Updated On: 25 November, 2011 07:45 PM IST | | Suprateek Chatterjee
Breaking Dawn Part 1, the penultimate in the series, is better than its predecessors, which is like saying a certain politician is better because he or she is less corrupt than the others. With director Bill Condon, the man who directed the rousing Dreamgirls and the even better Kinsey, at the helm, one had higher hopes from this installment.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
A; Fantasy, Adaptation
Dir: Bill Condon
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Kristin Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Michael Sheen, Anna Kendrick
Rating: * *u00a0 (out of 5)

After the Harry Potter series earlier this year, it's the much-loved Twilight series' turn to get a two part finale. The phenomenally popular books written by Stephenie Meyer, which in turn have spawned an inexplicably popular series of movies, are what you might call 'critic-proof' - you can criticise them all you want, but none of that is going to make so much as a scratch on this franchise's sparkling surface.