Holy Leg Hitch, Batman!

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2010)

what I liked about the movie:
Rob & Kris - they were perfection both apart but mostly together. its like Edward was finally allowed to just be everything he really was. and their together scenes? they just nailed it. so spot on. not a one thing amiss
Edward/Bella - finally they seemed like a couple in love. the glimpse I got in NM was in full bloom here. this was the couple I fell in love with. the tenderness, the banter, the passion, the love. and the leg hitch ... oh my Edward, the leg hitch
Billy Burke - he is the best written character in the movies and he nails it every single time. I don't like Charlie much but Billy is effing fantastic
Jackson - he was perfect. so spot on. his acting even overshadowed the terrible wig. and that accent ;) and the horse-riding
Jasper/Alice - they were so cute. there were little glimpses in the first movie but here they were just everything I always believed them to be. and those two kisses. so perfect
Kellan/Emmett - finally. I think Kellan was a great choice for Emmett and here finally he got to be the always teasing and ready to fight teddy bear I love
Xavier - yummy. and a job very well done
BooBoo - I so wish there was more of him. there better be in BD. because he was so perfectly cast
fight scenes - yeah, those were awesome. not too long, visually stunning, very well acted
visuals - I loved that it wasn't all bluish like Twilight. that it had warmth and glow but also the darkness and cold. it suited the story and its different aspects.
the things I didn't like:
Jacob/Taylor - Taylors acting wasn't as terrible as I feared but he is so very much one dimensional. like he only has that one layer of superior and slightly bored smugness and he acts with it in every single scene. or he is overplaying the dramatic scenes. and I will admit, I cringed and closed my eyes during most of his scenes. some weren't that bad but if I could get my hands on a cut of the movie where the Jacob part sans EB are cut out I so would
Bryce as Victoria - I like Bryce but I missed Rachelle. maybe if Bryce got the part from the beginning it would have been different but this way it felt really disconnected and she lacked the fierceness I associated with Victoria too much
newborns - they were cool and it was good to see it but it was a little too much. it was one of the things that kinda hindered the flow of the story when we were constantly thrown back to things we didn't really need to know
pacing - especially at the beginning the movie seemed to skip instead of flow. it got better towards the end but the beginning was kinda distracting
alternations - not all of them. but some. like MR butchering my favorite line of the movie. and I felt they were a little heavy on the moments where Bella would realize all the things she would have to sacrifice. it was too in your face. a little more subtlety would do it good. and her final monologue about her reasons for changing. while I can understand and agree with the overall sentiment of it, the wording was poor and very much opposed to what the story actually is
over all it was better then I expected and it finally seem to do the characters justice. but I still think that the script is the weakest point of these movies and I don't understand why Melissa Rosenberg is still writing them