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Twilight
Reviewed by Janine Slayton
Entertainment Columnist for TheFabulousWoman.Com
Stephenie Meyer's hugely popular Twilight series has finally hit the big screen. Starring Robert Pattinson (of Harry Potter fame-he played Cedric in Goblet of Fire), and Kristen Stewart (Into the Wild), Twilight, the first book in the series, has finally been brought to life.

Twilight tells the tale of Bella Swan, who has just moved to the small, rain-soaked town of Forks, Washington to live with her father. Once there, she meets and soon falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Edward Cullen. She knows something is different about him from the moment she meets him, and she is determined to find out his secret. Before long she learns what he is, and how dangerous loving him could be, but this knowledge could never keep her from loving him anyway.

Despite a vampire being a main character, the story told in both the book and the movie is very real. The fact that Edward is a vampire adds to the story rather than taking away from it-it simply makes the love story a little more complex. The emotions felt by both Bella and Edward are strong and complicated and overwhelming, and it is the intense love story that drives the plot. That doesn't mean that there isn't plenty of action waiting in the wings as well, however. Whenever you find yourself dating a vampire, you can pretty much count on your life being endangered at some point, and Bella certainly finds herself in a sticky situation as a result of her relationship with Edward.

The storyline of the movie actually remains very true to the book, though there are a few points where the story strays a bit from Meyer's original. Perhaps one of the biggest disappointments for fans of the book is the lack of screen time for Jacob Black, who plays a much larger role in the books. In the movie's defense, though, there were a lot of characters to introduce and keep straight, and making Jacob more prominent might have been too much of a challenge.

While the movie is well-paced and there is a good amount of action, especially towards the end, what is really important is the love story between Bella and Edward. While Stewart and Pattinson don't always seem to pull off the passion and conflict that is so intense in the books, it is still believable. Viewers who haven't read the books actually have an advantage when seeing the movie because they are not entering with any preconceived notions about the characters. The movie is definitely worth seeing, regardless of whether you have read the book. Vampires may not be real, but the love between Edward and Bella certainly is, and their story will lure you in, whether you want it to or not.




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