My interpretation of what elusive robert denby was saying was that - in this film - Alice seemed like the only one 'behaving' and trying to make sure that the people who most loved one-another had a chance to be together. But I think that may have been more a function of the lack of time to add in more people doing more things and still maintain both the 'Jacob matures into a werewolf' and the 'Bella&Edward as Romeo&Juliet' things.
I give a tiny bit of credit that the film opened with them basically saying: "Look; see? We're going to rip off Shakespeare here!" With the Romeo & Juliet video in class and all. [Had it not been mentioned before it was re-done, it would've seemed more of a crass rip-off, rather than a crass 'homage'.
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I agree with others here: in general, Jacob, Edward's 'father' and 'mother', and Bella's dad's friends, have been presented as nice, relatively stable people who are proactive. But with the insanely depressed nature of Bella (including adult-onset night terrors, but mostly three months of basically not moving she was so intensely depressed, wandering off unannounced, then what amounted to suicidal behavior), Bella's father should've at least made sure she was seen by a psychiatrist, but probably hospitalized for such intense depression. But with the others, I do just think it was the limitations of a two-hour film that made the focus so narrow as to only accent Alice in that regard this time out (not complaining: more Ashley Greene screen time is far from objectionable.
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Topic: Alice the only thing close to a likable character? (Read 19594 times)
