Too Much Twilight and Moon in Eclipse

Rating: 5/10 (26 July 2010)

More of the same. Serious wooing and cooing on screen, yearning in the audience; the man-sized CGI wolves still look unconvincing and cheesy; their human counterparts still roam the woods predominantly shirtless (why is that, by the way?); Bella still can't decide between the hot vampire and the hot lycan and takes her father for a nincompoop (okay, in some ways he is); the Cullen clan is still too good to be real (or alive); the Volturi are still evil vampires...but this time around they created an army of newborns, recently turned bloodsuckers ready to rumble. So we finally get a battle good vs. evil - all within the PG-13 confinement, of course. That's the one thing we haven't seen in "Twilight" or "New Moon," all the other goings-on in this installment are strictly by the book (and I don't mean the novel, though I think it would apply). But Kristen Stewart is so good as the brooding heroine and the photography is stunningly beautiful, so this kind of makes it worth your while. A warning: All the protagonists are flawlessly pretty, so when you leave the theater be prepared to fondle the inferiority complex you grew while watching the film.