Fully enjoyed this. It does fairly well at maintaining the Disney image, without being too "soft" for today's expectations.

Total waste of the ticket price. Unless you're into gratuitous sex and violence and bad 1940's novels.

I can only hope that the rest of the books are as well represented in the movies. I saw the movie before I read the books, so was able to visualize certain scenes as they appeared in the movie while I read the book, and my experience was definitely enhanced by having access to both forms of the story. May take my son tonight. Glad my daughter talked me into seeing it with her! It is neither a typical teen-romance movie, nor a typical vampire flick. Very well done, had me captured from the first Biology class scene!