DVD review: Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood, now in a teenager version.

The story you know it roughly. What they changed is, at least on a surface level, not that bad.

There is something of Ten Little Indians now, people keep dying in Red Riding Hood village and the problem is guessing who the bad werewolf is.

A suitable amount of stuff happens, some blood get spilled, Gary Oldman himself makes an apparition as a Van Helsing style character, of course in this case is a Werewolf Hunter and not a Vampire Hunter but factually is the same.

The visuals are actually not too bad. I commend the style of the famous red hood. Although the CGI of the wolves is a terrible miss the rest of the setting is nicely done and shoot with a keen eye on the light.

Also every moment Gary Oldman is on the screen the movie switches gear because he is that awesome.

Amanda Seyfried is the titular protagonist. She doesn’t stretch a lot but this is the kind of role that she was born to play. She looks the part and she played similar characters so many times that she is now effortless in this kind of role.

Sadly we live in the post twilight era; they even got the director of the original Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke. So the usual undertone of “Werewolves are supposed to be very sexy” is overbearing. A very big chunk of the movie is spent with stolen glances, sexual innuendos, attractive guys with their chest bare etc.

Maybe if you are a Twilight fan you’ll love this stuff. Personally I have nothing against Twilight but I can’t bear supernatural teen romance, is so off putting.

Conclusion: The core of the movie is terrible and cliché but there is enough meat on the side to satisfy the most ardent twilight hater. Also there is Gary Oldman himself, what else do you need?