History Trivia / Hoodwinked

** Creator/DavidOgdenStiers was originally double-cast as both Kirk and Nicky Flippers, which involved extensive TalkingToHimself. Creator/JamesBelushi replaced him as Kirk, but he managed to remain as Flippers.

** Originally, when Wolf and Twichy would be walking in the sewers, they would be met by a group of bats. The scene is featured on the DVD release, with an optional commentary track from director Cory Edwards.

** The second verse of Red's song "Great Big World" and Kirk's "Schnitzel song"
** A verse in the song Japeth sings in his shack was cut. The cut was at such a point that Red starts to say something that is cut off when the angle changes.

** Originally, when Wolf and Twichy would be walking in the sewers, they would be met by a group of bats. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQleuCpxvqc The scene can be seen here, with commentary from director Cory Edwards ]].
* DVDCommentary: With writers and directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech. Only available in the DVD.

* BillingDisplacement: Dolph shows up on the police lineup poster, which is odd because he doesn't even appear until the second half. Especially odd in that he is not played by a name celebrity, and holds a sign displaying "Xzibit as Chief Grizzly." Twitchy also holds a sign advertising Anthony Anderson as Bill Stork, both minor characters but more major than Dolph. Flippers appears but Creator/DavidOgdenStiers' name does not, and Boingo is completely absent (which probably helps hide the plot twist). Needless to say, it is an odd poster.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The French title is ''La Véritable Histoire du Petit Chaperon rouge'', which means "The True Story of the Little Red Riding Hood"[[note]]With the wording implying more "all other accounts are propaganda" than "it's a true story that actually happened".[[/note]]. The Brazilian title is ''Deu A Louca Na Chapeuzinho!'' ("Red Riding Hood Gone Crazy!"), which actually gave rise to several other fairy-tale animated features having "(X) Gone Crazy!" titles.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Japeth the Goat's song about being . . . well . . . prepared, shares the same title as [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar's]] VillainSong.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: You have to wonder what would have happened had the Weinstein Company not ordered the recasting of a number of main characters' voices. (see The Other Marty, above).

!!The movie contains examples of:

** All of the songs were shortened on direct order from the Weinstein Brothers, which ruined a lot of BackStory and some great lyrics.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The French title is ''La Véritable Histoire du Petit Chaperon rouge'', which means "The True Story of the Little Red Riding Hood"[[note]]With the wording implying more "all other accounts are propaganda" than "it's a true story that actually happened".[[/note]].

* NamesTheSame: "Be Prepared" is not a VillainSong, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 is it]]? Oh, wait, that was something else.

** Originally, when Wolf and Twichy would be walking in the sewers, they would be found by a group of bats.

* DVDCommentary: With Writers and Directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards and Tony Leech. Only available in the DVD.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The French title is ''La Véritable Histoire du Petit Chaperon rouge'', which means "The True Story of the Little Red Riding Hood.

* NamesTheSame: "Be Prepared" is not a VillainSong, [[Disney/TheLionKing is it]]? Oh, wait, that was something else.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Japeth the Goat's song about being . . . well . . . prepared, shares the same title as [[Disney/TheLionKing Scar's]] VillainSong.

* BillingDisplacement: Dolph shows up on the police lineup poster, which is odd because he doesn't even appear until the second half. Especially odd in that he is not played by a name celebrity, and holds a sign displaying "Xzibit as Chief Grizzly." Twitchy also holds a sign advertising Anthony Anderson as Bill Stork, both minor characters but more major than Dolph. Flippers appears but Creator/DavidOgdenStierss' name does not, and Boingo is completely absent (which probably helps hide the plot twist). Needless to say, it is an odd poster.

* BillingDisplacement: Dolph shows up on the police lineup poster, which is odd because he doesn't even appear until the second half. Especially odd in that he is not played by a name celebrity, and holds a sign displaying "Xzibit as Chief Grizzly." Twitchy also holds a sign advertising Anthony Anderson as Bill Stork, both minor characters but more major than Dolph. Flippers appears but David Ogden Stiers' name does not, and Boingo is completely absent (which probably helps hide the plot twist). Needless to say, it is an odd poster.

