Red Riding Hood

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Well me, if she looked like my grandma and had big ears. Red Riding Hood, a classic everyone knows and has had countless incarnations of the story, so why do we need another?

Red Riding Hood has been brought to us by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, now lets get some pretty boys and girls, make them look a little off, add a love story and here we go again, this film just oozes with the Twilight feel, but with a big dog.

Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) lives in a medieval village one that everyone knows each others business, Valerie plays the role of a lose Little Red Riding hood but she’s torn between two men, one whom she has been set up to marry by her family Henry (Max Irons) and another of which she is in love with much to her families displeasure, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) . But she arranges to run away with him – surrounding their village is a wolf which lurks in the night, the wolf claims it’s next victim this time Valerie s sister, the villages have for years had an uneasy truce with the beast offering food each month but this time it’s a human life.

The villages want to now break this truce with the wolf and want it dead so they call on Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) a famed werewolf hunter, as the death toll rises he advises the villages the wolf is one of them and they change back into human form in the day, this in turn makes everyone a wolf in the villages eyes.

The wolf however has many an opportunity to kill Valerie, but doesn’t – is the wolf one of her lovers?

The film plays out numerous directions but as an audience you know the ending before it happens, aside from a small twist towards the end, the effects used in bringing the wolf to life are really good and stands out from the rest of the drab film, Oldman doesnt do the film any favours by been simply wierd and it’s not the best role ive seen in him, the other cast actors aint special either there just there for eye candy to the teenagers that will love this film simply because of the love story, other than that it’s shit.

The film has a feel of Van Helsing with the ‘Hunter’ been drafted into a weird village, and the story is somewhat similar to 2004′s Joaquin Phoenix film, The Village – If you have seen either of those films you don’t need to watch this is vaguely touches on the story of Little Red Riding hood with the only references being the wolf, and a red cape.