‘Breaking Dawn’ keeps ‘Twilight’ magic alive

 

 

I’m not ashamed to admit that I like the Twilight movie saga.

I can admit that watching Bella choose between bestiality and necrophilia is very intriguing, and the newest installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part One does a bang up-job of displaying the struggle that Bella must go through.

It also reminds us not to reproduce with the undead.

In Breaking Dawn: Part One, Bella Swan, played by the lackluster Kristen Stewart, is about to embark on her next journey with the love of her life the vampire Edward Cullen, played by real-life dirty boy Robert Pattinson.

The two are set to walk down the aisle and become man and wife, which happens successfully and in the most romantic and expensive way. For a group of vampires, the Cullens create the most extravagant and jealousy-inducing wedding I think I’ve ever seen in a movie.

The film continues to be less and less of a family film and creeps into the category of soft-core porn when Bella and Edward take their honeymoon on a private island off the coast of Brazil.

The point where they struggled to have sex because of Edward’s massive strength is the point where I covered my 12-year-old sister’s eyes.

But alas, it seemed to go off without a hitch, aside from the bruises and broken bed frame. I did, however, have several questions I asked myself after the fact – none of which are appropriate for a college newspaper.

Somehow, the film continues with the “impossible” creation of a zygote inside of Bella’s perfect stomach, which set off a frenzy of panic and dismay in both the Cullen family and their werewolf enemies.

Pacts were made, treaties were broken and the family was at war with the clan of werewolves, trying their hardest to protect what was a miracle in some eyes and a curse in others.

Throughout the war going on in his family, Edward still seemed to figure out how to be his romantic, mysterious self, which made all the female hearts in the audience melt in some cases.

He was suave, sexy and pretty much everything you want in a man who may or may not have blood.

In the end, Bella suffers, gets super skinny and eventually dies in order to give birth to her baby girl, with the most hideous name, Renesemee, only to come back to life as a blood-hungry vampire and leave a cliff hanger for part two to sum up.

In the end, the film was great, hands down.

The movie business is a pain in the butt when they try to double up on cash by making two installments and taking all of my cash, but I think it may be worth it in the end.

I do hate that we have wait to see the second installment in order to find out the ending because let’s face it, I don’t read books. But kudos to Stephanie Meyer for bringing me into this trend they call Twilight and making me a die-hard fan.