RED RIDING HOOD
2 out of 5 stars

it looks like a growing trend in hollywood now is the revamping of fairytales... but this one is just FAIL. :/

lookin’ like they filmed this on some set designed to be a random euro village in the middle ages... little red riding hood is transformed into a blond big-eyed teenage girl named valerie (amanda seyfried), whose fallen in love with her BFF and soul mate, woodcutter peter. it’s just too bad that she’s already got a pre-arranged marriage going by her parents (virginia madsen and OMG, it’s bella swan’s dad!), to the richest guy in the village. (he’s also a blacksmith) aaaaand while she’s flirting/making lovey dovey eyes with peter in the woods, the wolf AKA werewolf attacks/kills her sister... the villagers decide to take down the werewolf in its lair, but people get attacked, so the head priest in the village makes the executive decision to bring in an “expert” AKA gary oldman in knight armor! he and his soldiers try to take down the werewolf, but the wolf only wants one person. want to take a guess to who it is? ;)

i can’t believe i’m saying this but... i think i’d rather watch twilight: new moon again than this craptacular movie. a werewolf?! REALLY?! way to literally DESTROY a children’s classic, hollywood! this deserves only 1 star, but i gave it extra points for a pretty good plot twist towards the very end. if the werewolf turned out to the peter, i probably would have stuck by my decision and give it the one this deserved... lots of eye-rolling moments esp. between valerie and peter and the whole love triangle thing, but then again, this would be perfect for the teenager in the household. but then again, any sensible teenager would probably pick the twilight series over this crap. at least with twilight, you get the angst and taylor lautner’s sixpack. this? all you’re going to get is gary oldman’s awful eastern european accent... :P