More stylish than the first but more pitiful and terribly acted and plotted than the first..

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2009)

While New Moon boasts new locals, better acting and some over stylized action sequences it can't in noway measure up to the the minor success that Twilight had. It's style too earnest, it's story to contrived and boring and while the acting is much better than what was given in Twilight can't really save this film from being nothing but another entry in one of the most undeserving popular film adaption of Stephine Meyers' worldwide sensation books, making it a boring and under-made teeny bopper romantic adventure. Is New Moon good entertainment? Sorry to say, but no. Is it unbearable awful? Nowhere near it but it does come close in some scenes.
New Moon is dull, dimwitted, over-stylized, under-directed, under-plotted and basically suffers from every problem imaginable and can't even surpass the first film but does give you a good look at what a strained relationship looks like. But besides that it can't seem to keep it's head afloat long enough to entertain or even convince us of what is going on in the story. But I will give it credit to it's new director Chris Weitz(Director of the atheist film, The Golden Compass.) He does well in elevating the acting and adding action sequences to the film to make it more appealing. But even the action is flat and lifeless and just adds to the nothingness this film already is. But all in all New Moon is nothing new at all and is just a failure that got lucky.
Kristen Stewart does elevate her performance here for the most part but she falls short when the dramatic scenes come up and helps make this film extremely unbelievable and unconvincing. Robert Pattinson impressed me with bring his performance from bad to alright, and boy was he bad in the first film. But Pattinson up his performances and just when you think he's going to keep climbing but instead he falls right back down the ladder to the bottom again. Taylor Launter is nothing new or anything good in this film but I will give him credit for trying his hardest with the soapy dialogue and the dumb down plot. But even he can't save the film seeing as he is one of the reasons it fails with his bland and emotionless performance. But all in all the cast falls and when they do you can hear it a hundred miles away.
Twilight Saga: New Moon is not what you expect or even want, it's a mess of a film that suffers heavily from it's poor script and under direction. It's nothing more than a crowd pleaser if you can call it that it's nothing new and certainly nothing special and it's a film I regret wasting m time on. All in all New Moon is an A-Bomb times a hundred.