Buy The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Description: In the second chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight series, the romance between mortal Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) grows more intense as ancient secrets threaten to destroy them. When Edward leaves in an effort to keep Bella safe, she tests fate in increasingly reckless ways in order to glimpse her love once more. But when she’s saved from the brink by her friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), Bella will uncover mysteries of the supernatural world that will put her in more peril than ever before.

Amazon.com: New Moon, the second in Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster teen-fiction saga adapted for film, is stronger than its predecessor, Twilight. Director Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass), taking the helm from Catherine Hardwicke, brings a lighter, more assured touch to the sequel, which continues the star-crossed love story of mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart) and vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson). Incidentally, Edward is absent for most of the film; after an accident on Bella's birthday reminds Edward that her life is always at risk when he's around, he chooses to abandon her, sending her into a deep depression. The only person who helps her heal her broken heart is her friend Jacob (Taylor Lautner), a member of the Quileute tribe who, as he grows taller, beefier, and more aggressive (with less clothing), comes to realize he's not entirely human either. But even his love for Bella doesn't prevent her from throwing herself in the path of danger, because that's the only time she can see visions of Edward. One such fateful misunderstanding sends Edward into the coven of the Volturi (a sort of vampire Mafia, if you will), where the most dangerous vampires hold both Edward and Bella's fate in their cold, dark hands. Much of New Moon rests on the shoulders of Lautner, so scrawny in Twilight, who famously packed on the muscle to avoid getting recast. He's very nearly successful in carrying the load, but the cheese-tastic beefcake scenes disservice him, and Jacob and Bella's complicated friendship stumbles on its way to any kind of love triangle. Some of that blame lies with Stewart, who understandably holds her emotions close to her chest but reveals much too little (c'mon, even an angsty girl has to be a little joyful in the arms of two different hunks). As is with the book, the film is just a bridge between sagas, so the plot drags and not a lot happens. Fortunately, while Twilight was trapped in its own self-consciousness, the wobbly-legged cast seems to have found stronger footing in New Moon; the jokes come faster, the writing (by Melissa Rosenberg, who also scribed Twilight) is a hair wittier. (Even Pattinson seems more comfortable in Edward's skin.) The Volturi, highlighted by Michael Sheen's Aro and Dakota Fanning's Jane, also make an all-too-brief impression, but at least there's more to look forward to when Eclipse, the third installment, is released. --Ellen A. Kim

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Books are better but movie not bad March 17, 2010
I liked this movie better than Twilight but that being said the books are way better than both.The reason I liked it better than Twilight is less Edward.I can't stand Edward and did not miss him in this movie.Now if we could only have less Bella my watching (And reading) joy would be complete but I guess that is too much to ask.I actually liked the movie especially the parts with the Volturi especially Dakota Fanning as Jane.I am ordering it on DVD today.As to the reviewer who said Lautner doesn't look 25 get a life I thought he made a great Jacob, much better that Stewart as Bella (Or anything else she would play...Talk about wooden)but it is just a movie get over it.

Vampire Revision for the... March 17, 2010
The "Twilight" books suck compared to "Salem's Lot" by Steven King or "They Thirst" by Robert McCammon. Total garbage is too kind of an insult for them. The sexual content is inappropriate for "normal" people, who unlike dogs, don't have to sniff each other'r butts for entertainment. No offense homosexuals, but what is this gay crap about vampires that turns on all these pathetic teenage girls and boys and so-called "straight" adults? The movie is dumb, boring, and extremely predictable, like a pathetic soap opera on TV. Need I say more?

What a bunch of retards... March 17, 2010
How can you rate the DVD when the it hasn't even come out yet? Yes, of course you've seen it in the theater, but you haven't seen all of the special features nor do you know if the clips they used in the mastering of the film are flawed like much of the Blue-Ray version in "Twilight".

And a million word essay on your review of this dvd, get a life retards... No one's going to waste their time reading your review.. Get a life.

I am so happy I watched this movie because.... (1 of 10 Found this Helpful) March 16, 2010
I know I could not possibly see anything worse in the next couple of years (though I guess there are another couple of sequels in the works).

The acting is amongst the most awful I've ever seen, the F/X look like they were produced for a fifth rate cable channel, the script is woeful and (to add insult to injury) the stinking mess is well over two hours long and does not even have an ending.

.... are there really that many lonely, desperate teenage girls out there?

desert dame (4 of 5 Found this Helpful) March 16, 2010
I am a sixty yr. old woman who loves to read. I was given the first book to read by a friend. I do not usually read books like this. I am a big Faye Kellerman fan for mystery/action reading. I absolutely loved the Twilight Sagas! I felt terrible for Stephanie Meyers after seeing Twilight, she was clearly taken advantage of as a novice to the world of film. I felt that Katherine Hardwicke was very narcissistic in her direction, all you have to do is listen to her commentaries on the film as to why she did what she did. don't even get me started with Ms. Rosenberg. she took a wonderful story and totally rewrote it!she inserted characters and scenes that were not even in the book. I had to re-read Twilight (not that this was the only time I had)to find out where the line " the kids liked those little bottles though" was in the book. guess what it isn't in the book like the character who said it. please for the sake of Stephanie's genius, get another writer before she destroys the last two like the first two. if she could write she would be, not doing this ie:..... those that can't teach".

The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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