NEW MOON
I just want to start this review by saying that I am not a "twi-hard". My friend Melina gave me the first book last year when I mentioned to her that I heard they were making this movie about teenage love and vampires and it looked interesting (I had no idea about the books at the time). Well she lent me the book and it sat on my shelf for months until she said that she needed it back to give to other friends to read before the movie came out. So I reluctantly started reading it and to my surprised I liked it! I couldn't put it down and devoured it in a few days. I went on and read the next three books before thew first Twilight even came out. So with the details of the books freshly in my mind I obviously didnt have the best opinion of the first movie cause it lacked soo much of the awesomeness that was in the book. So this time I decided to not re-read New Moon until after I saw the movie, and here is my review!
So NEW MOON starts about six or seven months after the first Twilight ended and things are getting back to normal and Bella and Edward are pretty comfortable with each other, but Edward is still afraid that them being together could not be good for Bella and it might endanger her plus put her in harms way needlessly. So they go to the Cullen's house to celebrate Bella's birthday and a simple paper cut ignites the passion of blood lust in one of the Cullen's and Edward sees how truly dangerous even the simplest of things can be for a human to be around vampires. This prompts him to just pack up his family and move away and leave Bella in a comatose state. Well this drives the main story point of New Moon, because little shy Jacob from the Indian reservation has a chance to come in and work on his relationship with Bella and try to become more then friends.... This movie has a bit of a faster pace then Twilight, although it does have some slower parts, but the fact that they don't have to set up every character plays in this movies favor in the matter of pace.
This movie also expands on previous characters that we slightly saw or were hinted at in the first film. So the movies pace slows down for a bit after Edwards leaves but once the story with Jacob starts it starts to pick. Its great to see the focus be on all these great characters besides just he Cullens, we get to see a whole new side of the indian reservation and the emerging "Wolf Pack" which is great and a whole ew cast of vampires are introduced.. The Volturi! The Volturi is one of the oldest clans of Vampires, the are basically vampire royalty that live in Italy and enforce the basic rules of vampirism and enforce the punishment if they are broken. It was great to see Dakota Fanning in the role of a sadisitic vampire that can torture you from youy own mind, a great change of pace from her traditionally dramatic roles.So I dont wanna give much more ay out the actual film so ill get on with my review. This movie has overall a quicker pace, more action and a bigger cast of characters then Twilight and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Funnily enough my biggest qualms with this movie wasnt with the movie but more the look of the film, the subtle changes in costume, hair and make-up that were different from the first film that most people wouldnt even recognize but being the film fanatic that I am I did! The contacts that the Cullen family wear for their amber colored eyes were drastically different, alot of the hair/wigs looked like wigs in this film and a couple of times on close ups of certain vampires faces I felt like I could see the pasty white makeup on their skin.
o besides that technical stuff I really enjoyed this film, and Im sure not seeing it at midnight with hundreds of screaming pre-pubescent teen girls didnt hurt my opinion of the film either, lol. So until next time.
Ill See You At The Movies....
ADP