With Breaking Dawn, director Bill Condon has fashioned the best looking film of the franchise. In this latest installment of the wildly popular franchise, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and her vampire soul mate Edward (Robert Pattinson) prepare for the wedding of the century, the honeymoon of a millennium, and the pregnancy of a lifetime. They must also deal with the unpredictable mood swings of love sick marsupial Jacob (Taylor Lautner). I'll give Condon this; He manages to take the goofier elements of the source material, and finds a way to make those elements a lot less goofy than you'd expect. In particular, I was surprisingly moved by the much talked about imprinting scene. Furthermore, I actually quite enjoyed the epic honeymoon sequence. It was sweet and unexpectedly sexy. Of course, the majority of the dialogue remains cornball. This is essentially soap opera fodder and features characters gazing into each others' eyes and pledging their undying love to one another, but I suppose I understand the appeal even if this stuff isn't really for me. This installment is a little too long (and this is only but half of the finale--Breaking Dawn Part 2 opens next November) and I found myself laughing at a fair share of the proceedings (there's a hilariously over the top sequence in which a pack of wolves communicate through telepathic voice over), but again, Condon is talented enough to make a lot of this stuff tolerable. And he gets a terrific performance out of Kristen Stewart (this is far and away her best work in the series). The scenes towards the end of Bella's pregnancy are particularly effective. The birth sequence is well handled and while its designed to keep the film within the parameters of a PG-13 rating, its still fairly unsettling. In the end, I feel like those who are crucifying this movie and over analyzing it are being a little too harsh. This isn't Shakespeare. It isn't even Star Wars. Stephenie Meyer might not be the best writer but she certainly knows her audience. And while I have no problem poking a little fun at Twilight, I know better than to poke fun at Twilight fans. I value my life.