(22 May 2012)

love it

one of my favorite movies. Def a good twist on the little red riding hood fairytale. Great choice of actors.

(22 May 2012)

Never getting that hour and a half back !!!!!!

This review is from: Red Riding Hood (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) Short and sweet should have read the back ground info closer the connection to Twilight would have sent me running, was looking for a good scary movie on and old theme got pale teenagers insted, to be fair I'm not a teenage girl so my pespective is not the demographic the film was aimed at.

Wendy Agnes Bijlsma (21 May 2012)

Interesting twist but not catching enough

This adaptation was interesting but in my opinion does not sufficientlyfocus on one catching dilemma. A classic interpretation is about losinginnocence but by making it into a "thiller", increase suspension byusing several story lines, it scatters the overall attention and makesit less powerful. Twilight clearly puts two other topics in thebackground, allowing the audience to focus and journey with the maincharacters.The movie is beautifully filmed: the setting is breath taking and theproduction design looks authentic. The acting is good. Maybe there weretoo many great actors who did not have enough opportunity to use theirtalents interacting with each other.It is a movie worth watching but not as catching as it could have been.

David Nusair (21 May 2012)

By the time the narrative segues into its seemingly endless witch-hunt phase, Red Riding Hood has certainly established itself as a turkey of almost impressive proportions.

Clem Bastow (17 May 2012)

Say what you want about Red Riding Hood, but it's the best sexy psychoanalytical soap opera fantasy you'll see all year. In fact, it may well be the only one you'll ever see.

Jim Slotek (17 May 2012)

Hardwicke does succeed in creating a dark, claustrophobic atmosphere over the proceedings, even in daylight.

Katey Rich (15 May 2012)

Both better made than Twilight and far less entertaining, Red Riding Hood could easily lure the same crowd, but doesn't offer much to anyone not entering the theater ready to swoon.

Bruce Bennett (15 May 2012)

Mixes the melodrama of Twilight with the hokey horror of The Village but falls short of being 'so bad its good.' It's just not good.

kymoviefan (14 May 2012)

movie was OK

I was a little disappointed in the movie, at times it was slow and hadno real plot line. The best part of the movie was they kept youguessing till the very end who the werewolf was. I think they could ofdone a better job with movie if they had a better director. I think shetried to blend to much twilight into the script. At the end of themovie i could of swore i was watching what could of been the ending fora twilight movie. They had a good chance of making a really great movieand they blew it. Poor choice on the actors and the director. It was alot of hype and at the end of the movie i felt a real let down on whatcould of been a really great movie.

Pumpkin_Man (13 May 2012)

A 'Twilight' Twist to a Classic Fairy Tale!!!

To be honest, I was never really a big fan of the 'Little Red RidingHood' story, but I grew up with the story because of Faerie TaleTheatre. Because of Twilight, everything you see nowadays is ridiculouswomen falling in love with vampires and now werewolves. They figuredthey may as well use it with Classic Fairy Tale stories. (In fact,Catherine Hardwicke who directed the original Twilight also directedthis movie!) It's getting out of control, next Goldilocks is gonna fallin love with a sparkly grizzly bear! Amanda Seyfried stars asValerie/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. Sheis the only one that can understand it. Father Solomon comes to townand takes control of everything and tries to kill the werewolf by anymeans necessary. I probably wouldn't recommend RED RIDING HOOD!!!

Mike McGranaghan (07 May 2012)

Mildly diverting if you're curious, but don't expect to be blown away.

georgiasunflower (06 May 2012)

In general a good movie

I am probably being generous giving this a 9, but truthfully all of the1's and 2's annoyed me. This movie was not as scary as it wasportrayed, but it was entertaining. The ONLY bad review I would agreewith was the one that complained about the ending. I felt as if theyran out of steam at the end. But it was a fun film. It kept me guessingall the way, and truthfully, I never guessed correctly. I do feel likeit lacked a certain oomph. Somehow I was expecting the wolf would besomeone more exciting. BUT the storyline all makes sense, and in theend you do see how it all fits together. It was a fun twist on an oldstory. Perhaps it should have been marketed for a less gruesome seekingaudience. This is not a spooky movie, unless you are 10.

Geeky Randy (05 May 2012)

Geeky Randy's summary

Beautifully filmed take on Little Red Riding Hood with the identity ofthe wolf being the central conflict of this whodunit. However, thehipster approach at a story supposedly taking place in the 1300 is morethan frustrating, and the acting and soundtrack doesn't help the film.Also suffers how unlikable every single character is; a story shouldgrab the audience either by an interesting story or charismaticcharacters--good films do both, bad films do neither… this film isunfortunately the latter. The worst part about this movie is knowinghow easy it could've been to make it a halfway decent film, butstupidly steered off track to follow in TWILIGHT's footsteps--itachieved it in quality, but not in quantity.*½ (out of four)

(05 May 2012)

Didn't like it.

