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Win Win Fandango Search movie more current releases » showtimes and buy Red Riding Hood tickets. one-minute movie reviews BY ROGER EBERT / March 10, 2011 still playing about us Of the classics of world literature crying out to be The Adjustment Bureau About the site » filmed as a sexual fantasy cast & credits Another Year for teenage girls, surely Barney's Version Site FAQs » Valerie Amanda Seyfried "Red Riding Hood" is far Battle: Los Angeles down on the list. Here's a Father Solomon Gary Oldman Biutiful Contact us » movie that cross-pollinates Father Auguste Lukas Haas Blue Valentine the "Twilight" formula with a Grandmother Julie Christie Cedar Rapids Email the Movie werewolf and adds a girl Certifiably Jonathan Answer Man » Peter Shiloh Fernandez who always wears a red Cesaire Billy Burke Certified Copy Cold Weather hooded cape, although I Henry Max Irons The Company Men on sale now don't recall her doing any Suzette Virginia Madsen riding. It's easy to imagine a Country Strong story conference in which Drive Angry 3D Warner Bros. presents a film they said: Hey! Let's switch The Eagle Even the Rain the vampires with a directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The Green Hornet werewolf and recycle the Written by David Johnson. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG-13 Hall Pass theme of a virgin attracted Hidden Love (for violence and creature terror, to a handsome but The Housemaid dangerous hunk, only let's and some sensuality). I Am Number Four get two hunks! I Will Follow Printer-friendly » The Illusionist Buy now » What this inspiration fails to E-mail this to a friend » Inspector Bellamy account for is that while a Ip Man 2 young woman might toy Jane Eyre with the notion of a vampire Just Go With It boyfriend, she might not Kaboom want to mate with a wolf. Although she might think it was, like, cool Limitless to live in the woods in Oregon, she might not want to live in the The Lincoln Lawyer Black Forest hundreds of years ago because, like, can you text from Louder Than a Bomb Loveless there? The Mechanic Buy now » My Dog Tulip "Red Riding Hood" has the added inconvenience of being dreadfully No Strings Attached serious about a plot so preposterous, it demands to be filmed by Of Gods and Men Monty Python. All that amused me was a dream sequence where Outside the Law Grandma says, “The better to eat you with.” I'm asking myself, “How Paul can Red Riding Hood dream about dialogue in her own fairy tale Poetry when she hasn't even gone over the hill and through the dale to Rango grandmother's house yet?” Red Riding Hood The Rite The movie was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who made the first Sanctum Season of the Witch Buy now » "Twilight" film. "Red Riding Hood" opens with computer-generated shots of hundreds of square miles of forests, dotted here and there Strongman Take Me Home Tonight by grim, stubby castles. Then we meet the narrator, Valerie, who Unknown always wears a red cape. She is but a lass when she steals away Vidal Sassoon: The Movie with Peter, her pre-pubescent boyfriend, so they can trap a bunny Waste Land rabbit and possibly slit its throat, although the camera moves away The Way Back from the bunny at the crucial moment to focus upon their faces as the Win Win young actors think, “OK, this is where they flash forward, and we are replaced by Amanda Seyfried and Shiloh Fernandez.” more current releases » Buy now » They live in a village that is one of the oddest non-places in the on dvd history of production design. Because the original fairy tale was by the Brothers Grimm, I suppose there's a chance the village is in new on dvd Germany, but it exists outside time and space, and seems to have been inspired by little plastic souvenir villages in airport gift shops. You know, populated mit Hansel und Gretel. Topsy-Turvy (3/29) The Times of Harvey Milk (3/29) Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (3/29) Valerie (Seyfried) wants to marry Peter (Fernandez), who is a wood Mesrine: Killer Instinct (3/29) chopper, but her parents have betrothed her to a rich kid named Fair Game (3/29) Buy now » Henry (Max Irons). The village since time immemorial has been Black Swan (3/29) terrorized by a werewolf, who turns up when the moon is full and All Good Things (3/29) must be pacified by a pathetic little piggie left chained to a stump, Waste Land (3/15) lest it develop an appetite for villagers. Valerie's sister is found dead, Hidden Love (3/15) amidst distracting cone-shaped haystacks dotted with purple flowers, Hereafter (3/15) which is not the sort of detail you want to be noticing when a young more new on dvd » girl has been killed (spoiler!) not eaten by a werewolf. coming on dvd The villagers send off for Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), a famed werewolf fighter, and he arrives with his band of warriors and a very Buy now » large metal elephant. Solomon, an expert, knows that werewolves Araya (4/5) I Love You Phillip Morris (4/5) are not werewolves all the time, and in between full moons take the Jersey Girl (4/5) form of men. Therefore, one of the villagers must be a werewolf. This Tron (4/5) has enormous implications for Valerie's possible future love life. Tron: Legacy (4/5) Dead Man (4/12) But I know my readers. Right now, you aren't thinking about Valerie's The Human Stain (4/12) romance. 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