Red Riding Hood : Movie Review


At least the werewolves in Red Riding Hood have teeth and, when in human form, they don't parade around shirtless. Alas, wearing the PG-13 like a Scarlet Letter, the movie advertises an absence of true horror. Even Lon Cheney Jr.'s Wolfman was scarier than the too-obviously CGI lycanthrope here. Still, the material with the monster isn't the worst thing offered up by this "re-telling" of the popular children's story - that label belongs to the dreaded love triangle, which is so badly scribbled that it could have been lifted directly from the series in which director Catherine Hardwick recently toiled: Twilight.

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Author : James Berardinelli