Not your typical interpretation of this vampire filled movie

Rating: 3/10 (9 February 2011)

The Twilight Saga. You know it because you either love it or you hate it, for the most part. Then there are people like me who just stand by the sidelines watching all of the "Twilightaholics" fighting it out, screaming "I love Edward" or "I love Jacob." Maybe it's just me, but I don't think it's healthy for a bunch of preteen, and teenage girls (or guys) to be absolutely obsessed with fictional characters like a vampire and a werewolf. And lets face it, most of this was caused by the choosing of the actors to play these roles in the movies. Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid Harry Potter fan, but I don't go running around screaming "Go Harry," and "Voldemort sucks," do I?
Although I may not be fully "Twilight" qualified, I've seen both the first and the third movie, and I've heard that they are pretty close to the novels themselves. The simple fact is, I don't think I even need to see the second movie to understand what's happening in the story line. Some sad, pale girl named Bella, finds herself with her father, who she only saw during the summers when she grew up, leaving her "old life" behind. She's at a new school, so since this is a coming of age book of sorts, she obviously has to have no friends at first. Bella eventually finds herself with decently nice people, and hears of the Cullens, the bloodsuckers of the novel.
The storyline progresses and, of course, there are bad vampires (I know, since when were there good ones?) after her and her soon-to-be lover, Edward, has to save her from them. So their romantic, teen fantasy seems to be perfect now right? Wrong.
Edward, apparently, in the second movie, leaves her because it's "too dangerous" for him to be around her. Typical thing for a dangerous guy (or vampire?) to say. So as Bella is dealing with the sadness of her lover gone, a new guy, more prominent here then in the first movie, comes into view, mainly without a shirt on. After staring at abs that looked as if Jacob didn't eat a carbohydrate for about 5 years, we find out that he is in love with Bella. Uh oh. New love interest for Bella. But she is able to restrain herself from pouncing by remembering her lost love. Towards the end of the movie, with Bella safe (for now), she finds out that her friend Jacob is a werewolf, and that Edward was going to reveal his glittering, shining self to humans in order for the Vultori, a vampire council, to kill him, because he thought that Bella had died. How romantic. Does that remind you of something (Romeo and Juliet)? Anyway, the tables were turned and she ended up saving him. Yay.
This fantasy of course isn't over yet. Victoria, the evil vampire, was still out there aching, or better yet thirsting, to kill and/or drink Bella's blood. But multiple vampire related killings and disappearances in her area have both the vampires and werewolf communities going barking mad. We eventually find out that Victoria is starting a new born, newly turned vampire army to raise hell (literally) on Bella's town of Forks, Washington. So the two enemies, the vamps and the wolves, have to work together in order to fight and kill the newly formed army, what a surprise. In the end, after multiple fighting scenes and awkward sexual tension between Jacob, who still looks like he's on steroids, Bella, and Edward, good triumphs over evil, and Bella, along the way, is engaged to Edward. An 18 year old and a 107 year old. Hey, I'm not judging.
But, unfortunately, this is all of my Twilight knowledge. The two-part movie, Breaking Dawn is scheduled to come out in November this year. After all of the teen girls go wait for days in line to be the first ones to see this, and cry their eyes out when they do, I'll be going to the movies, a month after it is released, on a free movie Tuesday, to see the final chapter of the Twilight Saga. Hopefully it won't be a waste of my money. Oh wait