twilight: new moon

ok, i will admit, this one is better than the first. granted, thats not saying much, considering that the first twilight movie was crippled by an incompetent director. this time around we actually get a strong director who knows how to tell a story that can be understood! the story is this: the girl loves the aloof vampire boy, but he left, so she starts to fall for kind werewolf boy. thats about all you need to know. the story was set up in the last film and it doesnt have any sort of resolution in this film. this is to be expected, due to this uninteresting love triangle needs to last through five movies, so there is no way they would actually have anything of significance in the second film, right? so why did we have to watch it then? i dont know... one thing i will say for this movie, though, taylor lautner does a great job as jacob. when he is on screen the film works, it pulls together and gets moving. when he is gone it is reduced to mopey dark teenage angst. i dont know what 'it' is, but he has got 'it'!