The story line is truer to the book. The characters are more believable. Kristen Stewart plays a stronger, though broken, Bella instead of the stuttering angsty teenage girl we saw in the first movie. Having Bella correlate to the books made the movie version more believable, made the love and longing between the characters more real. Thank you to the directors, producers, and everyone else for NOT shooting this movie with a blue or green filter. It was the most annoying thing about the first movie. The colors were rich and the movie was humerous when it was supposed to be and not just because someone made a poorly acted face and the scene wasn't re-shot. This far surpassed the first movie.