** David Ogden Stiers was originally double-cast as both Kirk and Nicky Flippers, which involved extensive TalkingToHimself. Creator/JamesBelushi replaced him as Kirk, but he managed to remain as Flippers.

!!The original movie contains examples of:

** All of the songs were shortened on direct order from the Weinstein Brothers, which ruined a lot of BackStory and some great lyrics.

!!The sequel contains examples of:
* TheDanza / StuntCasting: Heidi played by Heidi Klum.
* DevelopmentHell: More '''Distribution''' Hell, but still.
* NoExportForYou: Never got released in the UK.
* TheOtherDarrin: ''Hoodwinked Too!'' features the voice of Creator/HaydenPanettiere as Red, instead of Creator/AnneHathaway. Panettiere actually did this '''before''' she voiced her character in ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'', which was completed, promoted (by Panettiere, who also came to the UK for this purpose), released in cinemas, put out on DVD ''and'' shown on cable (like Sky Box Office in Britain) while this movie was being ScrewedByTheNetwork - see below. (Incidentally, the sequel has no British release date as of January 2016, and it may yet suffer the fate of fellow Weinstein release ''The Great Debaters'' - which went DirectToDVD in the UK ''four years'' after it came out in the States.)
** The Woodsman also has a new voice this time around, with Martin Short in place of Jim Belushi.
* ThoseTwoActors: Bill Hader and Amy Poehler also starred together in the movie [[{{WesternAnimation/InsideOut}} Inside Out]].
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/03/kanbar-entertainment-says-it-was-hoodwinked-by-weinstein-co-.html Was very close to this happening]].
* SequelGap: Thanks to the above-mentioned DevelopmentHell, this film ended up being released in 2011, six years after the original 2005 film.
* ThoseTwoActors: This is the third time Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Joan Cusack have been in the same movie (see also ''Film/RaisingHelen'' and ''Film/IcePrincess'').

* AllStarCast: Funnily, this wasn't planned to happen. Originally, a few actors voiced two characters: Tara Strong voiced Red and Zorra, a member of Granny's ski team. David Ogden Stiers voiced Flippers as well as Kirk (if this had stayed, Flippers interviewing Kirk would essentially be one guy interviewing himself). The Edwards brothers' associate Tony Leech voiced Det. Bill Stork, Sally Struthers voiced Granny, Joel [=McCrary=] as Chief Grizzly, and Tom Kenny was Woolworth. Only a few of the original cast roles were kept - such as Patrick Warburton's role as the Wolf and Andy Dick's role as Boingo.
** Due to ExecutiveMeddling by the distributor, a lot of these voice roles were changed in favor of high profile actors:
*** Creator/AnneHathaway replaced Strong to provide Red's voice.
*** Creator/JimBelushi replaced Stiers as Kirk's voice.
*** Creator/AnthonyAnderson replaced Leech to voice Det. Stork
*** Music/{{Xzibit}} replaced [=McCrary=] as Grizzly.
*** Creator/ChazzPalminteri replaced Kenny for Woolworth.
*** Creator/BenjyGaither's role as Japeth almost got recast by better known country singers. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen It would have been interesting if someone like Willie Nelson were voicing him.]]
*** The animation had been completed to such an extent that when the roles were recast, the new actors had to deliver the new lines exactly the same way the original lines had been given.

* ThoseTwoActors: Bill Hader and Amy Poehler also starred together in the movie [[{{WesternAnimation/InsideOut}} Inside Out]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: You have to wonder what would have happened had the Weinstein Company not ordered the recasting of a number of main characters' voices. In the finished film, Tara Strong has a bit role as Zorra, the fox on Granny's ski team. As the film was originally cast, she also voiced Red before Creator/AnneHathaway did. David Ogden Stiers voices Flippers, and also used to voice Kirk. The Edwards brothers' associate Tony Leech voiced Det. Bill Stork before Creator/AnthonyAnderson. Emmy-winning actress Sally Struthers voiced Granny before Glenn Close did. Only a few of the original cast roles were kept when ExecutiveMeddling set in - such as Patrick Warburton as the Wolf and Andy Dick as Boingo. And Japeth almost got recast.

