Honeymoon’s over with ‘Breaking Dawn’ Blu-Ray release

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The best you can say about The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, which makes its Blu-Ray release at midnight tonight, is that it’s the most interesting film in a series devoted to the least interesting personalities imaginable. The central love triangle of bland high school beauty Bella, mopey vampire Edward and petulant teen wolf Jacob sets the dreary tone for the whole franchise. Faithful to a fault to Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling books, the films present a huge supporting class of Bella’s classmates, Edward’s vampire siblings and Jacob’s wolfpack buddies, almost none of whom register as distinct characters. If there were fewer of them, maybe they’d have more of a chance to stand out. I wish someone would build an Odd Couple spin-off Anna Kendrick’s passive-aggressive teenager and Ashley Greene’s cheerful, clairvoyant bloodsucker.

Fortunately with Breaking Dawn Part 1, director Bill Condon proves disinclined to dwell on moony teen angst and sets a snappy pace. Edward recounts a dark chapter from his past when he hunted murderers — “Just like Dexter,” I wanted him to say — and Condon makes a thematic appropriate shout-out to Bride of Frankenstein (a nod to director James Whale, subject of Condon’s Gods and Monsters). Breaking Dawn wastes little time with the preparations for Bella and Edward’s wedding, and apart from a lupine tantrum or two from Jacob, gets the couple hitched within the first half hour. The flowery bowers of the wedding ceremony aren’t so kitschy as to be outright ridiculous.