The New Moon Reviews
Posted by BAW on 29th Jan, 2010 in Movies and TV | 0 comments
Everyone wants to see it, and here are some reviews?
Pay attention teenie boppers and vampire aficionados, the film comes out Nov. 20th, and New Moon reviews are already coming out.If you’ll pardon the pun, the critics generally are saying the film BITES. (Oh how am I NOT supposed to make that joke?) Rotten Tomatoes along some of the really big reviewers have decided that the novelty has worn off, and are giving the film a hiding. If you got payday loans for camping gear to wait days for tickets, it might have been a waste.
Rotten Tomatoes
Even though some feel that Rotten Tomatoes is hit and miss at best, it’s one of most popular review sites for film on the internet.RT has an average of 36% for New Moon. That is unflattering, to say the least. Some comments from the New Moon page at RT describe the film as “toothless,” “the second bite was stale,” and one of my personal favorites, “if the first installment…was a celebration of teen sulkiness, this film positively drowns in it.” A short review condemning the movie would be oddly fitting, something like…”Lame Moon.” (These go to 11!)
Roger Ebert and others
Roger Ebert, though he is at times far too kind to some films, didn’t spare the rod, or anything else when it came to this film.Ebert gave the film one star, and one or no stars means that the gloves are off and he will write a very entertaining review, to say the least. From his own website:
“New Moon…takes the tepid achievement of Twilight, guts it, and leaves it for undead.”
“The characters in this movie should be arrested for loitering with intent to moan…Their charisma is by Madame Toussad.”
In case you wondered, Madame Toussad’s is a famous museum, or to the point, perhaps the most famous wax museum in the world.
“…sitting through this experience is like driving a pickup in low gear through a sullen sea of Brylcreem.”
Harsh! MTV’s Kurt Loder said “It’s a very silly picture, of course: Given the source material – Stephanie Meyer’s blathery teen novels – how could it not be?” and Kirsten Stewart was a good actress in a “wooden role.”
Of course some critics did like it, but heaping praise on a movie that’s already popular and getting huge box office gates is too easy, and not nearly as fun as trashing it. That said, movie critics are hit and miss at best, and some seem to be bought by studios outright. (The movie critic in my hometown paper, for instance – oh, you know who you are, and an adult who only gives 4 star reviews only to Disney films is obviously in need of psychological evaluation.) I wasn’t planning on spending quick cash and going to New Moon, but if you listen to critics, the New Moon reviews might be a warning to stay away.