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Issue Date: Sunday, August 26, 2012 Issue: Volume 20 Last Update: Friday, May 17, 2013
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'Breaking Dawn: Part 2' ends not with a bang but with a major bite
Taylor Lautner, left, and Kristen Stewart star in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2." - MCT Campus -- Andrew Cooper Courtesy Summit Entertainment LLC
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Twilight’s “Breaking Dawn: Part 2” finally hit theaters this weekend, wrapping up the vampire franchise with a bite.

“Breaking Dawn: Part 2” kicked off where “Breaking Dawn Part 1” ended as Bella (Kristen Stewart) woke up as a “new born” or fresh bitten vampire after being saved from death from giving birth to their half-immortal, half-mortal daughter Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy) by her vampire hubby Edward (Robert Pattinson) with a bite.

The movie is split into two halves. The first half follows Bella’s new life as a vampire and her new perspective on the world. You get to see the few good special effects in the movie while Bella is on the hunt for food (blood). The audience sees close-ups of flowers blooming and animal life as you will see it on the National Geographic Channel to show Bella’s new vision as a vampire. The audience also sees Renesmee for the first time as baby, which by the way was computerized and not that good. You also learn that Jacob, (Taylor Lautner), a werewolf and Bella’s friend, imprinted on Renesmee which binds him to her forever.

Anyway, the interesting stuff comes out in the second half of the movie. The Volturi is a group of vampires who have a higher authority over all the vampires in the world and they aren’t very happy once they get news that a child has been immortalized. Of course, the audience knows Renesmee wasn’t bitten but born half a vampire and she grows, even if it is at faster than ordinary kids. The Volturi decides to kill the Cullens, Edward’s vampire family, because they don’t know anything about Renesmee. The Cullens soon find out and decide to get help from other vampires in the world so they know about Renesmee and show the Volturi she is harmless. 

The audience meets many interesting vampires with special “X-Men” powers like controlling the four elements and giving electric shocks. This is what the audience, even non fans, enjoyed the most, in my perspective. Thanks to the new vampires, the movie gets a fun cool vibe. It brings comedic moments, especially from Bella as well as some cool special effects. Also thanks to the new vampires the audience gets some suspension and action to keep the movie excited.

My favorite, and mostly all the audience's, moment is the fight of the Cullens vs. the Volturi. The scene was perfectly staged and directed. Bill Condon really shines here as great director. Not to mention the special effects are great and better than any other scenes in the movie. This epic battle kept me on the edge of my seat and surprised me on who got killed. I almost cried along with other people in the theater to see some characters die.

(Spoiler Alert: A really good yet weird twist at the end of the battle concerning reality will make you happy or angry, and might make you say a bad word or two.)

Overall, the movie didn’t disappoint fans or non-fans alike. The movie with its funny moments, suspense, and a good battle scene made it an un-disappointed cherry on top to this franchise. 

I, personally, as a fan of “Twilight” both books and movies, give this movie a B+. The movie stuck to the book's story but didn’t put events in the chronological order as in the book though that didn’t stop the movie from being good. Now, thinking without being biased, I will give this a C+ only because it doesn’t show any flashback or memory of what happened in the previous movie to non-“Twilight” followers. As well as a blank screenplay, there wasn’t really any special moments with dialogue the audience would remember as with the graphics did. 

Still, a strong group of fans made the movie gross $71.2 million and the top movie in the United States. This show that no matter what, “Twilight” will always be the greatest thing that happened to teenage girls and boys since sliced bread.  


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  • Kristen Stewart, left, and Robert Pattinson star in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2."
    By MCT Campus -- Andrew Cooper Courtesy Summit Entertainment LLC
  • Taylor Lautnervand Kristen Stewart are seen in a scene in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2."
    By MCTCampus - Andrew Cooper Courtesy Summit Entertainment LLC

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11/18/2012 12:57:56 PM by Mark Webber    
Thank you, Selena! Great job with the review!
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