Benjamin Gaither Gets Hoodwinked in
New Animated FilmAlexandria, IN (11-18-05) -- Benjamin Gaither is featured in the animated film, Hoodwinked: The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood, slated for a Christmas release. Gaither, a recording artist, songwriter, producer and Owner/CEO of Live Bait Entertainmentâ headquartered in Alexandria, IN, will voice Japeth, the goat in the feature-length animated comedy produced by the Academy Award-winning Weinstein Brothers. He joins artists such as Glenn Close, James Belushi, Ann Hathaway, Anthony Anderson, Andy Dick, Patrick Warburton and David Ogden Stiers.
Gaither's character is a goat who, because of a spell cast by a mountain witch, is forced to sing rather than speak. The film is directed by Cory and Todd Edwards; Cory Edwards also wrote and directed the children's video, A Wobots Christmas, which Gaither helped produced and which his company animated. Gaither co-wrote the music for Wobots, and he is the creator and producer of children's videos Lil' Gaither and the animated Gaither's Pond Series.
Variety.com - Award Central 2006 - Hoodwinked!
"...Top-notch voice cast also includes Andy Dick as an ingratiatingly creepy bunny and Benjy Gaither as a singing goat who steals the show every minute he's onscreen...."
Reviews: Hoodwinked - Christianity Today Movies
"...Along the way, they meet a gaggle of amusing characters, including a talkative, seemingly insecure rabbit named Boingo (Andy Dick) and a streetwise, greased-hair sheep informant named Woolworth (Chazz Palminteri). But the most memorable of the bunch is Japeth (Benjy Gaither, son of gospel stars Bill and Gloria), a hillbilly goat who claims he always sings when he means to talk because of a spell put on him by a mountain witch..."
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"...Other bizarre creatures somehow involved include the funky sheep Woolworth (Chazz Palminteri), the motor-mouth coffee-junkie squirrel Twitchy (played by a sped-up Cory Edwards) and the country-singing mountain goat Japeth (Benjy Gaither, who's a hoot)..."
Straight.com Vancouver | Movie Reviews | Hoodwinked
"...Hoodwinked is funniest and most engaging when it drops the references and yields to more anarchic impulses, as with a hillbilly mountain goat (Benjy Gaither) whose dialogue is delivered entirely in the form of improvised bluegrass tunes..."
Guidelive.com
By NANCY CHURNIN / The Dallas Morning News
"...Among the best: Mr. Warburton's cynical Wolf, Benjy Gaither's Goat that can't stop singing..."
Michael D. Reid, Times Colonist
Published: Friday, January 13, 2006
"...Among the more amusingly inspired creations are a scene-stealing cursed billy goat (Benjy Gaither) forced to sing his line..."
James Sanford reviews Hoodwinked!
"...Edwards also gets in on the action, providing the rapid-fire patter for the hyperactive photojournalist Twitchy the Squirrel. He's a delightfully nutty character, and so is Japeth (Benjy Gaither), a warbling mountain goat whose enchanted horns are as flexible as his voice..."
Parent Previews: Hoodwinked
"...They also break common stereotypes, give fresh life to well-established characters and introduce some new animals to the story including a yodeling goat (voice of Benjy Gaither) who is under an evil spell..."
Scene-Stealers: Print Reviews
"...and there are other clever ideas, like a goat (Benjy Gaither) who uses his oversized horns as a rocking chair and has to sing everything in a high country tenor..."
97.1 FM TALK
"...I did love one standout character, a hillbilly mountain goat (Benjy Gaither) who may or may not be under a witches' spell from 37 years ago that forces him to sing everything he says. What a great gimmick, and what a funny character..."
"...I don't know who Benjy Gaither is, but I'd like to thank him: As the voice of a relentlessly cheerful, ukulele-playing goat who sings all his lines..."http://www.scifidimensions.com/Jan06/hoodwinked.htm
"It has the line-up of silly supporting characters, like Japeth, a hillbilly goat with a hilarious assortment of detachable horns-for-every-occasion who lives with a curse that forces him to sing everything he says.""Two supporting performances deserve special mention: Benjy Gaither as Japeth the Goat, and director Cory Edwards as the Twitchy."Hoodwinked
A Review by Tyler Foster for The Following Preview
http://www.comingsoon.net/forums/showthread.php?p=2020923
" He's the one pictured, and he's one of the greatest characters ever to grace an animated movie. I can't possibly explain to you how funny he was to me without sounding completely crazy, so I won't reveal anything about him other than what the still suggests."…Again, I must point out the genius of the goat pictured above, as Benjy Gaither's performance in Hoodwinked is the best in the film. It is his only screen credit, one can only hope he will get many, many more..."
Hoodwinked
By Hanh Nguyen, Zap2it.com
Thursday , January 12, 2006
http://www.zap2it.com/movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---27608,00.html "My favorite character by far is just so random and screwy, he's inspired. Japeth the mountain goat (Benjy Gaither) has been cursed by a witch so he can only sing, not talk. Like a badge-wearing Boy Scout, he's always prepared thanks to his interchangeable horns. He doesn't have a real function in the film, except to entertain, but that's enough."
http://www.movieguide.org/index.php?s=reviews&id=7061
"The creators of HOODWINKED have a few hilarious characters up their sleeve, and Patrick Warburton shines as the voice of Wolf, a personality which plays with the audience's expectations of what the Big Bad Wolf should be....the most entertaining character, yodeling mountain goat Japeth (Benjy Gaither)"
