Whether you're a devoted Twihard, an absolute hater or someone who's still just completely bewildered by�Stephenie Meyer's�oeuvre, you must give the�Twilight saga this ? these stories are incredible, unabashed distillations of teenage (or just teenage-at-heart) female fantasy. Male equivalents, like, say, most superhero stories, have come to dominate the mainstream and fill the summer blockbuster schedule to such an extent that the�Twilight�films are striking simply in how very different they are. And how crazily well they target certain girlish pleasure centers with their themes of eternal romance, playing house with the advantages of unlimited vampiric wealth, and being the one that everyone wants without even trying.
The wildest though hardly the best chapter of the series, franchise closer�Breaking Dawn ? Part 2 will also be basically bulletproof in terms of box office. That leaves the film free to indulge in the giddy insanity that also colored�Part 1, with its bruising, bed-breaking sex, accelerated monstrous pregnancy and Cronenbergian birth sequence. Like its predecessor,�Part 2�was directed by�Bill Condon. It picks up with Bella (Kristen Stewart) freshly vampirized by her husband Edward (Robert Pattinson) after the difficult birth of their daughter Renesmee�? initially a CG-enhanced infant and, later, Mackenzie Foy ? and skips the surreal, semi-metaphorical treatments of sex and fecundity for more movie-friendly but less interesting action.
Renesmee, you see, is aging rapidly, moving from baby to adorable little girl�at an unusual rate ? and when she's spotted bounding high in the air the way only a mini half-immortal can, she's mistaken for a child vampire, the creation of which is against the rules. The sinister Volturi, led by Aro (Michael Sheen, in a performance that goes beyond camp to…
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