Simple shallow cartoon of a movie that looks spectacular.

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2010)

Well let me put it this way it's a beautiful looking cartoon without any of the parts of the best cartoons out there (see Pixar). The characters are paper thin, the enemy is laughably clichéd, the good guys are laughably perfect. The dialogue is laughably bad, (unobtanium - are you !@$&% kidding me UNOBTAINIUM?!). The script was just cut and pasted from other James Cameron movies, aliens, titanic, with a bit of Disney thrown in for good measure. The music is just as clichéd, lots of "stirring" orchestral pieces, lots of deep drum beats. The Na'Vi are seriously like some 1960s hippies idea of what a perfect race would be like. In fact much of the movie seems like it belongs back in the hippie era. The annoying thing here is that being a liberal myself I basically agree with the message behind the film but FOR GODS SAKE I DON'T NEED TO BE HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH IT EVER SECOND WITH AN IRON CLUB! Yes I think what was done to the natives WAS horrible, yes I think we still have a lot of learning to do, yes I think the bush administration was evil, yes we are destroying the environment yes yes yes!! I agree with you James now shut the !@$&% up and go make a REAL movie we can watch.
The only redeeming feature here is the visuals. And I have to say they really pulled it off here for the most part. The film is wonderful to look at. The beginning scenes where you are first introduced to the forest are almost truly beautiful. But even here they went too far, does every !@$&% thing have to be bio-luminescent? I mean I get it it's a magical land where everything lives in harmony but enough with the glow sticks already. Note: If you DO want to see it for its visuals you really do need to see this in a theatre, even on a large screen and with Blu-Ray you aren't likely to get the whole effect.
Anyway it's the perfect example of why you don't need to have much money to make a good film and why tons of money doesn't make a good film (accept maybe in certain technical aspects that don't matter much).