Mike, it is not strange that Carlisle Cullen is only a few years older than his kids because they are adopted. This is mentioned several times throughout the book.

The film is not perfect and certainly will not be nominated for any Oscars. However, I believe that Summit Entertainment, Stephenie Meyer and Catherine Hardwicke agreed to make this movie for the sake of the fans all over the world who have wildly embraced the Twilight Saga. As a huge fan of the series, I am very pleased with the movie. Edward, Bella, Charlie, James and Alice were excellently portrayed and very close to how I’d imagined they would be.

Obviously the book is better, but what movie does not fall short of the novel that it is based upon? You simply can not fit everything into two hours from a 498-page novel. I have hope for New Moon that with a bigger budget it'll be an even better movie. Nonetheless, I enjoyed Twilight and will be seeing it again in the theater.

I think that they could have done a little better. A few more dramatic pauses, directing Edward towards being more chivalrous instead of pained, and Bella less brooding would have helped. They seemed to just like each other out of nowhere. It seems the makers of the movie relied on people reading the book to understand their lust instead of portraying it on film. Edward seems curt and harsh and Bella standoffish and rude. That's nothing like them in the book! More mood music and dramatic pauses would add to it. I'm sure New Moon will be better after they read the reviews. What can you say? It's not easy making a lwo budget book into movie. I liked it, but didn't love it like I loved the books

one thing i don't really understand about all of these twilight reviews is that while they bash the movie (very rightly, so), at the end, everyone puts "and fans of the book will probably love it"

i may be one of the bigger of the fans of stephanie meyers vampire romance books. i went through the books without stopping, essentially, and adored every minute i read them. so naturally, i was VERY excited when the movie was going to come out. and i am also a fourteen year old female. the PERFECT audience member.

but WOW that was the most disappointing cinematic experience TO DATE. HORRID. ATROCIOUS. TERRIBLE. UNFATHOMABLY "LET-DOWNING" (shall i say?)

i am so furious that this movie was even released to the public. i hated it. SO unbelievably much. it was nothing like the books and the more i think about it, the more i find fault in the movie.

edward, for one, was supposed to have been eloquent, smart, charming, kind, brave, sincere, etc. and he was supposed to have graduated from several ivy league schools. he was accepted into Dartmouth, for example. but wow, robert pattison. sure, he is devastatingly gorgeous, but they dont hand out brains, good looks, and talent in one sitting, any more do they? edward seemed to have just watched a couple episodes of gossip girl and guess that melodrama and pensive faces would be exactly what the hormone ridden girls of america want. well yea, babe, but there has to be a little more to win us over! edward looked really pained right before he spoke, like he had to think really hard before he could form a sentence. everything he did was really awkard, and yea, edward was supposed to be kind of nonchalant about some things, but everything the movie edward did seemed really random and had just about the same amount of grace as napoleon dynamite. and why was he attracted to bella again? and BOY was he. freaking stalker. edward in the book seemed infatuated, but a really good kind that would flatter a girl. but in the movie, edward was just really creepy. really creepy.

and bella was sarcastic, rude, awkward, standoffish, had little personality. she seemed ticked at the world the whole time and had weird spasms like the whole movie. (especially when edward said she might have to go. MAN she looked like she belonged in an asylum) and was she really that pretty? um...not so much. what seems odd to me is that i actually liked the character in the book....i still do, it's just my memories of her are forever marred.

and carlisle. honey, why do you remind me so much of michael jackson? it's probably the ungodly fake pale skin and those cheek bones. he was so charismatic and thoughtful in the book. he had as little personality as....well toby flenderson from the office. carlisle has a better voice, yea, but not exactly someone you'd want to be family members with. (like bella)
and the whole I WANT TO BE A VAMPIRE thing seemed really random and like it sprung out of nowhere. and the whole thing about them being in love seemed about as real as santa claus, you know? so forced.

the rest of the cullens had little personality, as well, because most of them didn't even have speaking lines. the cullens were my favorite characters in the book. oh, and jacob. the only person who was casted well was jacob. oh how i love him. in the movie, he was fine, though we didn't see much of him. we weren't supposed to really know him yet in the first book, so that's okay.

oh and why was mike actually attractive? i thought he was pretty hot. he was supposed to be more like the common nerd who hangs around that one poor girl all the time, and is so sweet, but cant take a hint.

and why were eric and that other girl (i cant even remember her name, she left so little an imprint in my memory) talking about an article about bella for what seemed like half the movie? LAME.

hated this movie. god i give it a zero out of five stars.

The Cullen kids are adopted in the novel, excusing the close age