The Film Served Its Purpose

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2010)

First off let me start by saying that this film is not for everyone. The Twilight movies all have a specific audience. More than half of there targeted audience is 11-16 year old females. The rest is made up of those who just really enjoyed the books.
Let's address the issue of "bad acting". When I attended the film a lot of people in the theater thought that the acting was terrible at times; I agreed. But bad acting is going to be over-looked every time Taylor Lautner(Jacob) takes his shirt and Robert Pattinson's face is on the screen. Again consider the audience. Being that the audience is young girls who like "hot" guys, screw good acting, let his abs do the acting.
The film tried the best it could to pull in a male audience, and they kind of succeeded. The reason why I say that they "kind of succeeded" is because the action became repetitive. After the first few times that the Wolves kill the Vampires it gets old. As a male, I can't wrap my mind around the idea that these so called "hot" guys are chasing after this "average" looking female. Kristen Stewart is not bad to look at at all, but in the film she is portrayed as the average chick. The start of Team Jacob and Team Edward was brilliant. I have noticed that the male audience was predominantly Team Jacob, and I have found out why. Edward Cullen is too DAMN sensitive to be a VAMPIRE. Even though Jacob is sensitive as well, the fact that he turns into a Werewolf makes him more like-able to a male audience.
The character back stories were very smart for the film makers to do. The only character that i had a problem with was Jasper, only for the simple fact that he is all of a sudden a Bad Ass in this movie compared to the last one. Even though we don't see much of him in New Moon, I never would have guessed that he was this great brawler. Don't get me wrong, it felt good to see a vampire with balls.
Even though the film is fantasy Bella Swan does not see the reality in the choosing of Jacob or Edward. I don't if the movie was trying show this on purpose or maybe it just happened by accident. The fact that she is in love with both of them, is cool. But even after she finds out what will happen to her after she is changed and she is still persistent in wanting to be changed is unrealistic. After she finds out that she wont be able to have babies and still wants to be changed is unrealistic. The fact that she is willing to leave her father and mother who have done her no wrong is unrealistic. But at the end of the day it is a fantasy, and I am not the target audience.
I gave the film a "6" because it did what it was supposed to do for its targeted audience. For those of you who didn't like the film and said it was terrible, it's because you are not the target audience and every movie is not made to please everybody.