Proof Animated Movies Don't Need Good Animation | Hoodwinked

only he was screaming like a maniac the  more I do these videos the more I begin to feel like a fetus because I just  learned that I was three and a half years old when Hoodwinked was released yet  somehow I vividly remember this movie as a Cartoon Network quite frequently around the  year 2008 which is why I think I can remember this movie at all that being said even as a  six or seven year old kid this movie always looked like it was animated and quite an odd way  I mean obviously I didn't und

erstand the nuances of animation and the fact that this movie had a  budget that's estimated to be as low as 8 million dollars though I always thought it was weird that  a movie like Toy Story that came out 10 years prior looked considerably better than this movie  but now that I'm 20 and I'm considerably cooler and more swag I understand that this movie looks  weird because it was animated entirely in Maya which at the time was a relatively new software  but then again so was the entire 3D anim

ation industry though it sure didn't help that almost  none of the animators for this movie had any prior experience in 3D animation this movie basically  served as a 3D animation training course for these guys to get around the fact that they knew  that they weren't going to be able to match the quality of larger and more experienced companies  they had to get pretty creative with other aspects of the animation as well to make this movie stick  out a large example of this is that this movie tri

es to maintain a more realistic art style  according to the wiki they rubbed dirt into the colors to obtain this effect but I'm not enough of  an artist to speak on whether or not they actually succeeded at that I'm not versed in color theory  and whatnot but let's Step Back to Basics here for a second Hoodwinked was released on December  16 2005 in California only and then released to the rest of the United States on January 13 2006.  the movie was made on a relatively tiny budget of only 8 mil

lion dollars roughly 12 million dollars  in today's money Jesus I can't even imagine this movie being made on a budget that small largely  because of the cast of this movie just being pretty impressive or maybe that's just by today's  standards because I was literally three years old when this movie came out I can't tell you how  popular the cast was at the time but having Anne Hathaway and Patrick warburner had to be like 10  of this movie's budget I mean Tara Strong and Tom Kenny are also in t

his movie although in very very  minor appearances but I am still curious about what percentage of the budget of this movie went  to the voice cast versus the animation that being said the budget this movie's also been projected  to be as high as 15 million dollars but given the fact that the source that says this movie's  budget was only 8 million dollars was literally the director of the actual movie I'm gonna  choose to believe that Source Hoodwinked went on to make a little over 110 million

dollars at  the box office which is over 13 times the lowest estimated budget for this movie which is actually  [ __ ] insane that being said it isn't exactly super difficult to make 13 times your budget when  your Movie costs 28 pennies into dry hand job to make if you're wondering why this movie had such  a low budget it's because it was funded almost entirely by one guy who just really wanted to make  a movie Maurice khanbar in essence is just a dude who really wanted to make an animated film

so when  Blue Yonder Productions pitched the idea of making a movie to him he was pretty much immediately  on board with them and that's kind of based bro just kind of said [ __ ] it we ball and rolled  the dice on a whole last animated feature-length film also we need to talk about the fact that this  movie was distributed by the Weinstein Company I didn't really want to talk about how weird of a  dude Harvey Weinstein is but it is really weird in retrospect to learn that he's responsible  for

putting this movie in front of my young and impressionable childhood mind so I will now be  blaming every single one of my character flaws on Harvey Weinstein no matter how insignificant  anyway I think we've now become versed enough in the Hoodwinked lore to really dig our teeth in  and enjoy this movie [Music] although Hoodwinked leaves quite a bit to be desired from an animation  standpoint this movie stands out because of its ability to defy the expectations of the viewer the  movie starts

out with a classic Little Red Riding Hood story but quickly takes an odd turn but real  quick let's go ahead and talk about the animation while we're here it's important to remember that  this is 2005 but to me the graphical quality really isn't the issue here it's more about the  fact that the movements of the characters aren't really fluid characters will start and stop moving  on a single frame for any of you who know the 12 principles of Animation it's pretty obvious which  one of the 12 Com

mandments they're breaking by doing this other than that I kind of like the art  style of this movie it's obviously not fantastic but when I look back on it I honestly can't say  that it doesn't add any charm to the experience even watching this 18 years later I still identify  this movie with its somewhat plasticky art style either way after this huge himbo burst through  the wall we get into what makes this movie so amazing Hoodwinked is a version of Little Red  Riding Hood that views itself t

