It features the voices of Hayden Panettiere, Glenn Close, Patrick Warburton, Joan Cusack, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Martin Short, Andy Dick, and David Ogden Stiers, with the original cast reprising their roles from the first film, alongside Panettiere and Short replacing Anne Hathaway and Jim Belushi respectively.
Unlike its predecessor, the film received negative reviews from critics and audiences and was a box office bomb.
Sometime after defeating Boingo the Bunny, Red Pucket, her Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and Twitchy join forces with the Happily Ever After Agency.
Wolf, Granny, and Twitchy are on a rescue mission to save Hansel and Gretel from an evil witch named Verushka.
Meanwhile, Red is in training with a mysterious group called the Sisters of the Hood, where she learns that a secret, all-powerful truffle recipe has been stolen.
While getting info at the Giant’s nightclub and interrogating his harp, Red and company learn that an incarcerated Boingo has been having specific ingredients sent to Verushka, who was also at the prison and narrowly escapes the team.
After some convincing by Twitchy, Wolf decides to apologize to Red, but he is encountered by The Three Pigs, who are now part of a mercenary group hired by Hansel and Gretel, and barely manages to escape.
They betray Verushka, leaving her to be eaten by a giant spider named Bitsy with Granny, Red, Wolf, and Twitchy.
Soon, they trick Hansel and Gretel into eating more truffles, (which makes them inflate and become immobile in a beach ball-like shape instead of making them more invincible and grow even bigger in size) – at some point, as the two siblings grow so much that they can no longer move their arms and legs, and they are arrested and condemned to eat broccoli and forced when Nicky tries to call his parents and get a lot of exercise, especially on a treadmill.
Additional Voices by Kirk Baily, Jack Blessing, Melendy Britt, June Christopher, Brian T. Delaney, Mike Disa, Nicholas Guest, Kyle Herbert, Bridget Hoffman, Sandra Holt, Erin Lander, Wendee Lee, Al Rodrigo, Stephanie Sheh, Keith Silverstein, Marcelo Tubert, Kari Wahlgren, and Lisa Wilhoit.
[13] He also questioned the integrity of the fractured fairytale genre of which Hoodwinked is a part, calling it, "a trend I groaned about even as I finished the film.
[15] "I was at Disney Feature Animation for nearly 10 years and I never once got to work on a story about a human girl who didn’t spend the entire film trying to get the right date.
Ten pages into the script I realized that this was not the typical romantic formula thrust upon animated films with female leads."
In March 2007 it was announced that Mike Disa, who had long worked in the animation industry, would make his directorial debut on the film.
[17] Disa explained in a 2011 column for The Huffington Post that he was impressed by how the gender roles in the film contrasted to those typically portrayed by Disney.
[19] Disa praised Patrick Warburton's reprisal as the Wolf, feeling that he could play subtext, comedy and rhythm while giving real emotion concurrently.
What would their buildings look like, how would they get around" and saying, "We sat down and worked out the technology and mythology of the world of Hoodwinked that they hadn't really established in the first film.
Evil (Original Motion Picture Score) featured the film's instrumental tracks composed by Murray Gold.
The film placed number six at the box office for its opening weekend, during which it grossed $4,108,630 across 2,505 theatres, averaging $1,640 per venue.
[34] Once upon a time, fairy tales were told with beauty, wit, simplicity and charm, a tradition that seems increasingly a thing of the past in "Hoodwinked Too!
Less a movie than an ill-advised lab experiment in which classic children's stories are injected with Bond-movie stylings, inane wisecracks and martial-arts mayhem, this manic misfire takes storybook revisionism to ever more irritating ends.
"[39] Roger Moore writing for the Orlando Sentinel gave the film two stars out of four, criticizing the story as "nothing more than a series of martial-arts video-game 'levels' for small children", though praising the voice work of Bill Hader and Amy Poehler whose casting as Hansel and Gretel he considered "inspired".
Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one star and said it "leeches the fun clean out of the first Hoodwinked",[42] and Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote that, "while the first film was lifted out of mediocrity by an utterly delightful storyline ... the sequel is a flat, plodding and largely mirthless affair.
In his review for The New York Times, Andy Webster criticized the film's animation, stating "the images don't remotely approach the nuance of, say, Ice Age, let alone anything from the mack daddy, Pixar.
"[45] Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post said that the film "suffer[s] from a stylistic stiffness" and called the characters "clunky and ungainly".
[46] Cory Edwards expressed disappointment with the final film, insinuating that it would not hold much appeal for anyone older than ten, and saying that it was "deflating to give this thing away and watch others run with it in ways I would not."
He has said that the film has less of a "soul" than its predecessor, attributing this problem to the diminished involvement of the Edwards brothers and Tony Leech.
Working on the sequel left such a weak impression on him, that only two years after the film's release, he owned to barely even remembering the production process.