* CutSong: Not exactly ''cut'' so much as truncated, but "Great Big World," Red's song, is much longer on the soundtrack - the first verse, the chorus, then a second verse and a refrain of the chorus. In the film, we see all of the first verse (shots of Red riding her bike), but as soon as Red is carried across a stream by hummingbirds, the scene cuts to her on her bike overlooking a valley and the song's refrain. The first run of the chorus and the second verse were animated fully and can be viewed in context on the deleted scenes (the chorus is sung by some beavers riding a log downstream as Red rides on the shore, while Red sings the second verse while she makes deliveries).

* HeyItsThatVoice: Look at that poster up there.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Brock Samson]] as the Wolf? YES!
** Chazz Palmentieri in a cameo as a sheep.
** In the Japanese dub: [[Creator/TomokazuSeki Boingo is]] [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kashuu]] and [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Sousuke Sagara]].

* TheOtherDarrin: ''Hoodwinked Too!'' features the voice of Creator/HaydenPanettiere as Red, instead of Creator/AnneHathaway. Panettiere actually did this '''before''' she voiced her character in ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'', which was completed, promoted (by Panettiere, who also came to the UK for this purpose), released in cinemas, put out on DVD ''and'' shown on cable (like Sky Box Office in Britain) while this movie was being ScrewedByTheNetwork - see below. (Incidentally, the sequel has no British release date as of January 2013, and it may yet suffer the fate of fellow Weinstein release ''The Great Debaters'' - which went DirectToDVD in the UK ''four years'' after it came out in the States.)

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: All of the songs were shortened on direct order from the Weinstein Brothers, which ruined a lot of BackStory and some great lyrics.
* DeletedScenes: The deleted scenes on the DVD release extend several of the songs. You can also listen to the full versions if you buy the soundtrack:
** An extra verse in "Great Big World", with shots of Red actually making deliveries (her role as a delivery girl has the feel of an InformedAttribute in the full film because there, we only see shots of Red riding her bike, singing to herself and exchanging greetings with passersby). The verse is spliced in between the shots of Red's bike being carried over the river by the hummingbirds and her coming to a stop at the top of a cliff overlooking a valley.
** An additional verse in the "Schnitzel Song". The shot of the kids cheering and throwing their schnitzel sticks into the air doesn't make sense in the final cut. In the deleted scene, they are shown to be throwing them up in ovation to watching Kirk and two children tap-dancing on a stage.
** An additional verse to "Tree Critter" prior to the ski race.
** The restoration of about five seconds of audio to "Be Prepared", which inserts a shot of Japeth biting down on a tulip after Red says, "That's great, but could you just help me find my Granny's house?" and before the shot of Japeth standing on a chair that tips over. Due to its cutting location, in the final film, Red can be heard speaking although her lips aren't moving for about a second once the music starts. It's still missing a running of the chorus right before the part where Gaither slides down a scale.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: You have to wonder what would have happened had the Weinstein Company not ordered the recasting of a number of main characters' voices. In the finished film, Tara Strong has a bit role as Zorra, the fox on Granny's ski team. As the film was originally cast, she also voiced Red before Creator/AnneHathaway did. David Ogden Stiers voices Flippers, and also used to voice Kirk. The Edwards brothers' associate Tony Leech voiced Det. Bill Stork before Creator/AnthonyAnderson. Emmy-winning actress Sally Struthers voiced Granny before Glenn Close did. Only a few of the original cast roles were kept when ExecutiveMeddling set in - such as Patrick Warburton as the Wolf and Andy Dick as Boingo.
** And Japeth almost got recast.

* TheDanza / StuntCasting: Heidi played by Heidi Klum.