The Twilight Saga: New Moon. For fans only.

Rating: 3/10 (7 December 2009)

I haven't read the books, but I found the first Twilight movie quite 'watchable' and I actually liked it, so I decided I couldn't miss the second one. Regarding that the theater had been crowded everyday since the movie came out and that the first movie had been a success (more profit, a better budget on the next movie), I was expecting to watch quite a cinematographic production.
But oh, boy... what a deception. For someone who didn't read the books, this movie sure had confusing situations. For instance, when Mike is in the toilet while Bella and Jacob are chatting, Jacob is having a sweet predictable 'i love you' talk with Bella. Out of nowhere, when Mike comes out of the toilet, Jacob wants to beat him up with no reason at all, then in a sudden, he doesn't want to see Bella anymore(this was explained later in the movie though, but the situation was quite out of context). Or when Edward is in Brazil, then Alice and Bella go meet him up and suddenly show up somewhere, which we thought was Brazil, but it was actually Italy, because Edward was suddenly in Italy, too.
The script was super poor. Loaded with expressions like 'Without you, I can't exist', 'I'll never hurt you' (this was said I don't know how many times), 'I love you' and all those simple and easy phrases we already know. All the cliché.
The vampires, for some unexplainable reason, had glowing eyes 24/7. On the first movie, this only happened when their vampire instincts were active, which only happened in certain situations. And they also over-exaggerated the make-up.
When Bella hit her head on the rock, the blood was a layer of dried fake blood glue on the side her forehead. Then Jacob's intentions were good, but the scene was clearly intended to show off his muscles to the young melting girls at the theater.
Some other shots were ridiculous, like when Emily is left alone in the kitchen surrounded by five sexy shirtless dark-skinned muscular young boys, or that Edward's first appearance in Alice's vision, happily running through a shiny beautiful flowery fairy tale yard. This last scene made the audience crack up.
The acting is also overall poor (especially Robert Pattison, sounds like he's reading the script as he acts), though I wish I had seen more from Dakota Fenning. The characters are poor as well (but I won't judge this, since I don't know them from the book), Bella and Emily two ladies physically victims of their beloved boys' violence (that's also from the book, I suppose).
The movie has a big lack of action, it is slow, boring, filled with cheap endless talking. I did really like some artistic shots of it, though. I think the movie would have worked quite better if the producers had taken advantage of the previous movie's profit for a higher budget on this production, focusing more on the picture, action and special effects.
Basically, I think this movie is dedicated to the young fans of Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattison and the fans of the Twilight Saga books in general. Now, if you ain't into the books, or haven't read them yet, this one ain't for you. And boys, KEEP OUT.