Hoodwinked [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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Woolworth insists that all he knows is that Granny lives high up in the mountains and doesn't get many visitors (except of course Red), but the word on the street is that Red takes the cable car up the mountain to get there. As Red rides by on her bike, Kirk climbs into his truck, and goes on to his daily job: selling schnitzel on a stick out of the back of his truck to the neighborhood children (much like the function of the modern ice cream truck driver), leading them in a singing routine ("The Schnitzel Song"). Producer Sue Bea Montgomery showed test screenings of the story reel to children in her neighborhood, and gained input from their reactions. Shocking truths are revealed, casting doubt on everything you once held as true; does Little Red Riding Hood have a darker side?

Told in flashback, HOODWINKED takes the classic fairytale and turns it on its head, resulting in a wonderfully irreverent whodunit for the post-modern age. Stork reports that they've got a basic domestic disturbance, and there are a number of charges that can be filed against the detainees: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat, and wielding an axe without a license.He used improvisation and approached the role differently from how it had been written, interpreting the character as victimized and unstable. Cory and Todd brought in their cousin Tye Edwards to play Dolph and turned to their friend Joshua J. He is holding a carrot crumpet that Red gave him earlier (which also indicates that this is prior to his meeting with Red on the cable car). Simultaneously, Red, hiding behind some bushes, sees Boingo, wearing Red's cape, meet the cable car and Dolph at the valley terminal, in possession of the stolen books. Unfortunately, this backfires because it incites Japeth to break into a country song ("Be Prepared") about his collection of all-purpose Swiss Army goat horns (which include, but probably aren't limited to, sets usable as a coat rack, bottle and jar openers, keychains, and ones with wigs and built-in TV remotes, Mohawk style, a campfire set, etc.

which greatly annoys Red, as she resorts to looking at an old mine tunnel map to find a way to get to Puckett Grove. Emmy-winning actress Sally Struthers was brought in to play Granny Puckett and Joel McCrary was cast as Chief Grizzly. Flippers begins to wonder how their fellow woodsman fits into the mess, and decides to have him brought in next to be interviewed. The image fades to show the cover of a copy of Red Riding Hood showing Little Red screaming as she is attacked by a menacing Wolf.Little Red Riding Hood arrives at her grandmother's house, where the Big Bad Wolf has disguised himself as Red's Granny. Almost as if on cue, Boingo shows up, obviously having overheard their conversation, and asks the Wolf if he is going to Granny's to throw a surprise birthday party for Red.

Unsuccessful at this attempt to dig up information, the Wolf walks away, removes the neck brace and decides to look elsewhere for more promising leads. He had been a friend of the Edwards brothers since childhood and Cory's short film Wobots had been produced through his animation studio Live Bait Productions. Granny, who has been tied up, jumps out of a closet just as ax-wielding woodsman Kirk bursts through the window. He excitedly tells Kirk that after reviewing his audition tape, the client has found a possible Hercules Goes Bananas angle to this and has accepted him for the role in the commercial, so they want him to come back in tomorrow confident in his part. We are treated to flashbacks that show each character's encounter with Boingo and they suddenly seem much different: Red falls from the cable car because Boingo opened the doors by pushing on the emergency release lever.Suddenly, a squirrel wearing a small fedora hat lands a few feet away and a flash bulb in his mouth goes off, momentarily blinding Red. Unfortunately, he and the henchmen are unable to stop because at the bottom, the cable feeds them straight into the back of a police van, which takes them away, though not before Twitchy takes a photo of Boingo through the back window. Chief Ted Grizzly (Xzibit) arrives in a marked squad car, and upon getting out of the car, he is swarmed by reporters gathered outside.