How The Weinstein Company Almost Ruined Hoodwinked (and Later Did) - 100th Review Special!! 

Let's be real here, the Weinsteins have a huge track record when it comes to altering animated films. From the top of my mind, examples include: The Thief and the Cobbler/Arabian Knight The Magic Roundabout/Doogal Arthur and the Invisibles Khan Kluay/The Blue Elephant The Untouchables/Underdogs and Ballerina/Leap So suffice to say, their track record with animation isn't that great since when they get a film, they seem to like changing it to hell and back

It’s funny that one of those Hoodwink happy meal toys has Gretel T posing.

Honestly the happiest news i heard in recent years was the weinstain company going under , maybe non Disney/DreamWorks animated movies can actually survive now

Love the VT Stay tuned promo at the beginning. Nostalgia blast

Good work!

A re-upload from September 2011

I definately call Hoodwinked one of the best Fairy Tale spoof films along with Shrek and Enchanted.

Fun fact: Happily N’Ever After (the first one) was actually NOT a Shrek knockoff! It was originally planned as a film adaptation of the 1999 German television cartoon _Simsala Grimm,_ with the premise of the show being two creatures named Yoyo and Doc Croc traveling to different fairy tales and helping them have their happy endings. For whatever reason, this was changed mid-production and all connections to Simsala Grimm were removed from the film, but the general ideas for the story remained intact (example: Munk and Mambo are expies of Yoyo and Doc Croc) and the script was written long BEFORE Shrek was even a thing (at least movie-wise.) It was just development hell that made it release a few years after Shrek.

I can't blame the Edwards brothers on the sequel. Corey was NOT happy about all the studio notes that he had to contend with, and if you ever do a search for his blog if it's even still accessible, you'll find out most of the notes at length. The sassy black cyclops or giant at the bridge wasn't even supposed to speak, for one. I remember reading his blog when the film came out and there were 3 or 4 comments that were positive, and one comment that gave it a bad review. And guess which review Corey engaged and agreed with? He was very much disappointed with how the film turned out and he had absolutely no creative control because of the change of director. It shows how much garbage the crap producers snuck into the movie, as a LOT of the worst dialogue in the film was obvious ADR (additional dialogue replacement). It's somehow louder, more obvious, and in any shot where they didn't need to reanimate mouth movements, showing how late even THAT was into production. I remember Corey engaging the Muppet fandom about the Fraggle Rock movie and about how many notes the Weinsteins kept throwing him in that movie, leading to it never being made and us being all the happier for it. But that's the Weinsteins, for you. They're the artsy fartsy company when it comes to distributing Oscar Bait, but they're the most cynic and controlling when it comes to animated kid's movies.

Hoodwinked is a criminally underrated film IMO. I haven’t seen the sequel, nor do I plan to.

12:08 The Weinstein company didn’t make The Nut Job, they distributed it worldwide, The Nut Job was made by Open Road films.

Hoodwinked is genuinely an all time favorite, and knowing that it was almost completely redone dubbing wise and still turned out great is real interesting

Sadly, I actually think that Arthur and the invisibles was kinda charming. Mostly because I like watching “small people” movies.

"The backgrounds are made in Photoshop!" I'm not primarily a background artist, but I do use Photoshop for drawing. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but my art looks more interesting than those boring backgrounds by a country mile.

Hoodwinked deserved so much better .

I grew up watching Hoodwinked. Still love it despite the animation. I would admire it more if it were in 2D. Like the storyboard art.

I heard the second Hoodwinked’s animation was outsourced at Starz animation which also outsourced a few seasons of Veggietales and even Veggietales animation looked better than Hoodwinked 2

I thought Doogal did that, because they ruined The Magic Roundabout Movie, even replacing most of the cast (Including Robbie Williams, the Singer behind songs like Rock DJ).

God i loved hoodwinked's soundtrack

Hoodwinked 2's quality is clearly commentary on the quality of the company founder's soul

Hoodwinked: A Good Movie Weinstein Company: YOU'RE GOING TO BRAZIL!

I just found this review series through the Coraline recommendation! This is great!

