A very poor sequel to Twillight and disappointment to the book.

Rating: 8/10 (20 November 2009)

I watched Twilight 10 times in the cinema. It was my favourite.. the cast was perfect and it was so well directed, edited and every scene pleased me that i didn't mind the special effects being amateur. The Soundtrack was awesome. The chemistry was awesome. dialogue was great. There was humour in every turn and overall it was my favorite movie last year.
New Moon was the complete opposite. The special effects were probably the ONLY thing that they did semi well. Everything else sucked. The screen writing sucked. None of the scenes flowed properly. You would have had to read the book in order to understand what happened in between the scenes. There was hardly anytime to show chemistry developing between Jacob and Bella. I hated it that the movie didn't show any scenes that helped show how Bella's dad got angry at her going way to set up his disapproval for the next movie when Bella decides to get married. And the Cullens - what has happened to them? Every Cullen was over acting every scene. Alice was too PERKY. Emmett was too playful. And the the bright eyes were really a mistake! It made it completely unbelievable that these vampires lived with everyday humans without being suspected as being anything more than humans. Come on! IN twillight you could see the yellow eyes but it was subtle and not glowing like in NEw Moon. Bella's friends were so weird too. Jessica sounded like she was from LA rather than Forks. There was nothing to explain why her friends turned sour on her.. in Twilight they were like her BFFs.
CHRIS WEITZ has killed this movie. Killed it. I was looking forward to this movie but in my opinion it was really poorly put together and Chris did not deserve to direct this movie after Catherine Hardwicke did such a stunning job in the first one.
I hope Summit reconsiders and brings back Catherine Hardwicke for Breaking Dawn. They REALLY screwed up by dumping Catherine.
****************** UPDAte to my comment *************** I watched this a second time and I believe the movie has grown on me and I've upped my rating to 6. When I first watched Twilight i had never read the book so it was the movie that I fell in love with first, not the book. For New Moon it was the reverse so I think I was very hard on the movie because I had already envisioned the book differently in my head.
Watching it a second time, I now see that Chris tried very hard to do a lot of what was done in the first movie. I'm now convinced that what spoils the movie is the SOUNDTRACK. The songs were all wrong for the scenes. Twilight had this raw teenage-grit Sun-dance feel to it. in New Moon they have made it into a "pop" teenage film with the wrong kind of music. The Wolf-chasing-Victoria scene was so good but the action was drowned by the melodramatic soundtrack that pervaded the whole movie..
Maybe I should watch it a third time - it might improve on me!