I think it is also possible that this film may nab a best song nomination. Some very catchy original tunes, well orchestrated and well sung. All in all, worth the trip to the theater, and worth buying the DVD. Sequel probable. BillyGoat3 Nov 23, Details Edit. Release date January 13, United States. United States Canada. English Spanish.
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Learn more. The film premiered at Sundance in , but remained in the shadow of The Blair Witch Project , that years Sundance winner. So, it was back to nuts n bolts again but not for long. Although Cory used to work for a midwest animation company during his summers off from school, he and his brother hoped to make their living in live action. That created an opportunity for Cory to cut his teeth on LightWave 3D and direct several short-form animated sing-along videos. But both Edwards brothers still had their sights and their creative imaginations set higher.
As a creative person, you grow up keeping tabs on your other friends or your other associates and what theyre doing, Cory explained. So as we were coming up in our part of the world [Tulsa], he [Gaither] was also coming up in his part of the world [Indiana], raising money and he had backing for other creative projects. So, he saw the right idea, and we saw he had the money and wanted to do it. That right idea was Wobots.
The minute animated feature, which Cory wrote and directed, was about a young boy with a speech impediment who befriends misfit robots sent to a junk heap to rot. I wrote that, designed the characters, designed every ship and prop, storyboarded every shot, Cory explained.
It was one of those labor of love things. While they were finishing Wobots , Montgomery, who associate produced Chillicothe and had worked on a number of features such as The Shawshank Redemption and Air Force One , and was then working at Disney as manager of post-production in the feature animation division, tried to pave the way for them.
Easier said then done. I just couldnt tell people enough about how talented they were and I tried to open doors all over town, but some people in very high circles didnt want to hear it.
In many ways, the studios where I worked were closed shops. I knew that the brothers would have to find their level on the independent side before anyone would pay attention.
However, Montgomery had maintained her connections with investors who had put money into Chillicothe. One of those was her longtime friend, Maurice Kanbar, the inventor of Skyy Vodka and the elastic material used to make Spandex. In addition to his other ventures, Kanbar has long been associated with the motion picture industry. In , he invented the concept of the multiplex theater when he opened the Quad Cinemas in New York. So, Montgomery got the Edwards brothers a meeting with Kanbar.
As a screenwriter, I can tell you theres nothing deadlier than that long silence after you pitch your best idea and the executive asks, So, what else do you have? In this case, the other thing that the Edwards brothers had was Wobots. When he [Kanbar] saw this computer animation [ Wobots ], we found out, lo and behold, hes a big animation buff, Cory recalled. And he just took off on the idea of an animated feature.
Kanbar told them that he would love to do something that put a hip spin on a traditional story the way Walt Disney used to do. He gave them a month to come up with a concept. A few nights later, Todd called his brother and asked him what he thought about Little Red Riding Hood told from multiple points of view like Rashomon.
This multi-layered storytelling technique where you treat the fairy tale like a crime scene intrigued Cory.
You take each characters view of the story, and the story gets more and more crazy and different. So, Cory said, OK, thats a story Im willing to invest two years of my life in. I can get excited about that. From there, Cory and Todd bounced the story back and forth and developed a clever scenario.
Furry and feathered cops from the animal world investigate a domestic disturbance at Grannys cottage, involving Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, Granny and the Woodsman. The charges are many: breaking and entering, disturbing the peace, intent to eat and wielding an axe without a license.
Not to mention, this case might be tied to the elusive Goody Bandit who has been stealing the recipes of goody shops everywhere. Meanwhile, Granny, a successful goody maker leading a double life as an extreme sports athlete "Triple G" has entered a skiing competition, but finds that a European ski team is to be playing dirty and trying to disable Granny.
Granny learns from them that the Goody Bandit hired them to take out Granny, and one of the ski team members Dolph pushes Granny off a cliff and she appears to have fallen to her death; however, it is revealed that she has hung onto a branch. Granny avoids the ski team by using grenades to cause an avalanche. Granny "wins the ski race by a landslide" as said in the news and escapes the avalanche by deploying a parachute to parasail towards home.
At the same time, Red and Japeth are try to get to Granny's cottage on a minecart, but Twitchy accidentally lights a stick of dynamite while Wolf and he are also trying to get to Granny's in a mountain railway car further down the track. They accidentally destroy the railway by throwing the sticks of dynamite out and causing the railway to explode, making Red's cart leave the track.
As she's falling, Red sees Granny, believing her to be a vision, but in reality, Granny is still on her parachute, telling her granddaughter to use her hood to land safely. However, Wolf and Twitchy have a more dramatic crash, but are still able to make it to Granny's house before Red.
Wolf knocks on the door and tries posing as a paperboy and a publisher's candy gram. Granny, as she tries to land, finds herself entangled in the parachute's drawstrings, and lands in her closet, ensnared by ropes. Wolf quickly dons a Granny outfit and poses as Granny before Red comes in order to try and apprehend her. Simultaneous to these events, the Woodsman whose real name is Kirk Kirkendall , an aspiring actor, is selling schnitzel on a stick to kids who are presumably in the forest camping out , but Kirk sees that his schnitzel truck has been robbed by the Goody Bandit.
When he receives a callback by Jimmy Lizard Joshua J. Greene , he learns that a studio is looking for him to try again for a part, he practices by chopping down trees, accidentally making one nearly run him over as it falls, forcing him to jump through Granny's window to get away safely, just as Red discovers Wolf. Then the gang all screams of getting startled.
Flippers noticed that the four said hello to the Goody Bandit, realizes that the common element in all their stories was a cute rabbit by the name of Boingo Andy Dick who is Red's best friend, deduces that he may be the Goody Bandit and believes he's behind it. Red, despondent upon learning of Granny's double life, alone, follows Boingo up to a mountain hideout through the bunny's cable car. In his lair, Red tries to confront Boingo about his thefts, but he, along with the evil ski team who work for him , captures her and rigs her on the cable car loaded with explosives.
Granny, Wolf, and Kirk shortly follow Red, discovering her predicament, and send a caffeine-loaded Twitchy down to alert Flippers and the other cops. The other three are able to save Red and capture Boingo as the cops arrive and arrest the bad guys.
The next day, Flippers tells Red, Granny, Wolf, and Twitchy Kirk finally fulfilled his dream to join his favorite band, the Happy Yodelers that he is a member of the Happily Ever After Agency , and enlists the four to start a private agency with him, to which they happily accept.
Red says that she always liked happily ever afters, and puts on her hood and smiles at the camera. In Summer , Patrick Warburton joins to voice wolf.
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