So the hype was unnecessary

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2010)

An $8.50 movie I spent $15.50 to see.
Cameron rehashes plots from A Man Called Horse, Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai and countless 'indigenous species threatened by humans despite their greater humanity' science fiction novels.
In fact I found a considerable parallelism between the society of the Na'vi and the society of David Weber's Treecats from the Honor Harrington novels, a nearly plagiarist parallelism that if I really had any hope of caring about the movie I might investigate further.
Cameron's CGI efforts are notable, though he could have taken a chance like Hironobu Sakaguchi and Moto Sakakibara did in Final Fantasy: Spirits Within and had at least one CGI character with loose hair. Since Cameron only had twice the budget and 6 times the computing power he must have thought loose hair was extravagant.
The CGI is good, on a par with that of Spirits Within or LotR or even Starship Troopers, but perhaps the quality would have been more obvious if half of the data wasn't washed out with the attempt at displaying the movie in 3D.
So to summarize: A hackneyed nearly plagiarized plot, an adequate effort at CGI so that leaves continuity and acting to save this effort. And it does.
Really, I came to watch Avatar because I have come to respect Sam Worthington, especially after watching Judgement Day once again. Worthington and Weaver both provide an excellent and solid portrayal of their characters and everyone else seems to be carried right along as well.
After finally seeing Titanic I was expecting a bit more out of Cameron for continuity but really everything I saw was nit-picky so really not concerning.
but really people, it isn't worth the effort you're putting into it.