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If you haven't seen the life-size posters or many magazines advertising "New Moon," you must be living in the dark, because it is one of the biggest movies of the year.
A lot of quizzes in magazines are using the movie and are asking what team you are on. This means who would you chose? Edward or Jacob. If you haven't chosen Team Edward or Team Jacob by the end of "New Moon," there is a big problem.
The movie basically forces you to choose. Because Bella has to choose, so you do.
The second movie in the Twilight saga is "New Moon" and is based on the book by Stephanie Meyer. The movie hits the basic themes with little changes to the plot.
"New Moon" is a classic love triangle. Bella (Kristen Stewart) is in love with a vampire, Edward (Robert Pattinson), and they can no longer be together because a vampire dating a human is causing too many problems. After Edward exits Bella's life, she cannot function until she hangs out with an old family friend, Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). They obviously are more than friends, but she tells him that they're just friends. When she gets in dangerous situations, which is very often, who else is there to save her? Jacob, of course.
Jacob stops seeing Bella for a while — he has some secrets of his own to handle. Bella decides that she cannot go through another day without Jacob and goes to his house where she finds out the truth. Now she holds two secrets — secrets about vampires and their enemies, werewolves.
She is forced to make a decision when Edward's sister, who can see the future, tells Bella the prediction that Edward wants to kill himself because he thought Bella died. Bella chooses to go save Edward. It wouldn't make a good movie if she didn't save her lover, so of course she saves him.
Then after a few cheesy lines, they live happily ever … not really.
Edward promises his controllers that he will turn Bella into a vampire, which is what she wants, but Edward wants her to wait. So when they come back home, Jacob forces Bella to choose. Bella can't have both of them and again, she chooses Edward.
Bella is not your typical teenage girl because she just gets thrown into a lot with the few friends she has. She learns secrets and about vampire and werewolf history. Edward has been alive for more than 100 years and has gone through high school too many times to count, so he doesn't get involved in that drama. He has other problems to deal with, mainly being a vampire. Jacob becomes a man in the movie and realizes a lot about himself.
"New Moon" was very hyped before it even came out and got even more hype once it hit the theaters. A lot of people went to see it because they loved "Twilight," because of who was acting in it and what they were wearing (or in Lautner's case, what he wasn't wearing).
I wouldn't recommend wasting money to see "New Moon" in theaters. It is definitely one to wait to see when it comes out on DVD.
