ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies Opening This Week

Here's the bottom line: two of the three new films are mediocre. The other one is a Razzie candidate.

Battle Los Angeles, the latest reworking of Independence Day, 36% positive reviews.

Mars Needs Moms, a PG comedy for the family market, 40% positive reviews.

Red Riding Hood, a dark reworking of the famous fairy tale, 5% positive reviews. Let's stay on this one for a bit. Here are some reviews:

Was Red Riding Hood masterminded by a cadre of particularly silly eleven year-olds undergoing withdrawal from Twilight? That's the only excuse for a movie this dopey.

A foolish story, marred by a strange blend of overacting and bland, offhand performances.

Shot on chintzy soundstages that look like the sets from "Fraggle Rock," the film doesn't work as horror, as whimsical folk tale, or as a romance. It does, however, work on occasion as bad dinner theatre.