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Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy ... read more read more...Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast-one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait.-- (C) Warner Bros.

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PG-13, 2 hr.

Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke

Release Date: March 11, 2011

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  • jmanard52
    August 17, 2011
    jmanard52
    Went in with extremely low expectations on this one. I am not sold yet on Amanda Seyfried but she could turn out to be a decent actress. Gary Oldman as always was awesome and that alone notched up the film for me.
  • fb100002384654145
    April 20, 2012
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    Out of all the movies to rip-off, why rip-off "Twilight"? This film is neither scary nor romantic, it is just a painful bore-fest The only saving grace of this film is Gary Oldman, and that is only because his performance is so over-the-top that it is hilarious. This film make... read mores"Twilight" look like "Casablanca" in comparison.
  • MovieGeek13
    December 23, 2011
    MovieGeek13
    I don't think anyone had any expectations for Red Riding Hood, so I wouldn't consider it as disappointing as say Cowboys and Aliens, but it's still awful and puts director Catherine Hardwicke firmly on the path to becoming the female Stephen Sommers.
    Essentially, Red Riding Hood... read more is a desperate attempt to update a fairy tale. And by update I mean the main character is a young, hot teenager involved in a love triangle between her and two equally attractive guys, and a werewolf who is given the Twilight treatment. And just to give this movie some credibility, they convinced Gary Oldman to take the paycheck (like who would refuse money) and play a werewolf hunter who is actually a crazy fanatic Christian.
    Whoever wrote this screenplay also ran into a problem in not having enough material to expand this short fairy tale into a feature film, so instead, almost half this movie becomes a witch trial and chase as Amanda Seyfried's protagonist is accused of being a witch. So amongst the horrible dialogue and clumsy plotting....
    I'm just going to stop. The acting is awful, aside from Gary Oldman. Nobody recites their lines with any real understanding of what the scene's about. Of course, the dialogue is cliche and awkward, but it all lays down on the director. The sets look like a cheap music video, there are no scares, poor editing, a goth rock soundtrack that makes the film all that more awful. I'm rambling. As you can see, one of the worst films of 2011. Think of how many starving children could have been fed with the money wasted on producing this garbage. Life is cruel and unfair that way.
  • helpahorse
    December 18, 2011
    helpahorse
    This movie reminded me of Twilight. The acting was like Twilight, but the obsession with a boy was one of the main aspects of this movie that was just like Twilight. The girl had to choose between two boys the hot one and the rich one. It actually pretty much was Twilight except ... read morewith a human vs. werewolf rather than vampire vs. werewolf.

    This movie lacked a lot of suspense....Was it supposed to be scaring? I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a little scary, but it wasn't at all. I actually laughed at some parts because they were so stupid/hilarious. The movie was too obvious with its game of "guess who the werewolf is"! Anyone with a second grade education could've guessed who the werewolf was (if they tried). There was no suspense and no twist.

    This movie sucked because the plot is too similar to Twilight and the acting was so bad. The movie was poorly executed and there was no chemistry between any of the characters on set. There was no emotion in the movie. I didn't feel bad when the girl lost her brother, I didn't feel sad when the girl broke up with the boy...I felt a little bad when the girl stabbed that hot boy, but if he wasn't hot I wouldn't have cared.
  • TheGame90
    October 6, 2011
    TheGame90
    This could have been really bad. But it was allright. A interesting take on the old story. The directing, art directing and cinematography is looking good. It's pretty much Twilight. But they changed the vampires for a wolf. It was done with care.
  • sergioogarcia
    October 3, 2011
    sergioogarcia
    A modern verison of the classic Perrault's tale. Now involving werewolves and romance story. The conceptual art involved sounded like a good idea, but after watching it, still a fairy tale no better than the original. The story becomes bored and the acting is overrrated.
  • StarCrossedVoyager
    September 25, 2011
    StarCrossedVoyager
    After reading several bad reviews of this film I really didn't expect much. However I was pleasantly surprised to find a dark and intimate thriller that kept its secret hidden from me until the end. Being a film student, maybe I should have worked out who the wolf was and maybe t... read morehat makes me stupid but I found it refreshing that it wasn't the most obvious person. Performance wise, it wasn't especially good however Seyfried held her own and as usual Oldman gave a brilliant performance. The stand out features were the set design, cinematography and music which really made this film despite the not as strong as possible story. I didn't think it was particularly teeny but I haven't seen Twilight though either so it remains to be judged.
  • FiLmCrAzY
    September 19, 2011
    FiLmCrAzY
    well what a waste of time, even Gary Oldman who normally steals the show or even makes a terrible movie at least a little more bearable was rubbish in this movie, bitterly disappointing!
  • mrbungle7821
    September 16, 2011
    mrbungle7821
    In risk-adverse Hollywood, everything old is new again, so why not remake classic fairy tales for a modern audience? After all, there's no rights fee. While we'll have to wait on the competing Snow White films until 2012, Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke unleashes her styliz... read moreed retelling of the Red Riding Hood tale, titled easily enough, Red Riding Hood. This messy and incompetent movie may cause you to run away screaming into the woods all the way to grandmother's house.

