Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2

Rating 8 out of 10

I know.  I'm too old and too male to be enjoying these Twilight movies/books.  My daughter Stacy got me started on the first book.  It took me a couple tries before I finally go it going.  I have been reading the books (listening to the audio books) each year just before the next movie comes out.  For the most part the books are always better.  This movie was by far the best of the bunch.

If you haven't followed along here is what you missed.  Young moody girl moves to a dreary rainy Washington town.  Falls in love with the tall pale white guy with a spiky haircut who just happens to be a vampire.  Amazingly enough that only makes her want him more.  When they do break up she becomes close with a family friend who of course turns out to be a werewolf and hates vampires.  Of course.  They have all the usual relationship issues.  Other vampires coming to town to kill them, battles with the other werewolves, problems with the Volturi (King of the vamps that lives in Italy), ect.

They work through all the problems and eventually get married with the plans of moody girl (still moody after all this) being eventually turned into a vampire to spend eternity with tall pale vampire.  They wait until after marriage to have sex but unfortunately she becomes pregnant on the honeymoon while she is still human.  This is a bad thing and almost kills her giving birth.  The problems don't stop there.  Seems the first year after becoming a vampire is the worst.  You can't control yourself and kill WAY too many humans.  Having strict rules the vampires are against turning small children into vamps.  They can't control themselves and wipe out whole villages.   The Volturi hears of the baby and decide this is a reason to wipe out the whole Cullen clan.  Maybe it's because they gave her the awful name of Renesmee?

One of the vampires in the Cullens can see into the future and sees the Volturi is definitely coming.  Luckily in the Vampire world justice is not swift.  They have a couple months to prepare and they travel the globe looking for friendly vampires to go to battle with them.

The big battle is full of bloodsuckers and werewolves duking it out in entertaining fashion.  It ends it a way that will satisfy those that have read the books and those that have not.  The twist they talk about it a good one.  Overall I liked it.