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Writers (WGA):
Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay)
Stephenie Meyer (novel)
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Release Date:
20 November 2009 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Next Chapter Begins
Plot:
After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family... more | full synopsis
User Reviews:
Very disappointing more (722 total)


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Also Known As:
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (USA) (promotional title)
Twilight 2 (USA) (informal title)
Twilight: New Moon (USA) (informal title)
Untitled Sports Movie (Canada: English title) (fake working title)
Luna nueva (Argentina) (Peru) (Venezuela) [es]
Сумерки. Сага. Новолуние (Russia) [ru]
A Saga Twilight: Lua Nova (Portugal) [pt]
A Saga de Twilight: Lua Nova (Portugal) [pt]
Alacakaranlik efsanesi: Yeni ay (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Alkonyat - Újhold (Hungary) (long title) [hu]
Crepúsculo: Luna Nueva (Mexico) [es]
Jaunatis (Lithuania) [lt]
Jauns meness (Latvia) [lv]
La saga crepusculo - Luna nueva (Spain) [es]
Lua Nova (Brazil) [pt]
Mlada luna (Slovenia) (short title) [sl]
New Moon (Sweden) (theatrical title) [sv]
New Moon - Biss zur Mittagsstunde (Germany) [de]
New Moon: Twilight Saga (Japan: English title) [en]
Nov (Slovakia) [sk]
Saga 'Zmierzch': Ksiezyc w nowiu (Poland) [pl]
Sumrak saga: Mladi mjesec (Croatia) [hr]
The twilight saga - Nea selini (Greece) [el]
Twilight - Uusikuu (Finland) [fi]
Twilight sága - Nový mesíc (Czech Republic) [cs]
Twilight: Chapitre 2 - Tentation (France) [fr]
Twilight: Ny Måne (Denmark) (alternative transliteration) [da]
Under en ny måne (Norway) (literal title) [no]
Uusikuu (Finland) [fi]
Videviku saaga - Noorkuu (Estonia) [et]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence and action.
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130 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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"New Moon" is actually Robert Pattinson's favorite book in the Twilight series. more
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Continuity: During the Edward and Bella break-up scene in the forest, Bella's hair switches from all hanging down her back to some of it being brought forward over her shoulders. In the first shot from behind, it is clearly all fanned out across the back of her jacket, but despite her not appearing to move, in the next shot from behind, the right half of her hair is hanging forward over her shoulder. more
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Bella Swan: [From trailer] If a rush of danger is what it takes to see him then that's what I'll find. more
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44 out of 71 people found the following review useful.
Very disappointing, 22 November 2009
4/10
Author: marina0411

I loved the Twilight movie, that's how I started reading the books in the first place. I've read them about ten times each and I still like them. But New Moon's big screen adaptation was a huge let down.

One thing that was improved was that many of the characters actually smiled or laughed naturally when the moment called for it, as opposed to the "I don't crack a smile cause I'm a seriously deadly vampire" routine in Twilight.

I liked the portrayal of Alice, she seemed more like what she should be according to the book, Charlie and I also liked the wolves and the rest of the special effects.

But I couldn't feel the bond between Edward and Bella. I couldn't believe that they loved each other. Hell, I couldn't believe they even liked each other. Even at the end, after their ordeal, after deciding that they would never let each other go, they were frigid. The actors just delivered their lines, they didn't feel them.

The score ranged from awful to non-existent. It seems as though it was not written specifically for New Moon. Carter Burwell's score brings to memory specific scenes in Twilight. This one is an indifferent, generic one, I guess it would fit in whatever movie you threw it in.

However, the most important flaw was that the entire movie seemed very rushed, like it was originally supposed to be much longer but somebody edited it heavily and really, really badly. For example, in an instant we are informed that Edward is going to commit suicide thinking Bella's dead, she drives off with Alice *bang* next thing you know you see a plane in the air, *bang* next thing you know Alice and Bella are already inside the stolen car on their way to Volterra and it carries on like that until the end.

No character development, no bonds between them, no space to breathe, no explanation whatsoever of how things happened or how decisions were made, nothing but a hastily chopped up summary of the book.

Is the actual movie coming out any time soon?

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