The Twilight Saga New Moon

The Twilight Saga New Moon

Synopsis

When Edward leaves Bella, her hole world is turned upside down. With Bella’s heart broken, she turns to Jacob (Jake) her best friend to fill the void that was left by Edward. As Bella spends more time with Jake, she learns that there’s more than vampires in the town of Forks.

Official Site: www.newmoonthemovie.com

Singapore Release Date: 3rd December 2009, Thursday

Running Time: 130 minutes

Ratings: PG

Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner

Crew: Director (Chris Weitz), Producer (Mark Morgan, Wyck Godfrey), Writers (Stephenie Meyer), Screenplay (Melissa Rosenberg), Music (Alexandre Desplat), Cinematography (Javier Aguirresarobe) and Editing (Peter Lambert)

The Trailer

The Review

Until now I still cannot understand the fascination with this Twilight craziness that has gripped teens all over. Is is a chick thing?

The Twilight saga is meant to be a trilogy. I’m not a fan of Twilight (2008) but it was still watchable, but this installment, the New Moon was a disaster.

For me it was excruciatingly boring and painful to fully sit through the whole movie. It’s a film made for the fans where the director was more concerned about shirtless boys, rather than taking a crack on plot and character development.

The movie was dry, and too slow. The pace of the conflict between vampires and werewolves was mismatched. When some crucial important scenes does happen, it was over too quickly in a flash.

Also it is not well explained as a stand-alone story, unless you’ve read the books.

The chemistry between the two leads Pattinson and Stewart’s characters was palpable at best. They look so awkward and uncomfortable together.

Bella’s expression throughout the movie was the same, it is as if her face was on Botox, while Edward to me looks too pale, that he reminds me of a junkie but with great hair. He’s brooding way too much in the movie.

And that leaves Jacob (Taylor Lautner), who has a likable presence but his excellent toned body is not on par with his acting.

New Moon has good concepts such as vampires vs. werewolves, the Volturi, but I put most of the blame solely on the director Chris Weitz for the film poor direction and sappy dialogue. Let’s hope The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) under David Slade will be better.

The second installment of the Twilight saga follows a teenage relationship with a century old vampire. That part freaks me out. Bella (Kirsten Stewart) goes on a suicidal front after Edward (Robert Pattinson) leaves her, ironically to save her in the the first place.

Talk about a dysfunctional relationships. Sure the movie will have hordes of its Tween fans flocking to it, and it will not have problem making another $100 million, but what underlying message does the movie bring to all the young teens out there who are watching this film.

That it’s alright to end up with a old geezer …

The Good

• Interesting new characters/concepts
• CGI was alright, but could have been better
• The only highlight for me while in the movie theater … the oooh aahh by the teen fans. It was hilarious observing their reactions

The Bad

• Bad makeup
• Characters have no depth
• Story-line was all over the place

Editor’s Ratings