I am totally confused - my review may contain some spoilers

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2009)

I am a die-hard fan of the series. I have read all the books of the twilight saga and I have watched Twilight too. I went to see New Moon on the opening night in Greece and although I can say that the movie was true to the book I can't say that I liked it or maybe it is best to say that I only liked some parts of the movie.
First of all, I think that the movie was just a sum of the scenes that the die-hard fans wanted to see, like we were all following a check list or something and I thought there wasn't any true cohesion between them.
Secondly in my opinion the chemistry that there was between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in the first movie of the series, was somehow gone and replaced by awkwardness and stupid looks. In the first movie, I really loved the way Robert was playing the character of Edward, I don't know what happened to him in New Moon, his playing was just bad.
Also Kristen Stewart just SUCKS in this movie. I really liked this girl, in the previous film, I though she had her own way of getting in the role of the character but in New Moon she was terrible. She was doing all the time this stupid eye blinking thing, which I didn't understood at all. I thought that she couldn't portray at all, Bella's feelings.
I think this movie belongs to Jacob and the actor portraying him. (Taylor Lautner). I really believe this kid has done an excellent job. He really got into the role and although I am not a fan of his, in this particular movie I really really liked him. He was the only actor that was actually playing, while the others were just sharing stupid moments of silence and awkwardness. Congrats Taylor!!!
Finally I hated the make up they used on actors. Especially the colors they used for Edward. OMG it was terrible. They made his skin look somehow gray and not white as it should be and his lips were kind of strange, like they were smudged with a brown lipstick or something. Totally, totally bad!!! Also what happened to Edward's hair? In all the four books and in Twilight too, Edward is supposed to have bronze messy hair. Maybe that sounds like a tiny detail but for this character this detail was his trademark. So where is it??? The vampire eyes were kind of strange too. I preferred the Twilight version.
Finally, the wolves were bad. They seemed fake to me. Like the wolves of a video game or something. I was waiting for so long for this movie to come out and unfortunately I was disappointed.