Hoodwinked

voices of many many people you know and love. The Weinstein Company and Kanbar Entertainment. 2005.

Several things I like about this film, and one of them is that it's from a company you've never really heard of, and yet it got some attention close to the same level as the HUGE production company mega-pics. So that's interesting.

Thematically: basically this is your sassy-talkinganimal type feature, with the inevitable "twist on the old fable" motif.

However, what's very exciting from a literary aspect is that it uses the uncommon theme of telling the same story over and over again from different points of view, i.e. each character involved. This element actually could have been done with much more effect, such as pushing the envelope to show a vastly different interpretation of the same events, to reveal the inner workings of the minds of each character, but hey, since we're talking about talking animals here, I'm satisfied with what we got, which is, that each story told from the different slant pretty much simply fills in details that the other versions don't have.

Toward the end the entire things decays into a mad-scientist theme - standard fare, but hey, by this time, I thought Granny was so cool that I could stand to watch her Jiu-Jistu whuppin' on the bad guys, no prob.

And of course we have the obligatory SPAZZ ANIMAL, herein named "Twitch" (appropriately enough!) who talks a million miles a minute and of course is the one character that all the kids want to emulate!!!


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