Hoodwinked 2 Finally Given a Release Date

So, it's been over a year since the delay of Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil. Almost exactly a year after the toys came out in Burger King. A bit over half a year since I took down my profile theme for it on Toontask. It's even been months past September 5th, the date it was rumored to come out. Since then, no information had been revealed, and fans were left to ponder if they would ever get their sequel.

But then news broke. Really big news.

On February 10th, the Weinstein Company surprised everybody by putting up an official release date and a TRAILER. This is a big deal, since they had previously not made one (or even plan to make one) before it was supposed to come out originally.When I heard the news from Cory Edwards' twitter (follow him here or read his blog), my inner fangirl awakened once again. I was bouncing off the walls the rest of the night.

There's one problem, though.

Below are trailers for both the original and the sequel. Watch and compare.

Okay, so there are some obvious differences, right? The animation, character designs, voice actors, the tone, among other things. While some of these are for the better (Red's new design is definitely an improvement), it's the tone that's the problem for me. From what the trailer shows, it makes it seem like Hoodwinked 2 is just like any other movie coming out these days, full of crude and adult-like humor. Sure, it's not that bad (some things, like the fart sound in Granny's scene and the comment about Twitchy not wearing pants, are actually not in the movie), but when you compare it to the original with its clean humor, it's a bit strange to see.

That, and the new effect on Twitchy's voice.

Course, just because the trailer's bad doesn't mean the movie is. Examples of this, for me at least, are Monsters vs Aliens, Despicable Me, and (possibly) Gnomeo and Juliet, although I'm still yet to see the latter. As it's said in the very beginning of Hoodwinked, "You know what they say, you can't judge a book by its cover. If you want to know the truth, you've got to flip through the pages."

So whether the Weinstein Company releases better trailers or whatnot for it, I'll still be at the movie theater the opening weekend of April 29th. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

And, oh yeah, it's in 3D, too.