MOVIE REVIEW - Twilight

The weekends big box office smash, Twilight is new this weekend. Based on the wildly popular novel of the same name, Twilight brings the thrill of the book to the big screen.

Reviewing movies like this one is about the easiest thing there is to do. You will be hard pressed to find one fan of the book that won't love this movie. Twilight is a movie that completely understands it core audience, and then delivers it to them.

Let's meet Bella, she is a junior in high school. Transferred to live with her dad after her mom and her new husband decide to movie from Arizona to Florida. Bella ends up in Washington State to live with her father who is the local Chief of police of a small town called Forks. Bella is a pretty, physically clumsy, and socially awkward. She is having a hard time fitting in her new school, and is very vulnerable.

Bella meets and then falls for Edward, who is the class mystery man. Stunning good looks, with standoffish charm and is the schools hard to get guy. Oh did I mention he is a vampire? Bella then falls for Edward, and as you can imagine they are off on a wild journey. Look, this story is way to complicated to try to explain here, but with sidebars a plenty. And Twilight does have some problems, one being the movie is a bit too long, but every single tween at this showing was totally enthralled with it. And all of them will be looking forward to the movies that will follow.

To be fair, I am not the target audience for Twilight. That would be high school girls, and that's OK. But I can recognize that the story is an interesting one, and well told on the screen. They know who they want to see this movie,. and boy are they're going to. A bit long and a bit slow at times, Twilight survives it's problems delivers to it's fans.