3 reviews

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Ed Blagrove January 20, 2009

Twilight is a phenomenally successful book, especially in the States, and this movie has been made on a modest budget of around £30m.

Now I will begin by admitting I am not the target audience for this film. I am however a massive fan of Vampire movies and so I wanted to go and see what was on offer.

I have a few problems with the Twilight vampires. If Vampires are able to walk about in daylight without fear of harm from sunlight, why don't they just do it? The boundaries that make them intriguing and scary are removed, they simply shimmer, their teeth have no menace, even the 'bad' vampires, and they walk around all day and night without any problem.

Why would they also continue going to school? Just don't go, rather than move from place to place repeating each year!

I found myself completely switched off by a movie whose plot was thin, acting was passable and premise massively flawed. Perhaps the target audience, hormonally charged teenage girls, can forgive these errors and incosistencies, this film fan can't.

I would only recommend this to a fan of trashy romantic stories or the book.

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Andrea Hopkins December 22, 2008

Robert Pattinson (recently enjoyed as the prematurely deceased Cedric Diggory in HPIV) is making rather a specialty of playing dead chaps, or in this case, undead. He is a very beautiful creature, and as teen vampire Edward Collin he does brooding and self-loathing with a wonderful James-Dean like angst and intensity that makes it completely credible that Kirsten Stewart as Bella Swan would fall madly in love with him, although his chat-up lines ("I've never wanted a human's blood more") leave something to be desired, and his slightly creepy obsessiveness would cause an older woman to run quite fast in the opposite direction. The special effects, I must warn you, are complete pants, but this is really much more a love story than a horror story, and as such it is very pleasingly portrayed.

From the moment of their first meeting, when it's clear that the rich, intoxicating scent of scrumptious young teenage girl is so overwhelming to the tall and tasty Edward that he has to run from the room for fear of taking a bite out of her right there in biology class, the film is delicately and deliciously sensual - as we are invited to see, smell, and feel everything from the point of view of the young lovers and like them become maddeningly conscious of the texture of cloth, the scent of skin, the warmth of flesh (in her case). And how tantalizing - poor Edward can't get really stuck into snogging in case he loses control and accidentally drains his beloved of all her precious bodily fluids. There is (purposefully, given the author of the original novel's Mormon agenda) something quite enticing about their inability to consumate their clearly sizzling feelings for one another.

It is perfect for its target audience of early teen girls; parents, with a store of memories of The Munsters and Addams Family episodes, will enjoy an amusing cinematic subtext in those sections of the film where Edward takes Bella to meet his "family" - the excruciatingly funny baseball game, including a pitch invasion by the naughty vampires, is alone worth the price of the ticket. Deliciously silly and highly recommended.

A simply amazing movie, I found it very romantic but maybe not quite what I had expected. I recommend it.

Xkissedx love the girl xkissedx 18 Jan 2009