hrough the lens of a police procedural the first character we're  introduced to is Chief Grizzly voiced by exhibit for those of you younger than 30 who was a 2000s  hip-hop artist with a relatively large following at the time Chief Grizzly is your classic hard  ass donut and coffee loving cob except he's a bear this time next is detective Bill stork played by  Anthony Anderson he's the the good cop of good cop bad cop but not really because he's the good cop  just because he's kind of stupid we

get a lineup of all of the suspects and chief Grizzly being  your average American law enforcement officer is Hasty to arrest everyone in the room however  detective Nikki flippers puts a quick stop to this utter lack of due process Nikki flippers  is voiced by David olgen steers and is kind of like if the band of singing frogs from Meet  the Robinsons had a falling out and went their separate ways because Nikki isn't a megalomaniac  he says it's important that they make sure they evaluate all s

ides of the story before making  any arrests also this movie does cutaway gags now I'm not going to explain that to you I'll  just let you guess what that was about the first character to get interviewed is Little Red  Riding Hood voiced by Anne Hathaway she begins her side of the story saying she was simply making  deliveries to all the Woodland creatures in the forest this movie is also kind of a quasi Musical  and there's a song here but it's not terrible nor does the music really take a Fore

front in this  movie We're introduced to this character who is Red's best friend named Boingo voiced by Andy  Dick he's a little bit fruity in my opinion but boyingo gives us some important Exposition that  there's a goodie Bandit on the loose the goody Bandit is stealing all the recipes in the woods  making it impossible for any of the creatures to make a living if you'd think that this movie took  place in 2020 because every small business in the woods is going out of business permanently afte

r  learning this information little red decides to check on her grandmother granny Puckett voiced  by Glenn Close red calls granny for advice but she doesn't have much to offer red and simply  insists that red needs to keep Granny's recipe book secret and safe also red just kills this  bird in a cutaway gag so that's concerning after hearing some glass shatter red goes to  find a quaint little note left in her bakery at this point she does the exact thing that her  grandmother told her not to do

not but 20 seconds after her grandmother told her not to do it so  red takes it upon herself to take the recipe book all the way up the mountain by herself this  is something that Nikki flippers also finds to be quite Odd as well but don't worry it's not as far  as it seems because all of the Woodland creatures decided to install a cable car you know I don't  really know what's weirder the fact that they installed a cable car here or the fact that it's  being operated by a homosexual rabbit tha

t being said it's not exactly surprising that a cable car  built by bears storks and rabbits isn't exactly up to Industrial code and the doors fly open causing  red to fall to her impending doom but it does need to be noted that Boingo seems to be more upset  about the goodies falling out of the car than the fact that red will more likely to not die from  this fall I mean obviously this is a movie so she doesn't die because the trees happen to be made  out of rubber this is where we're introduce

d to my favorite character and pretty much the only  reason I decided to make this video The Big Bad Wolf voiced by Patrick Warburton he is such a good  voice actor and his delivery is what makes wolf such a great character quite a bit of fall and  it did just now oh you saw that yeah gravity's working after grilling red for answers that she's  not willing to give up he gets a little Fed Up and decides to take this opportunity to jump scare her  she runs away and also sprays him with wolf away s

pray a which is probably racist in this universe  but she uses her loose copyright connections to Disney and gets these tiny birds to trick the wolf  into falling Downstream after making her way out of Compton we're introduced to this living meme of  a character his name is japheth the goat voiced by Benji Gaither he has to sing everything because he  was cursed by a witch 37 years ago Japanese lets red use his phone so that she can call Granny and  although it's not exactly clear what she's doi

ng it's safe to assume she's not at home as she's  dressed for the Winter Olympics and screaming like a black man who just saw a magic trick red asks  jabeth to help her down the mountain where we get this absolute Banger of a song where japheth sings  about being prepared with many types of horns this song was adequately titled be prepared fun fact  the soundtrack for this movie isn't available for streaming due to Legal disputes it's on iTunes it  could be purchased for 9.99 but it's not avail

