Poor film.

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2010)

PRO's -Fun well executed CG/VFX, -Classical plot, retold in fantasy environment -Animation for a new audience
CON's -The acting as well as the script's dialog is poor at best. -While the CG for the most part visually looks fantastic some of the character animation/movement looks awkward in parts, even on the main characters. There are definitely moments when you feel like your watching an animated cartoon instead of realistic CG (like King Kong for example) and I know that is not what the director was shooting for.
-Most, if not all the ideas in the film, both the visual elements (character, vehicle, environment design) as well as the narrative devices are ripped off. To me, it feels like they spent half a billion dollars to steal every piece of modern/fantasy art known to man (video games, comics, literature, painting, etc.), shove it all together and call it original and groundbreaking.
BOTTOM LINE -The only thing ground breaking about this movie is it's purported budget and insanely deceptive and belligerent marketing tactics. This movie doesn't compare to a film like Pan's Labyrinth that made effective, tasteful and beautiful use of CG and VFX. I would say, quite to the contrary, Avatar was actually boring and I'd go as far as to say that it's not even worth seeing. I don't know what Avatar is up against, awards wise for this year specifically, but considering other CG and VFX movies that have come before it I feel this deserves no awards, whatsoever. A bad movie is still a bad movie at the end of the day, even if it has some beautiful, albeit stolen, visuals.