New Moon is awesome the director has done a good job and has stayed true to the book as good as he could. The movie starts of as the book does with a bit of a twist at the very start. It is fast paced and they cut out some scenes at the end and there is a new scence when they come to the volturi but it's worth the new scene. I am happy that Catherine didn't direct this film otherwise people may not have wanted to see this film. At the end of the movie there is a different ending then there is to the book but it is still worth it. So New Moon is a must see and comes together very well I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

-Friendsiswack

New Moon was fantastic compared to Twilight. I love these books and it was a such a dissapointment to see that Catherine Hardwicke absolutely butchered the movie. This new director actually follwed the book and made the actors better- in this movie I really believed that Edward and Bella loves each other. The things that were left out weren't entirely necessary anyway so it's not a big deal.

-Susan

Twilight was horrific!!!!!! Go New Moon, it was sooooo much better!!!! Everything about New Moon was an improvement from Twilight from the acting to the book adaptations, Catherine Hardwicke is a terrible director and ruined Twilight, I am really hoping this new director is here to stay because he actually knows what he is doing

-Natalie

 

I love the whole series of books and i liked Twilight the movie but did not like New Moon. Twilight, had an eerieness and awkwardness about it that made it feel like the book. New Moon was just too cheery. It lacked the intensity that the characters had in the first movie. The movie was so rushed that they forgot to dig into the characters. A new director was brought it because fans were disappointed with twilight, but i honestly liked it better than i like new moon. I too was diappointed...

-Tati

I'm not even a fan of the books much anymore and I thought the movie was great. It just goes to show how much a difference a good director makes. I loved it. I thought Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in particular were really good. I actually thought Kristen did the worst job out of everyone last movie so I'm extra impressed. And Taylor Lautner, what can I say? He was a great Jacob. He was funny, thoughtful, genuinely caring and to top it all off he walked around shirtless most the time. *love* I am now on Team Jacob's Abs. If you don't like the series, just go for the shirtlessness, that'll keep you happy!

-Snoznoodle

The werewolves have it all over the blood-suckers in The Twilight Saga: New Moon. When these oversize, hirsute creatures burst onto the screen, they inject life into a rather inert story.

What bogs down this tale of teenage Bella , her vampire beau Edward and werewolf buddy Jacobis the morose nature of Bella and Edward's romance. Though an improvement over the first Twilight film, this sequel drags and sputters, even in scenes meant to be infused with passion.

Pattinson is not given as much to do in this installment since he removes himself from Bella for her own protection. Bella spends an inordinate amount of time pining away. Unless it's a Ingmar Bergman film, watching an expressionless person stare out a window or trudge around alone in the woods is simply a drag.

Even while together early in the film, Edward and Bella spend a lot of their time staring intensely and brooding, arguing about whether she should "change," the apparent euphemism for becoming a vampire. They rarely seem to be enjoying each other's company. Being in love with the undead can be a grim undertaking.

Edward has a habit of making his entrances in dramatic slow-mo, unintentionally eliciting laughter. In contrast, when Jacob, a member of the local Quileute tribe, appears — often shirtless — his ultra-fit physique draws squeals from young female audience members. Even gloomy Bella comes out of her funk long enough to comment on his newly buff bod and cropped hair.

The scenes with Bella and Jacob are actually playful, a welcome relief from the lugubrious "love hurts" connection Bella shares with Edward.

As played by Lautner, Jacob has a spark in the film that wasn't as apparent on the page. Conversely, Edward was wittier and more intriguing in the book than as Pattinson plays him. His character is all about the piercing stare, and little else.

Once Jacob and his pals morph into teenage werewolves, the pace picks up. Then it dials down again when Bella, Edward and Edward's sister Alice (Ashley Greene) venture to the Italian hilltop town of Volterra. The intended suspense when they are confronted by evil vampire rulers never pans out. Michael Sheen, the crimson-eyed Aro, plays the character with more high-pitched giddiness than menace. Dakota Fanning has a small role as the innocent-looking Jane, who calmly tortures Edward with her mind.

Director Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) has crafted a film with visual flair and polish, particularly in the action sequences of werewolves vs. vampires. Fortunately, he is more sparing with the tight close-ups and swirling shots that typified Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke's dizzying style. But there is a plodding quality to both movies.

The lovelorn Bella has little to recommend her as a heroine. She's sullen, self-absorbed and stubborn. That such a bland and passive character elicits the amorous devotion of both Edward and Jacob is rather mystifying. Almost as incomprehensible is the huge appeal of this series, beyond the obvious timeworn fascination with vampires and werewolves.

New Moon, the film version, does nothing to add depth to a shallow tale.

-USA Today

"This is the last time you'll ever see me," Edward Cullen says to Bella Swan. As if.
Spoken early on in "New Moon," that promise is one of the least likely to be kept in movie history. With most of that film still to unfold, and two more adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series in the works, the next due out as soon as next summer, the world is going to see as much of Kristen Stewart's melancholy Bella and Robert Pattinson's undead Edward as it can take. Maybe more.
In the short term, however, Edward is as good as his word, and "New Moon" suffers as a result. Constrained by the plot of the novel, the film keeps the two lovers apart for quite a spell, robbing the project of the crazy-in-love energy that made "Twilight," the first entry in the series, such a guilty pleasure.
"New Moon," which has been grandly titled "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" in honor of that first episode's huge success, marks the franchise's entrance into the self-protective, don't-rock-the-boat phase of its existence, which is inevitable but a bit of a shame.

-LA Times

In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful TWILIGHT series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of—only to find herself in greater peril than ever before. With more of the passion, action and suspense that made TWILIGHT a worldwide phenomenon, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON is a spellbinding follow-up to the box office hit.

-Fandago