Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood - Animation

Animation

• Walt Disney produced a black and white silent short cartoon called "Little Red Riding Hood" in 1922 for Laugh-O-Gram Cartoons. Copies of this early work of Disney's are extremely rare.
• Van Beuren Studios produced a black and white cartoon in 1931 called "Red Riding Hood," in which the Grandma drinks "Jazz Tonic" that transforms her into her younger self. The Wolf and the younger Grandma intend to elope, but are thwarted by the Wolf's wife and children during the ceremony.
• The Fleischer Brothers produced the theatrical short "Dizzy Red Riding Hood" in 1931, featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo, in which Bimbo defeats the wolf on the way to Grandma's house, and puts on the wolf's skin to pursue Betty, while Grandma has gone out to the Firemen's Ball.
• Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood recasts the story in an adult-oriented urban setting, with the suave, suited wolf howling after the night club singer Red. Tex Avery also utilised the same cast and themes in a number of other cartoons in this series, such as Little Rural Riding Hood, which set the story in the modern day and featured Red and the wolf as hillbillies.
• Early Bugs Bunny cartoons such as Little Red Riding Rabbit utilise characters from fairytales such as Little Red Riding Hood. In one cartoon comic version {Red Riding Hoodwinked}, Little Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Tweety Bird while the villains are played by a Wolf and Sylvester, who almost come to blows over who is going to play "Grandma". Another Sylvester parody is Little Red Rodent Hood.
• A few Loopy de Loop cartoons such as "Tale of a Wolf" feature Little Red Riding Hood.
• The Japanese children's anime TV series Akazukin Chacha features the eponymous heroine Chacha who is visually reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood ('akazukin' relates to her red hood and cape). One of the major themes of the series is a sort of pre-adolescent love triangle between Chacha and her two male friends, one of whom is a werewolf, the other a boy-witch.
• The 1995 animated film from Jetlag Productions adapts the classic fairy tale and at the same time adds its own original twists and additions to the story in order to stretch the plotline to their regular 48-minute length. The film featured three original songs and was written by George Bloom and produced by Mark Taylor.
• In 1996, Jan Kounen directs "Le dernier chaperon rouge" (The Last Riding Hood, literal translation), a French fantasy musical short film starring Emmanuelle Béart.
• In 1997, Disney Television Animation released Redux Riding Hood, a re-imagining of the ending where the wolf is so traumatized by the failure to catch Little Red Riding Hood that he builds a time machine to go back in time and finish the deed with his past self. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost the award and was shelved by Disney for 14 years before director Steve Moore uploaded the video on YouTube.
• The 1999 Japanese animated film Jin-Roh (also known as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade), about a secret society within an anti-terrorist unit of an alternative post-World War II Japan, makes several literary and visual references to the German oral version of the story (most notably a Rotkäppchen book offered to the main character by one of the female bomb couriers), which is closer to the Perrault version, than the tale of Grimm, with an anti-terrorist commando as the wolf (the title is literally "Man-wolf" in Japanese"), and a former terrorist courier as the young lady.
• An anime named Otogi Jushi Akazukin has as main character a girl named Akazukin, who is a Fairy Musketeer and has to protect a boy named Souta, who's the Elde Key, from the world of Science. Akazukin comes from Fandavale, the world of Magic, and for protect Souta, she has help of Val, her Wolf Familiar and the others two Musketeers, Shirayuki (Snow White) and Ibara (Sleeping Beauty). The Enemies are Randagio (one of the Bremen Town Musicians), Hansel and Gretel, who works for Cinderella, who wants the Elde's Key.
• A 2006 computer-animated children's film, Hoodwinked!, uses the anachronistic parody approach to the tale typified by the Shrek films, envisioning the story as a Rashomon-like mystery in which the anthropomorphised animal police of the forest question the four participants of the story after they are detained for an apparent domestic disturbance that the police suspect is tied to the mysterious "Goodie Bandit", a thief who has been stealing sweet shop store owners' books. One by one, each character is interviewed and explains to the police their story of how they got to Granny's house and why, and each story is followed in a lengthy flashback. All four characters are discovered to not quite be what they initially appear to be, and all of their stories have overlap with each other:
  • Red Puckett is a worldly wise delivery girl, who gets her name from the red hooded cloak she wears. She is determined to protect her Granny's recipe book after someone breaks into Granny's store.
  • Granny Puckett secretly lives a double life as an extreme sports athlete named "Triple G". She participates in a ski race and is nearly killed by the Bandit's henchmen. After incapacitating them by staging an avalanche, she ends up bound and gagged in her own closet when the parachute and ripcord she uses to escape get caught in her ceiling fan after she comes down the chimney.
  • The Wolf (full name Wolf W. Wolf) is an investigative journalist. He and his assistant, a hyperactive squirrel named Twitchy, think that Red is somehow involved in the Goodie Bandit thefts.
  • Kirk Kirkkendall, the woodsman, is not a lumberjack, but an out-of-work actor who spends his days selling schnitzel out of a truck and has just been auditioned for a foot ointment commercial. After someone raids and cannibalizes his truck, he starts cutting down trees with an axe to try to get into the shoes of a woodsman. He is accidentally thrown through Granny's cottage window after trying to cut down a very large tree.
• In the film Shrek the Third, Little Red Riding Hood is portrayed as one of the villains; she is seen pickpocketing in one scene during Prince Charming's pillage. Interestingly enough, the Big Bad Wolf is considered one of the good guys.
• "Red Riding Hood" is a character in Super Why! in which she calls herself "Wonder Red," wears roller blades, and has "Word Power".
• A 2010 anime named Okami-san and her Seven Companions is based around the characters Ryōko Ōkami (Ōkami meaning wolf), Ryōshi Morino (his name also meaning "The Forest's Hunter" in Japanese) and Ringo Akai (representing Little Red Riding Hood) and the rest of the "trading" club named the "Otogi High School Bank" as they fix students problems, whatever they may be, in exchange for the students helping them out later. Almost all of the characters in the anime are based on characters from Little Red Riding Hood or other fairytales. The ending theme song, "Akazukin-chan Goyoujin" (Little Red Riding Hood, Be Careful) by OToGi, makes many references to Little Red Riding Hood and its characters as well.