Part one begins with Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire beau, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), marrying in a lavish, romantic outdoor ceremony. (Melissa Rosenberg once again wrote the adapted screenplay.) So much happens that you wonder, how can there be another entire film after this? Alas, there will be. "Breaking Dawn – Part 1," the first of two films adapted from the final book in Stephenie Meyer's series (with part two coming next year), serves as a placeholder for the ultimate finale but is jam-packed with developments in its own right. In a technological age in which Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" movies blends in seamlessly with everyone and everything around him, how are such sloppy visual effects still possible? Adam Sandler played opposite himself more convincingly in "Jack and Jill."īut we digress, because other movies are more fun to discuss. This latest installment has yet another new director – Bill Condon, a man capable of both panache ("Dreamgirls") and serious artistry ("Gods and Monsters"), little of which you'll see here – and yet again, the werewolves look jarringly out of place with their surroundings. But moments that should be pulsating with tension are usually hilarious because the special effects are still just so distractingly cheesy. The dialogue is, of course, ridiculous and the acting ranges from stiff to mopey. The fourth movie in the freakishly popular girl-vamp-wolf love triangle series is so self-serious, it's hard not to cackle at it. "Laughable" probably isn't the word the makers of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1" were aiming for, but there it is laughter, at all the wrong places.
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