I read the script for Hoodwinked and worked with the Edwards Brothers on another project that didn't get off the ground. The script is sporadically very funny (I agree that the animation looks godawful, but I rarely like animation anyway; Pixar movies give me a headache).
The Edwards Bros. have little grasp of story, and they suffer the "anything for a laugh" syndrome that often caused Mel Brooks and Zucker Brothers movies to be only sporadically good -- they'll sacrifice anything (internal logic, consistent character POV, good taste, rational judgement) if they can get a gag out of it. The result of writing that way is that whether the movie is any good or not is something of a crap shoot. If you have enough gags that work, you can get the audience to forgive the ones that don't. If too many of the jokes end up being stinkers, you've got nothing left.
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Date: 2005-12-08 06:01 pm (UTC)The Edwards Bros. have little grasp of story, and they suffer the "anything for a laugh" syndrome that often caused Mel Brooks and Zucker Brothers movies to be only sporadically good -- they'll sacrifice anything (internal logic, consistent character POV, good taste, rational judgement) if they can get a gag out of it. The result of writing that way is that whether the movie is any good or not is something of a crap shoot. If you have enough gags that work, you can get the audience to forgive the ones that don't. If too many of the jokes end up being stinkers, you've got nothing left.