4/5/2024 0 Comments The chaperon 3d comic![]() This film runs 85 minutes and opens for wide release on Friday, Jan. And while the puns are pretty much aimed at adults, the kids will enjoy the many animal characters, such as pigs as policemen (get it?!), a singing, hillbilly goat (Benjy Gaither), a squirrel on speed (director Edwards), a Huggy bear-type stool pigeon sheep (Chazz Palimeri) and a tricky little bunny, Boingo (Andy Dick). It's also a much more entertaining picture than "Chicken Little" or "Shark Tale" could ever hope to be. Although set in 1922, the tone is modern as it touches on infidelity, clandestine gay lives, racism, unwed mothers, repressed women. Seeing the studio's press release, I noticed the poor computer work and thought this would be another "Valiant," but the crisp dialogue and truly funny situations made me laugh almost all the way through this film, which is director Cory Edwards' feature debut. Parents need to know that The Chaperone is a made-for-PBS-television film written for the screen by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes from a novel by Laura Moriarty. ![]() In other words, it's like a version of Kurosawa's "Rashomon" as produced by computer animators who could not get work at Pixar, Disney or Dreamworks. Each suspect tells a different story that somehow cleverly ties the whole event together. The four are arrested, accused of stealing goodie recipes and interrogated by a long-legged frog, Inspector Flippers (David Ogden Stiers). ![]() Basically, it's the story of Little Red Riding Hood as told from the vantage point of Red (voice of Ann Hathaway), the Big Bad Wolf (Patrick Warburton), Granny (Glenn Close) and a dimwitted, axe-wielding woodsman (Jim Belushi). Despite low-budget animation, the newest feature by the Weinstein Company, "Hoodwinked," is saved by some silly animal and human characters, as well as great writing and hilarious jokes.
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