Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second film in the titular Twilight Saga. Starring Anna Kendrick, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart. A sulking teenager goes to Italy and sulks with very old vampires.

As the title implies, New Moon focuses on the third wheel of the Twilight Saga, Jacob (Taylor Lautner). To prep for his werewolf role in the film, he had to put on several pounds of muscle or else be recast. Lautner was up to the challenge, but his easy-going acting style doesn't match up to the high anxiety and/or mumblings of the rest of the cast. Much of the motion picture drags until the climax in Italy. Michael Sheen is a particular delight as the vampire leader Aro putting in a gleeful performance that somehow makes even his eyebrows campy. If Twilight was the birth of an intriguing response, New Moon is spinning its wheels with nothing much of consequence until the next sequel rolls along.

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New Moon (2009)