Milestoning Movie With Weak Points

Rating: 8/10 (3 March 2010)

This movie marks a before and after standard in the industry due to its technical value and box-office incomes. The tridimensional and CGI portion in Pandora moon and the love story between Jake and Neytiri, along with the ecological message constitute the best aspects of this milestoning piece of work from director James Cameron.
And then there's the cartoonish, over-clichéd narrative with one- sided character's representation models which hurts imposingly the overall storytelling. I guess that, because Cameron pretended to carry a message that could be understood by masses, he decided to imprint the plot with those easy-to-remember ridiculous dialogs displayed in the first part to explain the main idea of the movie, over which I certainly agree (with other reviews) were completely avoidable and only contributed to extend the length of the film unnecessarily.
But the creatures, the avatars and Pandora's surfaces were indeed overwhelming components that make the viewer submerge in this fantastic and realistic version of the future awaiting us if we don't change our destroying ambition of controlling nature. There has been a lot of jive about the script's originality, but it doesn't really matter when a same story is told differently and indeed this is the most different you can get.
I'm not saying the movie is perfect –far from the true- whereas the long time invested in presenting the technical wonders of the cinematography contrasts with the urgency to finish the plot with a happy and predictable ending (that leaves the doors open to upcoming sequels, already announced.)
In addition to the weaknesses in the montage, script and loose ends throughout the story, there's the untalented performance from most of the main players -with the exception of the main avatars helped with the most advanced CIG techniques formulated in the making.The 3D also achieves an important aspiration for the studios as it enhances the theatrical experience (but exclusively offered and enjoyed by movie-goers) thus knocking the piratial damage to the industry. Maybe, this is a good reason for Avatar to be considered as favorite in the Awards.
PS: As I add this note, The Hurt Locker was chosen as Best Movie of 2009 along with other five awards leaving Avatar with only three awards and Inglorious Basterds with two. According to comments, Avatar was not really the great contender to beat on the best motion picture category; it was Inglorious Basterds instead.