Redux Riding Hood
1997 film by Steve Moore
Redux Riding Hood is a 15-minute animated short film directed by Steve Moore and produced by Disney in 1997 that received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
The film was produced with cel animation and 2-D collage elements and it originated from a set of four short/featurettes planned by Disney and MovieToons (to be titled "Totally Twisted Fairy Tales"), which was also to include "Jack in the Beanstalk", "The Three Little Pigs" and a fourth cartoon that was never finalized. The idea was to make a more adult short by combining Disney artists and high-quality writers and their takes on classic fairy tales. Only Redux Riding Hood was released on August 5, 1997 in Encino, California to qualify it for the Academy Awards.
Plot
Redux Riding Hood, written by sitcom writer Dan O'Shannon, tells the familiar story of Red Riding Hood from the point of view of the Big Bad Wolf. The Wolf (voiced by Michael Richards) is haunted by the decision to eat Red Riding Hood after dressing up as her grandmother, not because he regrets the choice, but because he's convinced he can do it better now that he's learned from his mistakes. To do that, he has to build a time machine and avoid his sheep wife, Doris, (Mia Farrow) whose become fed up with his obsession.
In his first attempt, the Big Bad Wolf succeeds in returning to the past where he finds his past self. He then advises him about what and what not to do and succeeds to knock out the Hunter, who was the reason of his failure, and capture Little Red Riding Hood with a double team. However, the two wolves never expect to lock Grandma in an armory closet, so she shoots at them with a machine gun.
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