So it took me awhile but I finally saw New Moon. Let’s just begin by saying it definitely exceeded expectations. Since Twilight was so laughable there really was nowhere to go but up. New Moon’s definite downfall was with the acting, which came out of the casting before the first film. Yes, sure the kiddies love Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner as their leads but none of the three are particularly great actors, which films of this magnitude should have. All of the characters first appearing in New Moon seemed to be more convincing and actually emit a level of acting that was able to convince me of their purpose as a member of the audience. Pattinson and Lautner definitely improved between the first two films though. Stewart is pretty terrible.
The roles I am thinking of in particular are the members of The Volturi. They include Michael Sheen as Aro, Jamie Campbell Bower as Caius and Dakota Fanning as Jane. When their portion of the film came I was completely hooked. It took a film and a half but the vampires are finally badass and all I can say is it’s about time.
Directed by Chris Weitz who had the visually impressive Golden Compass on his résumé coming into this movie successfully eliminated a good portion of the cheese that Catherine Hardwicke put into Twilight. He did well to make sure that stupid subplot points and underdeveloped characters did not ruin the project as a film. There are a number of great shots littered throughout the story that gave the movie credibility. And I have to admit that the werewolves looked pretty cool and I didn’t keel over laughing this time when Edward got all sparkly. I give Weitz most of the credit for the drastic improvement but unfortunately he won’t be returning for Eclipse so I don’t know what to expect. I just hope it has more of Edward and Jacob with their shirts off… so dreamy. (7 out of 10)
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