Title: Rashomon meets the Grimm Brothers
Product review: This film flew under the radar when it first came out. Nevertheless, it did pretty good at the box office, good enough to make a sequel. It used to be, long ago, that cartoons were either Disney fluff with barely any plot, or, consisted of a series of slapsticks pratfalls, also with barely any plot. Hoodwinked takes a good story, the Little Red Riding Hood story and tells it from the different views of the wolf, the axman, Red, and Granny, each with a secret. The cartoon has its facial distortions and occasional slapstick to appeal to the kids, but there are also a lot of humor directed towards adults (e.g., the wolf complains about being automatically blamed, "Talk about profiling"). It has some nice songs, great voices and a twist in the story.
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