EPIC it most certainly is NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 5/10 (26 September 2010)

The irony of having to tick the may contain spoilers box is rife; and certainly not lost on me. For anyone else that was genuinely blown away by this film please watch something else, anything else! "Mr Bean" for instance ,god even an episode of "Days of our lives" will suffice. Anything in which to have a reference point and obviously it doesn't need to be good! Firstly this film only warranted a 5/10 purely on the technical prowess of WETA studios(the magicians behind "Lord of the Rings"), who are 100% responsible for this films success. This film is "Fern Gully" right down to the last detail. James Cameron should be SUED!!!!!Certainly not revered by what at best are simply ill informed people and at worst are the most ignorant sheltered troglodytes ever to have existed (Darwin would have been so happy, if only you presented yourselves a little earlier; and I seriously doubt that the majority of you will even get the reference. Hence why this film has such a high rating.) Now I absolutely accept other comparisons that people have drawn "Dances with Wolves"etc. But this film IS "Fern Gully"! Lets begin. A boy without purpose just doing whatever is suggested takes a job in a forest (Pandora, such an original name) spray painting red X's on trees to signify there impending harvest. He comes close to one of the natives (i.e. the Nav'i),in this case a Fern Gully fairy, and recognizing her only as a bug getting in the way of his job ,he tries to kill her. The fairy reacts by shrinking the human boy to the size of a fairy. He runs , he plays ,he acts like a 2 year old and ,yes, attracts some predatory organisms nearly getting everyone killed. Oh how the fairy's are both fascinated and fearful of this new addition to there colony. Never fear though because the female fairy, who first shrunk the boy, takes him on a journey of self discovery. He learns how everything is connected i.e. he carves a love heart in a tree professing his adoration for the girl fairy which she reacts to in utter horror. "Can't you feel it's pain!" and so on and so on. Through out this "journey" we see the wonders of a neon forest which lights up at night, pretty floating organisms and, yes, even a scene where they frolic about as the earth lights up with their touch. Now this girl fairy is the spiritual successor to the fairy colony(Any of this sounding familiar at this point).Now enter the lead male fairy who is to be married off to the female spiritual successor fairy and become the new "chief" leader of the colony( please tell me this is starting to sound familiar). Who at first has nothing but contempt for this outsider but soon they come to respect one another as they fight together to save their home blah, blah, and another exhausted blah! Now this is where the similarities just get ridiculous. The evil impending corporates , which are represented by an evil smog and a large yellow harvesting machine (yes that was not a typo a large yellow harvesting machine! can't imagine where iv'e seen that before?Lol.) This machine is getting closer and closer to the sacred tree (yes a giant tree in which the fairy's all live and is their most referred and sacred landmark. Why does that sound so familiar?Lol). The newly introduced human, now the size of a fairy and living amongst the colony, is now revealed to have been in league with the evil corporate harvesters.At this point the lead female fairy and the human boy are, of course, in love. We laugh, we cry and all that blah! He ultimately comes back to help in the fight and prove his love and loyalty utilizing his knowledge of human machines and riding (now wait for it) "Batty" the largest untamable flying creature in "Fern Gully". All the rest fly on standard size beetles once they have earn't the right in an initiation, of course! now at this point in "Avatar" the Freudian in me was wetting it's self. He has the biggest "one" oh how that must make him the alpha male?! The spiritual elder and current chief sacrifice themselves to save the younger fairies and their sacred "big tree". The young spiritual successor fairy now the lead spiritual fairy draws all her strength and calls on all the creatures of fern gully to aid in the fight. The human boy uses his "human intellect" to shut down the big yellow harvester and puts an end to the evil black smog. Not before ,however, much damage is done to there home. Please tell me that someone out there at this point sees "some" similarities? Their have been 2 "Fern Gully" sequels I wonder if they too will be plagiarized by the "talented" James Cameron.
Now I could, of course, go on; further breaking down the similarities. Showing in more detail how this symbolizes that etc. But for those who are fans ,I doubt it will matter, and for the rest of us ,well lets face it, we're smart enough to figure it out.
Normally this would not bother me but after hearing endless praise for this film and reading quotes from other IMDb critics ,such as "Not since "Schindlers list" have I been so moved by a film" etc, I felt I had to say something. I hope that someone else out there will read this and realize they are not alone. It would seem we suffer from "have a measurable I.Q syndrome!" it's a condition I'm happy to have. Even if it means I can't enjoy "al da prutty pictas"!
"UNOBTANIUM" That really should have been enough.