Avatar is James Cameron's CGI created world, and sadly those CGI creations is also the lone real strength of the movie. Cameron tries to tell a story both more epic and grand than he got runtime for, but he also downplay too much of the smaller pieces needed to make an epic tale.
The overall story is both grand and decent. Grand because he pitch a new world, a future where we interact with other species and creative technological impacts. But also only decent because the story ain't original when you get past the the new world creations and the avatars. He hides a lame ass story in a CGI creation hoping to impress enough moviegoers to make up for all funds going into it, and there he succeeds. He doesn't succeed on the movie though, and after finally watching it I'm really happy it didn't get any of the big Oscars. It just doesn't deserve them.
Still. It's well worth watching. There's some really creative pitches on the locals, their customs and interactions with animals. And there's some great scenery, much thanks to the imagination behind the special places of Pandora. This is a simple entertainment tale told in the same mold as simple CGI action movies does their thing. It's not epic, but it's spectacular. And sometimes that's all you need from your time at the cinema.
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