{"id":43743,"date":"2024-09-19T00:20:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43743"},"modified":"2024-09-16T14:10:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T18:10:11","slug":"red-riding-hood-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/19\/red-riding-hood-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Riding Hood (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s hard to imagine but Hollywood just never seems to be short of attempts to re-think and re-imagine \u201cRed Riding Hood. And surely enough they never seem to think of an interesting enough idea for a franchise of any kind. I wish they\u2019d stop by now. \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d is Catherine Hardwicke\u2019s efforts to transform \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d in to this Puritanical, Stephanie Meyer tinted romance horror film that never works as well as it wants to.<\/p>\n

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Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man \u2013 who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie\u2019s older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon\u2019s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.<\/p>\n

Its pure intention is to appeal to the audience that invests heavily in \u201cTwilight\u201d or \u201cVampire Diaries\u201d and the movies spares no expense in flaunting that kind of aspiration. Hardwicke\u2019s movie is over directed, gaudy, and often very ugly to endure, all the while asking us to invest in this love triangle that\u2019s so painfully old hat and obnoxious. The whole idea of this new version of Red Riding Hood being torn between an assigned husband and someone that she loves outside of her marriage arrangement amounts to zero entertainment value.<\/p>\n

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The whole idea of the wolf stalking random villages, forcing these various members of this society in to a mad scramble to take down the alleged werewolf feels so trite and overdone. Every trope here is so worn and tired from the mad hunter, the evil puritan patriarchs, the star crossed lovers, and so on. Hardwicke is a fine director pushed in to such a crummy movie, one that fails to completely rethink the whole concept of \u201cRed Riding Hood.\u201d For all intents and purposes, the cast are attractive and they add some interesting appeal to the marquee, but they all look like they\u2019re sleepwalking through the film.<\/p>\n

Even Amanda Seyfried herself looks ill fit for such a unique role like Red Riding Hood (or–Valerie), and never adds the intended dimension. Red Riding Hood is that grimm fairytale I wish Hollywood would quit trying to retrofit in to some modern fantasy epic, and \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d does it no favors.<\/p>\n


\nEditor’s note: This review was written by Felix Vasquez Jr earlier this year<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to imagine but Hollywood just never seems to be short of attempts to re-think and re-imagine \u201cRed Riding Hood. And surely enough they never seem to think of an interesting enough idea for a franchise of any kind. I wish they\u2019d stop by now. \u201cRed Riding Hood\u201d is Catherine Hardwicke\u2019s efforts to transform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[64,349,477,703,874],"class_list":["post-43743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45008,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43743\/revisions\/45008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}