Variety:
Laughter, disbelief and a sort of horrified exhilaration are all perfectly sane reactions to "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2," a doozy of a finale to a series that, until now, has largely taken its dramatic cues from its maddeningly inert heroine. Not anymore: With Bella reborn as a bloodthirsty, butt-kicking vampire mama, this second of two Bill Condon-directed installments clears a low bar to stand easily as the franchise's most eventful and exciting entry. Admittedly, much of the credit should go to a jaw-dropping extended climax that will give fans something to chew on besides the delicate matter of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's offscreen romance -- not that a movie this commercially invincible requires too many talking points.
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The final installment of the immortal Bella/Edward romance will give its breathlessly awaiting international audience just what it wants.
If the entire five-part, 608-minutes-all-in running time of The Twilight Saga means anything at all, it is that vampires are the ultimate fairy-tale characters, as this is a story that literally ends happily ever after and forever for all concerned. Anyone who has seen even one of the previous cinematic installments of Stephenie Meyer’s endlessly protracted cross-species love story basically knows what to expect here, and the multitudes who have seen them all will jam theaters the world over in the coming weeks to experience the consummation so devoutly to be wished: the ultimate and imperishable union of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. The $1 billion generated by the first four entries in the U.S. and $2.5 billion generated worldwide will be increased considerably by the time Breaking Dawn finally reaches its dusk.
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“And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.” Stephenie Meyer’s series of Twilight novels closes with that tenderly mangled sentiment, and it also flashes on screen at the end of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the second dose of a two-part film based on Meyer’s fourth and final book.
As bad writing goes, it’s unimprovable, and its appearance in unapologetic black and white perhaps shows how warmly director Bill Condon and his screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg have embraced the last chapter of the Twilight story in all its transcendent loopiness.
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And so the sun sets on Twilight, the mega-movie franchise that’s relieved its target audience of no less than $2billion.
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Guardian:
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as embattled parents of a CGI-enhanced daughter drive the final stake into this heavily bleeding franchise
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