I Can't Believe I'm Saying This...Twilight Was Better

Rating: 3/10 (8 April 2010)

Bella hurts her arm, Edward's brother wants to kill her, he flips out and leaves her. Enter Jacob, a werewolf, he loves Bella, she doesn't love him, teenage drama.
This is New Moon in two sentences, I could have done one, but I thought it would try to expand it a little more. The film though, it easily have been done in 90 minutes or less. Why do I watch this stuff? So I can say that I've seen them and make fun of them. To make fun of it without seeing it would be too harsh. But in all honesty, I do give all films an equal chance. After the horrendous film that was Twilight, I knew I would watch the rest of these films because surprise, the actual story of vampires and werewolves is interesting. I wanted to know how everything was going to end, I wanted to know why everyone was in love with these character. After two films, I'm still wondering.
New Moon is basically a film with no antagonist and no purpose. It's a filler film, set-up, for what I think and hope will be a better conclusion of the events of the first film. As I said in my brilliant explanation of the film. Bella is turning 18 and in celebration she goes to the Cullen's house. Apparently she prefers the company of dead people than her own father. She cuts herself and it sends one of the forgettable Cullen family members into a tizzy. He wants to kill Bella, Edward stops him and then he decides to leave in order to protect her. Make sense? While he is gone, she flips her nuts. She can't sleep without screaming like a teenage girl would do if someone was stabbing them numerous times. She apparently has no reason to live. Great message to give young girls who are in love with this stuff. If your boyfriend leaves, you're better off dead. Bella has no career aspirations, no motive to be with friends, spend time with family or enjoy life. She simply wants to die to be with Edward. Again, great message for the young ones.
Enter Jacob, the second teen heartthrob and rival to Robert Pattinson for the teen love. He is buff and filled out, as Bella says a dozen times. He walks around with no shirt on so that the girls in the audience can scream and cheer. He does this so either A: He doesn't have to buy no shirts every time or B: Girls are horny. He is in love with Bella, she is using him to get over Edward. The film is all about her wanting Edward but not being able to be with him and Jacob wanting Bella and not being able to be with her. The drama is boring, useless and makes for a boring romance film.
The film looks and feels better. The special effects are not as bad, the make up looks half decent now and the films have a bigger budget. Unfortunately it has the same actors doing the same stuff, and the same source material that was not good to begin with. The so called vampires still sparkle and have weird powers and the werewolves, who are actually shape shifters look horribly bad. Me saying that the special effects are not as bad really says a lot about how they sucked in the first film.
New Moon will please that rabid fan base that wants nothing more than to simply see the books up on screen, no matter how good or bad it is. Kristen Stewart will still bite her lip and brush her hands through her hair. Robert Pattinson will still have awkward kissing scenes with Stewart and have zero chemistry and Taylor Lautner will walk around with no shirt on. This is the Twilight Saga and nothing more.
Looking forward to Eclipse.