what you all on about!!

Rating: 8/10 (1 December 2009)

Having read these comments previous to seeing the film tonight I was fully prepared to leave the cinema feeling angry and cheated. Thankfully not. I had to hide my grin for the first ten minutes of the movie because I thought it was such a successful beginning - indulgent to twilight fans, certainly, but isn't that what we were after? I thought the acting, from all the cast, was dramatically improved from the first film (Though charlie's tan was laughable). Same for the special effects - the wolves looked incredible (as men and animals!). The movie was well paced and action sequences were tense and exciting.
Though, obviously, a lot was edited from the book it contained enough of the important bits to get a good flavour of the story and the relationships. I absolutely cannot wait for Eclipse to come out. New director after twilight was definitely a good move. Though New moon retained Twilight's sense of place and managed to keep this fantasy story well grounded in a realistic setting, it was cinematically far more impressive and more emotionally charged. Having said this, if you do not already love the books it probably wouldn't do much for you. In my opinion, for a novel-based movie, it was beautiful. I almost waited around for the next showing.