HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL

2011, Kanbar Entertainment

Animation

Rating: PG

Approx. 86 mins.

THE STORY:

Woolf (Patrick Warburton) and Red (Hayden Panettiere) are back, now members of an elite crime fighting unit under the direction of Nicky Flippers (David Ogden Stiers). When Hansel and Gretel disappear, the two are joined in their mission to find them by Granny (Glenn Close), a member of a secret crime fighting organization.

Hansel and Gretel turn out to be less than innocent victims, and the three crime fighters encounter various dangerous situations as they solve the mystery and set everything to rights.

QUESTIONABLE LANGUAGE:

• didn't catch any, but couldn't focus enough to swear to it

VIOLENCE:

• nothing significant

TEACHING POINTS:

• jealousy is bad
• it's never too late to change/ embrace a friend

THE UPSHOT:

What a waste of great voice talent. What a waste of 86 minutes of my life. Truth be told, it wasn't a complete waste of my time: I found it so hard to focus my attention on the movie that I did a number of other things while/ instead of watching.

Hoodwinked Too! achieves a pretty remarkable feat: it manages to be both fast-paced and convoluted, and completely boring and pointless. Save yourselves! Don't do it, folks.

1.5/5