New Moon is a huge imprvmnt over the direction & acting in Twilight. Tho most will dismss this as Robert P craze, I thght his perfrmance ws the best w/ the poss excption of Aro. He captured the agony & tortured nuances well. Kristen S. did fine consdring she is in every scene but she missd ways to convey the agony of true love lost. Impressed with Taylor L.- didnt have very high expectations (byond the hype of his physique) bt ws pleasntly surprised. Sadly the rest of Cullens left me cold (ha- no pun intended.) Alice's performance was amatuerish and Jasper looked like a 70s throwback. I was expcting a movie based on the action of the werewolf & Volturi sequences; but ws pleasantly surprised (but not blown away) w/ the feel of heartbreak.