"Let's just say that if a tree falls in the forest you'll get three stories: yours, mine, and the tree's." — Inspector Nicky Flippers
Hoodwinked is an All CGI Cartoon movie released in 2005 that parodies the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Possibly inspired by Shrek, the movie is an Urban Fantasy retelling, using a Rashomon-style interrogation set-up to tell the story, with Alternate Character Interpretation for all of the tale's characters.The movie starts with the police arresting everybody at Granny's House — the Wolf, the Woodsman, Granny, and even Red Riding Hood — and interrogating them separately to find out what happened. Each then narrates events as he or she saw them happen.A sequel titled Hoodwinked Too: Hood Versus Evil, in which the Wolf and Red Riding Hood team up to rescue Hansel and Gretel, was released in April 2011 after several years in Development Hell.
Aside Glance: Wolf, after Twitchy's declaration that he doesn't drink coffee.
Also Red, when Jabeth denies having spoken normally at one point.
Also Twitchy gives the camera a pleased look when he hears his voice played back at quarter-speed on a recorder
Avoid The Dreaded G-Rating: A writer for Focus on the Family's Plugged In magazine said the film could have squeaked by with a "G" rating. Let me reiterate that: Focus on the Family said the content rating on a movie was too strict.
Badass Grandma: Granny. She fights in cage matches, fer cryin' out loud.
Bound and Gagged: First Granny (She wound up tangled in her own parachute's cords) and later Red (as a prisoner of Boingo.)
Brick Joke: The first part of the movie, when the four protagonists tell their sides of the story, is essentially a long succession of these. Little details that seem bizarre or out-of-place are eventually shown in their full context.
Bring It: During the fight scene in the villain's lair, the villain does the "bring it" gesture. With his ear.
Of course, there's also Grandma's line at the end: "Bring it, honey."
Boingo: I'm gonna need a lot of real estate down the mountain, so I've gotta blow the competition away. Oh, and that's not a metaphor. We've literally got to blow them away. OK?
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: And handled much less clunkily than the way it was handled in the Shrek franchise; the prize for the most impressive and spectacular Martial Artists in the film goes to Boingo the Easter Bunny, whose utilizes his EARS as the primary weapon of his highly effective personal style of Martial Arts.
Foreshadowing: If you look carefully during the scene where Red is in the minecart with Japeth and they go down the drop, you can see them pass by Wolf and Twitchy in their own minecart. And when the Wolf tells his story, you can see Red and Japeth dropping in the background. There are tons of these in the movie that would be overlooked until another character's point of view is told.
Also, the expression on Boingo's face after Red falls off the cable car. You think he's horrified at Red falling, or angry at himself. You'd be wrong.
Friend to All Living Things: Parodied: Red "drives" a flock of hummingbirds over a river without a license, according to Flippers. The wolf also accounts that this is creepy.
Jive Turkey: Granny, hilariously enough, during the whole skiing competition.
Kinda Busy Here: When Red called, Granny was... rather busy.
Laser-Guided Karma: Happily Ever After indeed: Red gets her wish to travel the world. Wolf gets his wish to do undercover work. Granny gets her wish to perform hair-raising stunts.
Mood Whiplash: As Red is reminiscing about when she was younger.
Red: Huh, what's this? Granny: Oh, it says "Worlds Greatest Grandma." Red: Grandma, I can read. It says "Battle of the Iron Cage Gladiators." Granny: Now, dear, if there are two things I don't do, it's lie, and play extreme sports.
Goodie Bandit: And Keith!... Darnit, change your name. Please? That's not scary, and I'm embarrassed to say it. "Boris." Try that. *Keith storms off* Keith, you know. Oh... watch out for Keith!
What makes it funnier is that particular moment wasn't supposed to have a joke at all. It was ad-libbed by Andy Dick, who did think "Keith" was a stupid name for an evil Mook.
The trailer also mentions by name Anthony Anderson, who has maybe a dozen lines in the whole movie, but doesn't name Patrick Warburton, who has the second biggest part.
Paper-Thin Disguise: The Wolf's disguises. Also the scene where the media scrum fail to recognize Red without her red cloak on, and instead charge off after a large male jogger wearing a red hoodie.
Rashomon Style: Variation: The four accounts are all totally accurate (using literally the exact same animation from different angles when they overlap), but we still get a different impression from their limited perspectives and, in the case of Red's encounter with the Wolf, different lighting.
Fletch. Wolf dresses like Irwin Fletcher, speaks like Irwin Fletcher, uses the same exact disguises as Irwin Fletcher, and even has the same Theme Song as Irwin Fletcher.
The scene where the wolf questions the Italian sheep is an homage to The Naked Gun. It even directly lifts some of its dialogue.
The "Use the Hood" moment when Granny appears to Red has got to be a Star Wars reference.
Wolf knocking on Granny's door identifies himself in the same way the Land Shark did in the Saturday Night Live skit.
Twitch's babbling leads the police to treat him like Lassie. "Timmy's stuck in the well!"
Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Grandma runs off to save Red, the Goodie Bandit tells her she doesn't trust her for keeping her double life a secret, but Grandma just hit him on the head while still running.
Waiting For A Break: The Woodsman sold schnitzel out of his truck as a day job while waiting to land his next role. At least, until it was all stolen.
Was It All a Lie?: Red found out about her Granny's double life. She felt betrayed because Granny never lets her do anything. Granny thought Red was happy and it was important that she deliver her goodies as their ancestors had done. Granny realized she deserves more in life.
Verushka: "I'm tired of being Number Two! I feel like a big. Steaming. Pile of Number Two!
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Wolf gets retconned into wearing a pair of jeans, so as to make Twitchy be the source of "not wearing any pants" jokes.
Instant Knots: Red's belt, particularly in the opening.
Laser Hallway: Part of Granny's escape, complete with flour being used to reveal the beams and the acrobatic bypass of the lasers.
Laughably Evil: Hansel and Gretel, yes they're Complete Monsters, but they're so ridiculously over-the-top about being evil that it's NOT to laugh at them
Obviously Evil: Hansel and Gretel when Granny finds them. It rears its ugly head when one says "Don't be suspicious... keep following us to the door..."
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Invoked. The Dragon wears a mask with a feature that turns on glowing red eyes. Just for the scaries.
Running Joke: The Sister of the Hood who keeps getting hit in the head with her rolling pin, among others. And then, the Head Sister always stepping on the KO'd Sister's face.
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