    In a small village on the crest of the big bad words, Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is betrothed to Henry (Max Irons), a hunky blacksmith that comes from a family of high standing. She's rather run away with Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), the town's resident moody guy who's also her childhood friend. Valerie's family is ostracized due to past indiscretions, so her grandmother (Julie Christie) lives in a cottage off in the woods. Valerie's mother died when she was young and she's been raised by her father (Billy Burke) and her step-mother (Virginia Madsen). This happy hamlet is gripped with fear after a series of violent wolf attacks. Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) ushers into town with a proclamation that he will find the wolf and slay it. But he clarifies that they are hunting for a werewolf among the townsfolk. During one attack, Valerie discovers that she has an odd telepathic link with the wolf, which makes her further question her identity. Naturally, this makes the town fear her and offer her as a red riding sacrifice. But who is the wolf and what is his or her plan with Valerie?

    This is a disaster of epic fairy tale proportions. Red Riding Hood attempts to reshape the oft told tale into a palatable mix of sex and violence for today's pre-teens (teenagers will surely be bored by this), somehow forgetting that the original tale is filled with macabre violence. The filmmakers have tried to make Red Riding Hood (RRH) hip to a younger generation; this ain't your granny's fairy tale, yo. But they've really turned the simple story into a lumbering, idiotic, grating, and nearly impenetrable movie. This youthful infusion of hollow artifice and misplaced attitude, as well as a fumbling attempt at ill-conceived edge, makes the movie a metaphorical bratty teenager. You get tired of its taxing nature and empty posturing. It's trying to be cool with last year's catalogue. Hardwicke is using every tool at her disposal to appeal to an easily bored teenage demographic, so the movie takes several sidesteps that are only justifiable because someone might think they are cool. The musical score includes grating, churning anachronistic electric guitars. It feels like your neighbors are throwing a party and the music occasionally drifts over. These visual and narrative flourishes only remind you how desperate and out-of-tune this whole lousy production is.

    Screenwriter David Johnson (Orphan) takes the familiar woodland frolic and turns it into the world's worst Agatha Christie-styled guessing game. The wolf is now a werewolf and then the town undergoes a witch-hunt that would make Arthur Miller wince ("I saw Goody Red with the wolf"). It's here that the movie preposterously attempts to become some sort of important statement on, I kid you not, the war on terror. Solomon brings a metal elephant that he sticks prisoners in to soften them up. He also lights a fire below the belly of the elephant to expedite the process of getting the truth out of a suspect. Solomon's status as a cleric has to serve as some sort of biting criticism of church authority, especially after he wants to get an inquisition going. I appreciate the wholly misguided attempt at topicality and commentary, but this was not the movie to make statements. Anyway, the plot is convoluted and every scene seems to just further dilute the clarity of the narrative. The movie just descends into a manic game of "Guess the Wolf." We literally go through just about every speaking part at some point as a potential werewolf suspect. That means every bit part is given due consideration, including the mentally handicapped child. I actively wanted the wolf to be the mentally handicapped kid just for the awkward discussions of what to do next ("We can't kill the wolf. He's... special."). Red Riding Hood works so hard to make like 8 characters look alternatingly guilty. The town seems to be populated by red herrings and not people.

    Red Riding Hood is a neutered horror movie and a rather bloodless romance; there's a lack of blood pumping with either. For a movie about a killer wolf there is precious little blood or wounds even considering some people are mauled to death. It seems the filmmakers had a choice of going with mild gore or mild sensuality to stick the PG-13 landing and erred on the side of hormones. The romantic elements are kept at a pre-teen simmer. For only they will blush at the more suggestive elements, including the table-dance-in-slow-mo shimmy dancing that the town seems to favor during their festivals. At one point Peter unties one of Valerie's bodice strands. To be fair, in mythical land/mythical time setting, that's probably like their equivalent of third base. The romantic triangle is desperate to ape the Twilight model, and the male characters are pinup pinheads. They occupy types, one being the brooding "darker" guy who Valerie really wants to be with, and the other is a nice guy from a proud family (sound familiar, Twi-hards?). The movie goes to shoddy lengths to keep these two at odds, when it appears that, like Bella Swan, our Valerie is one flower not worth the trouble of plucking. It's hard to get involved in a romance when you'd rather watch every participant getting eaten by a wolf.

