BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

pronker pronker First, the cloistered atmosphere is finely played to: the snow, the isolation, the faith of the villagers in their Homegrown Clergyman and then in Visiting Clergyman Who Will Save Them. I felt immersed in a time when travel was rare and visitors eyed askance, or appeared to be deliverers. The wolf showed up exactly when he meant to, to quote Gandalf the Grey, just enough footage to project menace. I honestly didn't guess the identity of Wolf. Next, the actors pleased me as an audience member because they seemed singleminded in their devotion to their village with the community united to protect itself from an ongoing, draining threat of 20 years' duration. All the big and little romances got enough attention; the screenwriters handed out Americanisms like whoa: "Okay" in particular got me smiling, because then the film reminded me of a King Arthur movie a few years back with the same feel. It may have been 2004's "King Arthur." Finally, it's a movie to have fun watching, with Oldman intense as usual and Seyfried on the cusp of womanhood and the most rounded of characters. A quibble is that the fate of the mentally challenged boy was unclear. A bobble in the plot was that main characters got stabbed and still walked around in the next scene, while an oldster got pushed hard and it killed him. Still fun movie, though.

boris_kolarov While Red Riding Hood isn't one of my favourite films it is still entertaining, enough to get 9/10. Also I haven't seen any other film of the director (that means I haven't seen Twilight).The soundtrack ties pretty well with the atmosphere, as well as the backgrounds, even if not everything is accurate to history, and that's noticeable throughout the film. CGI works well and the werewolf doesn't look terrible. The kills aren't something gruesome but the movie has some. The story is interesting, I like the references to the fairy tale and the ending is nice. The love portion doesn't get on my nerves.While nice acted, RRH can be somewhat dull and some characters are forgettable.Despite that, Red Riding Hood is enjoyable. I wouldn't mind however a film with more action - a Red Riding Hood Hensel & Gretal: Witch Hunters kind of movie (H&G:WH is awesome) with werewolfs.

Python Hyena Red Riding Hood (2011): Dir: Catherine Hardwicke / Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Virginia Madsen: An impressive attempt to create a horror film out of the famed bedtime story. I never understood the title. I suppose she has a red hood but what is she riding? Is it a reference to innocence? A village is terrorized by a werewolf and the people are fighting back but with failed results. Amanda Seyfried plays the title role. Her mother desires that she marry into wealth but her heart is with a logger. She conceals a secret and that is her ability to understand the werewolf's thoughts. She will discover old family secrets and the ability to love despite unbearable odds. Gary Oldman enters as a famed werewolf hunter once the villagers slain the wrong wolf. His methods are cruel but he will learn the hard way that it can retaliate with fatal results. Billy Burke plays Seyfried's father who will be a suspect in the eyes of viewers. Shiloh Fernandez plays the logger whom Seyfriend is in love with yet forbidden to see due too his social status. Once she begins understanding the werewolf she will become suspicious of him. Virginia Madsen also graces the film with her presence. Director Catherine Hardwicke made the popular Twilight for which much of the inspiration for this film is owed but the ending is more understanding than hokey. With tremendous winter landscapes and thick ominous forests, and music that rises tension as if aware of the wolf's presence. This is an underrated visual take for a new generation. This is a rousing thriller and intriguing interpretation of the classic tale. Score: 8 / 10

juneebuggy I liked this, it wasn't great, but it was good enough, an interesting interpretation of a Grimm's fairy tale and clearly aimed at the Twilight fans. Well either that or Catherine Hardwicke can only make a certain style of movie because style wise they are very similar. The opening is actually almost identical with overhead forest shots and a girl's voice-over. The CGI wolf is identical, the filming location was also the same which didn't help matters and then we have Billy Burke AKA "Charlie" as the Dad.I did get wrapped up in this though, following a young medieval girl who falls for an orphaned woodcutter even though her parents have arranged for her to marry another boy, her sister has just been killed and a wolf is stalking the village. The love triangle was suitably angsty and the mystery of "who" the wolf is going to be was well done (I didn't at all suspect that outcome). Unfortunately the flashbacky way of explaining things was kinda lame.Some of the cinematography is beautiful here, the contrast of Valarie's red cape billowing in the white snow, the cool look of Grandma's house (I want to live there). I did have a bit of an issue with the fact that its continually snowing yet nobody seems to feel the cold and dresses in t-shirty type clothes. A decent cast here too including Gary Oldman as the werewolf hunter, Lukas Haas, Virginia Madsen and of course Amanda Seyfried as Valarie. 12/17/14 Burnaby B.C plays some medieval folksy town where snow isn't cold.