Last night I took my 11 year old niece out to see New Moon for her birthday. It was this past summer that she introduced me to the first movie; Twilight. I was skeptical at first but now I am totally hooked. Although I did not read Twilight I did read New Moon after watching the first movie. I also had Brian reserve a non-fiction vampire book from the library for me so that I could know exactly what I was dealing with. The best part about the series is that it’s not scary and there is a love triangle. Those are pretty much my two movie enjoyment requirements: romance and not scary. In fact, if there is a possibility of frightful material, I will double check it on Themoviespoiler.com which is just that: movie spoilers for all the latest movies.

The Vatican’s culture council leader, Monsignor Franco Perazzolo’s recent statement has branded the film as deviant “This film is nothing more than a moral vacuum with a deviant message and as such should be of concern.” The Vatican condemning New Moon comes as something of a surprise as they have recently approved of the Harry Potter film and called the sequel to The Da Vinci Code “harmless entertainment”. I have to disagree; the vampires v. ware wolves romance that I saw last night was was nothing more than harmless entertainment. If you’re trying to get your teenaged daughter to enjoy reading, these’ll do it. They contain everything girls love, including an “emotional plot”  that will keep them eagerly turning from page to page.

It seems that New Moon is a film that people really loved (me included) or really hated. The movie pulled in $140.7M in its opening weekend making it third on the all time domestic chart behind last year’s $158.4 million opening weekend for the Batman blockbuster “The Dark Knight” and 2007’s $151.1 million haul for “Spider-Man 3.” Not to shabby. While neither Edward or Jacob are healthy relationships for Bella, millions of fans have divided on who will get Bella? For the record, I’m on team Jake….until I read Eclipse anyways.