Catherine Hardwicke moves from a modern romance (Twilight) to a Grimm classic with this daft retelling of the girl-in-the-crimson-cloak legend.

We like a turkey, don't we, children? We like a big fat turkey we can dance around, crowingly, don't we? Haven't we had a lot of fun doing that over the years? But this is such a dismal runt of a turkey.

'Beware the wolf,' warn Red Riding Hood's posters and television ads. Be even warier of this movie.

While the teen angst that Hardwicke brought to the original Twilight was appropriate, here it creates a modernity that’s at odds with the rest of the film.