able anywhere else except for a physical CD which can  be purchased for a reasonable sum the important part of this song however is that japeth uses  these Minecarts to help red gets where she needs to go after an avalanche come seemingly out of  nowhere red and japheth are launch into the air where an apparition of Granny tells red that she  actually possesses the ability to fly and don't worry japath is fine because he is literally  the goat and made sure to come prepared a red floats all the

way to Granny's house and now we're  officially caught up to the start of the movie but red now has to explain it to Nikki flippers which  causes some funny little silly gags no no not yet red finish is telling her side of the story and  now we get to hear wolf's side of the story this is where we learn in this universe that the big  bad wolf is actually the big bad reporter you know I think I liked him more when he just ate  children wolf is an investigative journalist who has been looking into

the goodie Bandit for the  last six months His Story begins not long after little red leaves the bakery with the recipe  book this part isn't even important but while undercover as a health inspector wolf says to  this guy that his name is Rick Shaw and that he just flew in from Japan and I think that that is  a very underrated joke wolf is suspicious of red because she has more connections to the baked  good industry than anyone else in the woods just then we're introduced to my second favorit

e  character named Twitchy voiced by Corey Edwards twitchy's mom was taking cocaine while she was  pregnant with him which permanently altered his biology making him have no in-between  frames and a very high-pitched voice put that away next we meet one of Wolf's  informants Woolworth Woolworth needs to be well compensated for his information but he gives  good information and lets wolf know about the fact that red works for granny and that red will  be on the cable car which is where our storie

s get caught up with each other I actually really  enjoy these fun explanations for the things that red experiences as odd just being normal things  to the wolf the force feels dark to Red because she fell out of a tram car and got her eyes  dilated by Twitchy he's seemingly abnormally fast because he took a taxi cab to catch up with  her it's also interesting because red left out the part where she beat his ass to make herself  look better but he didn't leave out the part where he got his ass b

eat Because he believes in  journalistic Integrity it makes a lot of sense for both of their stories after being washed on  the river wolf and Twitchy run into Boingo who gives them directions to Granny's house seriously  wolf has all of the best dialogue in this movie movie wolf and Twitchy find their way out of  this cave and into the Minecarts from Red's story after managing to hijack a minecart they  begin to make their way down the mountain toward Granny's house you can also see red and hea

r  her screaming for a split second in this scene and I intentionally waited till now to say it  but you can also see wolf during Red's part of the story too so I appreciated this movie  has a consistent timeline and continuity throughout it this was 100 my favorite part of  the movie as a kid kind of candles are those Corey Edwards and Patrick Warburton are clearly  having a lot of fun with their roles this little side quest is also what caused the railroad to  be destroyed when red and japheth

tried to use it in Red's story okay so remember how I said  that I liked that this movie had a consistent timeline well I kind of lied when I said that  because how did Wolf get to Granny's first like not only did Red jump which seem to be hundreds of  feet in the air and then gracefully Glide to her destination but wolf and Twitchy already stopped  their cart assuming that wolf and Twitchy even started their mind card again it's hard to believe  that they would have reached Granny's house firs

t because red 100 has the speed Advantage at this  point after arriving inside the house wolf uses merchandise that Granny has lying around to  make a disguise and that's where Wolf's story ends but the detectives still began to question  how The Hash Slinging Slasher plays into this and why granny was rigged for the world's most  restrictive Shibari contest so the police begin the interview for Kirk The Woodsman voiced  by Jim Belushi Our Story begins with Kirk auditioning for a commercial for

Paul's bunion  foot cream the commercial is directed by Jimmy lizard who who essentially tells Kirk that  he sucks and then sends him on his way after auditioning for the commercial Kirk returns to  his day job as a schnitzel truck driver and holy fire oh my god well Kirk was singing and dancing  with these little nightmares his schnitzel truck got this is because he parked in the Detroit part  of the forest Boingo shows up here but doesn't have time to do much of anything before schnitzel  gets

a call back from the commercial director the director tells Kirk that he liked his energy but  he needs him to understand what it truly means to be a Woodsman Kirk seems to be having performance  issues as it is his first time holding an ax but after reading a book on how to chop wood Kirk  seemingly gets the hang of it however Kirk feels that he needs one last challenge to prove that he  truly is a Woodsman so he attempts to chop down this massive tree this explains where Kirk was  while red w

