New Moon Twilight Saga Movie Review

Millions of movie goers across the country have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of New Moon the next movie in the Twilight series. Since the release of the first Twilight movie the world has been taken over by team Edward and Team Jacob t-shirts. Escaping the Twilight madness is near impossible. Somehow I managed to escape it for over a year, seeing Twilight for the first time in August. I tried to resist the temptation to become completely obsessed but soon found myself counting down the days to the Twilight New Moon movie premier. Before I knew what happened I was buying my midnight premiere tickets and counting down the days.

What the critics are saying: Other New Moon Reviews

The first Twilight movie was despised by most critics. After Twilight became such a success the critics were surprised and some were even irritated. Keeping in mind that the critics hated Twilight and I loved it, I decided to check out what the critic reviews of New Moon a few hours before going to the movie. Not surprisingly, the critics are still holding a grudge and were set out to keep away as many people as possible. Overall the critic consensus was that New Moon deserved no more than 3 out of 10 stars. The few critics who were merciful towards New Moon offered only half compliments, saying things like
" If you're a romantic at heart who doesn't mind shelling out $12 to watch a couple of adolescent boy hotties strut their stuff, you might as well just go and enjoy the eye candy. 'Cause it's kind of worth it" (David Foucher)

The reviews left me more anxious than ever to see New Moon, I wanted the opportunity to be my own critic. Besides they disliked Twilight and based on their reviews I decided not to see that movie for over a year, clearly I missed out.

Midnight Showing of New Moon: The Ultimate Twihard Experience

Upon arriving at the theater for the midnight showing of New Moon we discovered a parking lot packed full. We ended up having to use our four wheel drive to park in a nearby desert. I have been to many midnight premieres, Pirates of the Carribean, Harry Potter, Star Trek, and many more. I have never seen a turnout like I there was for the New Moon premiere. Once we found a parking space we walked up to a movie theater with hundreds of people waiting in lines outside and who knows how many more people crammed inside. Once inside the workers were turning people away. There were 14 screens playing new moon, in a 14 screen theater. Every seat, every single one was bought and paid for. The line for the concession stand was theme park long. In the lobby the twihard's were a little pushy, everyone was a little tense, months of anticipation were built up and people were a little antsy to say the least. Once at the ticket taker, everyone was basically told to go where they could find a seat. This meant people were weaving in and out, back and forth, up and down, frantically scattering like cockroaches in a lit room, trying to find the best seat, or even just a seat. Miraculously we found four seats together, three of us left to get food and one person stayed behind. Twihards attacked for the three saved seats but ultimately they lost. There must have been over a 1,000 Twihards with Twihard t-shirts, and numerous more look-alikes. I must admit the crowds of people, and the pure energy in the theater made me even more excited to see the film (albeit a little claustrophobic).

Here It Is: The New Moon Review

After so much anticipation, you always wonder if the movie can hold up to your year long anticipation. New Moon, absolutely 100 percent lived up to my expectations. I left the theater wanting more, which is in my opinion a good thing. Since this review is not going to have any spoilers the following will be said as carefully as I can.

Was New Moon Visually Stunning?

Absolutely! In Twilight, there were scenes in the tree tops and the movie locations were amazing. In New Moon you won't see a lot of tree top footage (it's better that they didn't just revamp the old techniques anyway). Instead the tree top scenes were replaced with beautiful forest scenes, and amazing digital effects, including the werewolf scenes. The cuts were clean throughout the movie, and the overall camera quality seemed to be a little better than last time.

Did the New Moon script do justice to Stephanie Meyers amazing book?

I personally have not read the twilight series (it's on my list of things to do) However my friend has read the entire series. According to my friend the film did a pretty decent job portraying what happened in the book. There was one part in particular that she said they really should have included more dialogue from the book. Other than that though, she compared New Moon to Twilight in its accuracy of reporting what happened in the book. My opinion on the whole book vs movie debate is that, if you want 700 pages of detail read the book. There story flowed well, and it seemed as though all of the critical elements were in the movie. New Moon was cohesive and followed up Twilight well (there were really no story gaps).

Team Jacob vs Team Edward

Ah yes, the twihard debate of the century, who deserves to win the heart of Bella. In New Moon there is a victor, at least for now. Without giving any spoilers I will just say that all the Twilight Fans will find a decent amount of Jacob and Edward scenes throughout the movie in which both boys get to show off their abilities, and bodies (perhaps their kissing abilities too, but my lips are sealed) May the best man win.

Who will enjoy the New Moon movie

You, your parents, your grandma, your great grandma, older siblings. One thing that really appealed to me about New Moon as opposed to Twilight (although I love them both) was that the New Moon movie seemed to be geared towards a little older crowd. With Twilight there was some complaints that the high school scenes and what not made the movie geared toward the teen, pre-teen crows. Anyone who had this complaint with Twilight will probably be pleased to find that New Moon was geared to a much older crowd, although stil remained safe for the younger twi hards as well.

And then it was over...

At the close of the movie people cheered, a few people cried, but mostly, the energy level stayed through the roof despite it being the middle of the night. The movie closes rather abruptly, this leaves you wanting more. There is always a certain amount of mystery, things that go unsaid, in the New Moon and Twilight, its part of the mystery that is Edward and Bella, the abrupt ending plays right into the mystery. This is deffinetely a movie you will find yourself talking about for days, weeks, months, or years? (for those really hardcore twihards)

New Moon Review Conclusion

Overall I would give New Moon a 9.5 out of 10. I would highly recommend it to everyone. If you didn't like Twilight you will still probably like New Moon, it has just enough of a twist, and change in story style to please some of you who never really understood us Twihards. Also, this movie is date friendly, and overall guy friendly. Everyone man that was at the midnight showing of New Moon last night was as pleased with the movie as all of the women. I took my husband and he loved it! Don't miss out on seeing New Moon in theaters now.

To see the New Moon trailer click here

Movie critic reviews from : http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twilight_saga_new_moon/