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2	''Woody Woodpecker'' is a 2017 American live-action/GCI comedy film directed by Alex Zamm, written by Zamm and William Robertson, and based on the eponymous [[WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker cartoon character]].
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4	The film focuses on Woody (Creator/EricBauza) working to save his home tree from getting cut down by attorney Lance Walters (Creator/TimothyOmundson), who wants to build a house in Woody's home forest. The film also stars Graham Verchere as Tommy Walters, Jordana Largy as Samantha Bartlett and Thaila Ayala as Vanessa.
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6	A sequel, titled ''Film/WoodyWoodpeckerGoesToCamp'' was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on April 12, 2024. Bauza is joined by Kevin Michael Richardson and Tom Kenny reprising Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus from the 2018 [=YouTube=] series.
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8	!!''Woody Woodpecker'' providess examples of:
9	* AdaptationalBadass: Woody flies, is very agile, and can drill through wood like a tornado in this film while he (usually) lacked these abilities in the cartoons. In the 1940s animated shorts, Woody rarely flew and he stayed on the ground or drove a car to get to places.
10	* AdaptedOut: None of the other Creator/WalterLantz characters are present due to the film being a HumanFocusedAdaptation. However, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus are eventually added into ''Film/WoodyWoodpeckerGoesToCamp''.
11	* AnimalNemesis: Lance becomes obsessed with getting rid of Woody after the woodpecker starts to get in the way of the construction of his new house.
12	* AnimationBump: Woody is computer-animated in this film instead of drawn on paper with ink this time, marking his CGI debut.
13	* AnthropomorphicShift: Inverted. In this film, Woody is downsized to between one and two feet, although in the cartoons, he was at least half the size of a human and drove a car. Woody also doesn't carry any money in this film, while he always did in the cartoon, especially whenever his nemesis Buzz Buzzard (who's not in this film) was involved and tried to cheat him out of his money.
14	* AntiHero: Woody, naturally and also Lance.
15	* BefriendingTheEnemy: Taking Sam's advice, Lance decides to play nice with Woody, offering him treats in return for letting him build his house. This works, until Woody accidentally sets the house on fire.
16	* BigBadDuumvirate: Nate and Ottis Grimes, the brother poachers who desire to hunt Woody and sell him to the highest bidder.
17	* ButtMonkey: Vanessa finds herself getting a great deal of physical punishment throughout the film, including getting whacked in the face with a broom and getting blown up in a gas fire, all played for laughs.
18	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Woody does this often by "pausing" the movie.
19	* CallingParentsByTheirName: Tommy calls his father "Lance" at the start of the movie, much to the latter's annoyance. He starts to call him "Dad" as their relationship improves.
20	* CallingTheOldManOut: Tommy does this a lot to his father, Lance, for antagonizing Woody so much.
21	* CaptainObvious: Woody, he deliberately says [[{{Understatement}} obvious things]] the whole movie.
22	* CassandraTruth: Samantha doesn't believe Lance when he tells her there's a red-crowned pileated woodpecker in the area because it's believed they've been extinct for a hundred years. She remains skeptic until she finally sees Woody.
23	* ChildHater: Vanessa, Lance's Brazilian fiancé, does not really want to be a step-mother. She's immediately hostile and snobby towards Tommy, Lance's son, and nags him to serve her throughout their trip behind Lance's back, especially once he disobeys her and allies with Woody. She eventually reveals her dislike of him, calling him a "brat," to Lance, which is the first hint that [[spoiler:she might not be the best girlfriend for him]].
24	* ClothingAppendage: In this film, Woody's gloves are made out of feathers like his body.
25	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Woody strips two bullies who were picking on Tommy down to their underwear out in the middle of the street. Woody threatens to strip them even further before they run away in embarassment and terror.
26	* ContinuityNod: The fake female woodpecker decoy that the Grimes brothers set up for Woody is a nod to Winnie. However, because the movie states that Woody's the last of his species, this could mean that Winnie doesn't exist in this movie's continuity or she died from the poaching that extinguished all the other woodpeckers.
27	* ControlFreak: Vanessa is very bossy and high-maintenance. She pushes Lance's son Tommy around, and becomes increasingly strict and aggressive with the housing development once Woody "ruins" it.
28	* DisposableFiance: [[spoiler: Vanessa breaks off her engagement to Lance halfway through the film after seeing him fail to get rid of Woody and allowing her to get blown up. This appears to free Lance up to pursue a relationship with park ranger Sam]].
29	* EvilPoacher: Nate and Ottis Grimes very frequently hunt endangered animals, ignoring the "No Poaching" signs being hung up. They go after Woody after finding out how much money he would be worth if sold on the black market.
30	* FoodAndAnimalAttraction: Woody's genuine love of food is how he befriends Tommy and takes advantage of Lance.
31	* FunnyAnimal: According to Samantha's ornithology book, Woody is a red-crowned pileated woodpecker... who can talk, wears gloves, and operates on ToonPhysics. Notably, all of the illustrations of red-crowned pileated woodpeckers in the book are realistic except for an illustration of Woody leaning against a tree; and the species has purportedly been extinct for almost a century.
32	* {{Gasshole}}: Woody when he eats beans can fart out his own signature laugh.
