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From the writer-directors of Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Disaster Movie, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer finally gave the not so Twilight fans something to laugh about. But, they did it all for nothing.
The story is about a sulky yet hot tempered Becca Crane (Jenn Proske), who returns to Sporks, Washington, to live with her sheriff dad. At school, she meets extremely pale, Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter), part of the mysterious Sullen family of vampires. Also bitten by Becca's charm is Jacob White (Chris Riggi) an often shirtless Native-American werewolf.
Becca's bloodsucker-lust soon attracts a dangerous clan of nomadic vampires who don't share the Sullens' ethical reservations about drinking human blood.
Friedberg & Seltzer basically rehash Twilight sequences and “attack” predictable and easy pop-culture targets such as the Jonas Brothers, Tiger Woods, the Jersey Shore cast and etc.
The real problems are that there are not enough comedic elements and if there was then it was too far between each of the scenes. For example, one of the Sullen’s goes crazy when Becca cuts herself and starts bleeding. The joke is that he’s so hungry, he imagines her head as a large burger. However, the scene is unfunny and generally illogical since he’s a vampire and doesn’t eat meat and so a burger supposedly wouldn’t be very appealing to him. Vampires don’t eat meat, they don’t like them. That’s what makes them vampires.
They even managed to make the funniest people like The Hangovers’ Ken Jeong unfunny, when he shows up late in the movie as a Volturi.
On the plus side, the lead roles were well casted. For example, Proske nails Kristen Stewart’s stutter delivery, gape-mouthed stares, and constant fidgeting with her hair. Matt Lanter deserves some respect for doing a good job for brooding his way to a passable Edward.
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