Overview

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2010)

On the whole, the movie was well made. Fair production values, photography, and special effects. The actors and actresses all rendered acceptable performances. But the essence of the movie almost made me choke. (Note: I have an unusually strong stomach.) What it was is that it was pervasively infested with "relationship" conflicts, confused emotionalism, laughable protestations of undying "love" not based on anything substantive, and incredibly shallow dialog that sounded hauntingly as if it came straight out of any daytime soap opera – in short: it was like sawing off the top of a 12 year old girl's head and getting a naked look into her mind. Not pretty. (By way of further explanation, the 12 year old girls I have seen coming out of "Twilight" movies are generally starry-eyed and smiling widely, whereas the 18 year old girls were often disappointed and disbelieving that any guy would NOT do the heroine at the drop of a hat.) That is the difference a little life experience/realism makes.
There was one quite funny line in the movie worth mentioning. That was when Edward (the main vampire) looks at the perpetually shirtless Jacob (who put on about 50 pounds of muscle for his role in the "Twilight" series) and said, "Doesn't he own a shirt?" Bwahahaha!