did they lose the screenplay

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2009)

I do not think there is any original way of saying that this movie is in one aspect possibly one of the most revolutionary movies that I have seen, but boy is it a bad movie. I realize that I gave Beowulf a good score and the rational that went into giving that a movie a good score also applies here, but the complete lack of anything inspired outside of the technical aspect of the movie is discouraging. I do want to say that the score was good, but did not stand out for me. I saw this movie having to sit in the 7 or 8 row and I had such a terrible head ache at the end of it, but I could not take my eyes off of the screen. I really did not think "that must be CG" as many times as I would have expected and did really get caught up in the world created. All of the great things about the technical side can only begin to describe the experience and it really needs to be experienced for oneself. The writing was terrible and I could predict the story line way to quickly. I even saw how they were going to transfer the characters into their avatars permanently within the first 30 minutes. The acting honestly was not that good, but something must be said about the characters that were simply motion captured. I think they could have turned out to be fully fleshed out characters if they were written to be more than 1.5 dimensional. There were not quite one dimensional, but not even close to being fully fleshed out. It is a shame too because I really like a lot of the actors in the movies. My friend I saw it with described it perfectly as the best Fern Gully remake ever. I just want to see what a creative team like Pixar can do with technology like this and not just see what Cameron can do with a near unlimited budget.