The Metro gave Twilight 3 out of 5 stars saying “True, Eclipse is at times ridiculously cheesy, but it’s well made (apart from the odd dodgy CGI wolf) and there are knowing – and humorous winks to the film’s penchant for over-egged melodrama. The three leads are all fantastic delivering committed performances which are probably better than the material demands. The saga shows no signs of letting up just yet – thank God, there are two more to come.”
The Guardian rated the film the same starring but said ” But that would be to detract from the operatic, high-voltage kick that its occult stuff supplies. It’s not often you find yourself commending a contemporary teen-oriented franchise for sticking to the old values of character and narrative, but Eclipse, in its sulky, lip-biting way, manages it.” The review also mentions that it is the films seriousness which makes it successful.
This is concurred by the Telegraph who say that “It’s easy to knock the Twilightfilms, with their taste for cheesy special effects and teenage hyper-ventilation, but the feelings that course through them are honest enough — just your average old-fashioned romantic-masochistic teen-dream rapture. Only with sharper teeth.”
Digital Spy, thinks that the makers of Twilight knows what its fans want and said that thankfully for die hard fans the film has susbstance “it’s a definite step up from New Moon and might even leave the harshest critics just a teeny bit excited about what’s in store come the two-part Breaking Dawn… The countdown to November 2011 begins…” Indeed it does Digital Spy, indeed it does.
The new Twilight film, Eclipse has done pretty well with the critics considering it’s a film which is directed at teenage girls full of hormones with a thing about vampires or more precisely Robert Pattinson and the wolf played by Taylor Lautner. Whilst the fans clearly adore it, the critics have given it a consistent rating of 3 out of 5. The general consenus is that it is the film’s emotion and seriousness which makes it better than your average teenage romance.
