The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The movie New Moon (2009) is directed by Chris Weitz and the script is written by Melissa Rosenberg. This drama was adapted from the Twilight Saga novel series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The movie picks up where the last movie, Twilight (2008), left off. Each movie being an adaptation of the novels in this series, with two more movies to go. The excitement about this series has surpassed even the popular Harry Potter (2001-2011) movies, also adapted from several novels. Which is saying a lot!
The main character, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), returns with her vampire love interest, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Her Native American friend who secretly loves her, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), also returns to the story.
In this second film we see the powers that be have tried to stick with the plot of the book, since the fan backlash was not pretty when they changed things in the first film. In doing so, they also created a longer second film. Be ready to take some time to watch this movie, which is well worth it.
Between the longing for the lost unattainable love and the aching for the long time crush, we are taken through a love triangle that may never end in this series. The animosity between Edward and Jacob still exists. Jacob wanting to protect Bella from the vampire family of Edward, which he seems to have previous knowledge about. Edward trying to protect Bella from vampires who want to kill her, because he killed another vampire.
The story opens on Bella insisting that Edward change her to a vampire, so she can be with him forever. He, of course, refuses and tells her he could never bring her into the horrible life of a vampire. She fears that when she grows old, he will no longer want her and move on, even though he assures her that will not happen.
Jacob still longs for Bella to realize how much he loves her. He waits for her to see the truth about Edward and come running into his arms. Yet, there is a secret he is hiding that he can't tell his friend, Bella. What is it? Could that be the wedge between them and the reason they could never be in the first place?
Meanwhile, there have been several deaths in town. They are blaming bears, but they are not really sure what is responsible. Bella's dad, Charlie Swan (Billy Burke), the local policeman, sets out to solve the mysterious deaths. Joined by his friend and Jacob's grandfather, Harry Clearwater (Graham Greene), they start the search to solve the crimes. What or who is killing the people of the town?
Edward's vampire family all return in this second installment, with added extra branches of the family revealed. We also meet Jacob's Native American family and learn more about their part in this continually unwinding story.
The excitement, suspense, romance, feuds and fantasy continue in this modern day Romeo and Juliet story. Plenty of eye candy for both the male and female population. Overseas locations and special affects abound. You won't be disappointed, particularly if you are a fan of this series.
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Great review!!!! You told me all kinds of stuff about the movie including your opinion, stuff about the characters and still managed not to tell me any thing at all that would ruin it for someone like me who has not seen it yet.
ReplyDeleteAwesome review, you had a great synopsis, and you had a recommendation. You had a little bit of everything in there. I love the Twilight series and I cannot wait for the others to come out!
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