The "Twilight Saga: Eclipse” Trailer Charitably Rates A 3rd Grade Reading Level

After a stock shot from a helicopter-mounted camera zooming over green woods towards a lake nestled in the mountains, the characters of the Twilight saga once again come stumbling forth to present drama and turn into wolves and, apparently, get engaged to vampires. The script, chopped up for the trailer, is a mix of dramatic statement and narrative exposition. To understand it in written form, you would need to have completed the third grade, according to readability tests.

Here are the words, in order, from the trailer.

“Jacob. What are you doing.”

“I’m here to warn you.”

“Just leave now.”

“She has the right to know.”

“What.”

“We’ve been tracking the situation in Seattle for a while. Unexplained disappearances. Killings.”

“Someone’s creating an army.”

“An army of vampires?”

“They’re coming here.”

“This means an ugly fight, with lives lost.”

“We’re in.”

“As long as we get to kill some vampires.”

“It’s time.”

“Yes it is.”

Average number of characters per word: 4.32.
Average number of syllables per word : 1.38.
Average number of words per sentence: 4.

On the Gunning-Fogg index, which evaluates the number of years of education needed for comprehesion, it scores a 3.95, just slightly higher than the text of “Rock-a-bye Baby.” Four other different tests give it a reading level appropriate for grades 0, 2, 2 and 6.

Also Jacob is only briefly shirtless once. IT’S TIME! YES IT IS!