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.
  • Close to the end, while the Stargazer is teaching the Child to play the piano, the Child says "I'm not a boy — I'm a girl!" It comes out of left field and is never referenced again. Fans have speculated that maybe the child actress rebelled against her Crosscast Role and the filmmakers decided to Throw It In!.
• 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.