My Official Review

Dear Pretty Priceless Public,
I know that you were wide awake last night hoping beyond hope that I would post a review this morning about New Moon. Here's the story, half of which you know. You know that I went with Virginia last night to see it. I have to give props to Mary--it was in fact her idea. And it was a pretty good one! I have to say, though, after standing outside in the freezing cold with pretty much the most obnoxious teenage girls in line in front of us and a lady behind us who I think was participating in some sort of secret contest to see how many times she could drop the F bomb in one short conversation, we'd have happily sat through a movie about watching paint dry as long as we were warm and away from them. (Apparently I lack Laurie's gift of making friends in line!)
We finally got in and made our way to surprisingly good seats and the movie started. Here's my review--even though we've probably all read the book, I won't give anything away. I give it 4 popcorn bags and this is why. Someone who isn't already a fan of the Twilight Series would probably give it less but while I'm no "Twi-hard" I have been known to devour entire books in one night. (By "devour" I mean "read fast" not "eat." Just pointing that out to my slower readers like John.) I'm giving it an extra star mostly because it's Twilight and also because they stayed pretty true to the book. They DID add some stuff, which is normally just horrible but in this instance expounded on things in a good way. That was nice. It is MUCH better "done" than Twilight--it is pretty obvious that they had a lot more money behind them this time. While R-Patt is a fantastic bit o' eye candy, I'm still a little annoyed by him as Edward. However, Taylor Lautner is INCREDIBLE. Wow! I love Jacob but am still very "Team Edward." Maybe it's just because I know how it ends so that's how it's "supposed to be" but there you have it. The things I didn't like about the movie, I really can't blame on the movie itself--it's just how New Moon is. I realized that the series is just like one big story. Twilight is the beginning where you meet the characters and start to form an emotional investment. New Moon is the middle where you learn more about the characters, who they are, etc. You learn more about Edward's torment with who he is, you learn that Jacob is actually a werewolf, you meet the Volturi, etc. It's really quite depressing. There was a TON of action that was really very cool (!) but it was really contained a lot a lot of story as well. I left the theater thinking, "Um, okay..." Like, it was good, no doubt, but in my opinion it lacks a beginning, a middle and an end so I was left thinking, "So that's it?" I'm really excited for Eclipse, which is more like "the end." And even MORE excited for the day "Breaking Dawn" comes out because that's like the Epilogue which you know I love because of my inexplicable NEED for closure in a story/book/film. So there's my official review. Just the opinion of one random girl who probably has no clue what she's talking about. Yep, kids. That's me.