33	* HardWorkMontage: Woody as he works to ensure that Lance's dream house never gets built and also Tommy, Jill and Woody practicing for their performance at a concert.
34	* HumanFocusedAdaptation: The story of a man building a house and those who would thwart him, and Woody.
35	* IrisOut: Woody gets caught in one at the end of the movie, and grumps that "someone's in a hurry for the credits."
36	* {{Jerkass}}: Vanessa is immediately shown to be a snobbish, selfish, and vain woman. She [[SpoiledBrat acts like a bratty teenage girl to get what she wants from Lance]] and mistreats his son Tommy, [[SmugSnake smugly taunting him]] and [[ControlFreak bossing him around]] when Lance isn't there.
37	* LastOfHisKind: Woody. He suffers from loneliness because of this, as all the other woodpeckers were wiped out by poaching.
38	* LostAesop: The film flips from being about preserving the environment to the value of family, even as the pristine forest is cleared for development.
39	* MadGod: Invoked, as the park ranger informs Lance that Woody's species was seen by the local indigenous people as the manifestation of their god of chaos and mayhem.
40	* MarketBasedTitle: Titled ''Pica-Pau: O Filme'' in Brazil.
41	* MaternallyChallenged: Vanessa claims to not be very good with kids, and she doesn't get along with his son Tommy at all. She's snobby towards him, not wanting him to join them on their trip at first, and bosses him around once they're there. It's clear she doesn't look forward to becoming a step-mother at all.
42	* MediumAwareness: Woody -- true to his nature as a zany cartoon character -- pauses the film to [[BreakingTheFourthWall address the audience]] at various points.
43	-->'''Woody:''' Hey, don't let the mushy music fool you. We're not friends or anything. I'm only doing this for the free food.\
44	'''Woody:''' Okay, okay. I know what you folks are thinking. "Woody is a big, fat sellout." ''[the camera pans back to reveal his house stuffed full of peanut butter cookie boxes]'' But the way I see it, it's a mutually-beneficial business agreement.
45	* MythologyGag: Woody's rap song is a modern arrangement of his opening song number from his first solo cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/TheCrackedNut''.
46	* PreferJailToTheProtagonist: The Grimes brothers after being defeated by Woody in the climax are ''relieved'' that the police arrive, begging to be arrested so that they can get away from Woody.
47	* RecycledInSpace: ''[[Film/FurryVengeance Feathery Vengeance]]?''
48	* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The web page that the two poachers check at the beginning has "bird" spelled as "ird". What makes this even more jarring is the fact that "bird" was spelled correctly on the same page prior to the misspelling.
49	* RunForTheBorder: The story takes place near the Canadian border and the Grimes brothers decide to run for it upon being exposed as illegal poachers.
50	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
51	-->'''Samantha:''' You can't just kill it. The woodpecker is a protected species, you'd be breaking the law. A $10,000 fine!\
52	'''Lance:''' Do you take credit cards?\
53	'''Samantha:''' And two years in jail.
54	* ThePrankster: Woody veers between this and KarmicTrickster over the course of the movie, being [[{{Troll}} antagonistic towards Lance for no apparent reason]] and blackmailing him into getting a huge stockpile of Peanut Butter Bonkers cookies; and also one-upping the poachers trying to capture him.
55	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: The Native Americans who lived in the area Woody currently resides left because otherwise they couldn't rid of the red-crowned pileated woodpeckers who lived there back then.
56	* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Lance gets a handful of these while Woody is sabotaging the construction of his new house. After paying off a huge bill, he gets handed yet another one to his shock. Then after paying that bill off, he gets more and more bills ranging from $25,000 to $65,000.
57	* ShoutOut: Lance wakes up in the middle of the night to see Woody leering down at him, delivering a reference to the ''Film/TheShining''[='=]s "Here's Johnny!" line.
58	* SkewedPriorities: Park ranger Samantha tells Lance that the penalty for killing Woody will be $10,000 dollars ''before'' also adding two years in prison. Wouldn't it make more sense to state the penalty's sentence and then its fine?
59	* StartMyOwn: After being fired for making an unfriendly comment, Lance decides to improve and sell a land he inherited from his grandfather so he can start his own company to compete against his former employers.
60	* ToiletHumor: Woody [[{{Gasshole}} farts]] his signature laugh, poops on Lance's girlfriend, and poops on a guy's ice-cream.
61	* TrademarkFavoriteFood:
62	** Woody loves peanut butter, especially peanut butter cookies, which is what drives him to extort Lance for hundreds of peanut butter cookies.
63	** Tommy states that his favorite is pizza, which Lance seems to loathe.
64	** Lyle loves hot dogs so much he ate 29 of them in one sitting! Though Lyle very soon regrets this.
65	* ToonPhysics: In contrast to the normal humans barring a few slapstick moments, Woody operates on cartoon physics -- including [[MediumAwareness breaking the fourth wall several times]], defying gravity to walk along the walls and ceiling of his home, and SelfDuplication during his rap.
66	* VillainProtagonist: Both Woody and Lance (especially Woody) start off from the movie as this. Woody and Lance are initially hostile towards one another out of territorial dispute even though as Samantha points out, the forest is big enough for both of them, but seeing as Woody is the true victor in any fight that happens between the two, Lance starts to cave in and make amends with Woody.

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