director: Chris Weitz
writers: Melissa Rosenberg
starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Twilight fever has been high. Audiences (little girls) all over the world going bananas for this film. Now compared to the first film why did New Moon get these huge numbers? Did it actually manage to be a better film than the first, did it make the franchise be respected amongst serious movie goers? No and no and of course hell no. New Moon is actually a worse film than its predecessor with silly drama, mixed romances and odd plot direction.
The story continues from were the first film left off. Bella (Kristen Stewart) is still infatuated with Edward (Robert Pattinson) and enjoying life with their soap operish dialogue. After she gets a paper-cut on her birthday at the Vampire Cullen house, she gets attacked by one of the vampires. This event becomes a revelation to Edward who now sees that he and his family are danger to her. Bella now lost goes super dramatic but finds her old friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner) with muscles. Now she feels much better with Jacob but jinxed as she finds out that he is a werewolf. And from there the story goes for Bella to decide what she really wants, the werewolf or Edward the vampire.
I was actually one of the few people that didn't have that much of a problem with the first film. It wasn't as terrible as some people made it out to be. So I actually was going in with good expectations for New Moon. But after the weird things I heard about the film and the bad trailer, my expectations went the way of the dodo. The film manages to be at the same entertainment level of the first film but much more annoying with idiotic and awkward moments. Most of which were purposefully put for little girls to go ape shit.
With the second film a new director came to the project and brought practically nothing new to it. The only part where i can see any significant change from the first film was with the small action scenes that were of better quality and not as amateur. But that is of no excuse for him for putting shots of Edward with his shirt blowing in the wind or Jacob taking his shirt off on purpose to show off his six pack.
But that's not even the cherry on the cake. The major problem of this film is the treatment of Bella's character into psycho. Due to Edward leaving her, she goes crazy. She starts seeing him everywhere. Now she wants to do idiotic things so she can see him again. Forgetting about her friends and screaming in her sleep. Really? If the filmmakers thought that all of this would be a good message for the a young teenage audience of how a woman should act to rejection than bravo. Because its disgraceful. There's is no admirable characteristic to Bella with her crazy behavior. And im not even going into detail about the whole Vampire and Werewolf mythos that is dealed within the film. Because its here there and everywhere.
To conclude the film manages to be worse than the first. There is no reason to see this film. Save your money and rent this instead of seeing it at the cinema. This film was made for girls who still haven't grown up or realized what love, commitment, passion or sex is. And lets not forget the older women who are suckers for romantic novels and for romantic films without caring about the quality of the material.
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Review by Paul
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