Amazing Special Effects, Crappy Storyline

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2010)

If you like special effects, you'll love Avatar.
As for the storyline, well, anyone born in the late '80s and early 90s' knows exactly what this movie is: Disney's Pocahontas --- except its not a movie geared towards kids, its on a different planet, instead of Native Americans you get aliens, and instead of gold the invaders are looking for some other kind of mineral. Other than those exceptions (and possibly some that I forgot), the similarities are way to obvious to ignore: people from Earth (the British) invade another planet (the New World) to search for some really rare and expensive mineral (gold) but to get the mineral, they have to go through the aliens (Native Americans) that live there, then one of their people (John Smith) learns their culture, falls for the chief's daughter (Pocahontas) and decides the aliens are decent people who should be left alone, then they all go to war and try to kill each other.