12 Great Movies That Are Visually Flat

12. Hoodwinked!

Hoodwinked might be the most underrated animated film of all time.

A mystery story featuring Red Riding Hood's characters and told in a similar style to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Hoodwinked is a hilarious, genuinely clever and superbly-written low-budget animation that's also got a collection of terrific vocal performances.

It is a criminally under-appreciated movie - which is arguably better than Shrek (Editor's note: it's not) - and the critical scores are unfairly low, but one thing critics were bang-on right about was that the animation is truly awful.

Partly because it's far more low-budget than most animated films, the entire thing looks like it was made for TV; it is truly rare to see such unappealing visuals in a commercially-released animated film. The atrocious CGI is pretty distracting, but the film is still very much worth seeing and if you can overlook this, you're in for a treat.

Just don't go anywhere near the sequel.