YMMV / About the Little Red Riding Hood

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: When one of the village girls tells her grandfather Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is sick, the grandfather suddenly recalls he was exchanging a pipe with her only the other day. A crowd of other children reply that no, the other day the grandmother was sitting on the roof. They continue to loudly argue about it for a couple of minutes until the first girl, who had wanted to accompany Red Riding Hood to the forest, sadly concludes she won’t catch up with her now anyway. The pipe/sitting on the roof argument Makes Just as Much Sense in Context and is never referenced again.
• Broken Base:
  • The opinions on the film are divided. It’s viewed as either a highly original philosophical postmodern take on the well-known story that one only really appreciates as one grows older or a boring Uncertain Audience film and simply the director’s attempt to cash in on the wild success of The Adventures of Buratino from two years earlier.
  • The opinions on What Could Have Been: the viewers can't agree whether Yana Poplavskaya portrayed Red Riding Hood perfectly or Tatyana Protsenko, who was initially scheduled to play the part, would have done better.
• Hollywood Pudgy: The Fat Wolf has an average body type. He is, in particular, clearly slimmer than the She-Wolf, who berates him for his fatness.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: The shepherd and the three old women, who are all petty and bad-tempered at worst, are viewed with a lot more hatred than the Thin Wolf or even the near-psychotic She-Wolf.