History Film / AboutTheLittleRedRidingHood

It is, as the title implies, a ContinuationFic of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. A year has passed since the events of the fairytale, and the killed wolf’s mother the She-Wolf is nursing her increased hatred of humans. She asks (read: hires) the family’s friend the Thin Wolf to bring Little Red Riding Hood to her so that she could have her revenge. In addition, she wants him to take her remaining son, the Fat Wolf, along and train him, since the latter sympathises with humans way too much for her liking and has too much influence over his nephew the Wolf-Cub.

* AdultFear:
** The fact that a child is lured out of her house and village by criminals who then pose as inherently trustworthy people (woodcutters, scientists, priests) or as her grandmother’s friends and attempt to kidnap her is disturbingly realistic (especially given the wolves’ [[InformedSpecies completely human looks]]), despite the rather surrealistic details of the plot.
** For all that the situation deals with ComicRelief characters, the Spoiled Child running away is definitely this trope. Imagine your ''four-year-old'' kid running out of your country-house into the woods, especially if you know that she is so spoiled that she cannot survive by herself.

* AdvertisedExtra: One of the covers shows Red Riding Hood, the Thin Wolf, and Red Riding Hood’s grandmother. While the first two really are main characters, the grandmother is a MinorMajorCharacter who barely gets any non-singing lines and has no character arc.

* MinorMajorCharacter: Red Riding Hood’s grandmother, despite being the one the girl is going to visit, barely has any non-singing lines.

* MissingMom: Downplayed with Red Riding Hood’s mother who appears for a few seconds in the beginning of the movie and leaves the village for work, thereby completely missing the events of the plot.

* LyingFingerCross: When the Thin Wolf tries to invoke NotSoDifferent and reminds Red Riding Hood she used a disguise to trick them as well, she replies that she kept her fingers crossed all the time. He doesn’t get the meaning and is completely baffled as to why it makes any difference.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Red Riding Hood is a good friend of the elderly Stargazer.

* VillainousRescue: The wolves help Red Riding Hood escape when she is held captive in the Spoiled Child’s house. They intend to put her into the sack immediately afterwards, but that part is foiled by the Wolf-Cub who starts a commotion that scares them off.

* {{Yandere}}: A platonic version with the Spoiled Child, who threatens to keep Red Riding Hood under lock and key or to have her beaten with lashes until she agrees to be her friend. Red Riding Hood manages to talk her out of it.

** The fact that a child is lured out of her house by criminals who then pose as inherently trustworthy people (woodcutters, scientists, priests) or as her grandmother’s friends and attempt to kidnap her is disturbingly realistic (especially given the wolves’ [[InformedSpecies completely human looks]]), despite the rather surrealistic details of the plot.

* IronicEcho: The She-Wolf blames Red Riding Hood for getting herself eaten, claiming that if she hadn’t been stupid enough to tell the wolf the truth about where grandmother lived, nothing would have happened. Later, she wants to confiscate her grandson’s book and demands he tells her the truth about where it is – and the Wolf-Cub replies that since truth, according to her, gets people eaten, he won’t tell her any truth now.

* GrannyClassic: Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is a kind, good-humoured old lady who adores her granddaughter.

* SweetPollyOliver: Red Riding Hood disguises herself as a shepherd boy [[spoiler:to give the sleeping draught to the wolves]].

* AdultFear: The fact that a child is lured out of her house by criminals who then pose as inherently trustworthy people (woodcutters, scientists, priests) or as her grandmother’s friends and attempt to kidnap her is disturbingly realistic (especially given the wolves’ [[InformedSpecies completely human looks]]), despite the rather surrealistic details of the plot.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the She-Wolf]], who, it’s implied, is left alone in the forest [[spoiler:abandoned by her family and with her desire for revenge unsatisfied, is unknown.

-->'''Red Riding Hood''': If Granny finds out I left you here with your injured foot, she'll only get worse!

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: On the wolves’ first attempt to kidnap Red Riding Hood, the Fat Wolf gets hopelessly entangled in the sack where he is supposed to put her, and he bumbles like that through the rest of the plot as well, so that it’s impossible to see him as a threat to anyone. Even after she finds out the truth about the wolves, Red Riding Hood is very sympathetic towards him, saying he is nice and forgiving him the fact that he had secretly eaten all the pastries she was bringing to her grandmother.