Running alongside and intertwined with the Twilight-style
tortured love / PG-rated barn sex we get professional werewolf hunter
Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), who comes into town with his crack team
of monster-hunters and promptly establishes a reign of low-level terror
as he tears the community apart trying to save it. Not that
there's much of a reason to save this particular medieval village,
populated as it is almost entirely with television-level background
actors who're almost distractingly wooden as they parade around as
potential suspects for wolfing out. To make matters worse,
it seems that it's currently "the blood moon", which is the only time
in a thirteen year period that you'll turn into a werewolf if one bites
you - and it turns out that the current werewolf has his sights set on
Little Red Riding Hood... This is sloppy work all the way
through that lacks even the suspense of the original fairy tale (by the
time the werewolf's identity is revealed, it's difficult to care), and
while there aren't that many glaringly bad moments, nothing here is
ever all that good either. Oldman is kind of fun as a
one-man Spanish Inquisition but everyone else is completely forgettable
- even Seyfried is mostly stuck bunging on a wide-eyed expression -
making the whole love triangle angle only likely to sweep you to a
growing realisation that pretty much anything would be more enthralling
than this. Even Twilight fans should avoid this watered-down gruel. DVD Special Features
There is a crazy number of special features and extras on offer here - check out this swag!
Extended Cut with Alternate Ending "Secrets Behind the Red Cloak" PIP w/ C. Hardwicke, A. Seyfried, S. Fernandez and M. Irons "Reinvention of Red Riding Hood" "Red Riding Hood's Men" "Making of the Score" "Before the Fur...Making of the CG Wolf" "Casting Tapes - Casting Shiloh Fernandez" "Casting Tapes - Casting Max Irons" "Casting Tapes - Shiloh Fernandez and Max Irons" "Rehearsals - The Dance" "Rehearsals - The Festival" "Rehearsals - The Wolf Attack" "The Wolf - Music Video by Fever Ray" "Just a Fragment of You - Music Video by Anthony Gonzalez of M8" "Red Riding Hood in 73 seconds" "The Wolf Goes to a Hamlet Audition" Easter Egg Gag Reel Deleted Scenes
Conclusion:
Movie 40% Extras: 75%
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