as committing assault and while wolf was violating the federal explosives Act of 1917.  Kirk hears a scream at Granny's house and goes to check it out but not before the tree that he very  inefficiently chopped down Falls over launching him through the window wrapping up his story in  a neat and ultimately unimportant little bow so that leaves granny his last on the chopping block  to explain her story unfortunately for red granny keeps a lot of secrets that are about to come out  in this story

three this reminds me of all those emerge Mansion advertisements that Tick Tock was  absolutely losing their [ __ ] about last year in this universe granny is a professional at  extreme sports and a major adrenaline junkie Granny's Expedition for today is that she'll be  attending the extreme dream skiing competition but the most shocking Revelation that we learned  from all of this is that Granny is actually black homies and in case that you fees are white I'd  like to remind you of what Jordan

peel once said no homies are black the competition is going  to be tight as granny now has to worry about these and I quote player haters the player haters  will also be skiing down the mountain at the same time and are apparently aggressively violent  grainy also signs an autograph for a Boingo before getting ready to ski down the mountain  these guys will be skiing down the mountain at the same time as granny and her group  after the race begins we quickly learned that the player haters are m

ore violent than a  Discord user learning the age of consent laws laughs what no dude a while into their altercation  the lead player hater manages to get Granny in a state of disadvantage but because Granny  is awesome she still manages to get some information out of him before big and beefy drops  granny faster than the Oscars dropping Will Smith in 2022. you tell me this instant we were hired  by the Bandit this guy may have just been an accessory to like five murders but at least he  respect

s his Elders kinda granny uses nothing but Stone Cold badassery to get back up the mountain  and there is clearly no system of referees or any kind of legal representation present at this  event because on top of the four assaults and one attempted murder granny also uses these explosives  which I'm sure were obtained very legally to cause the Avalanche that takes place during the be  prepared scene granny must be close friends with the Japanese because she came prepared and packed  a parachute

under her ski uniform this explains how she manifested herself as an omnipotent God  to Red then she floats all the way to the house Landing in the chimney slightly before wolf  and Twitchy arrive although her parachute gets caught in the fan tying her up and locking her  in the closet which actually meant through this really fun game that me and my siblings used  to play as a kid damn what was it called again yeah that's it that's it good times granny then beats Twitchy to death to open  the do

or and we're all caught up to speed but the Revelation that Granny has been lying to  Red causes them to have a falling out and the detectives take a quick leave so they can air out  all of their personal problems this all causes red to feel very hurt taking off the hood that Granny  made her in an act of sadness so what do we call her now little writing I mean she still has her  bike so yeah yeah I'll just call her that there's also a song here called red is blue and obviously  I can't play it

for legal reasons but the lyrics literally go red is blue that doesn't make  much sense but red is blue and I like that they acknowledge how stupid the song is in the song  itself this entire scene is so [ __ ] campy I mean listen to this line during the flashback scene  that red is having if there are two things your granny doesn't do it's lie and play extreme sports  the song that's playing is literally just verbally explaining everything that red is going through I  love this entire sequence

so much just after this scene someone wearing Red's Hood steals the goodie  basket it's obviously not red because if it was red then the movie would just tell us that back at  the interrogation though Nikki flippers is still trying to figure out who is the main villain of  the story but during this they realize that both red and the recipes have gone missing but Nikki  isn't so easily convinced that red is the goodie Bandit because she has nothing to gain from this  Nikki pieces together that th

e only common thread all of the stories is Boingo the bunny and he sets  out with the police to go track him down I know that they've exonerated these guys of any real  suspicion but it feels weird to leave four of your six previous Prime suspects in a room alone the  player haters renovated Kirk's snitchel truck into I don't know what this is but it goes up  mountains now I mean it did that before but now it looks evil while doing it which  I think is what really matters wolf sends Twitchy to g

o stop the cops and let them know  that they're going the wrong way and that the true culprits are headed up the mountain but to  get Twitchy the extra boost of speed and energy that he needs wolf gives Twitchy a cup of coffee  that probably weighs more than Twitchy himself what Boingo makes it to the end of the cable  car line and mansplains his evil motivations to Dolph which little writing overhears also  little writing calls Boingo Bad Bunny and for a split second I swear she was referencing

