The new, full-length trailer for teen-vampire love story Twilight, releasing wide November 21, into that lucrative slot vacated by the latest entry in the Harry Potter series, is now online after an Access Hollywood (or was it Entertainment Tonight?) premiere, and I can totally see the appeal, even if some of the action seems nipped from 2006’s The Covenant, and Robert Pattinson’s ridiculous hairstyle seems curiously inspired by Billy Joel’s “Keepin’ the Faith.”

Adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s popular series of young adult novels, and directed by Catherine Hardwicke, it’s a Romeo & Juliet-type thing about an immortal bloodsucker and a regular human girl, with rampaging “bad vampires” and all the complications that presents. I’ve been told good things about the books — that they’re eminently readable, and not at all embarassingly done — and advance tracking for movie is huge, so I need to resign myself to the fact that I might be intermittently writing about this series for several years. This is great for Stewart, who’s turned in a variety of mostly good work since 2002’s Panic Room. Having not yet seen anything with Pattinson (who’s also a musician, in fall-back fashion), I’m a bit more suspicious… are there projects for which Shane West and Jared Leto are not available? OK, not fair. Pattinson’s a lot younger, I guess. Still… watch that ‘do, chief; a height of five-plus inches nudges you inexorably toward douche-nozzle status.