

A soundtrack by Todd Edwards & John Mark Painter was released with the film. Track Listings

• 1. INTO THE BOOK
• 2. GREAT BIG WORLD
• 3. CRITTERS HAVE FEELINGS
• 4. NICKY INTRO
• 5. RED IS BLUE
• 6. BE PREPARED
• 7. GO FLIPPERS
• 8. LITTLE BOAT
• 9. RED/WOLF STAREDOWN
• 10. RUNAWAY
• 11. THE SCHNITZEL SONG
• 12. TREE CRITTER
• 13. THREE G'S
• 14. THE REAL G
• 15. BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN
• 16. HOODWINKED THEME, GRANNY TECHNO MIX (BANZAI!)
• 17. EVA DEANNA
• 18. CHOPPING FOR ACTORS
• 19. GLOW
• 20. NICKY KNOWS
• 21. TOP OF THE WOODS
• 22. DELIVERY GIRL
• 23. LAIR RESCUE
• 24. CABLE CAR RESCUE/END OF THE LINE
• 25. BOUNCE
• 26. BOSSA FOR BOINGO
• 27. HOODWINKED THEME (SURFER VERSION)

• May 2, 2006 USA.
• January 29, 2006 Europe.

• The reporter Wolf W. Wolf is (as mentioned in the DVD commentary) a parody of Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher from the movie Fletch, starring Chevy Chase. Wolf wears the same L.A. Lakers jersey, has the same type of music during his telling of the story and uses the same gags as Fletcher (e.g. a large afro, buck teeth, and impersonation in order to get information). Wolf W. Wolf is also an apparent parody of "Fletch F. Fletch," one of Fletch's aliases.
• The scene where Red is trapped inside the dynamite filled cable car and she kicks the sheet of metal from the floor of the car is a frame by frame parody of the scene in the film The Fast and the Furious when the same thing happens to Brian's car in the first race.
• When Wolf knocks on Granny's door, one of the things he says through the door is "Candygram." This is a reference to the "Landshark" sketch on Saturday Night Live, where "Candygram" is one of the ruses used by the Landshark. It is also another reference to Chevy Chase as the voice of the Landshark was provided by Chase.
• Granny's command to Red to "Use the hood" is likely a parody of the famous line from Star Wars where Obi-Wan Kenobi instructs Luke Skywalker to "Use The Force."
• In the scene where the police find Grandma's trophies, Flippers sees GGG tattooed on the back of Grandma's neck. This is a reference to the movie xXx. A similar reference occurs in the scene where Granny causes the avalanche. This is a frame-by-frame parody of a similar scene in xXx.
• Another film reference occurs when Granny is climbing on the ceiling and a drop of sweat falls from her brow. This again is a frame-by-frame parody of a similar scene from the 1995 film Mission: Impossible or drop of blood from the 2002 film Spider-Man.
• In the film Over The Hedge, another hyperactive squirrel (Hammy) saves the day after being given a caffeinated drink. In their compulsive behavior, Twitchy and Hammy both bear similarity to Scrat, the popular sabertooth squirrel of the Ice Age movies.
• Just before Boingo starts singing his "Top of the Woods" routine, the first claim of being "top of the woods" seems like a loose reference to James Cagney's last line in White Heat: "Made it Ma! Top of the world!".
• When Red mentions that Kirk "finally made it", she holds up a card saying "Der Happy Yodelers / The Sound of Munich". The card is a clear reference to Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, although the music used in the movie is of a different genre than that implied by the card.
• Boingo tells Keith to change his name to Boris. Keith looks very similar to Boris (played by Alan Cumming), a henchman of Alec Trevelyan in the James Bond film GoldenEye.
• In the scene where Twitchy tries to tell the officers what's happening, they parody Lassie. At one point, Bill even says, "Timmy's stuck in the well!"; a reference to that film.
• In Granny's extreme sports montage, she is shown drinking "Forest Dew", an obvious parody of the extreme sports scenes featured in some Mountain Dew commercials. In the last scene, there is also an ad for the drink, promising "Clean Taste! Pine Scent!". The ad's blurb is "Taste the Mountain!" The ad also appears on Granny's refrigerator, below her shopping list.
• During the end credits, a graphic of Twitchy and the Wolf doing a parody of Batman and Robin appears.
• Some of the scenes involving hand to hand combat are obvious adaptations to the style (and camera angles) of The Matrix fight scenes.
• The opening title of the film is remarkably similar to the opening header for the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, that also features a villain planning to make profits from an enormous conglomerate.
• Dolph, Boingo's lead henchman bears a striking resemblance to Arnold Schwarzenegger in both appearance and voice.
• It is speculated by some fans that the Gecko movie-director character that is seen in the Woodman's POV may be a reference to the video game character Gex because of their similar species and relation to the movie business

