ECLIPSE REVIEW: Bella Complains Edward "Won't Unzip Before Marriage"
Opens: Wednesday 6/30
Us Rating: ***
Twilight returns – and Eclipse delivers! Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) swings between Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner); one's her mate, the other's her friend. Or so the high school senior tries to convince herself, steamy kisses to the contrary. Meanwhile, avenging redhead Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) creates an army of newborn vampires in Seattle to slay Bella before summer vacation -- and squash the Cullens. With a new director (Hard Candy's David Slade), and renewed energy, the threequel balances PG-13 romance and bone-crunching action in a way that will satisfy Twi-Hards and appeal to supernatural romantics who haven't completely converted to TV's True Blood.
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Biases out: I'm team Edward all the way, and Pattinson delivers moony beauty cut with rueful wisdom, wit and passion -- he's so "old school," as Bella complains when he won't unzip before marriage. Earthy werewolf Jacob pulls hard in the opposite direction, shirt repeatedly off and pack tattoo displayed on hard muscle. ("Doesn't he have a shirt?" Edward asks wryly, in the kind of self-deflating humor that riffs through Eclipse.) Stewart sulks in the middle, a self-described "Switzerland" in the vampires-versus-werewolves conflict. She's the perfect moody teenager rocking jeans and mascara, a beauty inside and out just trying to find a place in the world where she feels real.
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Sure, the central love triangle drives the movie, but we couldn't get enough of the character flashbacks that reveal how various Cullens earned their fangs. In one, Southern gent Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) recalls being a Confederate Major turned by the mysterious Maria to raise, and then slay, a corps of newborns -- it could be its own stand-alone film in an exhilarating series that's as undead as Edward, as muscular as Jacob.
-- THELMA ADAMS
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14i love all the twilight movies,eclipse is awsome! Team Edward xxxx Bite meeee x
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Y'know, as a 17 year old girl practicing abstinence before marriage, I found it refreshing that Edward was "old school." Sex is everywhere and I'm sick of people sleeping around all the time.
Bite me "white boy"
Of course ur teamEDWARD! Robert Pattinson is the "main attraction" of this series. R.PATTZ is delicious. And everyone whose already read the books way be4 the movies has known that Edward is and always has been Bella's heart. Jacob is a "mutt" in every sense of the word and especially with his machinations to get Bella to "willingly" kiss him. Yuck!
It is interesting to me that female reviewers in general get what we love about the Twilight movies. Thank you for this review. As an adult Team Edward person myself, I could not agree more with you. Robert Pattinson was again the vampire to drool over. I think the film could have included a bit more dialogue from the book that expanded on the reasons he wants to marry Bella before he unzips, but overall it was pretty well done. Any shortcomings I do not blame on the actors' portrayal of Bella and Edward, but rather on the screen writing and/or editing that cuts out scenes that I find crucial to the story and includes other bits that I would leave on the editing room floor. Unlike New Moon, I will see this one multiple times and buy the DVD. Edward is back for the whole film. Hooray!!
Blahh, Screw Eclipse & The Whole Twilight Saga, Read The Books, Watched The Films. Harry Potter Spits On Twilight. At Least You Can Relate To It Or Understand It With A More Deeper Feeling (Based On WW2). It's Smart & As Well As The Novels, The Movies Have Been Around For Over A Decade. We Watched Them Grow Up & It Feels Like We Went On The Journey With Them. Twilight Is A Tweens Fantasy...For Lonely Girls Who Ain't Getting None Or Obsessed With Rpatzz...Tell Me If I'm Wrong, Because I Know I'm Not. =]
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Team Jacob! Although it's true... at one point I was in love with Twilight... now I find the acting horrible along with the special effects. Everything seems so low budget.
that it unrealistic that a Vampire would practice abstinence LOL on true blood they r horny and get it on all the time LOL
These movies are crap and everyone knows it. The magazines just want to get in good with the Twilight crowd so they're giving it a good review. The only good think about Twilight is that it's coming to and end in a couple of years. Media giving in to teen peer pressure-it's the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Very interesting to hear! Also, sorry to hear Kristen Stewart missed a Jenny Lewis Show, but everything else to hear is good & funny! Also, I liked Calista Flockhart's New Wedding Ring, and I'm so happy to hear that Project Runway will be back for an 8th Season on Thursday, July 29 at the new time of 9 PM, and that they'll be 90 minute-episodes instead of One Hour ones, etc.
WOW it's pretty cool to see just how far this whole twilight movie thing is going.I'm excited to see eclipse and find out how they will make breaking dawns into 2 movies.
I like to Kick it old school, that way no STD's