Dances with wolves meets Pocahontas meets Toy Story

Rating: 7/10 (28 October 2010)

Gosh, I'm sorry, but I give Mr. Cameron two stars for originality. The computer animation was incredible, but without an original story, it just doesn't cut the mustard. Captain John Smith from Pocahontas, mixed with Lt. John J. Dunbar of Dances with Wolves, add a splash of Tom Cruise's Captain Nathan Algren of The Last Samurai, all make up the "military man becomes flower child" Jake Sully. If there are unique elements to this story from the others I've mentioned, they are few or at least insufficient to be compelling. This is "white man with superior fire power destroys peaceful, earth loving natives" all over again. It's not new, it's not original, and ridiculously predictable. In all fairness, there isn't much you can do that's completely original these days, but we've beaten this dead horse into mush! In the end, I was only mildly entertained. I saw it only once and haven't purchased or rented it since it came out on digital media. It certainly doesn't deserve top 250 on IMDb, at least not for the story.