Redux Riding Hood

Redux Riding Hood is an animated short film directed by Steve Moore"Redux Riding Hood". www.bcdb.com, April 13, 2012 and produced by Disney in 1997 that received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.IMDb entry
The film was produced with cel animation and 2-D collage elements, a look developed by production designer John Kleber. 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; however, only Redux Riding Hood was released, in animation festival showings.
==Plot==
The Big Bad Wolf, now a mechanic with a sheep wife named Doris and living a neighborly life, is plagued by traumatic flashbacks and nightmares of his ill-fated attempt to eat Red Riding Hood and the feeling that he is a failure. The Wolf continually laments his failure to eat Red, not even his wife can comfort him and this starts to affect his personal life; he quits his job to mope in bed all day and his relationship with his wife starts faltering.
After experiencing a mental breakdown, the wolf gets an idea and spends two days straight working in the garage, somehow creating a time machine. To his wife's shocks, the Wolf announces he will rewrite history so he'll catch Red and no longer be a failure before departing in the time machine.
This time, the Wolf teams up with his past self and the two knock out the hunter, but before they can eat Red, Grandma, whom they had locked in the closet, bursts out with a machine gun and reveals she had been locked in her gun closet. The Wolf again fails and returns to the present with his past self, brooding over their failure.
This time the wolf and his clone goes back again teaming with another past self-incarnation to ensure the plan goes safely, but even with the Grandma and woodsman taking care of, Red screams loudly enough that the fire alarm goes off and Fireman hose the wolves whom return to the present in failure. Not taking his wife's advice to give up, the wolf and his two past selves continuing going back in time, each time failing and bringing back more clones into the present until there are around fifty Big Bad Wolves in a small house.
Eventually Doris has enough of her husband and takes the time machine for herself, she goes back in time to fix "her greatest failure", marrying the Big Bad Wolf. She instead marries a more successful and stable fox named Leonard.
The two live happily ever after, the Wolf on the other hand, lived miserably ever after in a wrecked house filled with his past incarnations.
==Cast==
Actor 	Role
Garrison Keillor	The Narrator
Michael Richards	The Wolf
Mia Farrow 	Doris
Lacey Chabert 	Little Red Riding Hood
June Foray 	Grandma
Fabio Lanzoni 	The Woodsman
Don Rickles 	The Boss
Jim Cummings 	Thompkins
Adam West 	Leonard Fox
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==Notes==
*This short is unusual for being more satirical and cynical than most Disney theatrical shorts.
*Whenever the Big Bad Wolf went back in time, he met with a past incarnation of himself from that time period, but when Doris went back in time, there was no past incarnation of herself to interfere.
==References==
==External links==
*Director Steve Moore's blog post detailing the history of the short
*Redux Riding Hood at the Big Cartoon Database
*Redux Riding Hood on Youtube
Category:Animated shorts
Category:1997 shorts
Category:Disney films
Category:Academy Award nominated films