Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs Evil (The Weinstein Company)
Boringly Ever After
Hoodwinked was not one of my favorite animated movies. Therefore I went to see Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs Evil with little anticipation. I was not disappointed as it was boring to the extreme. In this case the sequel followed right in the footsteps of the original. It was bad, this one is badder.
Anne Hathaway voiced Little Red Riding Hood in the original film and Hayden Panettiere does the honors in the sequel. Glen Close is the voice of Granny and the fabulous Patrick Warburton voices the Big Bad Wolf. The voices are fine; the animation and plot are not.
The storyline has Granny on a mission to save Hansel and Gretel (Bill Hader and Amy Poehler) who have been kidnapped by a wicked witch (Joan Cusack). The Wolf is helping Granny but she ends up getting captured by the witch herself. Now it is up to Red Riding Hood to come to the rescue.
The plot eventually comes down to a race to get a powerful truffle made. It is all about the recipe, as if this made any sense at all. Hansel and Gretel end up being the villains and become giant round monsters. Like the movie they are overweight and silly.
None of this is entertaining and a lot of it is flat out boring. You never develop any sense of who or what these characters are. They are just cartoons with no depth. When you compare this movie to a film like Rio it comes up short, short, short.
The movie is rated PG for comic violence.
Maybe after this film flops big time they will put this series to rest. I would hate to think there might be a Hoodwinked 3. That would be absolutely too much of a bad thing. Oh, the horror!
There is no need to belabor the point that Hoodwinked Too is not worth seeing. You might want to even avoid it on DVD.
I scored Hoodwinked Too: Hood vs Evil a bloated 3 out of 10.
