RED RIDING HOOD Movie Review

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf! That's how one story goes and then there's Goldilocks and of course the ever famous fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. It's about time that they gave some classics an updated feel to them. Although the movie is loosely based on the little girl with the red hood it still shares with us those famous words "what big eyes you have, what big ears you have and what big teeth you have".

The movie stars one of Hollywood's newer starlets Amanda Seyfried who plays the hooded one named Valerie. Valerie is a young lady who is torn between her one true love Peter that is considered and outsider and a boy named Henry that her parents arranged to have marry her. Saddened by the news of this union she makes plans to run away with Peter. News then hits town that her sister was killed. People have come to the conclusion that her death is caused by the werewolf that lurks in the forest. For several years they have been giving this wolf animal sacrifices in exchange for them not being harmed. The town then calls on Father Solomon (played by Gary Oldman) to help hunt it down and kill it. After doing some research and investigating he says that the wolf can take human form and that it could in fact be be one of them!

The action scenes in the movie remind me a bit of those in the whole Twilight saga because they mostly deal with the wolf. I guess another similarity to the fanged ones would be that they were both filmed out in Vancouver, Canada. It is a bit of a slow burner however it does keep you guessing a bit throughout the movie. Who's the wolf you ask? Well, I have to admit that I did figure it out quite early on as it really was not too hard to piece together.

It was in no way a big movie blockbuster and was made on an estimated budget of about $42,000,000, which was $30,000,000 less then it's opening night competition Battle:Los Angeles. It's definitely a rental in my opinion, had it not been march break I may not have even gone out to see it with my nieces. It was in no way a bad movie, I just think that when you throw it up against the other movies coming out this year it really pales in comparison.

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