Visually amazing but not much more

Rating: 4/10 (18 December 2009)

I saw the 3D version of this movie and at times was literally blown away. Amazing and never before done visuals, it must be said. However, in my judgment, the visuals could not make up for an annoyingly predictable story and stereotypical characters. At times I felt like the script had been copied from a (bad) 2,5 hour long episode of the smurfs. The story is very PC, but in the most annoying way. Hollywood's take on being progressive means that they either whip out the image of the noble savage or that they draw a (very, very) obvious parallel between a war and the wars fought by the US. Didn't the same movie makers use to promote blind patriotism? Anyway, maybe i'm taking this too far but to me the movie seemed like a one dimensional movie, and no 3D expensive visuals could make up for that. Too bad.