Hoodwinked

This animated film offers plenty for adults to enjoy, but almost none of it is at the expense of the movie's intended audience | Andrew Coffin

Hoodwinked, despite some surface similarities, is no Shrek, and that's at least part of the reason why it is one of the most delightful surprises of the new year.

Rated PG for some mild action and thematic elements, the film is a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale, a semi-modernized retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story in the form of a police procedural, told in Rashomon-like flashbacks. That irreverent attitude toward a childhood classic might lead parents to suspect that Hoodwinked takes a similarly irreverent (as in, crude) approach to its humor, the besetting sin of the otherwise cleverly twisted Shrek films. One is startled to discover that's just not the case.

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January 28, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4

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