the  2020s Puerto Rican hip-hop artist but then I remembered that this movie came out in 2005.  so now it is my personal headcan and that bad bunny got his name because he is just a really  big fan of Hoodwinked this is where we get an amazing fight scene that puts that trash from Kung  Fu Panda to shame I mean for a team of animators that had literally never animated in 3D before  this honestly turned out pretty good and I'd feel bad if I did nothing but trash on it Boingo  manages to lay out

little writing faster than Nate Robinson got knocked out by Jake Paul and Dolph  ties her up the Boingo also makes fun of Keith's name here for a little bit darn it change your  name please that's not scary and I'm embarrassed to say it oh watch out for Keith yeah that's  probably why the Happy Face Killer didn't go by his real name Boingo sings a short little song  about his evil plans and then literally explain remains his evil plans in a three-phase program  wow this [ __ ] really likes to ta

lk about his evil plans his plan is to add something called  boingonium to all the recipes that he's stolen thus far this is a super addictive drug that  will make children constantly desire to eat his sweet treats I think I just prefer he hand  out bags of heroin to be honest with you Boingo loads red up on the explosion Express and at the  same time granny and the Gang show up Wingo also says the thing you've been hoodwinked  baby so that's kinda cool I guess you know what I'm just gonna say i

t Hoodwinked  is a creative ass name for this movie and if I came up with it I would be jerking myself  off about it to this damn day granny begins to hatch a plan to take down Dolph but because  this movie was written in 2005 this happens you know what I'll give them a pass this time I  feel like this Trope wasn't too dated 18 years ago but you're on thin ice but they tussle  with Dolph and we switch to the next scene where Twitchy causes a three-way Collision but  because Twitchy is hopped up

on methamphetamines he can't properly explain to the officers what  he's saying Kirk ends up disguising himself as Dolph but he's kind of a wreck so wolf takes over  pretending to be a building inspector to distract Boingo so that Granny can sneak around the Evil  Lair but after Granny gets spotted by Boingo The Jig Is up and she uses her extreme sports  skills to put the pose on boyingo's henchmen but while everyone is distracted Boingo flips  the switch to Sunset little writing thankfully thou

gh friction doesn't exist in this universe  and Granny uses a muffin pan to try and catch up to little red the player haters also use their  snowboards to try and catch up to Granny as well the officers are finally able to decipher  twitchy's nonsensical speaking but at the same time they notice the train car full of  explosives coming right at them red manages to wiggle herself free and crawl around the train  car at the same time granny comes to the rescue just in time and causes ecological da

mage to  the environment that will take about a decade to recover from and now that Little Red Riding  Hood's namesake has been restored she uses it to float up into the sky away from the danger  that isn't far behind them the player haters also ski-dattle themselves right into police  custody you guys like that word play foreign Little Red Land safely on the ground and they  reconcile their differences wolf and Kirk make it back down the mountain and cause about twenty  thousand dollars in prop

erty damage but it's fine because they saved the day and everyone knows  after you stop one crime you're allowed to commit as many as you want for the next 24 to 36  hours the next morning we find our main characters at a muffin stand and this isn't technically  important but it's funny so I'm mentioning it but japheth now works as the delivery goat for red  and Granny the movie ends with Detective flippers hiring a gang to work for him at happily ever  after agency to work his spies detectives

and investigators this reminds me of the terrifying  yet exciting fact that this movie got a sequel [Music] foreign I remember liking Hoodwink but honestly  I liked it a lot more watching it now than I did however many years ago okay the first thing  we need to talk about is this movie's art and animation style because although it's intentional  it doesn't make this movie anybody ever watching experience apparently the directors wanted this  movie to have more of a stop-motion feel which is why

the characters started and stopped moving  on a dime sometimes but it just ends up looking very jarring in fact my mind would have never have  even made that connection had I not literally been researching the movie I swear doing this has to  go against like three of the 12 basic principles of animation and it really doesn't look good  the art style you know honestly I don't hate it is it that much fun to look at no not at all  I mean Kirk The Woodsman notably looks really odd because as body pa

