the climax wedding and honeymoon portion of the franchise romance

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2013)

The Twilight books were a guilty pleasure, I enjoyed them (to a point). I don't pretend they were works of literary genius, or the plot was particularly clever, and don't get me started on sparkles, but they were a diversion and I bought them all and saw all the films (mainly on DVD).
The first half of final book, which I believe shouldn't have been split into two halves as there isn't enough to spread out to four plus hours so consequently both films are riddled with montages and scenes that don't really move the story on; especially the honeymoon and all the chess games for example. The broken up bedroom after their wedding night is funny, and I like the Director didn't shy away from scenes with skin in them in order to keep it for younger audiences given the basic naivety of the majority of the rest of the films. It's a nice film, the wedding very sweet, and all the preparations lovely but again it's the interaction with the Quileutes and the vampire clan that are best. This gets interesting when Bella gets pregnant at super speed and the pregnancy causes a lot of issues including twitchy wolves and scary Volturi. Anything with the Volturi bring an added dimension to the story but they're all a little cheesy and camp rather than scary. Whilst Martin Sheen is a great actor, the fear factor works better on the page than on the screen.