Long and lacks flow, great effects

Rating: 4/10 (23 November 2009)

Alright I'm 40 and a Dad, I read all the books because I monitor what my girls read. Thought the books were excellent.
Watched Twilight very well put together and flowed well.
Now for "New Moon"...I was disappointed.
I believe that switching directors in this case may have altered the personality of the film to much. (Maybe that was the goal) But the lack of genuine chemistry being portrayed between the characters was almost annoying. You can copy and paste the "mushy" sequences because they don't change at all. Same head tilt same lip curl. I believe as a director you have to notice those things in a movie to make it believable.
First 35mins are long, good moments but long.
The main interest points for me were the return of various characters from Twilight to move the story forward and the sequences regarding the high court of the vampires.
This movie was built to please teen girls (and the three older ladies behind me yesterday) And it has lost some of it's general audience strength. To many no shirt moments and not enough story telling.
Overall I think they took a fairly long book filmed what they could then edited it to the point of it being choppy and lacking real flow. Continuous shortened scene after shortened scene with no real smooth transitions to guide us through the film. Hopefully we get a director's cut that will need to be about 3 hours long but will be worth it, I hope.