AVATAR...or Power-smurfing

Rating: 2/10 (28 December 2010)

I was truly impressed with the magnificent cinematography and superb animation of this extravaganza. The mighty –yet peaceful smurfs of James Cameron, supported by such notable voices as Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, live in the Land of Blue-Oz. They really don't do much other than ride around on Star War figures and fly huge scaly mosquitoes and talk some stupid made up gibberish. The happy-go-lucky residents of Blue-Oz are living their meaningless lives in the jungles of stupid, when some evil no-good Marine working for the evil corporation drops in unannounced and starts digging around for Unobtanium, or Unacquirable, or Not-getting-anium, and just messes up their entire social structure. What is even worse, the Marine (Sam Worthington) is transformed into a cartoon – ahem – to play amongst the other blue cartoon characters. Smurf me with your best shot. I was so smurfing confused by all of what was happening. Well the plot goes on from there with all sorts of goofy Tarzan screams and smurf-onics, waking and sleeping, yelling and whispering, tail entanglements and monkey-walking. Finally we find that it just so happens that the tree that Papa-Smurf planted so long ago is the same, exact location of this very rare stuff. From this point they could have mined the plot and found plenty of Unobtanium. This movie had potentialand it is obvious kids who have not yet left home - really liked this flick. If a person dislikes all things corporate (wakey – wakey Johnny – that DOES include Hollywood) and has a great disdain for the militarythis will be your cup of tea. For meanything Cameron does now-a-days is a waste of time.