Nice computer based prowess, but nothing behind

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2010)

I saw it, even I made the effort to stay in my seat and to watch it until the end that met all my worst expectations of "already many times seen" clichés (cliché of a cliché at the fifth power).
Subtlety is not the strength of the plot; mono-dimensional personages, childish behavior, ridiculous bad guys. After having seen the day before "the Good the Bad and the Ugly" , these facts literally jumped on my face. I won't try to make a comparison with Seven Samourai deepness of the personages, it would be too hard for "Avatar".
Basically it's an intergalactic western where happily for once the Indians win; curiously like in so many westerns the Indians had such crazy war tactics, never heard of "irregular" warfare? The Ewoks were smarter, Geronimo also... Plus the inconsistencies, plot holes and other minor and major flaws (look at the long list of goofs), so numerous that's truly tiring.
The ecological, anti-war and anti-imperialism message was so heavily preached that becomes a pain even for a long date sympathizer of these causes like me... May the Force be with you...
I had the fun to look for some pieces of this visual puzzle, and that helped to stay in the chair as I was completely fed up by the foreseeable plot. Triceratops mixed with hammer shark, archeopteryx and consorts,jelly fish, phosphorescent reef, rain forest big trees,Tasmanian wolf, Venezuelan table hills and some other gave the ideas of this too terrestrial mixed fauna of this movie.
Brief a lot of CGI for a plot and imagery that look more to a caricature than to an original work. Made only by accumulation, ton over tons. And I almost forgot; not a shadow of humor, a boring deadly serious movie. Some would say that is so Hollywoodian. Gosh, I'm too old for all that s***. I'm going to see North by Northwest as antidote.