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Red Riding Hood English Movie
Classification: PG13
Genre: Thriller / Drama
General Release Date: 21 Apr 2011
Running Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Red Riding Hood: Movie Review:
Red Riding Hood anyone? Well, there's a wolf, there's a grandmother, there's a woodcutter and there's a pretty girl in a red hood. So far, so good. But if you go looking for a copy book rendition of the Grimm's fairy tale, as in the case of Snow White and Beauty and the Beast, you're obviously mistaken. Again, if you are hoping for a revolutionary adult re-invention of the kiddie story, you're mistaken once more. Because Catherine Hardwicke's reworking of every kid's favourite bedtime story, Red Riding Hood, resurfaces in the Twilight zone: neither a full blown horror flick, nor a contemporary feminist fable. Instead, an oft-seen saga of werewolves and their predilection for spunky maidens.
Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast-one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait.
Can't blame the director, Catherine Hardwicke, can we? Having made the first instalment in the Twilight series, she still seems to have a hangover about drama that revolves round vampires and werewolves, lusting for pretty young things. But a word of applause here for her protagonist this time round. Valerie is quite unlike Bella Swan and has a delicious appetite for the wicked and the wild. As a little girl, she prefers to break rules, disobey her mother, wander into the forest and hunt rabbits with her childhood friend, Peter. As an adult, she doesn't think twice before taking a tumble in the hay and is more than willing to run away with him to a life of disarray, instead of settling down with the rich and sober Henry.
Yes, the fun part of this film lies in the characterisation of Valerie as a vixen that ends up as a perfect match to the werewolf who waits patiently for her at the brink of civilisation. Of course the medieval mumbo-jumbo that enters the plot with the arrival of the poorly etched character of Father Solomon does derail the drama. For Red Riding Hood might have ended up as a modern metaphor on feminism (there's a whole lot of spunk 'neath the Hood), but the religiosity reduces the verve.
Watch it for the excellent production design, the breath-taking cinematography (Mandy Walker) and for Amanda Seyfried's rendition of go-go girls who gotta break some rules. And don't forget to savour Julie Christie's glamorous granny act. Wish there was more of her.
What purpose is there to adding endless expository material to a simple story? Absolutely none, other than indulging the filmmakers' preoccupation with nauseating melodrama and attempting to lure the Twi-hard crowd. There is more subtextual curiosity to some of the original iterations of the Red Riding Hood story than even come close to being probed in this film, where the iconography of a red cape and a salivating wolf are plunked into a Burton-Luhrmann mash-up that is neither meaningful nor entertaining.
Red Riding Hood English Movie
Classification: PG13
Genre: Thriller / Drama
General Release Date: 21 Apr 2011
Running Time: 1 Hour 33 Minutes
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Red Riding Hood: Movie Review:
Red Riding Hood anyone? Well, there's a wolf, there's a grandmother, there's a woodcutter and there's a pretty girl in a red hood. So far, so good. But if you go looking for a copy book rendition of the Grimm's fairy tale, as in the case of Snow White and Beauty and the Beast, you're obviously mistaken. Again, if you are hoping for a revolutionary adult re-invention of the kiddie story, you're mistaken once more. Because Catherine Hardwicke's reworking of every kid's favourite bedtime story, Red Riding Hood, resurfaces in the Twilight zone: neither a full blown horror flick, nor a contemporary feminist fable. Instead, an oft-seen saga of werewolves and their predilection for spunky maidens.
Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast-one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait.
Can't blame the director, Catherine Hardwicke, can we? Having made the first instalment in the Twilight series, she still seems to have a hangover about drama that revolves round vampires and werewolves, lusting for pretty young things. But a word of applause here for her protagonist this time round. Valerie is quite unlike Bella Swan and has a delicious appetite for the wicked and the wild. As a little girl, she prefers to break rules, disobey her mother, wander into the forest and hunt rabbits with her childhood friend, Peter. As an adult, she doesn't think twice before taking a tumble in the hay and is more than willing to run away with him to a life of disarray, instead of settling down with the rich and sober Henry.
Yes, the fun part of this film lies in the characterisation of Valerie as a vixen that ends up as a perfect match to the werewolf who waits patiently for her at the brink of civilisation. Of course the medieval mumbo-jumbo that enters the plot with the arrival of the poorly etched character of Father Solomon does derail the drama. For Red Riding Hood might have ended up as a modern metaphor on feminism (there's a whole lot of spunk 'neath the Hood), but the religiosity reduces the verve.
Watch it for the excellent production design, the breath-taking cinematography (Mandy Walker) and for Amanda Seyfried's rendition of go-go girls who gotta break some rules. And don't forget to savour Julie Christie's glamorous granny act. Wish there was more of her.
What purpose is there to adding endless expository material to a simple story? Absolutely none, other than indulging the filmmakers' preoccupation with nauseating melodrama and attempting to lure the Twi-hard crowd. There is more subtextual curiosity to some of the original iterations of the Red Riding Hood story than even come close to being probed in this film, where the iconography of a red cape and a salivating wolf are plunked into a Burton-Luhrmann mash-up that is neither meaningful nor entertaining.
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