• An alternate title of the film was Hoodwinked! The True Story of Red Riding 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.
• 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.)
• Nicky Flippers, as mentioned in the DVD commentary for Hoodwinked, is based on Nick Charles, the detective character in The Thin Man.
• In the Disney animated film The Emperor's New Groove, Patrick Warburton played a doltish henchman named Kronk, who, among other things, had the unique ability to understand squirrel language. In this film, he plays the Wolf, whose assistant is an at-times-hard-to-understand squirrel.
• The scene where Boingo tells Keith to change his name was not scripted. It was ad-libbed by Andy Dick while recording his lines.^[1]
• When Red runs the mine rollercoaster with Japhet, Wolf's mine cart can be seen under her. When Wolf runs the mine rollercoaster with Twitchy, Red's cart can be seen passing behind him.
• At the very end of the end credits, stairs and a railway show up and fly up to make the Fotokem Film and Video logo. After that, it shows one final picture of Granny, Red, and the Wolf, and under it says "Please consume goodies responsibly." This may be a parody of beer commercials, where they say to "please drink responsibly".
• During Red's telling of what happend, as well as under special features on the DVD, during the song, "Great Big World", five moles on a log float by that are dressed up like the Village People. At the end of "Great Big World", one (the Indian) falls from the limb of a tree. These characters are also shown as a graphic during the end credits of the movie, with the Woodsman joining them.
• Todd Edwards, brother of Cory, appears as the voice of the costume-wearing Sandwich Man.
• Publisher of "Once Upon A Times": Kanbar Press, named after Kanbar Entertainment.
• The cab Wolf rides in has the markings of a Yellow Cab. (Listening carefully, the viewer can hear the song "Critters Have Feelings" playing on the cab's radio, in a slower mix. Also the top of the cab features a sign advertising "Paul's Bunion Cream".)
• Originally, the music for the movie had a more "Saturday-morning" feel, including a lighter first song: "Woods Go Round". The musical number was animated, but subsequently lost during the re-versioning - but has since been spotted at the tail end of Dish Network's broadcast of the film.
• Some of the text within the film's pop-up book is that of Charles Perrault's version of Little Red Riding Hood.
• If you look closely in the scene where Red meets Wolf in the forests, you'll see that the scene is completely relit on both characters' POV. In Red's POV, the forests is dark and spooky. However on Wolf's POV, the scene is light and peaceful. As mentioned on the DVD commentary, this is because it's the two characters' perspective of each other.
• In the DVD a co-director says they almost deleted Japeth out of the movie. Also, they had 4 year olds ask why the bunny was the bad guy.
• The music that plays when the Wolf appears resembles the Wolf-theme from Peter and the Wolf.
• 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?
• Red partly resembles Lil' Red from Shrek 2 the video game in a more "cartooned" and younger version. Even Red's karate is reminisent of Lil' Red's preference to fight with kicks and punchs, easily seen in the game during the fight with Puss in Boots.
• The scene where they bring Wolf in to give his POV to the police officers, the bit when he walks by Red, is taken directly from the movie Kill Bill, including the music being played in the background.

• 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, Tony Leech)
• 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)

• While the Wolf chases Red, a camera is attached to his tail. When he gets into a taxi to catch up with her, it is not there.
• Red's basket frequently changes shapes.
• Granny's GGG tattoo sometimes disappears.
• Japeth is seen in Granny's race in one shot. In the next, he is with Red in a Coal Car.
• When the Wolf realises Twitchy is holding dynamite, he throws them into the tunnel and on some outer tracks. However, only the outer tracks explode.

• Official Site
• Hoodwinked at the Internet Movie Database
• Hoodwinked at Rotten Tomatoes
• Soundtrack information
• Hoodwinked soundtrack questions, answers and other music information