Story
Hoodwinked Too! opens with Happy Ever After (HEA) agents the Big Bad Wolf (voice of Patrick Warburton), Granny Puckett (Glen Close) and Twitchy (Cory Edwards) trying to rescue two children, Hansel (Bill Hader) and Gretel (Amy Poehler). The children are being held prisoner by a wicked witch (Joan Cusack). Unfortunately, the rescue doesn’t go as planned. The witch escapes with Hansel, Gretel and Granny as well.
Meanwhile, Red Riding Hood (Hayden Panettiere) is off on special assignment training with the Sisterhood of the Kung Fu Bakers. She’s about to undertake her final trial when a secret recipe is stolen.
Red and Wolf are now partnered to find Hansel and Gretel, rescue Granny and catch the recipe thief. Of course, things don’t go smoothly at first, and Hansel and Gretel might not be the innocent victims they seem.
Themes
Fairy tales; kidnapping
Violence
Hoodwinked Too! has some scenes with animated violence and accidental harm. They’re largely comic, and they don’t show real-life consequences or characters being hurt. Children might try to copy some of this violence. For example:
Sexual references
This movie has some sexual references and crude humour. For example:
- When Wolf slams into a wall, he says, ‘OK, I can taste my own butt’.
- Someone makes a sarcastic reference about a desexing centre.
- After a giant falls and sits on top of a goat, the muffled voice of the goat says that he’s inside a ‘dark tunnel’ and that it ‘smells like burritos’.
Alcohol, drugs and other substances
This movie has some use of substances. For example:
- Characters drink in a nightclub.
- A green gas is used to knock out Red and Twitchy. Wolf says that his tongue feels all puffy and that he can see rainbows.
- Granny makes a joke about the 60s being a blur.
- Someone says, ‘Chill a pill and take one’.
Nudity and sexual activity
This movie has some nudity and sexual activity. For example:
- Twitchy comes out of his caravan with two female squirrels. One gives Twitchy a quick kiss on the cheek while the second gives him a longer passionate kiss on the lips.
- Another time, Twitchy comes out of his caravan with two female squirrels. He says, ‘OK girls let’s call it a night’.
- An ogre wears sumo wrestler-style pants, showing his bottom.
Product placement
Nothing of concern
Coarse language
This movie has some mild coarse language and name-calling that children might copy. Alternative words are substituted for stronger coarse language.
Ideas to discuss with your children
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil is an animated comedy based on fairytale characters, targeted at primary school-age children and older. It contains scenes that might scare children under seven, as well as violence and language that younger children might copy. It’s not as clever and enjoyable for grown-ups as the first Hoodwinked movie.
The main messages from this movie are about:
- not letting your pride get in the way of helping others
- being open to help and suggestions
- working together as a team to achieve much more than you could working as individuals.
Values in this movie that you could reinforce with your children include the following:
- Cooperation: it’s only by working together as a team that Red and her friends can overpower the evil villains.
- Self-reflection: both Wolf and Red can reflect on their shortcomings and make changes.
You might want to talk with younger children about the make-believe nature of the animated violence shown in the movie. You could also talk about the real-life consequences that would result from this type of violence.