Red Riding Hood (film)/YMMV

• Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: Julie Christie is one smokin' Granny.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Gary Oldman played Sirius Black who can morph into a big black dog. In this movie he fights a giant black wolf that is also a person that can morph. Not to mention that Sirius is close friends with a werewolf.
• Hypocrite: Valerie's mother. Remember her advice to Valerie about learning to love the person you're arranged to marry? Though this is more understandable by the end, when this resulted in her daughter and lover getting killed. She doesn't want Valerie to make her mistake.
• Les Yay: Between Valerie and Roxanne. That dance sequence especially.
• Mary Sue Classic (or possibly Purity Sue): The title character seems to posses no flaws other than being braver and more adventurous than all the other girls (who seem to only exist to be jealous of her or to depend on her) and is even hated by another girl simply for being "too good."
  • She seems to be unanimously regarded as the prettiest girl in the village even by people who don't like her (usually because they're jealous of her beauty).
    • In fact the only reason any one (any woman any way) ever seems to dislike her is because they are jealous. The only reasons men ever seem to dislike her is because they want her and can't have her, or because they're doing something wrong and worried she might expose them.
  • She also seems possessed of nearly supernatural intuition, she seems to know the secrets of some other characters just by looking at them.
  • Her clothes are also prettier and more brightly colored than all the other girls in the village (even before she gets her iconic red hood) and she and her two love interests seem to have access to grooming technology (like hair gel) that did not exist in the time in which the film is meant to be set, while the appearances of all the other characters remains fairly historically accurate.
  • Valerie is also the only young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes in he entire village and this was intentional, all the other actors and actresses in the film ether had brown eyes, or were required to wear brown contact lenses.
• Nausea Fuel: Those are her grandmother's remains Valerie is eating in the soup towards the end.
• Straw Man Has a Point: Which the film actually concedes with Father Solomon about. The Claude incident and general zealousness aside, a lot of what he says about the wolf is accurate.
• Squick: Valerie's father is the Big Bad Wolf. He wants her. Now let that sink in.
• Tear Jerker: The fate of Claude, poor kid.
• Unfortunate Implication: The last shot of the movie gave some hints of bestiality.
• The Woobie: Claude. He's a sweet and shy kid who's frowned upon society. The only people that actually like him are Valerie and Roxanne. He gets killed for having a mental disability and an attraction to tarot cards.
  • Roxanne herself. After her brother is arrested she offers to pay Father Solomon and starts to strip for him only for him to laugh at this. She's forced to out Valerie for understanding the wolf and it turns out her brother died anyway.