DVD Review: Twilight

In the wake of blockbuster book-based cash cows like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings comes Hollywood's latest offering, Twilight, this time with an influx of rabid fangirls. Twilight is every teenage girl's dream come true: a drab, ordinary year at high school is interrupted by the introduction of an perfectly handsome and well-mannered boy (Robert Pattinson) who saves a young girl's life(Kristen Stewart), makes her his girlfriend, and the two fall deeply in love. Oh, and also he is a vampire. Many will quibble over the immaterial untruths the movie tells by deviating from the book, but fortunately I will not harp on said untruths, since I have never read Twilight. What I will say is that while Twilight was clearly designed to be some sort of female masturbatory aid, it also functions adequately as a major motion picture. For those of us who aren't steamed up by the teenage romance, there also happens to be a plot. The bad vampires want Bella, and the good vampires do too. But being the good guys, they restrain themselves from eating her and protect her from the bad guys. The fights are well-choreographed and the special effects are good, and if you can drown out the noise of shrieking fangirls, Twilight can be a mildly entertaining fantasy movie. That's right, girls. Fantasy.