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The production contains enough positive elements to make it worth a look, but not until it reaches DVD or TV. As a theatrical offering, it disappoints.
A warped, but mildly amusing twist on the childhood favourite.
Offers a few laughs but overall is pretty tired.
Hoodwinked may be a poor cousin to the Shrek franchise, but this made-on-the-cheap computer-animated feature still has more style and snarky gags than Disney's recent CG hit, Chicken Little.
Even though it's basically a 10-minute short puffed up to fill 80 minutes, Hoodwinked has laughs and plenty of them.
Bit by bit, we fall asleep.
Somnambulistic from start to finish, it's a film whose title clearly refers to its paying-customer audience.
Despite its occasionally unfinished feel, Hoodwinked will probably keep everyone (adults and kids) entertained for its very brief running time.
Simply not worth the effort or expense of a family night out at the movies.
Someone give these folks a real budget so they can make a movie that looks as good as it sounds.
It's more than a little contrived, but Warburton's Wolf has a worldly, hard-bitten charm.
The idea is so great that it's a crying shame that the end product is such a sheep in wolf's clothing.
Co-writer / director Cory Edwards has a lot of fun blending the detective genre with the familiar fairy tale world and the witty script throws up several hilarious one-liners, many of which will sail over the heads of a young audience.
A breezy, passably funny spin on a children's classic, mixing slapstick and farce with character humour and delighting in demolishing stereotypes.
In its simplicity, this film is to Pixar what the old hand-drawn Charlie Brown cartoons were to Disney.
Saddled with cheap-looking animation and a far from stellar cast, this Shrek clone is a diverting but hardly memorable addition to a dangerously overworked genre.
This revisionist, jokey interpretation of the bedtime story arrives in the considerable wake of Shrek and is found wanting.
Makes up for both its simplistic animation and its similarity to Shrek by cramming the script with riotously funny dialog.
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