"My, what big eyes you have."

"My, what big eyes you have."

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Heidi's Review: Visually pleasing is the best thing I can say about this movie. Perhaps I'm ruined for life by the the genius of Firefly, but one can only suspend disbelief for so long in a world built of stale dialog and cliched characters. Not sure how? Refer to the other famous wolfie fairy tale—a house of bricks always gonna beat out a house of straw, no matter how many red hood on snow shots you take. Disturbed priest who hates paranormal creatures! Imagine that! The special needs kid is the first suspect! Ooh, that's original! And these aren't even the worst offenders. What bothers me is this idea that if a movie is built for a teenage audience, it can be insipid. The world falling in love with the Twilight franchise doesn't mean the world will fall in love any old otherworldly adaptation. The world ALREADY loved Twilight before the movie, because they loved the books. The only line I remember from the original Little Red Riding Hood story is the one above in the quote. That, and a woodsman comes into play at some point. I think Grandma bites it. So you're going to have to sell us on something more than that to get us to care about  your characters.

The set and the cinematography were yummy eye candy, true, but just because something is pretty doesn't mean it has depth. And guess what? Teens understand that, too. They had the talent, star power and financial backing to make this an awesome movie. So why wasn't it awesome?

With television programming as high quality as it is now, Hollywood's going to have to step it up a notch to steal back our waning attentions.

Mom's Review: "Heidi, you need to start writing screenplays."