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Everyone wants to see it – so how are the reviews?

Pay attention teenie boppers and vampire aficionados, the film comes out Nov. 20th, and the New Moon reviews are starting to pour in.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 and some of the big name critics feel the novelty has worn off, and are less than pleased. 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.The New Moon reviews on RT average to a 30% score.That’s 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.” For some odd reason, a two word negative reviews would be fitting, like…”Lame Moon.” (Hello, Cleveland!)

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.Critics by nature are hit and miss, though some are obvious shills.  (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 putting any quick cash towards New Moon tickets so the New Moon reviews make little difference to me, and it looks like you might want to think twice yourself if you listen to critics.

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