I actually would've loved it better if they did keep Tara Strong as Red Riding Hood. Try imagining her Twilight voice in that movie; that's what she would've sounded like if Tara was kept there. All the other voices are fine, but I feel Tara Strong would've been the better voice. Don't think she would stay for the sequel, though.

13:11 "This is like a luau at Mel Blanc's house"

I think they were trying to prmote Escape from Planet Earth

Shrek sounds like a DnD game turned into a movie

If you don't remember the Schnitzel Man song what is wrong with you.

(3:42) I like these drawings of Detective Bill Stork.

1:05 what a coincidence because Hoodwinked and Whacked have the same animation

Damn we were cheated out of Tara Strong?

I Love the movie Leap, isn't original and is more of the same comercial cinema troops but still I love that take, my only complaints are the ending, the final part of the move is completely unnecessary and I always skip it, and the other is the dub, this movie have 2 dubs and the first one is great except for the protagonist, and the second one have a much better acting for the protagonist but they screw the rest of the characters and dialogue. beside that I really enjoy the movie Leap.

About the original, I enjoyed the original when I was a kid. I haven't seen that film in years. The characters were likable and witty dialouge and humor. The sequel when I was a kid, remember, I was ten when this came out, I kinda enjoyed this one, but now, I hated. At the time of the film's release, the whole fairy tale parody genre was dead at this point, a year earlier, Tangled released the same year as Shrek's Forever After, the film that was the third sequel to the original that started the trend of fairy tale parodies. After Tangled was released, the whole thing was dead, this was before Frozen was released. So yeah, I disliked the sequel, but grew fondly with the original.

How tf do you direct a sequel without watching the original? Like watching the movie only takes up an hour and 20 minutes of your day, guess this shows how little the people working on it cared

What if the Weinstein company pick up the dub for parappa anime in 2007?

When they replaced all those other actors, why the hell didn't they replace Andy Dick?

The movie was always weird in the first place. Dum**ss

I wonder what the sequel would have been like if it hadn’t been ruined by the Weinstein company.

Anne, Jim, and Chazz are fine, but the Weinsteins replacing Tara Strong, David Ogden Stiers, and Tom Kenny, which all are (were in Ogden Stiers’ case RIP) very well-known/household actors??? Phew…

But there is gonna be a third movie. Because I saw on the Hoodwinked wiki a third movie called Hoodwinked Dark Of The Book is being made. So that could still happen at another animation studio right?

11:40 They didn't do Leap, they only did the English dub, it was a French film originally

there is no Hoodwinked Too in Ba Sing Se

I was just watching this movie yesterday!

Shrek forever after is a genuinely good movie its just that shrek the third ruined shrek forever after

The animation in the sequel was actually done by arc productions (now known as jam filled) who were the dudes behind the last few seasons of the original Thomas the tank engine series

There should be like a miniseries for Hoodwinked.

10:47 Shrek 4 was actually good tho 3 was bad

Gloria Bunker as a grandmother? Glad they changed it.

I remember watching the first one quite a few times, but I wouldn't call it one of my favorites. It's a movie that was flawed but fun.

Hoodwinked is better then shrek

Happy 100 review

I definitely think Hoodwinked is just a generic cheap animated kids movie

Animat’s video of this history was pretty good, too.

Welcome to Woodhinked

What do you mean almost? That movie is a dumpster fire

10:26 I know Cory Edwards already made a point for Hoodwinked to not follow the trend of copying Shrek anyway, but I also know that coming way too late to the party of fairytale satire films at 11:28 like Enchanted is the least of Hoodwinked Too's problems. Besides, the Shrek spin-off film Puss in Boots premiered in 2011, so we should not ignore that if it almost goes against Cory's case for Shrek-style fairytale satire dying down in 2011. To give the Edwards brothers the benefit of the doubt, Hoodwinked had a very unique and unusual setup that was impossible to duplicate in Hoodwinked Too even if it had the best writing possible. Hoodwinked was a very tough act for them to follow, but I still feel very bad for them if they wrote a better version originally and the Weinstein brothers ruined it because they messed with the story way too much and neutered good jokes.