I think this film is definitely a victim of it’s own expectations.
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11/24/08
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Twilight (2008)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:19
Rotten:16
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.
Theatrical Release:Nov 21, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $191,449,475
Synopsis: Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to... [More]
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
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Reviews for Twilight
Top CriticUnfortunately, it just didn’t work.
11/24/08
Top CriticA darn good hunk of pop moviemaking.
11/24/08
Top CriticTwilight, the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s series of best-selling teen novels, is going to be a big hit with young girls, and deservedly so -- the picture delivers.
11/24/08
Top CriticTwilight the movie is cautious, a sort of Tiger Beat–ified Twin Peaks. In its undercooked way, though, it’s enjoyable.
11/24/08
Top CriticTwilight is silly and melodramatic and hard to dislike in much the same way as its target audience, with a distinctly teenage sense of tragedy.
11/21/08
Top CriticTwilight is the Diet Coke of vampire movies, but central to the film's success is that you believe in the love between Edward and Bella.
11/21/08
Top CriticWondrous are the ways of vampires in Twilight, a tale of undead adoration where sharp teeth and cold hands are no impediment to romance.
11/21/08
Top CriticNot that Twilight's fate hangs on intelligibility. It hangs on fangs that aren't bared, and on a bloodlust that isn't indulged.
11/21/08
Top CriticTwilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals.
11/21/08
Top CriticTwilight is, by its very nature, all about unfinished business, the story of a brooding, caring romantic hero and the woman who cannot -- although she wants to -- yield to him. Only his eyes penetrate her. For now, that's enough.
11/21/08
Top CriticMy advice: Focus on Pattinson and Stewart. They make you understand why the books sold 17 million copies.
11/21/08
Top CriticCombines the plot of HBO's True Blood with the intensity level of Saved by the Bell.
11/21/08
Top CriticScreenwriter Melissa Rosenberg does a decent job adapting the first book in Meyer's series, and despite a tendency toward cheesy effects, Hardwicke keeps things moving swiftly.
11/21/08
Top CriticGothic wooziness stifles many of Hardwicke’s lighter impulses, such as her knack for jiving humor in scenes among friends and family. And some of the more cartoonishly gymnastic CG stunts look plain silly.
11/21/08
Top CriticSometimes sensitive and often silly.
11/21/08
Top CriticFinally, a chick flick with some bite to it.
11/21/08
Top CriticCatherine Hardwicke's choppy direction plays all this much too seriously. The film lacks the clarity and cleverness that might have ameliorated the campier moments.
11/21/08
Top CriticThis adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer never rises above the level of a teen soaper on the CW.
11/21/08
Top CriticMeyer is said to have been involved in the production of Twilight, but her novel was substantially more absorbing than the unintentionally funny and quickly forgettable film.
11/20/08
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