Paulie nails it yet again.

That's actually how I felt about the book too (New Moon is by far the worst written out of all of them, and that's saying something).

It was shot beautifully, but it was acted soullessly. I'm not sure if it's the writer's fault (she writes like a 12 year old girl acting out fantasies), or the tween actors who have zero life experience.

The only highlight of the movie was the sexy young boys... and I'm a lesbian.

So boring.

All the teen and twentyish women I know who saw it loved it. The only negative they had was that all the travel scenes were cut from the book so they could fit the movie into a short enough run time.

A girlfriend and I went with her tween daughter, and it was a terrible movie. There were several places where the entire audience of girls and women laughed out loud at how cheesy it was. Sparkly couple skipping through the forest, sexy vampire walking slo-mo across the school parking lot, hot wolf-boy pulling off his shirt. The target audience saw through it. None of the young actors are amazing, but most of them are likable enough. Kristen Stewart was awful, though. Her idea of emoting is looking confused and apraxic.

@5 - i did hear that about KS ... she needs emoting school.

@5, I also cracked up several times, along with much of the audience at those and other moments.
Like so many movies this was made a lot more fun by liberal amounts of vodka and low expectations.
The torsos, however, exceeded those expectations and by golly, I hope there are more of them.

If you read the books you will get the info, like why they are walking around in nothing but ratty shorts and why Victoria is not totaly in the picture. It all trasitions throughout all of the books. Although I do agree that Taylor Lautner'voice just didn't carry those lines very well...

These movies vaguely depress me... I don't know if it's the fact that I had to keep the sugar coming to keep my eyelids from closing every five seconds, or the sh!t plot, or the only highlights being (as said 3) half-naked-testosterone-driven-there-to-fill-the-screen-boys. Though, gotta say, for the material, they try to do what they can. Try being key word. Thanks for the review, really, it helps among a sea of fangirls to have a few shreds of reality to cling to.