Goes off in a completely different direction and is a major letdown

Rating: 4/10 (3 May 2010)

Edward fears for Bella and he and all the Cullens leave town. They claim they aren't aging and people are getting suspicious. Bella is devastated and misses her Edward for many months. Finally she realizes he is still there looking over her, and she thinks if she is in danger he might actually come to her. She does everything to live recklessly and this leads her to her old friend Jacob. Jacob is a hands on type of boy and he helps her fix up some old junk motorcycles. He falls in love with her, and she even begins to fall for him in a needy desperate sort of way. He admits to her that he is a werewolf and he hates the Cullens. When one of the Cullens show up to tell her that Edward isn't doing so well they both flee to find him. They kiss and make up and he comes back to the states with her. He and Jacob become enemies and Bella tells Jacob bluntly that she loves Edward. She goes back to wanting to be turned and it was even promised to the high priests of the vampire clan that she would be, but so far nope...where will part three and four take us? What a let down. I wanted so many things to happen here but they didn't happen. The only good thing about this was the love between Bella and Edward and this stupid movie takes that away from it. It adds a new leading man and becomes so dry and boring. I didn't see anything good about this film really. I loved how they showed her going months and months of missing Edward and how they showed her love for him, but hated how they didn't show his love for her.
Direction was nothing good here and those stupid C.G.I. werewolves were horrible looking. Production values were bad in this film. What was with the old wise high priest vampires? They were so corny and cheesy and then Dakota Fanning was just horrible and useless here. I hated the whole side story aspect. The wolves and how they were all just cocky teenage boys. Jacob (Taylor Lautner) really got in shape here and cut his long ugly hair which made him a good sex symbol to keep the girls attracted to this movie, but Edward is who she loves and thats where they should have stayed, but I get it, the wolves and Cullens need to be enemies. Edward looks so much worse in this movie, his eyebrows are bushy, his teeth are less clean, he looks older and just not as good, which is great because he's suppose to have that tired look. Jacob has the ugliest nose of any human being I have ever seen, just had to point that out. The mention of marriage is nice way to end it.
All and all, its a let down. It is boring and badly directed. I didn't care about the characters, it brought nothing new to the table and took away anything beautiful the first film gave us.. You have to see it if you like the first one, but I would advise you to wait until the others came out so you can watch them all together. 4/10 stars