This movie, was all bilt up to be this big, exciting, Scary movie. But, It Didn't work. Im sick of seing Amanda Seyfried, in every popular movie. This movie, is set in th 1800's and it just Doesn't work. I Found it stupid, and it could have been much better. The tried to give it a bit of a surprising twist, at the end, but that didnt work either. I wish, they would Re-Make it, and Make it better. Very Dissapointed with this film.

(02 May 2012)

red riding hood

This review is from: Red Riding Hood (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy) (Blu-ray) this movie that gives you the feel of twilight which is not a bad thing i like this film its not a deep movie but it wasn't that bad if you like twilight you like this movie

Geoff Berkshire (02 May 2012)

Adapting a fairy tale would seem to offer plenty of room for creative freedom, and maybe that's what went wrong here.

(01 May 2012)

A beautiful film but a bit of a jumble.

Red Riding Hood is a sort of reimagining of the old Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, however the story stray so much from the original story that this can not be called a fairytale movie. The story revolves around a young woman named Valerie who is in a love triangle having to choose between the blacksmith her parents want her to marry and the man she loves Peter. Now as it would have it Valerie's village have been plagued to a werewolf for generations, when the beast finally kill a young girl in the village, Valerie's sister, people have had enough and call in a Inquisitor like monster hunter to slay the beast.Now good things about this movie is the beautiful visuals, allot of details have been put into the characters and the costumes. The locations are breathtaking and even the computer graphics werewolf looks ok. Other good things about this movie are the characters, they are actually likable, the main character is a typical maiden in distress, but she is the kind of person you want to see rescued, both the love interests are decent, even the villain is interesting. Yes these characters are cookie cutter but at least the cookies have been given some nice paint.The bad things about this movie is that is is a jumble, it can not decide if it want to be a fantasy film, a dark witch hunter tale or a romance film and it juggle those three aspects very poorly so that we have a start which is almost completely romance and then we have a full on Inquisition film and then we have fantasy and so on, as a result it feels like the director could not decide what sort of movie she wanted to make and we end up with a sort of Frankenstein mix of a film which feels very confusing. This movie is also quite bland, you will see allot of pretty teenagers staring deeply into the darkness lamenting their love life, which get boring after a while.Many people do not want to give this movie a chance. They see that the same people worked on this as on Twilight and they assume it is the same movie, just set in the middle ages. Now to be fair this is a teenage romance with supernatural elements, if you are looking for a horror movie you will not find it here, the relationships between the characters are more important here than the monster, and in fact you do not see the werewolf on screen that often, this can be seen as a good thing though as this movie is more about the paranoia over who the werewolf is and whatever or not love can survive such paranoia than it is a monster movie. That being said, while there are some similarities this is not dark ages Twilight. If romance is not for you at all then off course you will not like this movie, but if you like a bit of paranormal romance then this might be just up your alley.I enjoyed Red Riding Hood, the movie kept my attention all though the runtime. This is however a flawed movie, it have some issues and is not for everyone, but if the supernatural, love affairs and maidens in pretty dresses in distress are your thing then I do recommend this movie, at least give it a rent to give it a chance.

andrew-j-curran (30 April 2012)

Red Riding Hood is seriously underrated.

I have to say I am very disappointed. I have read many reviews on thismovie, and all of them are real negative. I don't understand, becauseall the negativity seems to be about "Red Riding Hood"'s similarity to"Twilight". The movie, however is not as similar as critics make it outto be. The "love triangle" many critics point out is actually not evena real love triangle at all. Other than the two male leads and onefemale lead aspect, the only other similarity is werewolves (and I maypoint out that there is not one vampire in the movie...). The actingwas fine, the story was fine, the animation was fine! The movie was notsuper fantastic and will blow your mind away, but it is much betterthan a measly 5 out of 10. Oh, and the biggest selling point of themovie- I think, is that it keeps you guessing up until the very end. Iwill not give away any mysteries here, and like me the story does agreat job on maintaining the mystery!

Gordon-11 (30 April 2012)

Looks like a Twilight rip-off

This film is about a beautiful girl in a village who is at the centreof a werewolf attack.After watching the film, I am left to wonder why it is titled "RedRiding Hood". The plot has no resemblance to the classic tale, and theonly connection to the classic tale is the contrived dream that looksso out of place. "Red Riding Hood" is more like a "Twilight" ripoff butwith a slightly different emphasis. There is not enough thrill orengagement. There are some good point though. The medieval sets andcostumes are realistic and nice; Amanda Seyfried is very watchable, butother than that I find the movie lacklustre.

