Hoodwinked [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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A featurette on How To Make An Animated Film assures us, "You don't have to be a fine artist", but it helps. In the main commentary, Edwards and his fellow filmmakers Tony Leech and Todd Edwards talk more about the getting the tone of the film just right. A caffeine-enhanced Twitchy goes to alert the police that they are heading the wrong way, while the Wolf, Granny, and Kirk follow the converted truck uphill. After several outtakes in which he attempts to create a proper falsetto voice that will be convincing, the Wolf decides that he's not up for the disguise.

Boingo claims that he is good at parties and can pull himself out of a hat (which he "demonstrates" by scratching his right ear). Cory Edwards cited Rankin-Bass as an inspiration and explained, "If we approach our look like that—photographed miniatures in stop motion—and if that nostalgia resonates with our audience as far as that look, then we're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot trying to put every freckle and hair on photoreal creatures. Fortunately, the recipe book has not been taken, as it's locked up in a vault concealed behind a portrait of what we presume to be Red's grandfather. The scene cuts to the Wolf and Twitchy trudging through a dark and flooded cavern, guided by Twitchy's camera light. As soon as Jimmy hangs up (due to him needing to be in a circle-wipe elsewhere), Kirk rushes off, and Boingo wishes him good luck.He quickly points out that all of them have pointed fingers at each other, but the Goody Bandit has not been captured as a result. Although Red has managed to escape from them, they decide that they need to find a way to get to Granny's house so they can intercept her there. Shocking truths are revealed, casting doubt on everything you once held as true; does Little Red Riding Hood have a darker side? She knocks on the door and lets herself in, only she finds the Wolf impersonating Granny in the bedroom. In fact, in his optional commentary, Cory Edwards reveals that the bats were named Mary and Poppins.

Jimmy instructs Kirk to, in preparation for the part, get himself into the shoes of a woodsman, by going out into the wild and felling a tree. He excitedly tells Kirk that after reviewing his audition tape, the client has found a possible Hercules Goes Bananas angle to this and has accepted him for the role in the commercial, so they want him to come back in tomorrow confident in his part. Dolph then radios to his friends that Granny is finished and that they are now able to go after the red-hooded girl.At that moment, though, the truck hits a tree, uprooting it and causing the unlucky porcupine's sports car to be crushed for the second time in two days running (having been crushed in identical fashion by Kirk the day before during his tree-cutting spree). Unsuccessful at this attempt to dig up information, the Wolf walks away, removes the neck brace and decides to look elsewhere for more promising leads. Todd Edwards wrote nine original songs for the film and sung four of them: "Critters Have Feelings", "Tree Critter", "Eva Deanna", and "Glow". Red says she isn't as the world is too dangerous for her, and in frustration, she throws the magazine away.