Red Riding Hood
2011 Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
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Who's afraid?
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, 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.
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Catherine Hardwicke’s version of the much adapted fairytale is a laughable and melodramatic mess: The Company of Wolves it ain’t. Stripping the story of much of its subtext, this is a listless interpretation featuring an angsty love triangle with inexplicable levels of hair gel and made, so it seems, for the same audience that lapped up the The Twilight franchise.
What the likes of Gary Oldman and Julie Christie are doing in this I will never know, and based on their performances I’m not sure they do either. Seyfried plays her usual wide-eyed and innocent character with added teenage lust and irksome voice over. At least she is afforded a little development unlike her bland love interests who fail to…
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The Brothers Grimm go Twilight.
Completely and utterly destroying cultural heritage should be forbidden.
Bastards.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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2 stars just for Gary Oldman.
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Sadly, this was not meant to be a comedy cuz it made me laugh several times. It might have helped if I could tell the two actors apart that were vying for the hand of the red riding hood lady or if either of them were remotely interesting and not yawn inducing. When she starts reciting "Grandma, what big ears you have..." I was simultaneously laughing and creeped out. I hope Gary Oldman and Julia Christie were well paid and the craft services were amazing. Oh and the twist at the end..duh!
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La esperaba peor; me gustó que fuera más oscura que romántica y The Knife se oye chido con música original para la película. Punto.
Pd- La daban en la TV y la dejé prendida mientras hacía otras cosas, no me juzguen.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Twilight-esque half-assed pointless threesome romance tripe and Gary Oldman with a silver coke nail. Definitely don't pay for it.
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With the decent retelling of another fairy tale, Snow White and the Huntsman, I had a small bit of hope that Red Riding Hood would be at least a tiny bit decent but effectively what we are given is Twilight with a werewolf..........oh wait. What can I say good about this? well, the effects weren't too bad and Seyfried and Oldman tried to give this film some acting credit, yeah that'll do. The rest however is garbage, I couldn't give a rats arse about the characters especially Red's two love interests and couldn't give a poop who the wolf turned out to be (p.s. it was anti climatic, guessed it from the start). The music is so out of place…
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Una visión entretenida sobre el cuento de Caperucita roja. Es más acción que terror, no os dejéis engañar por el marketing.
Aquí se da mucha más importancia al mito del lobo moderno, tal y como ahora lo conocemos.
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La esperaba peor; me gustó que fuera más oscura que romántica y The Knife se oye chido con música original para la película. Punto.
Pd- La daban en la TV y la dejé prendida mientras hacía otras cosas, no me juzguen. -
I so desperately wish I could get my money back from this movie. It is just...awful.
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Oh, did I mention Amanda Seyfried's a goddess?
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There is obviously a Twilight-ish vibe to the film, but it is kept in check. The most fun thing about it is obviously the guessing game of who the wolf is, and—I can only speak for me—it does brilliantly in diverting your attention. Right to the last minute one is unable to guess who it is. And that is the overriding theme: It's very much a "whodunit," not a sappy teenage love-triangle. The background of witches and werewolves—and witch-hunters—falls somewhere between Salem and The Village (2004), but its rather good nonetheless. They manage enough fealty to their ostensible setting to work in a rather ingenious allusion to the children's story ("'Goodness, what big eyes you have'/'The better to see you with'.) It's much better to think of the film as a thriller than its other designations—horror and fantasy—which do not really apply. Overall, nothing too fancy, nothing that memorable, but a solid try.