Breaking Dawn Part 2 Posters

For a critic, the Twilight phenomenon is a little like The Da Vinci Code crossed with James Cameron’s titanic . An ordinary critique of Stephenie Meyer’s wildly populargothic teen romances of vampire amor — the first of which is now a monster hit from director Catherine Hardwicke ( The Nativity Story ) — is a little like shooting pescado in a barrel … and just about as pointless. Not only are the critic’s efforts irrelevant to the massive, often obsessive (“Obsessive Twilight Disorder” is the self-diagnosis of many devotees), almost entirely female fan base, the elefante in the...