Red Riding Hood
| release date | March 11 2011 |
| studio | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| director | Catherine Hardwicke |
| writer | David Leslie Johnson |
| starring | Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Gary Oldman, Michael Hogan, Lukas Haas, Virginia Madsen |
| site | redridinghoodmovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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What else can I say about this film that wasn’t already covered in the review?
It’s close to being a cinematic abortion. Hardwicke ruined the film, the book based off the film was a great read…this movie was Twilight 2.0 but without the sparkles.
Waste of my time.
AWFUL! The acting, dialogue, everything…it was just a waste of my valuable time… AVOID LIKE AN UGLY DRUNK CHICK AT A PARTY!
This film was not what I expected at all. It is basically Twilight all over again except with different actors and involving only werewolves. The acting is bad except for Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman. I found it hilarious that all the men in the movie were all scraggly looking and had big beards but the new guys after Amanda Seyfried were all clean cut and had some nice hairstyles…hilarious. Gary Oldman brought some light into the film and that’s really the only positives of the film, oh yes and the grandma was really quite disturbing, I liked her as well.
I was actually shocked my this movie. Coming in I thought it was going to be the worst thing ever. But it isn’t all that cheesy and the filming was quite good in my opinion. I thought the storyline of keeping everyone guessing was good and at least the werewolf was kind of beastly even though it was CGI enhanced
just saw this movie and although i liked it, i think they should have created a better, more terrorfying werewolf! it was kind of lame…
It was an OK flick but nothing to rave about. The storyline was interesting but bordering on beining uninteresting because it was so involving. What kept me interested was who was the big bad Wolf. I think the three little piggies made a cameo appearance too.
They could have made this so much better with some good gore. The CGI werewolf was kind of bad, it could have been a lot better. The two male leads overacted their parts but I think everyone else did a descent job. Not great, not terrible. It was entertaining enough.
i knew this would fucken blow.
“Red Riding Hood,” (2011), directed by Catherine Hardwicke, in a retooling and retelling of the famous legend, apparently aimed at adolescents (or simple-minded adults). Starring gorgeous Amanda Seyfried as the girl with a red cape, the movie looks good and has a bit of star power with Gary Oldman, Virginia Madsen, Billy Burke, and Julie Christie(!) in key roles, but the screenplay is a complete misfire and the creditable early scenes soon spin off into a nonsensical mix of fairy tale, horror story, “Twilight” type teen-angst romance, and… well, a little bit of “Underworld.”
It’s a very pretty mess, set in an isolated (medieval?) mountain village, a snowy world of mountain brooks, surreal thorn forests, and the torch-lit barricaded fortress town. There are chickens and pigs running around but no one seems to do much of anything in the way of farming. They drink a lot and do strange kinetic celebratory dances. Our heroine, pretty blonde Valerie, loves to run through the woods and fields, knife in boot, with a handsome young but poor woodcutter in tow, trapping and apparently slaughtering snowy white bunnies for fun.
Love develops between them, but the girl’s Mum has other plans, wanting to marry our heroine off, for social elevation, to an equally handsome but rich young smithy, who loves Valerie with an undying passion, and can offer her silver bracelets as well.
Meanwhile, a wolf that hangs around threatening the village, and which has been bought off for years with the occasional animal sacrifice, decides to make a human killing to set the real plot in motion, and the victim just happens to be Valerie’s chubby sister. Soon the head priest/wolf hunter, Fr. Solomon, arrives with an entourage of strong men, Nubians, bronze torture devices, and armaments, and proceeds to overact the villagers into a real panic. The wolf, you see, is a werewolf and may in fact be one of the villagers. Oh my, what a mystery, since they all act suspicious!
Add to this, the earth-goddess grandmother (Miss Christie) who seems to feel safe enough living outside the village in a plush cottage in the thorn forest, and the fact that a blood-red full moon is about to shine on the shenanigans for four nights and… well, if you’ve lost interest by now, so had the audience.
Ms. Hardwicke, who can deliver a good movie (The Nativity Story) when she has a strong script with which to work, seems to be floundering. The movie has a certain look, to be sure, but it will probably leave you as cold as the blood red moon shining down a snowy mountain ravine. I think you could safely skip this one.
