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‘New Moon’ Easily Digestible Fluff Only for Super Fans
$141-million box office this weekend proves their loyalty

Photo courtesy of Summit Entertainment
Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart reprise their roles in “New Moon,” the second installment of “The Twilight Saga.”
the sullen Cullen decides that Bella would be much safer if he and his family left Forks, Wash. forever.

Waiting in the wings to comfort Bella during her montage of depression is the always-shirtless Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a Native-American tween who Bella turns to once Edward is gone. The love triangle becomes more complex when Bella finds out Jacob has been hiding a secret from her the entire time they’ve spent together – he’s a werewolf…and he hates vampires.

It all sounds kind of silly and the script is definitely not one of the finer features of “New Moon.” Like its predecessor, the stale dialogue spewed out by the leads can’t be ignored. When Edward tells Bella, “You give me everything just by breathing,” you’ll wonder who else in the world other than Pattinson could get away with delivering such a tacky one-liner to a girl without getting laughed at.

Besides the questionable choices in romanticism, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg places entirely too much emphasis on things we already know. Edward and Bella are star-crossed lovers, so why reference “Romeo and Juliet” again and again? While it’s in Meyers’ original text, it’s a cliché choice to have included in a film already inundated with enough hamminess to fill the next two films in the series 10 times over. Grade: C

by Kiko Martínez

kiko.martinez@extranews.net
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