Chris Weitz came on board for this film and he’s had an interesting career. He’s the son of Susan Kohner from Imitation of Life and novelist and clothing designer John Weitz. He and his brother Paul directed American Pie and About a Boy before he had a horrible experience directing The Golden Compass, leaving the film due to the pressure and coming back when Anand Tucker left. New Line was horrible to deal with. He said, “It was a terrible experience because I was able to shoot what I wanted to — and then the cut of the movie was taken away from me and any reference to religion or religious ideas was removed.”

Since directing this movie, he’s written Disney’s live action Cinderella, The Creator and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

On Bella Swan’s (Kristen Stewart) eighteenth birthday, she has a dream that she is an old woman and her boyfriend Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) is still young. She goes to see his family for her birthday and is nearly killed by his brother Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) when she gets a paper cut. Yes, this happens. This also causes their breakup and the Cullens to leave behind the small town of Forks.

It takes a long time to get over the depression for Bella, but one day, she goes to the movies with her friend Jessica (Anna Kendrick). After some bikers scare everyone, she realizes that she likes the rough stuff and misses Edward. The fact that The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction series originally titled Master of the Universe and published by E.L. James episodically on fan websites under the pen name “Snowqueen Icedragon” is not lost on me.

She starts hanging out with Jacob (Taylor Lautner) until he becomes part of the wolf pack and cuts all his hair off. Now he has a tattoo and just spends time following Sam Uley (Chaske Spencer), the Alpha. This may start reminding you of a David DeCoteau movie.

There’s still Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) and Laurent (Edi Gathegi) looking for revenge and soon, we learn what Sam and Jacob can do as they transform into wolves and destroy Laurent. Victoria barely escapes as Bella is kept safe. That said, Alice (Ashley Greene), the precognitive vampire, sees a vision where Bella jumps off a cliff, so Edward decides to go to Rome and ask to be killed by the Volturi, the council of vampires. Alice finds that Bella is alive and they save Edward just in time, but now the Volturi want to kill Bella for knowing that vampires exist. She offers her life for Edward’s and they agree that maybe she should be a vampire someday. She agrees and asks the Cullens and they like the idea except that Edward says, “Well, we’d have to be married” because he’s not giving up the vampire without a ring. She says that she’ll consider it and whew. New Moon everyone.

At this point in the story, the Cullens are the young X-Men, Jacob and his people are like the stuff you see on hunting shirts at Wal-Mart and the Volturi are the goth kids who make their own clothes and stand in front of Hot Topic and scare the kids who just want to buy a My Chemical Romance Funko Pop. All of these references are dated but this movie was made in 2009, so there you go.

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