At their lush honeymoon villa, Edward is every inch the gentleman - too much so, perhaps, for Bella.
Upon receiving the wedding invitation, the first reaction of Bella’s friend Jacob Black ( Taylor Lautner) is to go wolf and race into the forest in a snit, but he finally turns up to wish her well before the happy couple jets off to Rio, which is so little seen it scarcely seems worth the trip. Taking place in a lovely woodsy setting that could easily be the next estate over from the wedding-reception site in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, the nuptials of Bella Swan ( Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen ( Robert Pattinson) can plausibly be termed the “wedding of the century” only in the sense Edward means it when he tells his 18-year-old bride, “I’ve been waiting a century to marry you.” Drawn out to last nearly a half-hour onscreen, the gaiety of the preliminaries and ensuing event is encumbered by a strong sense of foreboding, not only because the world is coming to an end, as in Melancholia, but also because it means Bella will soon pass over from human life to the vampire side. The film is like a crab cake with three or four bits of crab surrounded by loads of bland stuffing, but many can’t tell the difference or don’t care, which will largely be true for its captive audience.
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On the basis of Breaking Dawn - Part 1, though, the same cannot be said of this series ender, which feels as bloated and anemic as Bella becomes during her pregnancy. Once the films came out, however, that talk stopped, so emphatically did the massive narrative incident justify the extended length. When the decision was made to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films to bring that blockbuster series to a close, there was cynical talk regarding mercenary motives to milk as many dollars as possible out of the franchise. Not that this will matter to the faithful who have devoured all 754 pages of Stephenie Meyer‘s series-climaxing tome and want to see as many as possible re-created on the screen, nor to those who have paid more than $1.8 billion worldwide to see the previous three installments in theaters, nearly all of whom will rush to see this one as soon as possible.
(Spoiler? Hardly.) But so little else occurs between these momentous events in Twilight: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 that you can practically hear every second ticking by while awaiting the payoff. Big things happen in this penultimate Twilight entry: Bella and Edward get married, she gets pregnant on their Brazilian honeymoon and almost perishes before giving birth, and finally, after four films and about 490 minutes of screen time depicting simmering desire and superhuman restraint, she wakes up with the red eyes of a vampire.
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