The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Movie Review By: Twilightish

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Movie Review

By: "T" From Twilightish

Today we have a guest movie review for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 from T. T writes for the number one Twilight fan site in the world. and we had the pleasure of meeting the girls from Twilightish two years ago at the Scream Awards and have kept in contact since. So who better to review the film then a true Twilight fan.

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) and starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, is the fourth installment of The Twilight Saga.

With a cinematically beautiful setting, Edward (Pattinson) and Bella (Stewart) share their vows with Iron and Wine’s Flightless Bird, American Mouth playing in the background – a nod to the first Twilight film and among the fans’ favorite songs. Once on their honeymoon, Edward and Bella consummate their relationship in what is likely one of the most anticipated film scenes of the past three years. However, for reasons including needing a PG-13 rating, the famed love-making scene is just shy of fade-to-black. Viewers do, however, get their backboard-breaking scene from the trailer.

Shortly after arriving at Isle Esme, Bella learns she is pregnant (don’t try to consider the biology of this) and is rushed back to the Cullen household where Carlisle can more closely monitor her. Here is where Edward and Bella’s marriage is first tested. The baby is draining Bella of all nutrition and she likely won’t last through the pregnancy. Bella is adamant about keeping her baby and Edward refuses to live if she doesn’t make it.

In one of the more grotesque birthing scenes on film, Condon stays true to the book as Edward bites his way through Bella’s uterus to remove the baby. Further, in this scene, Stewart shines as both a mother (the need for her baby’s survival outweighs her own) and a Scream Queen of the 21st century. With no time to let morphine settle, Stewart rivets the audience with screams of torture for several minutes – both from having her body ripped and broken apart and Edward’s vampire venom spreading in her body. By checking blogs or newspaper articles, you can see the various audience reactions to this part of the film, including someone passing out in the bathroom and smashing his face against a toilet.

It’s during the birthing and beyond where Stewart and Lautner give their strongest performances, and where Condon shows his best work. Upon learning of Bella’s death, her best friend Jacob (Lautner) goes outside and collapses in tears. Lautner is strong in this scene, and this film shows his best acting work to date. Condon effectively captures the true gritty nature of the birth, Jacob’s pain, Edward’s multiple emotions and the infamous imprinting scene, which was tastefully done and had the audience applauding.

Pattinson is best in light-hearted honeymoon scenes, when his laughter is palpable and he isn’t playing the infamous “brooding vampire.”

Out of all the Twilight films, Breaking Dawn has the best directing and acting, with the exception of a talking-wolf scene that should have been shot in any other way. You’ll be hard pressed to find a fan that doesn’t rank Breaking Dawn right up there with Catherine Hardwicke’s original Twilight.

After listening to hundreds of interviews from press conferences, junkets, and premieres, it’s evident that Condon, Stewart, Pattinson and Lautner had something special together in this film. Now we just need some nuggets to keep us going until November 2012 when the final installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Par 2 hits theaters. The hidden Volturi teaser during the credits is a start…

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