(30 April 2012)

It's a Grimm Tale All Right

"thornhill, come with me. I know you are looking for a great movie. To reinvigorate your love of cinema. Come with me. I have just the movie.""I don't know. I've been down this path before...""Come with me.""What will make your movie different? Most movies look good during the trailers because they show all of the best bits. But few are able to deliver on that promise. Very few.""thornhill, come with me. Follow me to this little village I have created for the film. It could be an old German village. It could be in Eastern Europe. It could be in old Russia. It could be many things. This is the beauty of my little village; because the film is based on a fairy tale, I can and will keep things fairly enigmatic.""But that is part of the problem. If you are creating a fictional world, it needs to look real. Your village looks like a set.""Most films are made on sets... Won't you come with me?""Yes, but...""Come with me. My film is good. You will enjoy it.""...Most films are adequately able to disguise the sets. They pay a lot of money to make everything look as real as possible. You paid a lot of money to make everything look like a set. Your fable needs a distinctive time and place to ground it in reality, to make it seem believable and real.""Come with me...""Just because you are adapting a fairytale does not mean your screenplay has license to be subpar. I understand you are adapting something...""Won't you come with me? Take my hand. I will lead you away from the sorry state of the multiplex....""...That was probably 10 or 20 pages originally into a film that runs about 100 minutes, creating a lot of story to fill, a lot of dialogue to create. But if you don't have the ideas to create a feature-length story, don't do it. Simply repeating phrases or ideas over and over again does not create suspense. You need to create characters and let them grow throughout the course of the story.""Are you thornhill?""It seems like your screenwriter David Johnson ("Orphan", the upcoming sequel to "Clash of the Titans" (Don't get me started on that one)) becomes bored and simply can't be bothered to come up with any new ideas. Did he have a quota of pages to fill? Even ideas and situations are repeated. I can see the value in repeating a small number of these, for instance, showing us how Reverend Solomon's (Gary Oldman) Trojan Elephant works. And then putting one of the lovers in the contraption should create considerable suspense. But somehow, somewhere, the suspense is lost and even this moment falls flat.""Are you thornhill?"Are you thornhill?""I understand why you were chosen to helm this film. You made the first "Twilight" film and helped to create a franchise. But does your interpretation of "Red Riding Hood" have to seem like a sequel to the uber-popular Vampire saga? You even have three brooding, fairly attractive young people at the center of the story.""Come with me. Are you thornhill?""But the number one priority for you should have been to find better actors. Amanda Seyfried (HBO's "Big Love", "Mamma Mia") is okay, but she spends a maddening amount of time staring into other people's eyes. During her initial confrontation with the wolf, she realizes he has human eyes, so she spends the rest of the film staring into other people's eyes trying to identify the wolf. This and the constant utterances of "Are you the wolf?" help create a thin, but extremely overwrought tale. It is actually quite a feat to create a story that is both thin and overwrought. Kudos to you and Mr. Reynolds.""Are you thornhill?"Come with me.""The two young men, Seyfried's suitors, are both good looking, but such obvious stand-ins for Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner it becomes frustrating. The attempts to copy the "Twilight" formula are blatant and continue throughout. The most frustrating thing? Shiloh Fernandez and Max Irons make Pattinson and Lautner look like Laurence Olivier. They are simply two of the worst actors I have seen in some time. At one point, they confront each other on a transom surrounding the village square. This moment is, by no means, unique because they confront each other many times. During this particular confrontation Irons stops Fernandez. Fernandez turns abruptly and says, almost shouting "I'm not the wolf". He darts his eyes back and forth and repeats the line, this time at barely a whisper. "I'm not the wolf."""Are you thornhill? Come with me...""Catherine, you should stick with small, independent films. These projects allow you to concentrate on the actors and their performances. When you don't have the distractions of a big budget film, this is where your strengths lie. "thirteen" was really good. Exactly the type of film you should make. But when you took the reigns of "Twilight" I fear your career was changed for ever. You became the director of a huge hit and I'm not sure you will be able to go back. Or if you even want to. These big budget films are too much for you. The acting in "Twilight" is okay, but I'm not sure how or what you added to the success of this film. I think my cat could've directed "Twilight" and it still would have made a gazillion dollars. But because of that success, and the studios eagerness to repeat it, you were brought in to "Twilight"-ize "Red Riding Hood". Bravo. "Twilight"-ize it you did. What this film really needs is the hand of someone like Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam.""You must come with me. I promise you an escape."Are you thornhill?""And the acting in "Riding Hood" is universally bad. Or just bland. Julie Christie plays Grandma and a few of her lines brought laughter from the audience when they weren't supposed to. Billy Burke (Bella's dad in "Twilight") plays Papa. Now that's a stretch. Papa's big scene involves him throwing up in the middle of the town square. Virginia Madsen is Mama and her story seems pulled out of a soap opera with acting to match. Both performances are problematic. Lukas Haas plays the village priest, a scared, cowardly man who eagerly awaits the arrival of his elder, the Reverend Solomon (Oldman). Oldman's performance is the only one with any energy. Usually, I am the first to loathe a film which contains actors using a bunch of fake accents, but "Riding Hood" is just the opposite problem. The film is set in a fictional village in the 16th Century (?) yet everyone sounds like they are from California.""Come with me, thornhill. I promise you this film will be good...""You can't make that promise, Catherine. Because "Red Riding Hood" is a big, hot mess."I AM THORNHILL. And the identity of the werewolf makes no sense."I am thornhill. And your movie is just bad. It is unlikely it will achieve the success of "Twilight" or the cult status of other bad films. It is simply bad."I am THORNHILL...