Bubble Gum Fantasy and Grown Up Torture in Newest Twilight

Teenage girls love the “Twilight” series and why wouldn’t they? Between Kristen Stewart’s compelling portrayal as Bella Swan and hunky supernatural dudes like Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, there’s enough hormones and repressed sexual desire for a busload of catholic school girls to get their fix. However, in the end, the newest addition to the “Twilight” series, “Eclipse,” in spite of continuing the same motif as its predecessors, and even adding a bit more action, still can’t cut the mustard as a mediocre film.

For starters, if you haven’t watched the first two movies in the series, right now is a bad time to start. There’s just so much back-story and so many characters to follow that you’ll be so lost that you won’t appreciate the soap opera-type drama for what it is, addictive. Yes, the drama presented in “Eclipse” is just like the stuff that Rick James spoke about in his stint on the “Dave Chappelle Show,” cocaine. Regardless of if you can’t stand the concept or the characters, you’ll sit through the entire movie, yelling at the screen, wanting Bella to make the right choice [in your mind] or for the vamps and weres to defeat the newborn army.

For a film that can’t stand firm on its own feet, aside from some excellent cinematography, [which show off some beautiful landscapes throughout] and cool fight scenes [easily the best in the series] to still be able to captivate you the way it does at times is a pretty cool thing.

The only problem is never during this rapture or hypnosis, [unless you’re a teenage girl] can you honestly say this is a quality film. It bounces around so much and never develops the plethora of emotion it has and makes you feel that there is any real support or purpose.

Throughout the film, Bella’s father, Charlie [Billy Burke] and Jacob [Lautner] continually ask her to separate herself from Edward [Pattinson] and figure things out for herself. Ironically, if this film would have spent some more time developing its characters and separated itself from this soap opera atmosphere, it could have appealed to a more mainstream audience, instead of the popcorn and bubblegum crowd that feel right at home with “just because” answers that lack any depth and permanency.

However, for that to happen, this film would have to be a TV sitcom, so perhaps making millions by throwing together a mish-mash story with great-looking characters works.

Hopefully the smart movie-goer knows better.

Even if you have seen the last two movies, if you’re not a hardcore fan, you know, with a life to live, you may have to go back to the older films and catch up before heading to the theater and may get annoyed with the lack of depth. After three films, to see the same themes going on, with Bella still unable to make a choice and Jacob and Edward at each others throats, and mere measly events occurring in between, it’s easy to get fed up.

Make a choice Bella and put a steak in this series once and for all.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13821 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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