There are times when movies are constantly compared to each other, making someone wonder if they can truly be considered a ripoff or not. In every way, this seemed like a ripoff of "Twilight". I actually will admit I do kind of like this twist that appears at the end, but it's still a terrible movie. It's mostly because it takes a classic story and puts all these ridiculous elements in it. We get this stupid love triangle that doesn't seem to really amount to anything. There's at least some references to the original story.The plot is that this village that sacrifices to a werewolf is now being attacked by it. I'm probably being kind to this movie only because I saw that horrendous "Daddy Day Camp" and really anything would be better than that. At least this movie didn't cover itself in bodily fluids. It's still boring and poorly acted and obviously just made to cash in on the success of "Twilight". I think Leonard Maltin said it best when he said it answered questions about Little Red Riding Hood that no one wanted to have answered. It's just another dumb pointless romantic movie with laughable romance. *1/2

First, the cloistered atmosphere is finely played to: the snow, the isolation, the faith of the villagers in their Homegrown Clergyman and then in Visiting Clergyman Who Will Save Them. I felt immersed in a time when travel was rare and visitors eyed askance, or appeared to be deliverers. The wolf showed up exactly when he meant to, to quote Gandalf the Grey, just enough footage to project menace. I honestly didn't guess the identity of Wolf. Next, the actors pleased me as an audience member because they seemed singleminded in their devotion to their village with the community united to protect itself from an ongoing, draining threat of 20 years' duration. All the big and little romances got enough attention; the screenwriters handed out Americanisms like whoa: "Okay" in particular got me smiling, because then the film reminded me of a King Arthur movie a few years back with the same feel. It may have been 2004's "King Arthur." Finally, it's a movie to have fun watching, with Oldman intense as usual and Seyfried on the cusp of womanhood and the most rounded of characters. A quibble is that the fate of the mentally challenged boy was unclear. A bobble in the plot was that main characters got stabbed and still walked around in the next scene, while an oldster got pushed hard and it killed him. Still fun movie, though.

This movie aims at a "horror" approach at the "Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale, and only sort of succeeds. Amanda Seyfried and the rest of the cast is good, but it only works in spurts. I liked the scenes where she talks to the wolf, but for the most part the movie fails to entice. They could have done a better job. It was average for the most part and could have been better. Imagine how good it could have been if it had worked! It dragged a lot, and in some places provided some good scary parts, and I thought it was OK, but not great.** out of ****

Most of the people didn't like this movie,but l enjoy...maybe the old tale has been changed but the primary elements was good enough. Althroug is a Studio's movie without external scenes and helped by graphic computer the movie works... and with the cast like Gary Oldman,Julie Christie and Virginia Madsen together with Amanda Seyfried and the young actors hold the picture...the false track in the script let the viewers confused who is the beast anyway....good entertainment really.