It’s a trap! This past weekend, I received a request to review the new film “Red Riding Hood.” This film is nothing more than a classic children’s tale reversed into a horrible Stephanie Meyer-like story. The trailers portray a promising, dark retelling of the classic story of “Little Red Riding Hood.”

When I first saw the trailer, I thought, “This could be fantastic.” The early versions of the tale were dark, and the ending wasn’t as “Disney” as the version we hear today. So, as a fool, I went into this movie expecting a gory, dark and possibly scary adaptation of “Little Red Riding Hood.”

The actual plot is far from that. The film unfolds in the small village of Daggerhorn-a farm town with a werewolf problem. Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) has just learned, from her wood-cutting lover, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), that she is to marry Henry (Max Irons), the son of a wealthy blacksmith. Just before they can elope, the werewolf alarm is raised, signifying that someone has been killed by the wolf.

When the two return to the village it is discovered that the victim is none other than her own sister. In an attempt to woo Valerie, Henry and his father organize a posse to kill the wolf once and for all. Valerie follows the men as they trek to the werewolf’s lair, but stops along the way to wait it out at Grandma’s.

When the posse arrives at a fork in the werewolf’s cave, they do the most cliché thing possible-they split up. It just so happens that Peter and Henry are in the same group. When the group comes to another fork, Peter betrays Henry by splitting up once more and leaves Henry and his father alone. Suddenly, they are attacked by the werewolf, and Henry’s father is killed.

The whole posse quickly regroups and manages to kill the wolf. As the men celebrate their victory over the werewolf, the famous and corrupt witch hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), arrives to kill the werewolf. The men boast and point to the wolf’s head on a stake, telling Solomon that he has arrived too late.

After spilling his street cred about how he killed his werewolf wife, Solomon revels that once a werewolf is killed that it returns to human form. The wolf that the men killed was just an average wolf. The rest of the movie is played out as a mystery on who the wolf is and why it has its eyes on young Valerie.

This movie could not be more like “Twilight” if it tried. Like I said, I went into this movie thinking that this movie would be interesting. When a movie that is supposed to be set in like the 1400s, you’d expect the male lead not to use Axe brand hair products.

When he came on camera, within the first five minutes mind you, with his muscles and spiked up Robert Pattinson hair, I was like, “F.” The plot was decent up until the last 30 minutes; however, the whole “Who is the werewolf?” thing got boring quick. The only redeeming quality of the film was Gary Oldman as Father Solomon.

He was probably one of the best villains I have seen in a long time. Amanda Seyfried, I will admit, did a good job as well, as far as acting goes. However, I am definitely crying wolf on this one- terrible. Also note that this film currently holds an 11 percent rating on RottenTomatoes.com.