The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

ATTN:  MOVIE SPOILERS INCLUDED

The Twilight Saga:  Breaking Dawn Part 2

November 18, 2012

2.5 out of 5 bags of popcorn for the overall movie

3.5 out of 5 boxes of milk duds for my own personal entertainment

My Suggestion:  DVD

The gist:  Bella begins exploring her new world as a mother to Renesmee and as a vampire.  She enjoys her new family and new powers, but when it becomes threatened by the Volturi she must take action to save her daughter.  The Cullen’s began rallying their vampire allies to convince the Volturi that Renesmee is part human and part vampire and therefore not a threat to their power.  Jacob, who imprints on Renesmee, also rallies the wolves to fight to protect her.

My take:

I will start off by saying I am a HUGE Twilight fan; I have read all the books and seen all the movies.  Some of the books I liked more than others and that is also the case with the movies.  This movie was alright.  I really enjoyed the first half hour of this film and the last half hour but the rest was a jumbled mess.  The beginning when Bella is learning about being a vampire and bonding with her daughter was great.  The ending scenes with the battle with the Volturi is great too, l love the twist they added.  At the very end of the film they played a recap of the past films and Bella and Edward’s love story which was also wonderful.  The sucky part was the middle (which unfortunately takes up most of the movie).  Once the Cullen’s discover the threat posed by the Volturi they began rallying their vampire friends together to stand with them.  There is a mish mosh of vampires who come from all different countries.  The problem is we don’t get to know or care about any of them deeply and after a while it becomes a parade of new vampires that gets boring.  I realize this was all building up to the final battle but it was uninteresting.  There also wasn’t much in the movie about the wolves and I found that I missed Jacob’s presence throughout the film.

The acting was as it always is, although I thought that Kristen Stewart did a great job as the confident, beautiful, vampire Bella.  Robert Pattinson was great and gorgeous!  The rest of the cast is pretty forgettable as far as acting is concerned.

I am not sure the general public will like this film as much as I did and like I said, I thought it was just alright.  I would watch the last half hour again if given the chance, but wouldn’t want to sit through the rest of the film to get to the good stuff.