Little Rural Riding Hood
Little Rural Riding Hood
Your feedback improves this guide
Your feedback highlights guides that need a second look and keeps the rating trustworthy.
Does this age rating seem accurate to you?
Sign in to vote
Watch-outs
What this film brings
Content barometer
Violence
1/5
Mild
Fear
1/5
Mild
Sexuality
3/5
Moderate
Language
0/5
None
Narrative complexity
0/5
Simple
Adult themes
1/5
Mild
Expert review
This Tex Avery short is a fast paced slapstick cartoon that parodies Little Red Riding Hood with exaggerated, absurd visual comedy. The main sensitive element is not fear or violence, but repeated flirtation and sexualized caricature, including a wolf who wants to kiss Red, a nightclub pin up performance, and highly exaggerated lustful reactions played for laughs. The physical comedy stays mild and fully cartoonish, with chases, impacts, and one gag involving suspenders snapping a character backward, without realistic injury or sustained danger. These moments are brief but central to the story, so the short can feel more mature than its bright animated style first suggests. Parents will likely get the best experience by watching with children who can recognize old fashioned parody, and by briefly explaining that the cartoon uses outdated show business stereotypes and exaggerated romantic behavior rather than realistic relationships.
Synopsis
The last of Tex Avery's variations on "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilized behavior when watching girls in nightclubs - without, it has to be said, a great deal of success...
Difficult scenes
At the beginning, the wolf disguises himself as Grandma in bed and tells the audience that he does not want to eat Red, but wants to kiss her because he is in love with her. The scene is played as comedy rather than threat, yet the image of an adult figure in disguise waiting for a young heroine in bed may feel odd or mildly uncomfortable for very young viewers. In the city section, a pin up version of Red performs in a nightclub with a strongly suggestive outfit and dance for a classic cartoon. The wolf responds with wildly exaggerated desire, whistling, shaking, and licking his lips, which is part of an older style of sexualized humor that children may not understand while adults will notice clearly. The short includes several fast chases and slapstick impacts around the farmhouse and the nightclub. One of the strongest comic hits shows a character being stopped with a suspenders and hammer gag and flung backward, which may startle sensitive children even though the tone stays unrealistic and consequence free.
Where to watch
No verified platform for the US market yet. We keep this section updated as availability changes.
About this title
- Format
- Short film
- Year
- 1949
- Runtime
- 6m
- Countries
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
- Directed by
- Tex Avery
- Main cast
- Daws Butler, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig, Imogene Lynn
- Studios
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Cartoon Studio
Content barometer
Violence
1/5
Mild
Fear
1/5
Mild
Sexuality
3/5
Moderate
Language
0/5
None
Narrative complexity
0/5
Simple
Adult themes
1/5
Mild
Expert review
This Tex Avery short is a fast paced slapstick cartoon that parodies Little Red Riding Hood with exaggerated, absurd visual comedy. The main sensitive element is not fear or violence, but repeated flirtation and sexualized caricature, including a wolf who wants to kiss Red, a nightclub pin up performance, and highly exaggerated lustful reactions played for laughs. The physical comedy stays mild and fully cartoonish, with chases, impacts, and one gag involving suspenders snapping a character backward, without realistic injury or sustained danger. These moments are brief but central to the story, so the short can feel more mature than its bright animated style first suggests. Parents will likely get the best experience by watching with children who can recognize old fashioned parody, and by briefly explaining that the cartoon uses outdated show business stereotypes and exaggerated romantic behavior rather than realistic relationships.
Synopsis
The last of Tex Avery's variations on "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilized behavior when watching girls in nightclubs - without, it has to be said, a great deal of success...
Difficult scenes
At the beginning, the wolf disguises himself as Grandma in bed and tells the audience that he does not want to eat Red, but wants to kiss her because he is in love with her. The scene is played as comedy rather than threat, yet the image of an adult figure in disguise waiting for a young heroine in bed may feel odd or mildly uncomfortable for very young viewers. In the city section, a pin up version of Red performs in a nightclub with a strongly suggestive outfit and dance for a classic cartoon. The wolf responds with wildly exaggerated desire, whistling, shaking, and licking his lips, which is part of an older style of sexualized humor that children may not understand while adults will notice clearly. The short includes several fast chases and slapstick impacts around the farmhouse and the nightclub. One of the strongest comic hits shows a character being stopped with a suspenders and hammer gag and flung backward, which may startle sensitive children even though the tone stays unrealistic and consequence free.