A Review of New Moon by A Person Who Doesn't Hate Twilight and Is not a Teenager

Rating: 7/10 (21 November 2009)

(Coming from a place where I read all the books, saw the first movie, and I'm not a teenage girl.)
Light Romance and Light action mixed with Better than Narnia graphics,Teenage Romance, Angst, and Hunky actors make a decent movie experience, worth a matinée or student price.
I did not like the first Twilight. New Moon was better, a lot better. The effects are better, the dialogue is better, the romance is better, the action is better. I think there are a lot of people who will give this a bad review just thinking about it from the hype, but that's not really what you have to do with this movie. It's pretty much like a lot of movies made for teenagers--but you expect more out of it because it's supposed to be a serious vampire film, and it's not one of those. It's never going to be Interview with a Vampire or Underworld.
You go in expecting melodrama with a little action, cheesy teenage romance, and a lot of twitchy moves from Kristen Stewart--that's what this movie is. It's not worth 9.75 to me, so that's why I saw the matinée. I think it is worth it for the graphics and effects to see it on the big screen.
My wish for Eclipse is that they use less camera movement between characters in really long dialogue scenes and tone down the symphony. I really didn't like that part and it gave me a headache to be constantly going back and forth--the scenes are already dramatic, let's not make it worse with wooshy camera moves and q.q violins.
Taylor was easily the best character. Peter is as good as people are saying he is. Kristen did better this time, and Robert is Robert, I didn't really think the makeup team did him justice or Mike either for some reason--they all looked really bad compared to Taylor.