rts seem to be fighting for  space and I think that's because they had to model his body in a way that it wouldn't overlap  and clip into itself but I do think that the art style serves the purpose of the movie really well  the movie is supposed to be surreal and gritty I mean the first two acts of this movie take place  during a police investigation it makes sense I do also think that they did pretty well with camera  work in this movie The thing about animation and especially 3D animation is y

ou're not limited  by what a camera can and cannot capture you can do whatever you want from wherever you want  to capture it and I think they do a good job of showing that off in this movie anyone who has  touched 3D animation will let you know that the camera is one of the most annoying things to  deal with through the entire process and I'm sure it was only worse in 2005. so I think they did as  well as they possibly could have other than that I have pretty much nothing else to complain about

  I actually really like the story it makes a lot of sense the elements of Boingo being a bad guy  are never really hidden from the audience but it makes a lot of sense that none of them would have  realized that he was Evil based on their singular short interactions that they had with him I  also like that the individual stories weave together in really consistent and convincing ways  the only issue that I have as I've read seriously shouldn't have made it to the house after wolf  she was trave

ling considerably faster than he was other than that the story itself ties itself  together really well I don't particularly care for the fact that Kirk is really only there to pad  out run time don't get me wrong Kirk is funny I like his story but he doesn't really do pretty  much anything in the movie at all he serves to be just an extra story that's told he also has  the shortest story running for a little under 10 minutes compared to everyone else's stories taking  15 to 20 minutes you could

legit remove him from the movie and you would largely end up with the  same experience I mean even in the third act he doesn't do anything that wolf couldn't have done  by himself wolf ended up having to be the one to distract Boingo because Kirk ended up freezing  in the moment that all being said I still do largely like the story for this movie even if it  is pretty thin I mean it's basically just here's why we're innocent and oh hey this bunny is here  he must be the bad guy and then the mov

ie ends like 15 minutes after that like seriously the  third act feels really short I mean granny and red have their falling out and then they make up  and literally the next interaction they have with each other the music in this movie is a lot of  fun there aren't too many songs even though this movie describes itself as a musical two of the  three songs in this movie that are sung by actual characters in the movie are sung in the first 15  minutes of the movie in the third song being the Boin

go song that is seven minutes before the movie  ends and is in two parts that are about 45 seconds each that being said they're all good songs you  just aren't really enough of them to make me say that the movie needed songs at all like they're  fun but I'd say we could entirely ditch the first one be prepared and top of the woods were  a lot of fun but great big world is kind of just there in my opinion the voice cast for this movie  absolutely killed it every single one of the lines in this mo

vie is delivered perfectly everyone in  this movie was just cast so perfectly and everyone gave amazing performances I could just listen to  this movie and I'd still have a good time because this movie is just like 80 silly being said so  rounding it all out I'm gonna give Hoodwinked a 7 out of 10 on the critical score I wanted to  give it higher but a lot of the flaws I mentioned just can't be ignored even the Nostalgia goggles  that I'm wearing aren't enough for me to ignore a lot of what I ta

lked about it's a great film but  the things that this movie does well are dragged down by the things that this movie does poorly  that being said for the fun score I'm giving this movie a 10 out of 10. I find the animation to  be a little distracting at times but at the same time it's a lot of this movie's charm and what  makes it so fun Patrick Warburton also killed it as wolf I loved his performance so much that  it single-handedly what carries this movie from a 9 out of 10 to a 10 out of 10.

this movie is  ridiculous but it's consistent and it's constantly funny I'd highly recommend you give this movie a  watch if you have 75 free minutes unfortunately the hard part is watching the movie because  it can't actually be streamed anywhere likely due to the legal problems caused by this movie  being distributed by the Weinstein Company but I'll see if I can find some links to rent or buy  the movie and I'll leave them in the description below I hope you guys enjoyed this week's video  r

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ecause why would they lie to me on the internet Nathan Kennedy Nixie and  I are all gonna go make fruit loop necklaces now okay wow that seems a little unnecessary  [Music] no no I'm just saying okay uh Kennedy seems to be in  a bad mood so I'm gonna go ahead and end the video here before he says  anything that will get it demonetized foreign [Music]