![]() "This series finale emphatically answers in the positive, finally moving the characters along without losing the flavour of what's gone before. "There's an ancient philosophical conundrum: if a Twilight film has no love triangle and no romantic moping, is it still a Twilight film?" writes Empire's Helen O'Hara. ![]() A film that features scenes like these is very hard to dislike." Later still, a wolf karate chops Dakota Fanning's head off. ![]() Soon afterwards, the shapeshifting Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) decides to reveal his true nature to Bella's father, the local policeman – by luring him into the forest and peeling off his clothes, while growling lustily about the world being a wilder place than he could ever imagine. "Within five minutes of the opening credits, the newlywed Bella, whom you may recall converted to vampirism at the end of Breaking Dawn Part 1, is hunting a puma in a figure-hugging blue cocktail dress. "Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is three fingers of supernatural teen romance served neat in a dirty glass with a sparkler and cocktail umbrella, and not a single concession is made to newcomers, or sanity," enthuses The Telegraph's Robbie Collin. "Honestly, give me Bella and Edward over Jar Jar Binks any day." "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently. The Observer's Mark Kermode is among those who have admitted to a sense of distress that Team Edward, Team Jacob and the army of baseball-playing, Gap model denizens of the undead which seem to accompany them will soon no longer be with us. Yet inexplicably its sequel, which is cunningly titled The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, is a critical smash. ![]() Last year's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 got a measly 25% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site. ![]() There have been four previous movies in this most divisive of franchises, and all have been treated by reviewers as an enormous target at which to blast their critical barbs. Something very strange is going down in the Twi-verse, that odd corner of the movie universe inhabited by sparkly vampires, sexy werewolves and the kind of mopey young ladies who in real life would probably just go goth for a few years. ![]()
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