Good but not great by any means

Rating: 6/10 (18 November 2009)

I will say first that New Moon is just about my favourite book in the Twilight series ( just before Twilight) and so I suppose expectations can be high while waiting 11 months!! The biggest issues I had with this movie were that Kristin Stewart looks right for the role but she sucks just as bad in this as she did in Twilight. I thought (was hoping really) that maybe she would have been better in this. She really is a terrible actress. She still just blinks uncontrollably etc or doesn't seem to know what to do in any serious scene, i.e. those 'dream scenes' after edward leaves & she's screaming away in bed looking silly rather that in any serious emotional pain. It's so bad sometimes you just have to look away! The other thing that I hadn't seen anyone else mention are the Cullens eyes...wtf happened? They were more subtle and perfectly fine in Twilight but they really f@#ked with them till they just looked weird. Considering they are described so often in the books as being beautiful and perfect creatures it looked very wrong. OK so good things? The wolves didn't look too bad at all! While reading New Moon i remember wondering how they would pull of the transformation & fight between Jacob and Paul but it did really work. Taylor Lautner was great as Jacob but he seemed to be the only good actor in this movie (sorry i lie, i like Bella's Dad too). It could have been better but if you do really like the books maybe you can forgive it's flaws!