The 400 million they spent making this movie should have gone to the environment if they really wanted to make a difference.

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2010)

I watched Avatar for the first time tonight. "Epic" and "Life changing" (reviews I've seen) would definitely not be how I would describe it.
The acting was bad, the script was worse, the story was weak, and the CGI wasn't even THAT good (It was said to be the greatest CGI of all time or something of that nature, I surely didn't see it- no hair follicles or pores were evident in these so-called "realistic" blue people) The message was lame and predictable. It wasn't very intelligent either. Epic and life changing? Ptttt. If you want a powerful Environmentalist message, watch the "Earth Song" music video. That's pretty epic.
This? Omg.
It was like a mixture of Pocahontas, Fern Gully, The Matrix, Dances with Wolves, Lion King, the smurfs, SpongeBob SquarePants (Jellyfish flying around? You have to be kidding me!) and that mix was a disaster. The whole movie was spent explaining the "world", where every creature seemingly wants to attack the Na'vi (or whatever they are called), the other part was dull dialog from these one-dimensional sergeants hell bent on destroying this land, even if it means killing themselves. Trite trite trite.
The subliminal message was received in the first 20 minutes: Don't invade a land, and destroy it for money (rolls eyes). They of course don't give a good argument for the reason they are actually destroying the land. I guess it's for funding? Not sure. They never made that evident. They of course had to pull politics into the mix... It was basically just some ignorant, one-sided dribble that was supposed to make you feel bad for fighting for anything.
I guess this should of came out when America was first founded, and the same thing that happened in the movie could have happened between the pilgrims and the natives, and there wouldn't be this country today that would spend the ridiculous amount of cash to make this tripe. We'd still probably be living in trees. I mean, come on! There were very bland made up creatures- they took regular old creatures you would find anywhere and "alien-fied" them to make them appear cool-er. At the end, the creatures all come together to fight? Oh lord. I felt like I was watching a Disney film it was so cheesy and hokey.
The characters were bland and forgettable. Less time establishing the environment (and the uncomfortable "connecting" thing they kept doing over and over again) and more time on the characters might of made the viewer actually care if these people/animated things got run over by large tractors or not. Personally, I could have cared less.
I can't believe so much money was spent on this piece of crap. That is about as much of a tragedy as the "Home tree" getting torn down.