Digital actors do a better job than real ones

Rating: 4/10 (5 January 2010)

The story is the standard hollywoodian action flick with an eco-friendly, humanitarian-message, which, although it is a useful message in itself, became utterly dull by repetition in so many movies of this type - so one should not expect any revelations in this department; I won't even bother to describe what the movie is about.
It is still great for kids, though.
However I was rather impressed by the digital rendering - the level of attention to detail used in designing of the alien flora and fauna is incomparable (so far).
The aliens were quite convincing, emotions showing plainly on their faces – I even think that they acted better than the real actors in the movie, so much so that I'm beginning to wonder if in the future everybody will prefer digital "actors", which also have the advantage of not throwing any tantrums on set or contradicting the directors...
I have seen the movie in "3D" – but this was mildly disappointing. 3D is interesting but not mind-blowing, definitely open to a lot of improvement – it *looked* tri-dimensional but unfortunately the foreground seemed a little blurred especially when the camera was panning.
Rating 4 stars – all of them for the digital rendering effects (according to Murphy's Law, these will become dowdy in 3 years and hideous in 10 years anyway, so I see no point in a better vote)