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Just saw the trailer for Hoodwinked.

Holy crap. It looks terrible. It doesn't even look like someone's demo reel from back when teapots, brushed chrome spheres and checkerboards were all the rage. I did better animation with my 486/66, a copy of POVray, and two nights' worth of rendering. (It was called Purvis The Blob and it wibbled.)

And this one defies all logic. Or maybe you'd like to explain to me why the cows (as evidenced by their udders) are speaking in tough guy voices?

I don't want to hear anything about how it's supposed to be for the kids, blah blah woof woof. Kids deserve better.

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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.