Trivia / Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil

The movie contains examples of:

• All-Star Cast: In addition to Patrick Warburton, Glenn Close, David Ogden Stiers and Andy Dick all returning from the first movie, Hoodwinked Too! features a star-studded voice cast consisting of big names such as Hayden Panettiere, Martin Short, Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Joan Cusack, Cheech & Chong, and Brad Garrett.
• Box Office Bomb: With a meager $16M in earnings, Hoodwinked Too! only barely made back half of its $30M budget. Notably, it barely made less than 10% of the original Hoodwinked's box office take.
• Creator Backlash: Cory Edwards and Patrick Warburton have been outspoken with their disappointment with the film.
• The Danza: Heidi is played by Heidi Klum.
• Delayed Release Tie-In: Because the release date was shifted after the promotion had already been set, Burger King spent two weeks promoting Kids Club Meal toys for a movie that wouldn't be out for several more months.
• Direct to Video: Never got theatrically released in the UK, getting a UK VOD release eleven years later.
• Franchise Killer: Between Hoodwinked Too!'s critical drubbing, awful performance at the box office, and not even coming close to recouping its budget, it's unlikely that we'll ever get a third part of the Hoodwinked series.
• Kids' Meal Toy: Burger King had a set of six toys in early 2010; Beam Hoppin' Granny, Power Kick Red, Wheelie Ridin' Wolf, Fast Talkin' Twitchy, Cart Wheelin' Woodsman, and Hansel and Gretel's Big Escape. This promotion is notable for being a Delayed Release Tie-In, having happened over a year before the film was ultimately released.
• The Other Darrin: Some of the main characters from the original movie got recast. Cory Edwards, the director of the first movie and the voice of Twitchy, discussed why they were recast on his personal blog.
  • Hoodwinked Too! features the voice of Hayden Panettiere as Red instead of Anne Hathaway, due to Hathaway's career taking off considerably since the first movie and her increasing disinterest in playing "little girl roles".
  • Kirk the Woodsman has a new voice this time around, with Martin Short in place of James Belushi. This was because Belushi wasn't an "accent guy" and had a hard time connecting to the character.

• Sequel Gap: This film ended up being released in 2011, six years after the original 2005 film.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Because The Weinstein Company delayed the movie in favor of using its resources to promote Youth in Revolt, the film was removed from its original January 2010 release date only a month before its release. Nothing was announced until it was confirmed over a year later, on February 2011, that it would release on April 2011.
• Those Two Actors:
  • This is the third time Hayden Panettiere and Joan Cusack have been in the same movie (see also Raising Helen and Ice Princess).
  • Bill Hader and Amy Poehler also starred together in the movie Inside Out.