By the end, you'll be playing for the blue side!

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2009)

I won't state the obvious, you've read it in all the other comments; this is an amazing visual film!! You simply *cannot* tell this is CGI!! You cannot! Of course to be honest, the fact that this is an alien world with nothing to compare it with, helps Cameron and I have a suspicion that if they were trying to re-create Earth and human actors, the end result wouldn't be so believable. But nevertheless, Cameron actually *brings* you into Pandora and you will simply fall in love with this world and it's natives, the Na'vi.
Lots of commenters have said that the story/plot was stale and old. Yes, the plot has been done before... the foreigner (human in this case) falls in love with the native ... Pocahontas anyone? But in the end... so what!? Seriously, how many stories *haven't* been told? What exactly would you consider original? This is the post-modern age... we've seen it all; the romance, the gory, the idiotic and now movie makers are focusing on scaring us by not showing anything... playing with our psyche because our *eyes* have seen it all. Except Pandora... you haven't seen anything like that. I loved the story... yes it was Pocahontas all over again in another setting but so what? I think the simple story worked for this film. I really left the viewing with a smile on my face. I didn't have to ponder over difficult questions and I could focus on the visual Heaven Cameron created. Not that this film is without it's moral lessons... I was kind of ashamed I am human and really wanted to turn blue.. at the end I was playing for the blue side and so will you... If this is the future of cinema, well I can't wait for what comes next... because I tell you, everything else after this, kinda feels stale!