Wow. So very boring. This movie drags and drags and it felt like it would never end. It was basically a bunch of close-ups of Amanda Seyfried’s exasperated wide-eyed facial expressions. And with lines like “Let’s run away to the ocean together” I felt like I was watching another Twilight. There was virtually no anticipation to see who the wolf was, I just wanted the movie to end. The only thing I enjoyed about it was the fact that you really couldn’t pin down who the wolf was. Other than that, snooze fest!
I watched this at the movies, earlier today and I must say, I liked it.
There are two gorgeous men, Peter (Shiloh) & Henry (Max) It was entertaining, but it’s just as good as Twilight, but Thirteen is Hardwicke’s best movie ever!
This movie is not terrifying–which is disappointing, but doesn’t make it a bad movie. The setting, the photography, it was all okay, it’s just more of a … chick flickish movie than a scary one. That being said, the acting didn’t do much for me; they all performed, but no one brought anything special to the table (except Adrian Holmes; “he was my brother!”
I suppose given that this movie is directed by Catherine Hardwick, who herself directed a Twilight film, the comparisons were only natural. Billed as a kind of take on little Red Riding Hood meets Twilight, only with werewolves, this film was launched to sneers and ridicule. Still, with a cast of stellar actors and no pre-conceived notions, I set out to view this movie……
This movie essentially is a re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood, but in this case it involves a small village located up in the mountains, that has been living in fear of a giant killer wolf. During the full moon, they leave a sacrifice for the wolf and know better than to leave their homes. When a young woman is killed by the wolf, the first human victim in some time, the village elders form a posse and go hunting the wolf.
After thinking that they have killed the wolf, a wandering Holy Man (Gary Oldman) in the company of his private army arrives. They say that despite the dead wolf, that the giant wolf is actually a werewolf and that it is one of the people of the village.
Outside of the hypnotic Fever Ray songs and strangely sexual dance scenes, lies a rather dark movie. Rural superstitions lead to paranoia and violence. Gary Oldman’s character seems insane and there is a lot of violence and death present. The Wolf itself is vicious enough, but is still a CGI wolf that could have been transported from the second twilight movie.
All that said, whether it be the always strangely beautiful Amanda Sefried, or the always intense and slightly psychotic Gary Oldman, there were some solid performances buried here. I would therefore label this film a flawed and slightly confused movie, but vastly more entertaining that one would believe from the reviews.
Perhaps viewing this movie months removed from the bad reviews and negative press, combined with no expectations of viewing a good movie make me say this…….but I kind of liked Red Riding Hood. While not a classic, I found it entertaining and worth the watch. It is more violent and sexually charged than I had imagined and it is a visually stunning movie.
dull, weird, and confussing. Amanda Seyfried is the only reason i watched the whole thing.
A twisted take on a classic fairy tale and then some………
I did like how the film looked but the towns folks were very nasty and the wolf should of ate more of them and Gary Oldman is the reason I watched it he makes so a good bad guy totally so it was not a good movie at all.
The creepiest part was the very strange 20 minute dance/ celebration.. What is going on in this little village, surely the wolf isn’t the problem.
To be honest, I was never really a big fan of the ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ story, but I grew up with the story because of Faerie Tale Theatre. Because of Twilight, everything you see nowadays is ridiculous women falling in love with vampires and now werewolves. They figured they may as well use it with Classic Fairy Tale stories. (In fact, Catherine Hardwicke who directed the original Twilight also directed this movie!) It’s getting out of control, next Goldilocks is gonna fall in love with a sparkly grizzly bear!
Amanda Seyfried stars as Valerie/Red Riding Hood who lives in the small village of Daggerhorn. She is in love with Peter, but betrothed to Henry (Edward/Jacob) Soon, a werewolf comes to town and tries to get Valerie to come with it. She is the only one that can understand it. Father Solomon comes to town and takes control of everything and tries to kill the werewolf by any means necessary. I probably wouldn’t recommend RED RIDING HOOD!!!
Are you a fan of Twilight who hates vampires? Do you loathe team Edward so much that you wish there weren’t any sparkly skinned people in the movie at all? Do you lie awake at night and dream of a Twilight universe where not only is there one Jacob, but two, or possibly even three Jacobs? If so then the good news is “Red Riding Hood” is the movie for you! The bad news is that the movie itself is a disaster.
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