I remember seeing the trailer for this movie and thinking "Well the animation looks terrible, but it seems like it should be pretty funny." It wasn't funny, and that’s why "Hoodwinked" failed.

Hoodwinked jumps on the bandwagon of CGI fractured fairytale films. Where "Shrek" succeeded, "Hoodwinked" miserably fails. First of all "Hoodwinked" is not funny, its humor relies too much on the "Not everybody is what they seem" theme. It also depends too heavily upon pop-culture references.

The characters are all extremely dislikable. I found myself gritting my teeth every time Red walked into a scene (and I must agree with GrafSpee, the song Red sings is hideous). Grandma and the wolf's personalities both scream "Look! Look, we aren't at all what we seem, so that makes us funny right?" So we come to Twitchy. Twitchy is a horrible hybrid between Hammy, from "Over the Hedge, and Pillsy, from "Neurotically Yours. Twitchy steals much screen time chattering in a high pitch voice, which is difficult to understand at best.

Oh, I forgot another key factor, which makes this film unbearable, the plot. Someone is stealing all the goodies, and Grandma (who runs a goody factory), Red, The Wolf, and the Woodcutter are being questioned as possible suspects. Meanwhile, this goody-stealing fiend is on the loose. "Oh no what ever shall we do, us poor forest animals won't be able to eat goodies." Is that the best plot the writers could come up with? A monkey pounding on a typewriter could come up with a better story.

If you are looking for fractured fairy tales, give this one a pass, and see “Shrek” instead.

I will admit I was pretty turned off by the film when I first saw the trailers. The character designs weren't particularly appealing to me and the animation also looked pretty weak. Based on the look alone, this is not a film that I would've gone to see in the theatre or rented from the local video store. However, funny thing about the job of being an editor is that you wind up watching a lot of animation that you never would've otherwise...

Thus, having watched the film last night, I have to say I was impressed. The story and humour in the movie makes up for the visuals in HUGE leaps and bounds. It's clever, it's action packed and the twist at the end wasn't painfully obvious... it was still somewhat foreshadowed, but I've see a lot worse.

I think trying to compared "Hoodwinked" to other CG films on the market is sort of like trying to compared the animation in "South Park" to "The Little Mermaid". When you're watching South Park, you're not watching it for the animation--not by a long shot. If you can accept that from a CG film too, you might enjoy this one.

This was a movie I was proud of. And a little twist...The guys that made it are from my city. Plus, Benjamin "Benjy" Gaither lives only blocks away. The story is wonderful, as is the message. Why not four-star? Horribly uneven lighting and jerky motions. But, it's really the story that matters

Uhhh... what can I say about this?

It was enjoyable, funny, and amusing. I would have chosen a different movie to watch on my friend's birthday, but I'm sooo not horror movie friendly. So, this was my only other choice.

As I found out, the movie wasn't so bad. Can't say the same for my friend, because she snuck out to see part of "When A Stranger Calls" before we left the theater.

And I really must agree with BeachballSP on the Schnitzel thing. The little kids were a bit, uh, frightening...

Great story and humor makes up for the visual department. Poor Japeth the Goat got stuck with a door-hinged mouth in order to carry out his song because the film had a low budget. The worst character designs were the boys and girls in the Schnitzel song. They all have the same frightening face.