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MTV Movie Awards 2010: Everyone Twies Hard

You can't fault last night's MTV Movie Awards for a lack of effort: Enough awards were thrown at New Moon to incite ecstatic middle-school bloodletting, Betty White razzed Sandra Bullock, and Katy Perry's tan decolletage looked just like DJ Pauly D's ass. Everyone felt festive! But with lukewarm host Aziz Ansari leading the show and dubious winners filling the two-hour ceremony, MTV's annual romp felt ho-hum and spastic. Impressive, sort of. Time to figure out this mess and conclude with a full list of the night's winners.

First, the good stuff: For better or for worse, the MTV Movie Awards have a habit of attracting real stars. Watching Tom Cruise reprise his Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman in a raunchy dance alongside the less-ironic gyrations of Jennifer Lopez wasn't hilarious (or even trenchant in 2010), but the sheer spectacle was... well, a spectacle. Their gusto was a relief when weighed against the nervous reticence of many of the night's winners (like surprise victors Anna Kendrick and Amanda Seyfried). Sandra Bullock's much-hyped appearance culminated with a self-deprecating speech for the night's "Generation Award," and Will Smith, Russell Brand, and Paris Hilton made frequent appearances on camera. Lots to look at, if not love.

Unfortunately, the award segment of the ceremony kept cropping up and discoloring the orgiastic visuals. Aziz Ansari's move-it-along interjections felt as compulsory as the reenacted smooch that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart staged after winning the "Best Kiss" statue, and too many of the handouts were just baffling. I'm still processing Rain from Ninja Assassin winning for "Biggest Badass Star." Couldn't Zach Galifianakis have won that too? Robert Pattinson shouldn't be the only dude scoring multiple wins here -- especially if he can't get Kristen Stewart to stop squiggling out of a decent makeout session for our viewing pleasure.

Throw in pedestrian performances from Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera, a lackluster Twilight: Eclipse promo, and a heaping pile of under-bleeped profanities from Sean "Diddy" Combs and Twilight spokesman Peter Facinelli, and you're left with a ceremony that rarely rose above a two-star treat. Is it too late to pitch a heavily retooled ceremony called The Betty White Awards? Oh wait, we already did.

Here's the night's full list of winners.

Best Movie: The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Best Male Performance: Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Best Female Performance: Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Best Kiss: Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Global Superstar: Robert Pattinson

Best Breakout Star: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

Best Comedic Performance: Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover

Best Villain: Tom Felton, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Best Fight: Beyoncé Knowles vs. Ali Larter, Obsessed

Best WTF Moment: Ken Jeong, The Hangover

Best Scared-As-Sh*t Performance: Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer's Body

Biggest Badass Star: Rain

Generation Award: Sandra Bullock