Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruos

The world of cinema offers many surprising obscurities, and this is one of them. What do we have here? A Mexican fairytale stew that includes Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, an evil witch who turns villagers into obedient hopping monkeys (literally), there's the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood and his friend Little Giant, who are sentenced to death for their incompetence by a circus leader, because they failed in their fairytales; there are robots, hirsute cavemen, a dragon as a terrifying flame-spewing puppet, a good fairy and other characters you won't even remember in that mess of a plot. 90% of the film is shot in nice sets, but the make-up effects are hideous and clumsy (even Peter Jackson in his early days baked nicer ones in his oven at home for Bad Taste), there a few songs you can quite get over, but the plot concoction not so much. I'm glad I saw it, because B-movie obscurities are my hobby, but I wouldn't give it a second chance. In the end, the catchiest part of the whole thing is the title, Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters, well who wouldn't buy it. (04.09.2017)