    "What big eyes you have" is something of an understatement when speaking about the saucer-eyed Seyfried (Letters to Juliet). She gets to make good use of her ocular abilities, though who knows if it's acting or just expressions of disbelief about what kind of movie she is trapped inside. Seyfried does her whole blasé shtick, which makes the character feel more like an annoying know-it-all even when she admittedly knows nothing. Oldman (The Dark Knight) inhales scenery at a dangerous pace, acting ferociously over-the-top and unrestrained. It's like he's trying to channel a wolf in his performance. At least he's entertaining to watch, which cannot be said for the movie as a whole. Irons (Dorian Gray) is bland but Fernandez (Skateland) is laugh-out-loud awful at a few points. Clearly talking is not this guy's strong suit. Neither is emoting. The weirdest part of Red Riding Hood is merely seeing Madsen's face. Clearly this woman has undergone plastic surgery since her Oscar-nominated turn in 2004's Sideways. She almost resembles a gentler looking Mickey Rourke at certain unkind angles. Another famous face goes to sad lengths to alter her looks to be seen as acceptably good-looking in ageist Hollywood.

    Red Riding Hood is a tragic misjudgment on the part of just about everyone involved. The screenwriter thought he must have been making a serious allegory, Hardwicke thought she was making a wild and witchy cousin to Twilight, and the producers thought they were making a film that had genuine appeal. They were all categorically wrong. The reworking of the fairy tale elements is mostly mundane. She gets a red cloak from her granny but otherwise this story might as well just be about a girl and a werewolf. It's not an imaginative update or a clever reworking, this is just a dumb werewolf story with extra dashes of Twilight for seasoning. The key to unlocking the Red Riding Hood story is not by introducing a sterile love triangle. This hyperactive hodgepodge mistakes setting for atmosphere and a high number of characters for mystery. I was astounded as I sat and watched this movie; turn after turn it veers wildly in tone and execution. I haven't even talked about the special effects for the wolf, and there's a reason I am leaving that unsaid. Red Riding Hood is a movie 12-year-old girls might fawn over. If you find yourself outside that marginal demographic, then you'll likely find this movie to be an irritating, nonsensical, dopey, pitiful bore. You can stuff that in your picnic basket, Red.

    Nate's Grade: D
  • fb1216165431
    September 10, 2011
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    A distasteful mix of Twilight and The Village, Red Riding Hood is a complicated mess guilty of a grimly and uninspired interpretation of the popular folktale by Charles Perrault and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

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Critic Reviews

David Denby
March 28, 2011
David Denby, New Yorker

More "Twilight" than Grimm, and a terrible mess. Full Review

Eric D. Snider
March 21, 2011
Eric D. Snider, Film.com

Hardwicke directed Twilight, you'll recall, and would apparently like to continue directing it, over and over again. Full Review

Rex Reed
March 16, 2011
Rex Reed, New York Observer

Catherine Hardwicke is Anne Rice with a camera. Full Review

Peter Rainer
March 15, 2011
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

Just when you think you've finished with one of these annoying franchises, another one pops up to plague you. Full Review

Stephen Whitty
March 12, 2011
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

If you're a Twilight fan, you may feel as though you've already seen this. And if you're not, well, why would you be interested in something like this at all? Full Review

Tom Charity
March 11, 2011
Tom Charity, CNN.com

Not nearly suspenseful enough to pass as a horror film, Red Riding Hood is an awkward supernatural whodunit weighed down by banal dialogue more suited to a teen soap and Hardwicke's clumsy direction. Full Review

Tom Long
March 11, 2011
Tom Long, Detroit News

Red Riding Hood is pretty decent, considering it's, you know, Red Riding Hood. Full Review

Roger Ebert
March 11, 2011
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Red Riding Hood has the added inconvenience of being dreadfully serious about a plot so preposterous, it demands to be filmed by Monty Python. Full Review

Richard Roeper
March 11, 2011
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

You'll howl alright; this is the funniest movie I've seen all year. Yes, it's supposed to be a horror flick. Full Review

Liam Lacey
March 11, 2011
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

What big eyes and lips Amanda Seyfried has. And what nice cheekbones Julie Christie, who plays her grandmother, has. Unfortunately, these are about the only outstanding features in Red Riding Hood. Full Review

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