Red Riding Hood [DVD]

i know a lot of people love to rip into Cannon MovieTales, but i love 'em. these movies bring me back to the 80's when i would wait for the video store to open on the morning of each new MovieTale release so i could rent them before the kids would grab 'em off the shelves. the strong point here is the musical score by award winning composer and song writer Stephen Lawrence. his score is winning and charming. unfortunately the actors are not trained singers and don't do the score a lot of justice. don't get me wrong, i love Amelia Shankley and Isabella Rossilini, but i just don't think they have strong singing voices. they are still good here and interesting to watch. Cannon MovieTales are definitely on a par with Shelley Duvall's famous and wonderful 'Fairy Tale Theater' and should be given more respect than are generally given them. James(the 'Alice' fan)

I have been looking for this for many years. I remember when I first saw it and I loved it. I wasn't disappointed at all. I am very happy with it and the quality of it was great! Not at all like any other Red Riding Hood you will see and one feature I really liked was that it is somewhat of a musical and it wasn't too much... very enjoyable.

Our local video market used to carry this movie on vhs and I'd always rent,but they stopped carrying vhs tapes in 2007 and I have been looking for this movie,so I was glad to see it on Amazon for a reasonable price.This is going to be a two part review ,haven't actually ordered the movie it's in my cart,so when I order it,receive and watch it,there will be another review .I'm just glad I found this movie

Red Riding Hood is one of the many "Cannon Movie Tales" that I grew-up with and am happy to find released on DVD. It was by no means my favorite of the series (which includes- Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, Emperor's New Clothes, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretal, and not released on dvd in the U.S.- Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty). This series of movies looks like it was done all with shared sets (most of the sets from Red Riding Hood can be seen in Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, and Frog Prince) and sometimes the same actors. Red Riding Hood includes Isabella Rossellini (Merlin, Death Becomes Her) and Craig T. Nelson (Coach, Poltergeist). There's a few delightful songs, some overripe acting from the infamous "wolf," and some general changes in the story to stretch it out for a full length movie. All in all I like it mostly out of nostalgia more than anything else.

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This movie is excellent and it was absolutely beautiful to watch on videocassette. I was very glad I ordered this because it partly was a remembrance when the world was a lot easier when videocassettes were being sold.

I bought this because it is made by Cannon Movie Tales and I love "Puss in Boots", which they also made. Because "Puss in Boots" was so good, I thought this would be, too. Alas, I was disappointed. "Red Riding Hood" has almost no relation to the story we are all familiar with. The plot in the actual fairytale is more of a parenthetical remark than the main story line in this movie. Add to this that the acting was rather painful and the special effects were anything but special and you are left with 1 star. The one thing it had going for it was that it was perfectly clean and not very scary for youngsters. Since small children are easier to please in the cinematic area than adults, perhaps they would still enjoy this adaptation to "Little Red Riding Hood".

Very well played performance by all the actors involved. Beautiful version of the children's story. I baught so many copies of this film/play to give to all the little girls in our lives! Very well received!

Ce film est un chef d'oeuvre, ce film est un poème de proses et de chansons vraiment ravissantes, une merveille cinématographique. Si vous recherché la vraie histoire du Chaperon Rouge, là voilà! Les acteurs et actrices sont convaincant, ce qui rend à cette histoire tout le volume et la dimension, qu'une histoire comme celle-ci puisse vivre à jamais, éternellement.

Loved Loved this movie. It had a fresh twist to it and it was very well done. I would highly recommend this movied to all audiences young and old alike. I think this one is a winner.