It’s Your Turn Not to Break Me.
The time has finally come for me to wash my hands of the Twilight Saga. This movie series and I have not gotten along in the past, and with good reason. They don’t like me because I hate them, and I don’t like them because they’re awful. Well, the bulk of them are anyway. There would be no way that I would see this movie in theaters when it came out because I would more than likely hate it. When it came out on DVD, I did not buy it because I would more than likely hate it. And when it came to RedBox, I still put it off because I would more than likely hate it. HOWEVER WILL I FEEL ABOUT THIS MOVIE?! Find out as I review The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer, written by Melissa Rosenberg, directed by Bill Condon, and starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Mackenzie Foy, Michael Sheen, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Maggie Grace, Dakota Fanning, Jamie Campbell Bower, Christopher Heyerdahl, Cameron Bright, Charlie Bewley, Daniel Cudmore, Lee Pace, MyAnna Buring, Christian Camargo, Casey LaBow, Mia Maestro, Noel Fisher, Guri Weinberg, Rami Malek, Omar Metwally, Angela Sarafyan, Andrea Gabriel, Judi Shekoni, Tracey Heggins, Joe Anderson, J.D. Pardo, and Billy Burke. If you want to recap the rest of the Twilight Saga, here are my reviews: one, two, three, and four.
Bella Swan-Cullen (Kristen Stewart) awakens from a coma (though you wouldn’t know it from her acting), having been transformed into a vampire by her husband, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), who transformed her to keep their half-breed child from killing her from the inside. Also, her former love interest, Jacob (Taylor Lautner), fell in love with the baby Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy). …So they’ll have to deal with that eventually. First on their docket is that the vampire police department known as the Volturi – Aro (Michael Sheen), Caius (Jamie Campbell Bower), Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl), Jane (Dakota Fanning), Alec (Cameron Bright), and the rest – have gotten word from Irina (Maggie Grace) that Edward and Bella have created an immortal child, which is illegal. The Cullens rush to collect as many witnesses/soldiers to join their cause to stop/win a fight against the Volturi, if it should come to that.
Fuck this movie. Fuck this movie series. Fuck it out loud, in stereo, and in 3D. In truth, I did not enjoy, but was okay with this movie for the bulk of it, but the very end was such an annoyance to me that it made me laugh out loud and yell, “Fuck you,” at my computer screen. But the first two thirds of the movie was like watching one of the most annoying parts of the first X-Men movie for an hour and a half. It felt like I was just watching a bunch of vampires get together and tell each other what their special powers were. Bella kind of got the shaft on that end too. “Super self-control.” What a useful but shitty power. Sure, it’s helpful to her that she didn’t eat her baby, but that lady can make electricity with her hands. The one dude controls all of the elements. He couldn’t have broken off a few elements for her to have a good power? The best she’s got is the ability to make other people feel the effects of these powers less, and she can beat Kellan Lutz in arm wrestling. I know that because they showed it to me for some stupid fucking reason. I guess he also somehow develops the power to show Edward a montage/epilogue/ending credit sequence at the end of the movie, so she’s got that going for her. Then there’s a really good battle – that feels to me like the reason I sat through the rest of the movie, or the entire series for that matter – followed by a big fuck you to the audience. And I’m not talking about when Bella says to Edward, “Nobody’s ever loved anybody as much as I love you.” That’s more of a ‘fuck you’ to Renesmee.
Okay, so this movie was boring most of the way through and then there was a big battle at the end that I really liked. But it also lead to the biggest problem I had with this movie, and also requires the return of the ::SPOILER ALERT:: They pulled that hack “it was all a dream” bullshit?! For real?! I resent the Wizard of Oz for starting this trend, but I thought Hollywood had decided in unison that they were done with this bullshit unless they were using it for comedy. You show a great, epic fight where important characters in the Twilight series die brutal and emotional deaths, but the heroes still pull out a victory, and then it all turns out to be a vision of a possible future that Aro is watching through Alice. Fuck you! You just wasted a half hour of my time. It was exciting and fun to watch until that point, but the movie itself nullified that by making it fake. And, since the only fun part of your movie never technically happened, your movie can go fuck itself. ::END SPOILERS::
Kristen Stewart is still awful. And Bella is still stupid. Why the hell does it take her the bulk of the movie to figure out that she should find the book that page the letter was written on came from? I guess I would be offended if Stewart ever played a character that was smarter than I am. I guess it’s the seed that built her that’s to blame. Her father is stupid as well. Jacob turns into a wolf right in front of him, but he still can’t figure out that the super-pasty, dead-eyed people that have taken Bella in are vampires. Also, that toddler of yours is growing awful fast … probably not worth thinking about. Also, why do these people get so pissed off at Jacob for telling Bella’s dad that she’s not dead? I know the Volturi would kill him if Jacob had said “vampire”, but Jacob didn’t say it. So you all just want to depress the father when there was an obvious alternative. I mean, Jacob thought of it! And he’s gross! He falls in love with a baby that’s so fresh that it still smells like her mother’s vagina! And later, while the girl still appears to be about 8 (but in actuality is about 6 months), he makes a joke to Edward about “calling him dad.” Can you hold off on that joke until she at least LOOKS like you should be dating her? Edward should’ve killed you right then. That would’ve made me give this movie a positive review. Or maybe if Edward and Bella had broken up. Which they totally should have done since Edward says to Bella, “Every obstacle you faced, I thought you couldn’t overcome it.” I know he meant that as a compliment, but he’s basically saying that she baffles him with how inept she appears, while still being able to make it through everyday life. He probably should’ve thought she couldn’t overcome an acting challenge. Then she could meet his expectations. And the biggest problem with the cast of this movie is that my favorite part of it (Ashley Greene) was required by the story to be absent for the bulk of the movie.
I am pleased to finally be finished with the Twilight Saga, but I would’ve been much happier if Breaking Dawn – Part 2 wasn’t so frustrating. The story wasn’t significant, and the movie spent the greater majority of the time describing what each new vampire could do and what part they would take in a battle that never really happens. The battle that kind of happens is a pretty awesome watch, but I would say that no part of this movie that actually took place demands your attention. You can skip this movie. And, since I would say that only about two out of 10 hours of the Twilight series are watchable, I say you can skip the entire series. 20% is a deep ‘F’, people. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 gets “I hate the second one even more” out of “Old habits die hard.”
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