Friday, 18 November 2011

Po-faced lovers. Potty Plots. Woeful special effects. It's time to nail the coffin shut on the Twilight Saga... Save us from the vapid vampires!

By CHRIS TOOKEY



Tamed: Robert Pattinson (Edward) and Kristen Stewart (Bella) star in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, in which they marry



The suits behind the flamboyantly successful Twilight movie franchise — worth £1.2  billion and counting — have followed Harry Potter's lead by splitting the final novel into two.

But whereas the Potter series gained from that decision, the Twilight Saga loses almost all its impetus.

In the Potter stories, extra screen time allowed the leading characters to deepen; the reverse is true here.



Pregnancy plot: The film speediest pregnancy in history, and an alarmingly gruesome childbirth



Stephenie Meyer's characters are becoming ever less plausible. And the dialogue in this movie is the most leaden and banal in the series.

And before all you Twilight fans complain that I'm too old to appreciate the movies, check out my review of the first film; I awarded it four stars out of five.

But a rather good original idea has dwindled into self-parody.



Here come the boys: Robert Pattinson (right) and Taylor Lautner (left) at the Breaking Dawn premiere in Barcelona, Spain last night



Film premiere: (Left to right) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner arriving for the UK premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, at the Westfield Stratford City, Stratford, this week



Co-stars: The three actors all arrived for the premiere in sultry black matching outfits



Having a laugh: The two co-stars joke around on the red carpet in Barcelona, Spain



source: dailymail

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