At Least Show Me You're Going To Try!

Rating: 1/10 (12 September 2010)

Show emotion please!! Jesus! Emotion! At least show me you're going to try! Pattinson, nothing! Stewart, less than nothing! Lautner, wrong emotions! I've seen more emotional variety on a cereal box. And better special effects, too! I should have known better than to sit through this movie, seeing as I thought the first one was god-awful. But I did anyway. I guess I thought that maybe there was no way it could be as bad as the first film. Wrong! It was actually worse! The coolest part was the title sequence. After that, everything went downhill fast. More accurately, it fell out of a plane.
We have a story filled with plot-holes, to start with. My biggest problem with the psychology behind this movie (and I do mean a *huge* problem) is that the audience is never explained why it is bad to become a vampire. I mean, you can live forever, you stay young, you get cool powers, why wouldn't you *want* to be one?!? And everyone you bite is just going to turn into another vampire anyway! And is it just me, or for vampires and werewolves who have a hard time being discovered, aren't they a little quick to pounce on the human characters? A paper cut and the vampire pounces. A couple insults and the werewolf transforms.
In this film, we are introduced to our (poorly computer generated) werewolves. Actually, they're just kind of like large wolves. We get a "romance" between Stewart and Lautner in this film. I put the word romance in quotes because, just as in the previous film, there isn't much to base the romance on. I will give them credit, the two "lovers" did have some dialogue this time, but she doesn't even decide to go with him, so it doesn't count.
The effects were awful. If CGI effects were overused in the previous film, in this film they were used excessively! For instance, instead of filming a person jumping into some water, they use CGI! Why?! Is it really necessary?! And the plot is almost nonexistent. They didn't even try! Just as in the last one, the film makers knew that to sell tickets they just had to put a good looking guy in the film with no shirt on and girls would come in herds.
I hated this film, almost more so than its predecessor. I hated hated this film! The acting was terrible, we go through no change of emotion (let alone character development) throughout the entire movie, there is hardly any plot, the action sequences were lousy and poorly conceived, the dialogue was cheesy at its best, and the whole tagline of the movie could have been "See topless guys! Buy tickets!" And next time, Stewart, at least try changing your facial expression at some point during the movie! 1/10