Absolutely terrible

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2009)

I love bad movies. I've seen Plan 9 From Outer Space, Night of the Lepus, The Stuff and I even have a copy of Manos: The Hands of Fate on DVD. This movie was far more painful than any of those.
Here's the good: There were 2 points in the film that made me laugh. Unfortunately they were both emotional dramatic moments.
The bad? Everything else.
Acting? Absolutely terrible. Bella is completely devoid of personality and emotion. It's impossible to feel any sympathy for her, since she seems nothing more than a doll going through the motions. Edward has exactly one facial expression and tone of voice. Jacob wasn't bad, but nothing special. Everyone else was just kind of filler. Well, I guess Dakota Fanning was alright.
Plot? Half of the plot was nothing but teenage moody angst, the other half was Romeo and Juliet. This movie could easily be condensed into 20 minutes with nothing lost, given that there isn't really any character depth or emotion to begin with.
The one thing that really bothered me though was the message it portrays to my teenage daughter. Broke up with someone you love? Man it's going to mess you up so bad you'll have nightmares for months, want to die, mope around in misery and have to risk your life just to feel alive. Really? I know it can feel like that to a teenager, but still, we don't really need to enforce that. It's pandering to ever love sick teen who has ever felt like they couldn't live without the person they lost. Bleh.
And, apparently werewolves have an official dress coke of gym shorts and nothing else. Yay! Hello pandering to the audience. I'd probably be less bothered by this if they'd at least thrown in some half naked women for the guys to enjoy...