Everything but visuals were disappointing.

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2010)

To get it out of the way, as you know, yes the visuals are incredible. OK now that this is done. The rest of the movie is a simple rehash of many other simple Hollywood movies.
The problem seems to be that although the premise is very interesting, the makers of this movie did not trust the audience to make any effort of thinking about the story or moral dilemmas.
The story written around the premise (new planet, indigenous people etc) has been stripped of any "duality" whatsoever. It has been made to be a completely one-sided blame-fest against humans. We all get it, you have to be "green" these days, but you don't have to make everything around it. The aliens are perfect, in harmony with the planet and burp flowers. The humans are horrible disgusting beasts bent on destruction.
This would all make sense, and I would be the first to uniformly support the aliens, except This Is Not Reality. The spaghetti monster does not exist, the tooth fairy does not exist and finally "Green Planet Magic" does not exist. If this were the real world (or the makers of the movie grew a conscience and had the movie be more than a bubble-gum morale) the aliens would be similar to natives here on earth. Sure they would be in harmony with the planet, but they would also be stricken by many diseases killing a lot of newborns, they would be constantly at war with other clans and the list goes on.
So in conclusion, it pains me to recommend seeing it in 3D in a movie theater, because aside from the graphics, this movie is quite pathetic.