Red Riding Hood

After reading other user comments this movie sounded like the worst movie ever made but there is nothing wrong with it! It is a perfectly OK, entertaining family movie. I found the look of it quite attractive and colorful particularly the background as Red was cycling through the landscape on her way to Grandma's house. It is merely a modern interpretation of an old fairy tale. I thought the idea of Laine Kazan engaging her two grandchildren's attention by reading to them, especially as the girl wanted to go out with her friends, was very nice and affirming showing the power of a good story and encouraging reading as well as family bonding. also the girl playing Red was very good and has a promising future ahead of her as an actress.

Relying on the positive reviews above, we saw a free screening of this last night. Now I KNOW that filmmakers plant positive reviews, because there is no way an objective individual could have written these. "Destined to become a 'cult classic'"?? The theater was packed, apparently with friends and families of the production crew, because only a few of us walked out by the first hour.

The songs were the most literal I've ever heard in a musical – "don't take the short cut, honey, there's a wolf in the woods..". Debi Mazar's eyes blinked furiously as she struggled to sing. Fortunately, most of the tunes lasted for only a few lines.

Now, whoever plays the wolf in this tale should be charming and seductive. Instead, we get Joey Fatone, ex N'Syncer, living up to his last name as he's not aged well. He's not exactly lithe with his extra 50 pounds and junior high school-quality makeup and out-of-tune singing. Seriously, this guy was in vocal group? The rest of the actors are semi-adequate, but can't do much about the unimaginative script. You know, it is possible to write for adults and children at the same time – see under "Pixar".

On the positive side, the virtual sets looked nice and were well-integrated with the actors. And it wasn't as offensive as "Crash".

Creepy & lascivious wolf. The young "Red" is wearing full make-up, and extremely short shorts & robe. Got about 20 minutes through and realized it could be a pedophile's dream come true. The "up-beat" music sounds a lot like something I'd hear at a strip club. I actually think this movie is a sick joke - it's not a family movie. Gross, glad I was watching this with my daughter, I don't want her to think it's normal for families to view quasi kiddie porn together. Very bad, Very sad it's sold as a family film, Joey Fatone will probably be embarrassed he was in it. And what's with advertising it as a "special effects spectacular"??? The effects do look low budget, gawd awful.

The creativeness of this movie was lost from the beginning when the writers and directors left out a good story line, only to substitute with horrible special affects. This movie seemed to be focused on amusing children, but couldn't even accomplish that. Many small low budget films have the potential to become great movies, but this movie is no where near that. Fortunately this will be another film easily made, and easily forgotten. This movie was probably a chance for the actors to make a little money on the side until their chance came along for a real role in a good movie. Anyone who has a shred of respect for films, should avoid seeing this movie at all costs.

I watched this movie with a girl I was babysitting and I found it surprisingly inappropriate. First, an eleven-year-old looking "Red" plans on sneaking out of the house wearing lots of make-up and little clothes. Weird. Then "Red" dresses up in pretty much just a red hood and boots; she looked pretty naked. Afterwards she develops a crush on a man eight years her senior and even has a fantasy about him which isn't too innocent. Also, the "wolf" sings a song about "red" that is filled with sexual innuendos.

Otherwise, the special effects are terrible and it seems that the WHOLE movie was shot in front of a green screen.

I wouldn't recommend this for anybody because it is shocking and just a terrible movie.