"These aren't vampires, these are faries"

Twilight seems to have many teenage girls under its spell, after all the talk and love for the books and film I've heard around, I just had to see what actual critics thought of it, and it seems they are very underwhelmed. I, personally, did not expect the film to be as good as its hype made it seem, things like this are talked up so much that it just turns out to be a dissapointment when it doesn't turn out as amazing as everyone said it would be.

I enjoyed the review on mtvs' site however, because it was a compilation of more than one review, meaning you get more than just one opinion on the flim verses the novel. A review by Kurt Loder, who is not a fan of Stephanie Meyers original series, was mainly positive. Although he is botherd by the fact that a lot of the elements you think of when you think Vampire were taken away, such as coffins, bat transformations, or crucfix panics, but likes the fact that they cut back on all the "God-awful lovebird jabber", and get into the action a little more quickly. On the other hand, Justin Chang at Variety thinks that Director Catherine Hardwicke can't seem to get inside the head of Bella, and makes i the situation seem less passionate, and more ill considered than anything, and ends up making the the romance and supernatural aspects seem rushed.
Of the revies compiled into this, it seems Roger Edbert was the only one who took into consieration the audience Twlight was directed at. He sees the flim as "lush and beautiful", and thinks it will do well at appealing the audience it was made for.

Seeing as I have yet to see the movie or read the books, I can't really agree or disagree with any of these reviews, but I have learned that when I decided to check them out for myself, to watch the movie before reading the novels, or, apparently, the movie will just end up me angry, like the rest of the huge fans of the books.